I love three things in this world. ONLY THREE THINGS. They are: 1. George Clooney.2. Boston.3. Star Wars. So you can imagine how I feel about the trailer for The Men Who Stare At Goats. BECAUSE HOLY SHIT. YouTube below; good quality here. Post-script: I also probably like this trailer so much because I can’t […]
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Bonobo Chimps Like to Have Sex
The Bonobo chimp is a lot like a human, which this partially NSFW video demonstrates: Bonobos sometimes walk upright, and they even sometimes have sex facing each other. The BBC lady in this doc also seems to think that they’re also capable of being inspired by the beauty of a majestic waterfall, which supposedly makes […]
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WA Domestic Partnership Under Threat
For an article in last week’s paper, Eyes on 2012, I went doorknocking around PDX with same-sex marriage advocates who hit 17,000 doors this summer to talk to Oregonians about marriage equality. This is just the first incursion of what will be a massive three-year (at least) campaign to repeal Measure 36 in Oregon and […]
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A Muppet Zine, and Other Things It’s OK to Call Gay
Tonight at 7pm at Reading Frenzy, Jessica Max Stein officially unveils her new zine The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer. In addition to the usual book release stuff (signing, questions, etc), she’ll screen an hour’s worth of Hunt’s classic moments and puppeteering highlights. Sort of like this, but better. It will be funny, Stein […]
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Your Last Chance to Un-Gay is Nov. 7th
Basic Rights Oregon has knocked on 10,000 doors around the state this summer, trying to see where most Oregonians stand on gay marriage and softening them up to future dialogue on the issue. Today’s news from anti-gay group Focus on the Family will make those canvassers beam. Focus on the Family’s back-in-the-closet gay conversion workshops […]
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Protest in Tel Aviv
Gays and lesbians and their supporters take to the streets of Tel Aviv after a masked gunman opened fire on at gay youth group meeting. Two people are dead—Nir Katz, 26, and Liz Trobishi, 16—and fifteen were injured. More info at Wockner.
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Kissed Off
The Salt Lake Tribune obtained this video of Mormon security guards—four of ’em—confronting, pulling apart, roughing up, and handcuffing the gay couple who shared a kiss on a plaza—a formerly public plaza—in front of the main Mormon temple in downtown Salt Lake: Trespassing charges against the men have been dropped because, according to the local […]
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Surrender, Douchebags!
Someday you’re gonna realize that giving us everything we want is the only way to make this issue—marriage equality—go away. Seriously. Giving us what we want won’t stop gay marriage, but it’s the only way to stop gay marriage from getting so much airtime and press. Oh, you fuckers can win one at the ballot […]
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Big Fat Gay Wedding Tonight!
The place to be tonight is Backspace at 7PM, where you can watch Mayor Adams officiate a nearly-legal gay wedding while chowing down on free cupcakes and raising your own questions about why the hell Oregon does not yet have marriage equality. Dress fancy! I’ll be wearing my Quinceañera dress.
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Bill Clinton Backs Marriage Equality
It’s a little late—a lot late—and his endorsement of marriage equality is something less than ringing: Former President Bill Clinton has come out in support of same-sex marriage. After speaking at the Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, DC, on July 8, the former president was asked if he supported same-sex marriage. Clinton, in a […]
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NYT Goes Bullshit-Free on Race & Queer Equality
There’s been a lot of shit-slinging – in California, Oregon, and elsewhere – about the role of race in divisions over the future of marriage equality for same-sex couples. CNN’s infamous post Prop 8 polling suggested that 70 percent of African-American voters cast ballots supporting Prop 8 – a poll that caused serious ruptures and […]
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Assholes “R” Them
Our fundamental right to wed once again heads to the ballot: Gay marriage foes in Maine say they’ve collected enough signatures to stop the new law from going into effect and to force a statewide vote in November. Mark Mutty from the Stand for Marriage Maine coalition says it took only four weeks to gather […]