March 2012
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Secret's out: Mitt Romney has donated to NOM →
gaywrites:
These are not good times for anyone affiliated with the National Organization for Marriage, and not surprisingly, that includes Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Documents circulated by the Human Rights Campaign show that Romney donated $10,000 to NOM a few years ago, a contribution that may well have made a huge impact when NOM was fighting for Prop 8. A while back...
What I'm reading: I'm not angry at Carson Daly →
“Friends don’t let friends use pink balls.”
– Rick Santorum, protecting American values one bowling alley at a time. This is just too easy. More. (via gaywrites)
Open mouth, insert foot.
In remembrance of Adrienne Rich →
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WatchNational Cleavage Day celebrations certainly draws the gawkers. A publicity stunt to welcome a new Ann Summers store included a stroll from scantily clad women. What’s fantastic about it is the women are real girls — all shapes and sizes.
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WatchNOM’s former president, Maggie Gallagher, appeared on MSNBC on Friday to defend the race-baiting scandal. Notably, she makes no apologies for the recently exposed memos that detail creating a “wedge between gays and blacks.”
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Watch“Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same” is a real movie with a real trailer and, surprisingly, really great reviews. It played at Sundance in 2011.
Here’s the plot summary from the film’s website: The film “follows the adventures of three lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and...
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“She was a courageous poet. She was courageous in that she wrote against the...”
– David Swanger, Santa Cruz County’s poet laureate, on Adrienne Rich
WatchStephen Colbert takes a look at Conservative Teen magazine.
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“We’re not seeing any impact.”
– Zack Hutson, a Starbucks spokesma, on the effect of NOM’s Dump Starbucks campaign over their support of gay marriage, according to a post in The Stranger.
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WatchKatie Couric made a PSA to urge an end to bullying and to promote the new film “Bully,” which opens in select theaters on Friday.
Related story: Theaters take sides in “bully” debate
WatchHuman Rights Campaign’s Brian Moulton speaks with Keith Olbermann on Countdown about NOM’s race-baiting debacle. “They’re certainly trying to paint a picture that there’s a monolithic opposition among some minority groups, and that’s just simply not the case,” Moulton said.
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WatchMSNBC again interviews an empty chair, as Maggie Gallagher fails to show up to defend the National Organization for Marriage race-baiting tactics. Truth Wins Out’s Wayne Besen did show for the interview and called the NOM papers “a smoking gun.”
