May 2013
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“Let not a person revive the past, or on the future build his hopes; for the past...”
– Buddha Gotama
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“There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism, though, isn’t...”
– Nick Guest, from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty
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“Understanding doesn’t come free…The task is somewhere between awfully difficult...”
– Noam Chomsky, On Staying Informed and Intellectual Self-Defense (via thepeoplesrecord)
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The Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers →
In the 1960s and 1970s, queer liberation (what we now call “LGBT equality”) was seen by its advocates as an all-inclusive movement intrinsically bound to other social justice movements: there could be no justice for queer people without justice for people of color, women, workers, those in other nations, etc. Accordingly, queer activists worked hard to build coalitions with all those determined...
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Hate Crimes Against the Homeless →
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“There is a vast disparity between being able to enjoy sex as just sex and...”
– Tyler Curry, from “Love in the Age of Headless Torsos”
April 2013
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NBA player Jason Collins says he is gay | SI.com →
With just these words: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay,” Jason Collins becomes the first openly gay male athlete in a major American sport in a professional league. A true pioneer!
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/#ixzz2RrmiJHvL
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Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride... →
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“Don’t get me wrong: I believe that gay marriage, employment...”
– Michael J. Kaplan, President and CEO of AIDS United
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Who’s the world leader in clean energy? China →
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Single Gays
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“Yeah, I mean, I think that we have rolled back the clock, in some ways, to an...”
– Jeremy Scahill on what he wants people to understand about his new book Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield
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Hey, White Liberals: A Word On The Boston... →
My white liberal brothers and sisters,
This linked blog entry is a tough pill to swallow but it must be read and reflected upon to corrective action. Ultimately, Mia McKenzie’s piece shows how white privilege in mainstream media creates an emotional distance in people of color whereby we can be de-sensitized to “white suffering.”
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WatchMUST-WATCH: Jeremy Scahill on “Dirty Wars” and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks Part 2 of Amy Goodman’s interview with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now! about his new book Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield is necessary viewing as he makes clear that if we are not a nation that upholds rule of law (as has been the case with the administrations of...
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Harris v. Greenwald: Is there an Anti-Islam Bias... →
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“And, you know, I’m a believer in societies being defined by how they treat the...”
– Jeremy Scahill, from his interview with Democracy Now!
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Liu Xia defiant as she appears in public for first... →
Tearful wife of jailed Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo shouts ‘I’m not free!’ as she is allowed out for brother’s trial
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WatchWATCH: “Where We Belong” Trailer / Kickstarter Promo
Director Wade Gasque’s film-in-progress looks at the dynamic of two gay brothers whose different personalities and life paths collide after the death of their father. The film stars Mark Strano (co-writer of the film) as the filial son and Frankie Valenti (aka gay adult film star Johnny Hazard) as the black sheep who returns...
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WatchMUST WATCH: Interview with Jeremy Scahill: The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen
For anyone who cares about the government’s “prerogative” to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process, or drone war, or human rights, or civil liberties, this is a absolute must watch interview of Jeremy Scahill by Democracy Now!
The Obama administration’s...
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Coming out kicking: Openly gay former college... →
The story of Alan Gendreau, an openly gay kicker from the South who set records at Middle Tennessee State and now wants a shot at playing in the NFL.
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The state of the Death Penalty: 2012 →
INFOGRAPHIC: The State of the Death Penalty: 2012
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Public Shaming: The Definitive "People Who Thought... →
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Two brothers from Chechnya. That was the official word early morning on Friday April 19th, 2013 as to who were behind the Boston marathon bombings. “Chechens.”
So, naturally, who do some brilliant citizens of the United States of America blame? The CZECH REPUBLIC, of course!
Here are those Twitter users who are brave enough to still have their tweets up for all to see:
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France: Is this the most homoerotic anti-gay... →
Male protesters against same-sex marriage are stripping off their shirts, writing slogans on their chest and parading across France against gay marriage.
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“Being a white, feminist ally is not about being recognized for one’s good work,...”
– Ashley Young via Autostraddle — Race, Class and White People’s Beach Houses: On Talking to Privileged People About Privilege (via autostraddle)
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Loved & Respected Transgender Woman Killed In... →
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TW: gun violence
An ongoing investigation into the shooting death of a Baltimore transgender woman presents little information into the cause of the crime. In fact, as details are being collected it remains unclear if this act of criminal violence was part of a hate crime.
29-year-old Rodney Little, affectionately known to many as Kelly Young, was found shot in a house in the...
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