I love this guy… In case you missed it at the time: Trumka’s speech to a Steelworkers convention during the 2008 election was amazing.
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Re: “The Silence of the Lambs”
Hi, Dan… I’m the minister at St. Andrew’s Haney United Church—the guy who posted the sign at the top of your article, “The Silence of the Lambs.” Yesterday morning, I had a chance to read your response to LR and then your post to JLGAHF. I’d love to get into a debate with you about […]
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No One Could Have Predicted
Gay voters are sick and tired of being taken for granted: If Democratic candidates are counting on long-standing support from gay voters to help stave off big losses on Nov. 2, they could be in for a surprise. Across the country, activists say gay voters are angry—at the lack of progress on issues from eliminating […]
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My Reaction to the President’s IGBP Video
I’m totally swamped so I haven’t been able to write anything about the president’s contribution to the IGBP. So I’ll just post this… this… …this horrifying Skype interview I did with CNN in this morning from the Indiana Memorial Union here in Bloomington. I know I’m supposed to care about shit like this at a […]
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Student Teacher Seth Stambaugh Reinstated At Beaverton Elementary School!
Seth Stambaugh: Back to class! Last month, we broke the news that Beaverton School District had banned a student teacher from the district after he mentioned gay marriage in a fourth grade class. Well now there’s much better news for gay rights advocates—the teacher, Seth Stambaugh, has been asked back to the class he was […]
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Our Farce Advocate
For a few hours yesterday DADT was dead—but the Obama administration went to court today and asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant an “emergency request” for a temporary stay of a lower court judge’s ruling scrapping DADT. And the emergency stay was granted and so, once again, it is illegal for gays […]
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Gay Marriage Is Legal In New Hampshire
But New Hampshire’s biggest daily paper—The Union Leader—refuses to print same-sex wedding announcements because that’s the “policy of the newspaper.” It’s a policy that could have serious repercussions for one couple in particular. Granite countertops, rainbow cupcakes, wedding announcements—you would think there wasn’t a recession on with the way some business owners are turning away […]
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“There Was No Pride. No One Was Out.”
Man, last night’s Q Center forum about queer youth in schools was equal parts adorable, inspiring, and “Oh shit.” About 150 people packed in to hear the discussion, which was sparked by the string of recent queer teen suicides across the country and the local firing of a gay Beaverton student teacher. Mayor Sam Adams […]
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Jesse + Alec = TRU LUV
Watch: Then watch: Then donate—the laughs alone were worth $5 or $10, right?
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Required Reading: Newsweek on Obama and DADT
Nice to see a whole bunch of legal scholars saying what gay bloggers and activists have been saying for two years: Obama could halt the enforcement of DADT today. He doesn’t have to wait on Congress, he doesn’t have to aggressively defend DADT—or DOMA—in court, and he could issue a stop-loss order right now. There […]
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It Gets Better: The New York Times Checks Back In
Brian Stelter has a piece in the NYT today about the IGBP. It focuses on the accidental activism that the project has inspired: because we asked people to create their own YouTube accounts to post their videos (instead of emailing in their video files for us to post), comments posted to individual videos go directly […]