11/30/13
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11/26/13
Looking forward to this biopic on Cesar Chavez, the great Latino American leader
Every community should celebrate its heroes.
11/25/13
Quote of the day, about the National Organization for Marriage
"Like a candidate losing every primary, you wonder how long the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) can hold on. It’s now in the red to the tune of more than a million dollars. What exactly does NOM do as voters in state after state decide to expand marriage to gay couples? There aren’t enough states for a constitutional amendment. It’s no longer a matter of judicial activism, but a sea change in public opinion that is propelling the legal shift. How many contests does NOM lose before it — or its donors — figures out the argument is not going to carry the day?"
- Jennifer Rubin, right-wing columnist for the Washington Post.
11/24/13
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11/21/13
Quote of the day
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: "There is no straight or gay marriage. From now on there is only MARRIAGE in Illinois." #IL4M
Yesterday, President Obama gave out our nation's Medal of Freedom to 16 Americans, including two gay Americans. Let freedom ring!
Astronaut Sally Ride: The surviving (lesbian) spouse of Sally Ride, Tam O’Shaughnessy, Dr. Sally Ride’s partner of 27 years, told HRC yesterday that the “award sends a message to the world, including to Russia, that equality is important, respect is important.”
“The ideal America is one where no one – regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, — is a second class citizen,” said Tam. “With each protection and freedom and equality achieved, I feel safer in my state and prouder to be an American.”
“I wanted to ensure Sally’s legacy reflected the integrity in which she lived her life, said Tam. “For her not to be open in this one way felt wrong.”
“It’s scary to be open because you don’t realized the impact that it might have on so many aspects of your life,” said Tam. “You worry about grants, about whether you’ll be able to continue writing children’s textbooks; we were scared that if sponsors knew the founders of Sally Ride Science were two lesbians, if that would affect our organization.”
“I’ve found that people really valued the relationship,” said Tam. “It didn’t matter that we were two women; what mattered was our relationship’s longevity and our love.”
Civil Rights Advocate Bayard Rustin: “Walter Naegle accepting on behalf of his partner, Bayard Rustin. Bayard Rustin was a giant in the American Civil Rights Movement. Openly gay at a time when many had to hide who they loved, his unwavering belief that we are all equal members of a ‘single human family’ took him from his first Freedom Ride to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement. Thanks to his unparalleled skills as an organizer, progress that once seemed impossible appears, in retrospect, to have been inevitable. Fifty years after the March on Washington he organized, America honors Bayard Rustin as one of its greatest architects for social change and a fearless advocate for its most vulnerable citizens.”
At the desk of Abraham Lincoln, Illinois signs into law marriage equality. Thank you, Land of Lincoln!
Watch the full signing of the bill from yesterday's ceremony here.
This is an especially significant event on many levels. For me, I am glad to see Lincoln's desk used in the ceremony given his leadership in making America more equal. Also, Lincoln had several intense same-sex relationships, over the course of his life, that appeared to have been sexual. So the symbolism of using Abe's desk at the ceremony was rich, indeed.
11/20/13
Quote of the day on the Gettysburg address
In the evening, when Michelle and the girls have gone to bed, I sometimes walk down the hall to a room Abraham Lincoln used as his office. It contains an original copy of the Gettysburg Address, written in Lincoln's own hand.
I linger on these few words that have helped define our American experiment: 'a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.'
Through the lines of weariness etched in his face, we know Lincoln grasped, perhaps more than anyone, the burdens required to give these words meaning. He knew that even a self evident truth was not self executing; that blood drawn by the lash was an affront to our ideals; that blood drawn by the sword was in painful service to those same ideals.
He understood as well that our humble efforts, our individual ambitions, are ultimately not what matter; rather, it is through the accumulated toil and sacrifice of ordinary men and women -- those like the soldiers who consecrated that battlefield -- that this country is built, and freedom preserved. This quintessentially self made man, fierce in his belief in honest work and the striving spirit at the heart of America, believed that it falls to each generation, collectively, to share in that toil and sacrifice.
Through cold war and world war, through industrial revolutions and technological transformations, through movements for civil rights and women's rights and workers rights and gay rights, we have. At times, social and economic change have strained our union. But Lincoln's words give us confidence that whatever trials avail us, this nation and the freedom we cherish can, and shall, prevail.-- Barack Obama on the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address
11/19/13
Remembering the Gettysburg Address, 150 years later
LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
And here it is:
Boxer Orlando Cruz shows he is a winner, marrying his long-time partner in NYC
Orlando may have lost the World Championship title fight last month, but he is triumphant yesterday, after marry his partner.
Quote of the day on the Cheney family's values
"If Liz Cheney, whose bid for the Senate has always had a stench of extreme opportunism, wants to discuss traditions and values, I’m all for it. Let’s start here: Isn’t there a tradition of close-knit family members’ taking care not to wound one another? Is there not value in that? [snip] But she plunged forward anyway, disregarding the inevitable discord. As Jonathan Martin reported in The Times, Liz and Mary aren’t speaking to each other now, and there’s a long shadow over the Cheneys’ holiday get-togethers. Is any political office worth that? Would victory redeem the public message that Liz just sent to her niece and nephew? I’m imagining her awkwardness the next time that she goes to hug or kiss them (and I’m assuming that she’s a hugger or kisser, which may be a leap). If there’s not a knot in her stomach, then there’s nothing at all in her heart."- Frank Bruni, New York Times.
None of this surprises me one bit. Dick Cheney has supported a party that is 98% against the rights of the LGBT. Why would his daughter Liz be any different from her dad, willing to throw her sister's family under the bus to win an election.
Anderson Cooper & Andrew Sullivan are right: Alec Baldwin should be fired for homophobia. If he had used the N-word, he would be already fired by MSNBC
Cooper:"If Alec Baldwin had yelled the N word to that photographer or yelled an anti-Jewish slur against that photographer, it would be over. But the F word is a word that kids are called in school every single day. Teachers often do nothing about it."
Sullivan:"And it's important to note that all this stuff is laced with a threat of violence. All of these instances are also about 'I'm going to get you.'"He should be fired by MSNBC. Period.
11/18/13
Documentary films like this are speeding up the acceptance of LGBT people...throughout the world. Please support this one
I remember growing up in Florida and wishing there were some teenage surfer boys like me.
Step by step, community by community, breath by breath, we are winning in our march for full equality for the LGBT. Please support these guys in their inspired endeavor.
11/17/13
11/16/13
Everyone deserve a little love. Glad to see Robbie Rogers out there with a boyfriend...
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/15/soccer-star-robbie-rogers-dating-hollywood-greg-berlanti/#ixzz2kpbpauRj
11/15/13
Quote of the day...on cruel ironies
Prior to the July swimming accident that left him a quadriplegic, when NOM communications director Thomas Peters wasn't tweeting against gay marriage, he was issuing regular denouncements of Obamacare. But now that he's at the literal mercy of our current broken medical system, a campaign for donations will be launched across social media later this week. I doubt that the irony of this situation weighs much on the minds of his supporters - after all, one of the linchpins of the anti-Obamacare arguments is that "society" and not the government should provide. Among the items that Peters needs help paying for are prescriptions, home health aides, and most ominously, his COBRA premium, which suggests that he's already lost his regular insurance coverage as an employee of NOM. I don't know how much better Peters' situation would be had Obamacare been in full effect when he suffered his injury, but I doubt it would be worse.While I point out the hypocrisy of Mr. Peters and his family, I do wish Thomas a complete recovery. But be careful what you campaign for, because you just may get it.
Clinton friend and "Bridegroom" film director Linda Bloodworth talks about her family's long-running feud with the Limbaugh's
Watch it beginning at the 9-minute mark.
11/14/13
Watch these two teenage DREAMers ask John Boehner, at his diner, to bring the immigration bill to the House floor. And get brushed off
Why not invite these kids to join for breakfast and discuss this matter? Because that would inflame the immigration-hating, xenophobic GOP base.
11/13/13
When the extraordinary becomes ordinary -- with many same-sex couples getting married, we know love is winning
Our love and full humanity are becoming more visible for all Americans to see. Beautiful.
A gay teenager from Tennessee dazzles a Hollywood crowd with his story of being bullied and standing up for himself. Bravo!
From the New York Times:
Ho-hum, and back to the lobster dinner: The 600 people gathered here last Friday for a $10,000-a-table charity event — the Glsen Respect Awards, dedicated to fighting bullying in schools — came largely from the movie and television industries, and you can’t impress Hollywood with celebrities.
But then a skinny, soft-spoken 16-year-old from rural Tennessee took the stage. Forks dropped, followed by jaws, as Andrew Lawless spoke about being terrorized at school because of his sexuality. Last winter, he walked into a school bathroom, where two boys shouted gay slurs and slammed him into the walls. “Then I was dragged into a bathroom stall, where my safety was taken from me,” he said.
He took a gulp of air. “I became a victim of sexual assault.”
The jaded crowd was suddenly fighting back tears, not only because of what happened to Mr. Lawless, and in 2013 no less, but because the event had instantly turned from just another Hollywood fund-raiser to something very personal. No longer was the ballroom packed with some of the most powerful gay men in show business, from the chairman of NBC to the chief creative officer of DreamWorks Animation to the programming president of HBO. The room was abruptly filled with scared 16-year-old boys walking the medieval halls of high school.
“All of these people rushed to shake my hand and hug me and tell me they could identify with the bullying,” Mr. Lawless said afterward, sounding a bit shellshocked. “I was trying not to get emotional, but the outpouring was kind of crazy.”
Glsen, which stands for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (and is pronounced “glisten”), was founded in 1990 by a Massachusetts teacher named Kevin Jennings. Now under the leadership of Eliza Byard — Mr. Jennings left in 2008 to run the Obama administration’s anti-bullying program — the nonprofit has grown into one of the leading gay-rights groups in the country, standing beside (or at least near) older, larger and better-known organizations like the Human Rights Campaign.
Amazingly, legendary NFL coach and tough guy, Vince Lombardi accepted gay members on his teams in the 1960s. His brother was gay
Multiple players who played for Vince Lombardi, the legendary former Packers and Redskins coach, say that he knew some of his players were gay, and that not only did he not have a problem with it, but he went out of his way to make sure no one else on his team would make it a problem.
In 1969, Lombardi’s Redskins included a running back named Ray McDonald, who in 1968 had been arrested for having sex with another man in public. In the Lombardi biography When Pride Still Mattered, author David Maraniss writes that Lombardi told his assistants he wanted them to work with McDonald to help him make the team, “And if I hear one of you people make reference to his manhood, you’ll be out of here before your ass hits the ground.”
Lombardi’s daughter Susan told Ian O’Connor of ESPNNewYork.com that her father would have been thrilled to have a player like Jason Collins, the NBA center who publicly revealed this week that he is gay.
“My father was way ahead of his time,” Susan Lombardi said. “He was discriminated against as a dark-skinned Italian American when he was younger, when he felt he was passed up for coaching jobs that he deserved. He felt the pain of discrimination, and so he raised his family to accept everybody, no matter what color they were or whatever their sexual orientation was. I think it’s great what Jason Collins did, because it’s going to open a lot of doors for people. Without a doubt my father would’ve embraced him, and would’ve been very proud of him for coming out.”This story makes my dad smile because Vince is one of his heroes.
11/12/13
Narcissistic quote of the day
When you lie at this level and hurt this many people, I think a heartfelt apology is the first order of the day. Many Americans, including myself, would forgive Lance if he truly took responsibility for his actions, showed remorse, and compensated those people he injured.
"It's been tough. It's been real tough. I've paid a high price in terms of my standing within the sport, my reputation, certainly financially because the lawsuits have continued to pile up. I have experienced massive personal loss, massive loss of wealth, while others have truly capitalized on this story."--Lance Armstrong
11/11/13
Quote of the day, on being pro-life and pro-choice
"I am pro-life,” she said, borrowing from the label anti-abortion activists assign themselves. “I care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children’s future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.”
-- Texas legislator, Wendy Davis, who is the Democratic nominee for Texas Governor
11/10/13
This is a story about a mother's love...for her son and the LGBT community. Representative Naomi Jakobsson is an exceptional person! Thank you
I am in awe of people like Naomi, who put love first in their lives. From the New Civil Rights Movement:
Rep. Jakobsson was a co-sponsor of the marriage equality bill in the Illinois House, but she had been conspicuously absent in the week before the vote. This was unusual for Rep. Jakobsson, who has served in the Illinois State House since 2002. She never missed the debate on a bill she sponsored, much less a vote. But as the argument heated up in Springfield, Naomi Jakobsson was ninety minutes away, at a hospice in Matoon, keeping a vigil at the bedside of her son Garret, who was dying a slow death from a progressive neurodegenerative disorder called Pick’s Disease.
Garret had been in hospice care for some time, and his death was imminent. No one would have faulted Naomi Jakobsson if she had chosen to be a mother first and remain by the side of the boy she and Eric had adopted from South Korea in 1968, at the beginning of their journey together. No doubt husband and wife had discussed it many times before, whispering in the dark while their son slept, about the possibility that she might be called away to vote on the marriage bill. They would have talked about that eventuality among the family. The decision would have been made long before the phone call from the capitol was.
Tuesday morning that phone call came. The bill was scheduled to be voted on that afternoon. A “test vote” for an amendment had just failed, receiving only 59 of the 60 votes it needed to pass. Marriage equality for the state of Illinois could hinge on Rep. Jakobsson’s vote. She had to come!
Naomi Jakobsson shouldered her responsibility as a legislator. She kissed her sleeping son and promised to return the very minute she could. She embraced her husband, each of them drawing strength from the other as they had through all their years together. There would have been no last minute discussion. No second guessing their decision. Just promises to be quick, and warnings to drive carefully. Then Rep. Jakobsson buckled in for the ninety minute drive to Springfield, no doubt with her circular thoughts outracing the car all the way.
Rep. Jakobsson arrived just after the final debate got underway. She sat through two and a half hours of the back and forth, tortured by her circumstances, no doubt hearing little of what was said.
Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, one of Rep. Jakobsson’s best friends in the chamber, said of that day:
“Everything was a little surreal. She had left this environment that she’d been in, kind of a waiting vigil at her son’s bedside, to come here.”
House Majority Leander Barbara Lynn Curry noted that Rep. Jakobsson was visibly distraught, but did her best to get through a difficult day. Rep. Greg Harris, chief sponsor of the bill, stated:
“I take my hat off to her, I admire her, and I give her nothing but respect for the courage it took to come to Springfield.”
Rep. Jakobsson cast her “yes” vote for marriage equality. There were 61 yes votes, one more than was needed for the legislation to pass. Democratic lawmakers took a victory lap, posing for photos and happily answering reporters questions, but Rep. Jakobsson was not among them. She was back on the road to the hospice, back to her husband and her daughter-in-law, back to her young grandson Gunnar, back to her beloved son Garret. Garret would have all of her time and attention now that she had stood up and done her duty to Illinois.
Garret passed away ten minutes before her car pulled into the hospice parking lot. She was too late. Rep. Naomi Jakobsson had stood up for equality, and lost the opportunity to see her son out of this life.
Majority Leader Barbara Lynn Curry announced Garret Jakobsson’s death on the house floor Wednesday, requesting a moment of silence so that member could, “express in their own hearts, their concern for Naomi, her family and young Gunnar.”
Rep. Greg Harris said of her:
“Naomi Jakobsson is an amazing woman. Kind, caring and courageous. She was among the first to sign on as a sponsor to marriage equality, and has been a champion for this and many other issues of justice and fairness in Central Illinois, and across our state. What a sacrifice her family made.”
11/9/13
The marriage equality movement started in Hawaii in 1993 and last night things came full circle, with this state becoming the 16th to support all marriages
I am thrilled that the Aloha state has extended its warm embrace to it LGBT citizens. What a capper to a thrilling week in which Illinois passed marriage equality and ENDA passed the U.S. Senate!
The victory in Hawaii is especially sweet since the marriage equality movement started there. From Wikipedia:
Baehr v. Miike (originally Baehr v. Lewin) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of Hawaii, which found the state's refusal to grant same-sex couples marriage licenses discriminatory. In 1991, three same-sex couples sued Hawaii Director of Health John C. Lewin in his official capacity, seeking to force the state to issue them marriage licenses. After the case was dismissed by the trial court the couples appealed to the state supreme court. In the plurality opinion delivered by Judge Steven H. Levinson in 1993, the court ruled that while the right to privacy in the Hawaii state constitution does not include a fundamental right to same-sex marriage, denying marriage to same-sex couples constituted discrimination based on sex in violation of the right to equal protection guaranteed by the state's constitution.Change is happening!
11/8/13
My inner teenage boy blesses all these young, high school gay couples...
My advice to these young people: Learn to love, listen, be present, apologize, and forgive, and you will have a great life. I am proud of you for being all you can be.
I couldn't be out in high school, but since the 1980s, I have fought like hell to ensure you can live in more tolerant and accepting world. And there is lots more work to do.
The best way to payback the efforts of me and many other generations of gay people is to live and love large! I am cheering you on...and enjoying my life, too.
Mormons and the movement for LGBT equality
Queerty reminds me that 5 senators who are Mormon voted for ENDA yesterday, which includes Harry Reid and Orin Hatch. Pretty amazing turn of events.
Calling the Mormon Church an opponent of the gay rights movement is a massive understatement. But of the seven Senators who are Mormon, five of them voted to pass ENDA: Harry Reid, Tom Udall, Dean Heller, Jeff Flake and Orrin Hatch. (Mike Lee and Michael Crapo voted no.) Now Reid and Udall are Democrats, so you could argue their votes were to be expected, but the remaining three are Republicans. In particular, Hatch represents Utah, which is virtually synonymous with the Mormon Church, so he’s not likely to be taking positions that are going to enrage the Church.From yesterday's New York Times, read this article about the Mormon Church and the gay rights movement, too.
We need to keep pressing the Mormon Church to stay out of the marriage equality debate. After the strong public backlash from their heavy support of Prop 8 and during the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, the LDS church has kept a low profile on this and other gay-releated issues. But, recently in Hawaii, they seem to have fallen back to their old ways of preaching from the pulpit against the LGBT, while some of their most prominent members, like Steve Young, openly disagree with the church's teachings on homosexuality.
Frank Bruni talks about HRC's new international advocacy initiative largely funded by conservative, hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, who has a gay son
Read Frank's piece in the NYTimes about this latest international initiative to spread the gay rights movement throughout the world. Frank Bruni writes this about Paul Singer:
In this case, he was announcing a new project to be funded, at least at the outset, by him and other conservative donors but to be run by the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T. advocacy group in Washington, which is much more closely affiliated with Democrats. The initiative will be dedicated to fighting the victimization of gays and lesbians internationally. But it will also show that there are Republicans — not a majority, but an increasingly impassioned minority — who are intent on progress and justice for L.G.B.T. people.I welcome the money and support of Republicans for in the struggle for LGBT equality as long as they don't try to hijack our movement and impose their Ayn Rand-ian values of selfishness and cold-heartedness on us.
11/7/13
Yay, 64-32, the ENDA employment non-discrimination bill passes the Senate...with the help of all Democrats and these GOP senators. Giving credit where it is due!
Thanks to Democratic Senate Caucus who voted in bloc for ENDA as well as the brave GOP senators who bucked their party's anti-gay policies.
Now, we need to convince John Boehner to let the House vote on this subject. That's going to be difficult and this should be the primary responsibility of gay Republicans to convince him to do the right thing. Get to work, boys!
The New York Times invites gay Russians to write about their lives, and what it finds isn't pretty...
Read this article from the New York Times: "On Holding Hands and Fake Marriage: Stories of Being Gay in Russia"
This is where America has in the 1960s. We must speak out for our Russian LGBT brothers and sisters, especially as that country is hosting the Winter Olympics next year and the World Cup in 2018.
11/6/13
The New York Times chronicles the marriage of this gay male couple who are both West Point graduates
The days leading up to the marriage of Daniel Lennox and Larry Choate III were captured by the New York Times. Check it out here.
11/5/13
United States Conference On Catholic Bishops believes that the LGBT should be fired for being gay, and opposes the ENDA law. Shame on them
It appears that the bishops do not understood Pope Francis' new direction for the church, moving away from "small-minded things."
Peter Montgomery of People From The American Way has an excerpt:
While the Church is opposed to unjust discrimination on any grounds, including those related to same-sex attraction, she teaches that all sexual acts outside of the marriage of one man and one woman are morally wrong and do not serve the good of the person or society. Same-sex sexual conduct, moreover, is categorically closed to the transmission of life and does not reflect or respect the sexual difference and complementarity of man and woman. Therefore, opposition to same-sex sexual conduct by the Church (and others) is not unjust discrimination and should not be treated as such by the law. In contrast to sexual conduct between a man and woman in marriage, sexual conduct outside of marriage, including same-sex sexual conduct, has no claim to any special protection by the state. Therefore, although ENDA may forbid some unjust discrimination, it would also forbid as discrimination what is legitimate, moral disapproval of same-sex conduct.
All Out beautifully shows the hypocrisy of the International Olympic Committee in not condemning Russia's anti-gay laws
I think Russia's Putin has been surprised that the LGBT won't be bullied and are pushing back against his bigoted, hateful laws. That's why you find him, in TV interviews, claiming that Russia protects its "sexual minorities." More than anything, he wants to be seen by the world as a great leader and continue to hold onto political power at home. So he continues to use anti-gay laws to prop up his popularity with conservatives at home, while trying to sidestep international condemnation.
He can't have it both ways and wasn't seen the full extent of our justifiable rage. The Olympics will be a teachable moment for him and other homophobic political leaders.
11/4/13
A world of possibility: the employment discrimination bill (ENDA) may pass the US Senate today and we are getting closer to marriage equality in Hawaii & Illinois
Good news in the U.S. Senate: we have the votes to stop a filibuster, thanks to Republican Senator Dean Haller from Nevada, who just became the 60th senator to sign on this legislation. More here.
The democratic process towards equality continues in Hawaii.
Here is the latest good news from llinois.
My, my, how far we've come: 2 gay West Point graduates marry at the Academy
This is almost unbelievable. Two U.S. Military graduates get legally married, and at West Point, to top it off. Congratulations to Larry Choate (on the left) and Daniel Lennox! These seem to be fine young men with a world of possibilities ahead of them.
Having personally served under the hateful "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law, these two men are cognizant of the special time in which they live and the sacrifices others made to ensure their privileges. Larry wrote this on their blog:
As we waited and I sat there in the lobby thinking about these things I found myself so incredibly grateful to be living here and now in a time and place when I can marry that incredible man sitting next to me. He's everything I hope to deserve when my whole life is over and I'll spend the rest of my days chasing that goal to be worthy of his love and affection. In a perfect world everyone will find their Danny and I'm incredibly blessed to have found mine. If we had lived even one decade earlier our love story would be tainted by the bigotry and fear of the unknown that was all too common in the lives of gay and lesbian men and women who came of age before us. We did not have to wage a lot of the battles that brought us the right to marry one another. We did endure Don't Ask/Don't Tell but even that was nothing compared to downright dark and terrifying realities that gays and lesbians had to endure until things started getting better not too terribly long ago.
The best thing that Larry and Danny can do to honor the work of the gay people who came before them is to live openly, honestly and joyfully. Congratulations, boys!
"12 Years a Slave" is the most honest, unflinching look at American slavery in a movie. It shows the darkest side of the human spirit as well as strong rays of light
In order to understand the wider American experience and the issue of race in our country, see this movie. It shows how a small group of conservative men used the Bible to justify their greed, subjugating millions of other human beings in the process. Does any this sound familiar today?
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