where is this? i want to go

found here.

joel meares totally pwns the ‘value of marriage’ anti-gay argument

every now and then i feel the urge to go up to people like joel meares who can express this argument better than i and kiss them. read it and weep, anti-’calling it marriage’ people. y’all can kiss my fat dyke ass.

Tiger Woods, whose indiscretions have been by far the biggest story in the US for the past two weeks (what troop surge in Afghanistan?), is doing his bit. The golfer’s domestic drama couldn’t have come at a better time to illustrate the absurdity of the “value of marriage” argument against gay unions.

… The government happily endorses the right of the Bachelor to marry a bikini-clad opportunist for a month and get a quickie divorce.

Yet it will not provide that same right for a gay couple who have demonstrated their love and commitment for years – not in Sydney, not in Melbourne, not in Maine, not in California, not even in traditionally progressive New York.

It apparently boils down to protecting the value of marriage. (The value of Tiger’s marriage? US$60 million. That’s how much he’s reportedly paying his wife, Elin Nordegren, to stick by him.)

But by voting down the bill on this or whatever basis, the senate here has done nothing to protect the value of equality.

By not allowing same-sex couples to marry in the exact same way that straight couples do, with the exact same related rights, these governments effectively endorse wider spread feelings in the community that gays are lesser citizens.

The senate sent a message last week that Australia has always sent to its own gay community: you are not equal.

… This week’s Tiger-gate headlines show once again how thin that sanctity can be. And yet Tiger will rack up a few more anniversaries with Elin and that Broadway pusher has the right to shotgun it in Vegas tomorrow with a girl he meets tonight.

But loving gay couples that have been together for years and want to tie the knot continue to be the true threat to marriage and its diminishing value.

Gold. Read the whole thing right here.

could be worse … could be in south africa

ugh.

LESBIANS in South Africa are being dragged off the street and raped to “correct” them, it has been claimed.

Sky News has found evidence of widespread abuse against the lesbian community, resulting in a new trend of so-called “corrective rape.”

In the the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town, a group of women said they live in fear for their lives. All of them claim to know someone who has been violently dragged off the street and raped because she had come out as a lesbian.

“We live in a society firstly that sees women as always having to be subservient to men, but it is even worse when you come out as a lesbian, and a butch lesbian at that. There is always that threat that you are going to be raped so you can become a ‘real’ woman,” says Funeka Solidaat.

read the whole disgusting thing at news.com.au

Why newspapers are better than iPhones – mUmBRELLA

hehehe … give ‘em credit for innovation, if nothing else. (they’ll still be dead in 20 years). LOL.

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The Rachel Maddow Show: Insani-Tea: Conservatives Rally Around “Teabagging”

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Rachel Maddow:Pandamonium

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i love you portia.

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NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill

awesome.

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awesome vintage girl bands pictures

this and more found here.

meredith baxter’s family ties

wooooohooo. the hottest 80s mom on television came out on the Today Show, with no thanks to gumby Matt Lauer who managed to ask the dumbest questions, apparently. along the lines of ‘but you’ve been married three times, how can you be gay?’

idjit.

anyway, welcome meredith to the family. out is good, people. out is power.