Marriage News Relay Race!
Okay, here we go… MARYLAND! –baton pass– The Governor-backed marriage amendment in the land of crabs, Ravens and shitloads of crack has a long road ahead, as The Washington Post reports today. The area is seen as a natural soft spot for Marriage Equality. It’s adjacent to what is rapidly becoming the 13 colonies...
LA Playlist (Video Edition)
The Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan, who wrote a terrific Newsweek piece arguing for President Obama’s second term, answers daily questions on his site. Today’s question has a longer, more nuanced answer than usual. I found watching it to be a centering, quiet and healthy experience. The question is “How do you define ‘patriotism’?” It’s...
5 Quick Ways America Could Gussy Itself Up
1. LA can get itself a Dunkin’ Donuts. Why is it that every other corner of this country ‘runs on Dunkin” except for the one city where people are stuck in their cars all day? We have nothing here! Krispy Kremes are vanishing, and all we’re left with is little taqueria-shaped donut huts that would...
LA Playlist: “Coachella Edition”
By Guest Writer P.C. Anderson Admit it: you’re a hipster about something. It might be a French-Canadian film fetish, a penchant for mid-’90s video games or perhaps you long for the days of the early seasons of Project Runway before Lifetime actually made it about fashion, but you devoutly care about particular cultural movements for...
Adam has Something to Say About Football
I am not a football watcher. I don’t know what a sports is, nor do I watch the ball that is kicked with the foot, despite 90% of the game, nay the ultimate goal, being to hold the ball with your arms. I fancy myself more of a football listener, in that I have heard...
Who Claims the Dream?
The Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most famous moments in American History, and, as The New York Times commented today, World History as well. People oppressed all over the world now look to that speech as permission to try. Does King’s Dream belong to just one...
What’s the Worst Thing You Can Say About Mitt Romney?
The only people Republican candidates trash more than gays and liberals are each other. Like raptors biting at each other’s necks. Well, Newt Gingrich has sunk quite a bit of coin into a 30-minute Romney attack ad, complete with the gravelly dark voice-over guy, who must’ve taken this gig on break between Grindhouse trailers....
Vote 2012: End of the Week
Throughout 2011, 2012 promised to be a big, volatile year for Marriage Equality, and, less than two weeks in, it hasn’t disappointed. With state legislative sessions beginning all over the country, jump starts on social bills like these are causing a stir. Here are up to the minute updates on all your favorite (or...
Be Well
My phone saves me, then makes me suffer as soon as I set it down. In the two years since owning a smartphone, I have developed a new psychology. I can’t be sure yet if it’s a positive change, but I do know that there’s no going back. We will never get our email...
Vote 2012: Gay in Washington
In addition to New Jersey, the next state at the forefront of marriage equality is Washington State. Governor Christine Gregoire said this month that “It’s time, it is the right thing to do, and I will introduce a bill to do it.” “Not so fast,” said everyone. Even though the potential bill has overwhelming...
The Catholic Church Just Found a New Way to Touch Children
Over the Christmas season, Chicago Cardinal Francis George took time to reflect on the passing year and remember the birth of Christ, what so many Facebook statuses remind me is “The Reason for the Season.” Except, he didn’t. He spent Christmas publicly equating gay rights advocates to the Ku Klux Klan. Missing the reason for...
Vote 2012: Gay in New Jersey (addendum)
With New Jersey fast-tracking its gay marriage bill, other states are not far behind (Washington State is prepping one as we speak– a full run-down of that tomorrow). NOM, the National Organization for Marriage, is the leading money-making machine out to kill all these gay marriage bills, outside of the Catholic and Mormon Churches....
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