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The Ruiz/Savage Connection
As Mercury editor Steve Humphrey mentioned earlier, folks in Seattle have their own opinions on the Ruiz question. But in light of the latest development in this story, there’s another aspect to all this that requires at least some scrutiny, namely: Ruiz’s close relationship with The Stranger editor, Dan Savage. Full disclosure: Index Publishing co-owns […]
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Obama: For Marriage Equality Before He Was Against It
Chicago’s Windy City Times—one of the city’s two gay newspapers—announced that it will publish a story in tomorrow’s edition of the weekly detailing Barack Obama’s once-professed support for same-sex marriage. From the press release: During his run for Illinois state Senate in 1996, Barack Obama stated his unequivocal support for gay marriage, according to an […]
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John Aravosis on Rick Warren
John Aravosis: I’ve been scratching my head for several days now, trying to figure out why practically every news story about Rick Warren explains that he’s not anti-gay, and in fact quite progressive and moderate, because he’s worked on AIDS in Africa. Well, bully for him. But there are two problems there: 1. I’m not […]
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Christopher Hitchens on Rick Warren
From Slate: As Barack Obama is gradually learning, his job is to be the president of all Americans at all times. If he likes, he can oppose the idea of marriage for Americans who are homosexual. That’s a policy question on which people may and will disagree. However, the man he has chosen to deliver […]
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Andrew Sullivan on Rick Warren
Chill: I think Obama is different. I think the earnestness and sincerity of his campaign, and its generational force, have given us a chance for something new, and I fear that in responding too viscerally to the Warren choice, we may be throwing something very valuable away far too prematurely. There is no question that […]
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Obama’s First Big Mistake
For extremely good reason, the LGBT people of America are infuriated by Obama’s bonehead pick of evangelical homophobe Rick Warren to give the invocation at his upcoming inauguration. While Obama has stated that Warren’s invitation was intended “to open a dialogue,” that’s BULLSHIT. Obama already admitted in the debates he was against same-sex marriage—so how […]
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Prop 8 Candlelight Vigil Pioneer Square Sat 5pm
“Bring: your own candles and friends and family,” say the organizers. And they recommend getting there on the MAX.
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Your Day: Now with Less Gay.
Today is apparently the national Day Without a Gay, a pro-gay protest organized mostly via Facebook (where it’s called “Day Without a GAY!!”) in response to Prop 8. GLTBQIAWTFOMG people are encouraged to “call in gay” – boycotting work and instead spending the day volunteering in their community. The Facebook page estimates that “close to […]
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Marriage Equality’s New Front
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if same-sex couples could get married in Iowa—with its pig manure lagoons and family farms—but not in California? The Iowa Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case brought to overturn a lower court’s ruling that legalized—for about 15 minutes—marriage equality in that state. Live video feed of oral arguments […]
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Hate Mongers to Menace College Drama Club
The assholes at Westboro Baptist Church are planning to picket a showing of The Laramie Project — a play about the fatal gay-bashing of Matthew Shepard — tomorrow night in Vancouver, Washington. While Westboro typically dispatches only a few people from its home in Topeka, Kansas to picket a veteran’s funeral and insight hatred against […]
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Light a Candle for the Gays
The first thing I thought of when I saw this announcement? How hard I cried, both times I saw the film, during the scene in Milk when tens of thousands of people are solemnly plodding down Market Street in San Francisco, candles in hand, mourning Harvey Milk. Only this time, we’re mourning the loss of […]