Let’s Act Up

A lot of us are concerned that the new president might not live up to his campaign rhetoric. I don’t think we should just sit back and wait and see. We need to continue to take direct action just as we did when the neocon’s were in power. We’ll have to fight for our rights [...]

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ALTERNATIVE SEARCH FILTER

That little widget on the sidebar is the Alternative Press Search engine.  I’d like to share it with you. I do hope you’ll use it and if possible help me to improve it.
You can help in two ways. The first is by sending me links to sites you think should be included. Just send them [...]

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Queer Revolution

A few words of wisdom from the world’s most entertaining lesbian:

I was watching Anne Coulter on C-SPAN today and her advice to young women was not to attend law school, but to become involved in the mainstream media. I’m glad that Lizzie followed that path!

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Red & Black Ball at 2640 (updated)

Kate from Red Emma’s:

“The ball is an end-of-year fundraiser for Red Emma’s, and a kind of alternative holiday celebration at the same time.  It’s a Victorian-themed masquerade ball, so we’re encouraging folks to unleash their old-timey creativity and put together period-type costumes with the “Red & Black” theme in mind … but [...]

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H8ers and their headlines (updated)

My guess is that the headlines of the radical right are rarely read by those outside of their cozy little world of fear mongering and paranoia. I ran across these early this morning while I was looking for the origins of Rush Limbaugh’s term “feminazi.”

Knights of Columbus Face Chilling Threats
Obama Election Heals “White Guilt” at [...]

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HRC President Joe Solmonese on H8

HRC President Joe Solmonese urges a coalition building with gay marriage adversaries during this Saturday’s protest aginst Proposition 8:
“Our campaigns to beat back discriminatory ballot measures in California, Arizona, Florida and Arkansas failed to help others who have experienced discrimination understand that putting the rights of one minority up for a vote puts everyone’s rights [...]

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National protest against Proposition 8

The National protest against Proposition 8 in Baltimore will be held at 1:30pm at City Hall on Saturday, November 15, 2008.
The event is planned for cities throughout America. I’m not sure how much impact protests outside of California will have. But it is always good to see folks who believe in freedom gathering for the [...]

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The freeway blogger

I thought this site deserved a plug

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Connecticut bishops denounce same-sex marriage decision

Give me a break. “‘This decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court also raises a very real concern about the infringement on religious liberty and freedom of speech with the judicial imposition of same-sex marriage,” said the Bishops.
Neither freedom of religion nor of speech has been infringed upon. Nothing has been imposed on anyone.
I understand that [...]

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Connecticut Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

Showing a profound sense of the obvious the Court struck down Connecticut’s civil union law based on the notion that it did not confer equal rights, but rather treated gays as a lesser class. Justice Palmer wrote, “Although marriage and civil unions do embody the same legal rights under our law, they are by no [...]

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