That's only if you believe these massive homophobes parading through cyberspace calling themselves the "rainbow coalition". This video will eff up your afternoon if you support gay marriage or even if you have a low tolerance for ignorance. I'm not going to spend energy trying to explain why this ad is a lesson in bigotry because Feministe does a good enough job already.  I had the exact same thought: 

A rainbow coalition?  They have a rainbow coalition?  Yay, co-opting… Read More

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I just emailed my acceptance of admission to the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop today. I'm trying to not think about the fact that it was only 29 degrees there this morning. But of course, that's all I'm thinking about. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit shook to be freezing… Read More

Or anyone for that matter.  Prince told the LA Times that he didn't vote at all this year:

"Jehovah's Witnesses haven't voted for their whole inception." The controversy over a recent New Yorker "Talk of the Town" item, which Prince feels implied he supported the gay-marriage ban, has upset him. It's the first thing he wanted to discuss when the Web geeks had gone and we were alone. "I have friends that are gay and we study the Bible together," he said. He added that two sides fighting… Read More

Wouldn't that be funny?  It looks like the pastor is just trying to polish his image with gays.  He visited the popular West Hollywood thrift store, Out of the Closest, yesterday and TMZ snapped this photo.  Warren gave the owner a couple of his books and praised the store for free HIV testing (go get tested and know your status for the new year!)

 

 

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Today is "Day Without A Gay" day! Opponents of Proposition 8, and other anti-gay laws in the country, are urging people to call in gay today.  Those who call in gay are suppose to volunteer their services at various non-profits or other volunteer centers… Read More

Gays may be allowed to openly serve in the military within the first year of an Obama administration if the "don't ask, don't tell" policy is overturned as expected.   The lead sponsor of a bill that would repeal the policy told CNN that she expected Obama to sign the bill sooner than later. Ellen Tauscher, D-California, said:

"The key here is to get bills that pass the House and the Senate, that we can get to President-elect Obama to sign, and I think that we can do that, certainly, the first year of the administration."

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