gay marriage

Quickies 4/22/2013

Quickies 4/22/2013

If you haven’t seen this yet, check out the New Zealand House of Commons breaking out into song after legalizing gay marriage. 18 illustrated responses to street harassment. The curator of the Everday Sexism Project talks about the project, about the sexist hate mail she gets, and about the support network that’s developed around it: “Success stories began to pour in. In their ow... »

QUICKIES 03/25/2013

QUICKIES 03/25/2013

The County where No One’s Gay. Rape culture, as inadvertently explained by an airplane groper: “It’s not like I molested you. It’s not like I stuck my finger in your pussy or grabbed your tits.” Another politician is now explicitly on the right side of history: Senator Claire McCaskill announces support for gay marriage. “Good people disagree with me. On the other hand, my children hav... »

QUICKIES 02/11/2013

QUICKIES 02/11/2013

Indiana High School students, parents and a teacher want a “traditional” prom that excludes all the queer kids. ‘”Homosexual students come to me with their problems, and I don’t agree with them, but I care about them. It’s the same thing with my special needs kids, I think God puts everyone in our lives for a reason.” Asked if she thought gays also “... »

QUICKIES 05/28/2012

QUICKIES 05/28/2012

Stop what you’re doing and watch Anderson Cooper interview a faithful sheep, Stacy Pritchard, from Charles Worley’s church. Worley is the reverend caught on tape last week proposing that all us queers be rounded up and put behind a 150 mile-long electrified fence. A poll from the Washington Post has found that people of color are more likely than white people to say they support gay ma... »