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07/10/2009
A new 'Leif': 40 is the new baby dyke
It's often said that comedian Carol Leifer, a longtime friend of Jerry Seinfeld's, is the basis for the Elaine character from that eponymous 90's show. So as you read this cute, interesting AOL Health piece on Leifer's 13-year lesbian partnership...
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Mental note: Never hire Randy Thomasson to write our obituaries
We see lots of wacky things around here. Hell, we deal with Westboro Baptist Church on a direct and relatively frequent basis -- shocking us with far-right extremism is a difficult feat. But today, we came across something from Rany...
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Audio: They talk, we transcribe their transgressions
*Audio source: Focus on the Family Daily : Issues of Concern: July 2009 (07/09/09) [FOF] - (:14 & :22) It's probably not the best idea to use the word "kill" when talking about the LGBT community's attempts to deal with...
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Make your own jokes:
Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster Like “Beaver” [Indie Wire]
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Some social conservatives are into bondage
Of all the cashing-in efforts we've seen from our far-right opposition, this one takes the nothing-for-something cake. An organization that calls itself "Defend Marriage" is selling so-called "Marriage War Bonds." For increments of ten or one hundred dollars, folks can...
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ESPA: Don't do that proverbial towel-throwing thing just yet
While state Sen. Tom Duane might sound resigned, the Empire State Pride Agenda is more optimistic about marriage equality's NY-based future: Pride Agenda statement on the end of the State Senate stalemate Statement by Empire State Pride Agenda Executive Director...
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But in their defense, company's apostrophe does imply only one boy at a time
Possibly nauseating: (elpasomediagroup) Definitely quease-making: EL PASO -- Two gay men kissed at a Chico's Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster. ... In all, five men were ordered to leave the...
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There was this mother whose son killed himself or something. But anyway, back to what I was saying about the evil gay agenda...
The following is a snippet from a new article wherein the Traditional Values Coalition's Andrea Lafferty condemns the proposed Safe Schools Improvement Act, a piece of federal legislation meant to increase protections for all kids, including those who happen to...
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No marriage equality in NY. But hey, the legislature did earn national head shakes. That's something, right?
So who loses out in the aftermath of the New York Senate's monthlong circus/absurdist play/immature pissing match/offensive slight to the taxpayers who pay their salaries? Well the gays, natch. Joe.My.God has the scoop: “As disappointing as it is to admit,...
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07/09/2009
Hey Mainers: Do you think your gay neighbors are 'evil?
As Maine advocates near their goal of collecting enough signatures to put the state's already-granted marriage equality before a majority vote, the local anti-gays are getting truly bold in their words and actions. Take this new press release from longtime...
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Photo: They feel a victory; we feel a de-duodenuming
To visually represent their marriage efforts in Maine, the Family Research Council is today running this image: We applaud them for accurately representing how their attempts to roll back equality feel for gay people. We just wish they would've pulled...
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His name sounds like a gay couple; his views should scare the bejesus out of same
The National Organization For Marriage's Robert George, a professional voice for discrimination: "...it is not really about benefits. It is about sex. The idea that is antithetical to those who are seeking to redefine marriage is that there is something...
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Well he's already stunted the judiciary -- why not the legislature?
When your career has been defined by stripping away the civil equality of your fellow citizens, what do you do for a second act? Well if you're Andrew Pugno, anti-gay attorney and author/supporter/defender of Prop 8, you make a bid...
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Health head nominee: Should we be nervous?
Lots of people have concerns about Dr. Francis Collins' nomination as head of the National Institutes of Health, since he is a born-again Christian. But for us, we're holding on to comments like the one he gave Ex-Gay Watch back...
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Don't judge a man until you've walked through Miles of his slurs
Back in February of '08, while speaking to Matt Foreman's supposed "confession" that HIV has affected the gay community most significantly (duh!), Pastor Miles McPherson said the following in a video blog: But the major problem in his claims? Well,...
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Video: Love him, hate him, Lauer him
The suddenly ubiquitous Brüno addresses Matt, GLAAD, velcro suits, and gubernatorial closets: Does he entertain those who "get" the joke, or does he give a pass to those who want two hours to laugh at the expense of gays? Is...
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Gay Leno still starring on 'The Do Right Show'
The California legislature's biggest gay rights champion, Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Fran), is again chipping away at the unrighteous bias that has besmirched his state's good name: The California Legislature is getting back into the Proposition 8 fight with a...
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Video: If credibility began and ended at FOF's front door, then vids like this might help
Even more Focus on the Family staffers, one of them a professional "ex-gay," are desperately trying to make NARTH sound like an objective, respected voice of science, and their new fallacious "report" sound like something worth more than the paper...
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New media, NOM hardly knows ya
The Family Research Council has announced that at this year's annual anti-gay parade, the Values Voters Summit, their "new media row" will be sponsored by NOM: Values Voters Summit '09 [another queer-hostile FRC production] Because honesty, who knows more about...
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Video: Do Pass, Don't Fail
Oh, those militant straight veterans and their national security agendas! Don't they know we have biases to protect? Don't Wait, Don't Pass The Buck [MSNBC] **EARLIER: Reppin' for non-discrimination: Actual soldier takes on fairness' actual enemy [G-A-Y] **MORE: Kerry Eleveld...
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07/08/2009
When it comes to advancing peace, FRC's motion is loco
This story is from 2007: A boy of 15 lay down in front of a train to commit suicide after being teased at school about his sexuality, an inquest was told yesterday. Moments before he died, Jonathan Reynolds sent harrowing...
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MA AG wants DOMA to RIP
Move over, Ms. Stewart. Gay America just got another tough, Northeastern Martha to get behind: BOSTON – Today, Attorney General Martha Coakley filed a lawsuit in United States District Court (D. Mass.) challenging the constitutionality of Section 3 of the...
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Audio: Eh, who needs another Dove Award anyway?
His Stockholm Syndrome album doesn't officially release (we feel to old to say "drop") until September, but Christian singer Derek Webb is starting to draw up all sorts of controversy in the gospel music world. Now, people are primarily saying...
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Video: This is what pure, unadulterated hatred looks like
You may have seen the Leffews, the uber-sweet same-sex-headed household whose Youtube videos have become favorites with many gay bloggers. Now listen to an unrepentant dogmatist attempt to rip apart this loving family, but instead unwittingly rip the "loving" mask...
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Maine's 'people's veto': It's gay lives in general that they really hope to invalidate!!!!!!!
Speaking to the claim that Maine's anti-gay side has already collected enough signatures to get a so-called "people's veto" on the November ballot, the Rev. Bob Emrich says the following: "The fact that we've gathered all these signatures in just...
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Reppin' for non-discrimination: Actual soldier takes on fairness' actual enemy
Taking the reins from former Congressperson Ellen Tausher (now under secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department), U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (an Iraq War vet) is joining up with the Human Rights Campaign and Servicemembers...
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MO marriage: Show me State shows smiling gay couples
It's not just for royal blue state state anymore: Missouri's Kansas City Star newspaper has begun running same-sex wedding announcements: Today’s Kansas City Star features the first wedding announcement that the paper has run from a gay couple. The item...
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07/07/2009
Focus on the deliberate poll misreads
Yesterday we showed you how, despite the data SPECIFICALLY stating that same-sex marriage had only a modest (if any) effect on Gov. John Lynch's approval rating, the Family Research Council was trying to spin a new poll so that it...
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Because the media gods require us to find some kind of Jackson angle
This "culture war" relic comes from the AP, July of 1984: Please, please, please let the Thriller dance be a daily afterlife requirement
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CWA Photo: Because GaysStickTheirRiflesUpTheirButtsAnd Spin.gif would've been too much
How does the militantly anti-gay group Concerned Women For America make its point about resisting gays who wish to serve openly in the armed forces? Well today, they create this image and give it this label: "OhNoGiJoe.jpg [another high-minded "culture...
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Clearly they prefer Lisa Lampanelli
Good news, Don Rickles: You don't have to plan a set for your Aug. 3 show. Westboro Baptist Church has just written the jokes for you: Anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti-the voice of Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story. Sheesh, is...
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Hey Focus on the Family employees:
If you come to our site to leave comments like this one... Those who practice homosexuality have the same civil rights as every citizen. Homosexuals can marry, hold jobs,etc., just like all Americans. For opponents of same-sex marriage the issue...
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Photo: 'Hey, ya know what I'll do? I'll take one of them pink triangle thingies and I'll put it on a DC road sign. Heh, heh, That'll show them sodo-homo-gays!'
In order to protest the area's new de facto same-sex marriage recognition, the American Family Association has changed this popular D.C. road sign... ...into this: *Photo source: One News Now Ya know, because hetero marriages are benign and welcome. But...
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6/13/09: This is what marriage equality looks like
Where: Winvian in Morris, CT Who: 79 friends and family members, plus assorted talented chefs/officiants/artists What: A celebration of two boys' right to love, peace, and equality: *Yes, I cried. Like a baby. (Wedding Photos: Jacklyn Greenberg) No religious freedoms...
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Ignoring Perez from this point forward: Who's in?
There's lots of chatter going on in this here blogosphere about Perez Hilton, his invocation of the "c word" and "dumb b*tch" slurs in relation to Carrie Prejean, his exploitation of Dustin Lance Black, his recent "f word" debacle in...
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Video: For starters, the impersonation is just plain bad
This from a July 4th "TEA party" in Raleigh, NC: The homophobia? Eh, Barney's surely used to that. The simplistic reduction of Democratic views? Par for the course. But the triple chin of the cardboard cutout? That's WAY HARSH, tea...
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If you like it, put a beltway on it
Congrats, D.C. gays. While you still can't marry in your own district, you can, starting today, go to a state/nation that will allow you to marry your sweetie, and have your union recognized upon your return home. WaPo tells you...
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07/06/2009
Video: WOW, shocker -- professional 'ex-gay' advocates support professional 'ex-gay' advocacy!
What do you do if you support a scientifically-obliterated concept, with a goal to mold actuality so that it fits your purview (instead of the other way around)? Well if you're Focus on the Family, you rely on "studies" commissioned...
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FRC writer's own source link: It's like Pinocchio linking to his own growing nose
Wanna see Family Research Council spinjob in action? Well here, check this out. This is what FRC has to say about a new poll covering New Hampshire governor John Lynch: After Gov. John Lynch (D-N.H.) betrayed voters and signed a...
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Failing boycotts: The choice of a past generation
And now for a segment we like to call: Let's get started, shall we? These were the stock prices on the week that the American Family Association announced their boycott of Pepsico and all related products: And here now is...
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Video: TEA with Tammy
Tammy Bruce: Out lesbian who thinks that Sarah Palin has demonstrated the skills one needs to be in charge of the button: Tammy Bruce at the Tucson Tea Party, July 4, 2009 [YT] And why shouldn't Tammy give Sarah a...
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Her name is Candi, but her agenda couldn't be less sweet
When it comes to anti-gay advocacy, this writer reserves a special ring of detestation for those who militantly push for yet another generation to be brought up in a homo-hostile world. Because since we all know that acceptance could be...
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And here we thought 'Stay cool over the summer' was a lame yearbook cop-out
Stories like this one seem to happen every yearbook season, but they never become less frustrating: NEWARK (CN) - A graduate of East Side High School demands punitive damages for "severe mental and emotional trauma" because on his paid personal...
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Protect society from gay marryin'? How about protecting us from straight Marion?!
You know how former mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry has been protesting same-sex marriages, couching his antipathy in "moral values" proclamations? Yea, well -- this happened: D.C. Council member Marion Barry found himself mired in more political,...
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