This coming Sunday marks the first anniversary of the murder of Dan Callaway, a beloved member of Portland’s queer community and the longtime partner of Jonny Shultz. Shultz sent out this email today: One thing you can do in Dan’s memory this weekend is joining me at Saturday’s protest of measure 8’s passing 10:30 at […]
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Prop 8 Protest This Weekend!
Don’t forget: Co-Organizer Lindsey Asher, who lives in NW Portland with her partner, just returned from a spontaneous trip to California to join in the rallies and protests against Prop 8’s passage just over a week ago. “It’s extremely personal,” says Asher, who decided she “can’t sit at home anymore and watch this on the […]
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Rally This Saturday
Details have been a little fuzzy all week, but there’s a rally this Saturday against California’s Prop 8, and you should be there! From the organizers, Debra and Lindsay: We will begin gathering in the South Park Blocks (south of the Farmers’ Market) around 10:30 a.m.. We plan to have speakers closer to noon (11:30 […]
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Dan Savage in the Times
As Amy noted earlier, Mercury buddy Dan Savage was on the Colbert Report last night (where I must say, he may have actually out-funny’d Steven, which is no easy task). Well Dan’s on a roll, following last night’s TV appearance with an editorial in today’s New York Times. The piece concerns a less talked about, […]
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Dan Savage on the Colbert Report
Mercury pal Dan Savage was on the Colbert Report last night about Prop 8:
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Keith Olbermann on Gay Marriage and Prop 8
It’s really sad that only the choir and not the people who really need it the most will watch this. Last night, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown fired off one of the most moving and convincing oratories I’ve heard about gay marriage and those who voted in favor of Prop 8. If you know anyone […]
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Neil Steinberg On Last Week’s Gay Marriage Defeats
The Chicago Sun-Times columnist weighs in… The look-how-far-we’ve-come aspect of Obama’s triumph was mitigated by citizens in California, Florida and Arizona voting to bar gay marriage. An awful intrusion of government into the private sphere, one we would never tolerate if it didn’t touch upon the American obsession with sex. I mean, we’d never ban […]
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Win Tickets to the Portland Premiere of Milk!
This Friday, local charity Outside In is putting on a red carpet premiere of Milk, Gus Van Sant’s eagerly anticipated biopic about San Francisco activist and politician Harvey Milk. This film’s got some seriously great buzz on it, and this event sounds like it’ll be a blast–it’ll be at the Schnitz, 100 percent of the […]
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Homophobia Isn’t a Problem in the African American Community
To get a handle on just how big a problem African American homophobia supposedly isn’t, you might want to read this blistering blog post by TerranceDC — black gay dad — over at Pam’s House Blend. I no longer give a shit about defending African Americans against the notion that they’re more homophobic than whites, […]
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Black Homophobia
African American voters in California voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, writing anti-gay discrimination into California’s constitution and banning same-sex marriage in that state. Seventy percent of African American voters approved Prop 8, according to exit polls, compared to 53% of Latino voters, 49% of white voters, 49% of Asian voters. I’m not sure what to […]
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Connecticut Becomes Third State to Green Light Same-Sex Marriage
This just in: Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The divided court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut’s civil unions law […]