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pride
Biden Makes More Promises to Gays
At a fundraiser yesterday, VP Joe Biden tried, fruitlessly, to appease a gay community enraged by Barack Obama's not caring about their issues all that much. He is "not unaware of the controversy!" More »
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By PareeneComment by robrob9: Settle down, gays. You're becoming the Southern Baptists of the Democratic Party. 10 Responses | Other threads
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questions
Will Our New Army Secretary Let the Gays In?
Yesterday, Barack Obama proclaimed "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Pride Month 2009." Other than that, he has not really done much of anything, at all, for the gays, in his first couple months. Will his new Army Secretary help with that? More »
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By PareeneComment by El Matardillo: I can't speak for the other services, but in the Army gays are pretty well accepted in the medical services,... 36 Responses | Other threads
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gay marriage
Gay Marriage Hits Maine
Now the gathering storm of Gay Marriage has tsunamied all over Maine. Not Maine! That's where the Bushes live! More »
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By PareeneComment by Just Sayin'.......: Does this mean I get to marry my pet goat Bob? 7 Responses | Other threads
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lawsuits
The Yankees Won't Let You Pee on America
The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the NYPD on behalf of a Queens man who was kicked out of a Yankees game when he tried to go potty during "God Bless America." More »
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By John CookComment by RealTomatoKetchup: I'm not saying the cops aren't guilty but the press release makes this Bradford guy sound like he was spending... 18 Responses | Other threads
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the gays
Four Down: Vermont OKs Gay Marriage
Vermont just became the latest domino to fall in the gay-marriage movement, with the state's legislature and senate voting overwhelmingly to override an earlier gubernatorial veto of a bill extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. More »
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By John CookComment by spotted-dog: so overrode by one vote in the lower house. which legislator changed his or her mind, bc the unofficial... 10 Responses | Other threads
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no, really
Gay Marriage In Iowa!
Hah, activist judges in Iowa just forced everyone in that state of corn and fiction workshops to get gay married, right away. Does Iowa have gays? Besides a couple of the fiction workshop attendees maybe? More »
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By PareeneComment by blogissuchanuglyword: What the fuck is Iowa? 24 Responses | Other threads
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cover up
Rick Warren Removes 'Gays Not Accepted' Sign From Church Website
'Tis the season of empty gestures! Inaugural pastor Rick Warren rewrote his website so it no longer says gays are poison to his congregation. In fact a whole long lecture about gays was deleted. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by schweppes: Now, just to address the tithing thing...Warren's right. Tithing 10% is pretty darn clear in the Bible. And, this guy... 12 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Barney Frank, Unsurprisingly, Doesn't Care for Rick Warren
Guess who is not happy with the Rick Warren invocation? Barney Frank, one of the country's three openly gay congresspeople. More »
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By PareeneComment by arsrhetorica: As a former Hillary '08 supporter-- you know, the politician that we all knew was a politician and didn't pretend... 13 Responses | Other threads
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odetta
Odetta, Folk Singer Of The Gods
Odetta, the awesome blues and folk singer whose work was a soundtrack to the American civil rights movement and an inspiration to Bob Dylan and many others, has died at the age of 77. She began singing in the 1940s, and "In 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. anointed her 'The Queen of American folk music.'" Okay? She was also Rosa Parks' favorite singer. Not much more needs to be said, except that her music was off the chain. Three clips come tumbling down like Jericho, below: More »
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Comment by smithhimself: These clips blow me away. A general question to the Gawker community. What current performer with this sort of power... 18 Responses | Other threads
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hooray!
Florida Gays to Get Babies!
Activist judges overturned Florida's 31-year-old law against gay adoption! Fun fact: "Mississippi bans gay couples, but not single gays, from adopting." [AP/Google]
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By PareeneComment by Gatcha_Journalism: Not even a baby can make good ole' Dicks' look less devilish. 3 Responses | Other threads
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SCLC
The New Civil Rights: Keeping Wal-Mart Happy
The story we're about to bring you is sad on so many levels. Well, two levels. First, it illustrates the disappointing and kind of disgusting decline of a legendary civil rights institution, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), former home of Martin Luther King, Jr. Second, it shows what a farce half of the things you see on editorial pages are, if they come from public figures. We'll give you a condensed version of this ongoing media vs. advocacy group vs. PR firm controversy—as you read it, ask yourself whether MLK would have found himself caught up in this crap. More »
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Comment by mindbling: @ShanghaiLil: And that is how I got through college. I should go back to my roots. I was an English... more » | Other threads
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civil rights
Some of New Guv's Best Friends Are Gay!
Guys we LOVE our new governor! Thank Roger Stone the abrasive other guy got caught up in that hooker thing because that's really the only way we could've ended up with this awesome black and blind dude who is compulsively honest. AND, it turns out, gay-friendly! He decided the state of the New York would recognize gay marriages performed in California, and he compared the gay rights battle to the African-American civil rights battle, which, as the Times notes, "put him at odds with some black leaders, who bristle at such comparisons." Yes, they do. Why did Governor Paterson do it? More » -
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London Police Protect Scientology From Teen's Sign
The Brits are rather less enthusiastic about the whole "free speech" concept than the US is. A 15-year-old kid was holding a sign that said "Cult" at one of the Anonymous protests against Scientology in London. The precocious young scalawag had even memorized a 1984 UK court ruling in which a judge called the science fiction-based religion a "cult." But the police gave him a summons and confiscated his dangerous slogan-bearing poster, and now he has to go to court to defend himself. More »
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Comment by ZenWarrior: The strikes at the very heart of the difference between America and Europe: Illegal sign in London:"Scientology is a dangerous cult" Illegal... more » | Other threads
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crime
Saudis Release Blogger Jailed For Inflammatory Listicle
America's very very close friends in the Saudi government arrested and detained a young blogger named Fouad Farhan, shut down his site, detained him for four months without charges, and finally released him on Saturday. Thankfully, they have a very very good explanation for all that: "'We have ... what we call electronic crimes—any kind of violation related to computer and technology and so on,' Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Mansour Al Turki told the Monitor when asked why Fouad Farhan had been jailed. [...]'And I believe his main case was like violating personal rights.... Like when I go for example on the Internet or I go on any electronic media and I use your name and your personality and I criticize ... or offend you without being able to introduce evidence of what I'm saying.'" So. He was arrested for electronic crimes. Farhan could still be prosecuted for his "electronic crimes" despite the release. Farhan's worst electronic crime against the government? More »
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By PareeneComment by Newacademy: Proving once again that we invaded the wrong country- we were just s few miles too far north. more » | Other threads
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mike lacey
Village Voice Boss Honors Pal With Racial Slur
Mike Lacey, the pugnacious chief of Village Voice Media and overlord of alt-weeklies across America, is known to be a man not afraid to speak his mind. In fact, he's the self-proclaimed "asshole in charge." So attendees at a Phoenix Society of Professional Journalists awards dinner last Friday might have expected Lacey to say something interesting when he accepted an award on behalf of one of his papers [East Valley Tribune]. But they were less than amused when (the white man) Lacey referred to his deceased friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning [UPDATE: also white] journalist Tom Fitzpatrick, as "my nigger." More »
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Comment by Superstarsteve: He looks like a man who combs his face every morning with a rake. more » | Other threads
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anniversaries
The Mountaintop
Today, you must have heard, is the 40th anniversary of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. He was shot to death while standing on the balcony of a Memphis hotel at 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968. The night before, he had given his last speech—the prophetic "I've been to the Mountaintop" sermon—in which he told the crowd, "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now." King was tired, and had to be specially cajoled to go to the church that night; he ended up delivering his own eulogy. Considering the circumstances, it was his most moving speech of all. Were he alive today, King would be nearing his 80th birthday. A full clip of the speech is below. Have we reached the promised land yet? More »
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Comment by Mediahohoho: @Helman: No, I meant meant effective in conveying how I felt, the purpose of language after all. more » | Other threads
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days on
"Equal rights cannot be taken for granted, either personally or collectively as a Firm."
Are you working today? We are! But it's ok—The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. would've wanted it this way. As an unnamed partner at "a large accounting firm" notes in an inspirational letter forwarded to us by a fellow freedom-fighter, MLK knew that "the efforts around basic human rights could never take a holiday." Which is why they are expected to come into the office today. (Click to enlarge, brothers and sisters.) More »
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By PareeneComment by therealgoogle: Steven Hawking knows the value of more Bang for your Buck. That's why we have to work on Steven Hawkturdays. more » | Other threads
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new york times
Uncharacteristically, Some Good News 'On This Day' in the 'Times'
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obits
William Sloane Coffin Died, and We Missed It
One of the problems with spending all day focused on media news and amusing ephemera is that we don't actually flip through the real, print Times till we're on the train heading out at night. And so, somehow, it wasn't until after we'd finished Gawking for the day that we discovered William Sloane Coffin had died. Coffin was Yale's chaplain from 1958 to 1976, and he was a leading voice in the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam struggles. We're neither Yalies nor of the Vietnam generation, but we know of Coffin as one of the great liberal heroes of the last half-century. He was our kind of guy, as we understand it — a smart, tough New Yorker who fought the good fight. It'd be nice to have more of those these days. More » -
race
Remembering Black History Month With Gawker's Special Correspondent for Brown-People Issues
Did you think we'd let Black History Month go unmentioned? No way, not us. OK, well, actually, we did. But now that February is over we thought it'd be a good time to look back on the month that was. Then we realized we had no idea how to do so. Time to call in Gawker's Special Correspondent for Brown-People Issues, The Assimilated Negro. More » -
civil rights
FlackWatch: Ronn [sic] Torossian Remembers Coretta Scott King
The only way a publicist knows how: More »
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By JessicaComment by SkepticOf5W: This guy is still slinging crap. When he's not boasting about himself, he's kvetching. Here's a recent one - and... more » | Other threads
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special correspondent for brown-people issues
Gawker's Special Correspondent for Brown-People Issues: Remembering Mrs. King
Coretta Scott King died last night. The widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she was a civil-rights legend and an American icon. Her death should be noted, and her life remembered, even here. And so it seemed a good time to turn to Gawker's Special Correspondent for Brown-People Issues, the blogger who calls himself The Assimilated Negro and who we prefer to call TAN, for his thoughts. More »
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By JesseComment by mark duffy: I think Coretta Scott Queen is the answer for you "TAN." Either "her" or Flotilla Debarge. http://www.queenmother.tv/nycgirl/flotilla/flot.html more » | Other threads
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google
Google: We Shall Overcome Copyright Restrictions
Everyone enjoys Google's tradition of modifying its logo in honor of various holidays and anniversaries, and today's simple and elegant tribute to Martin Luther King is no exception.
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By JesseComment by spinachdip: I'm surprised no one's pissed that Gawker turned MLK Jr. into a white guy. He looks like a frickin' albino. more » | Other threads
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photos
The Real Shame Is That Watermelon Isn't in Season
Spotted today in the elevator bank at the Manhattan VA Hospital:
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By JesseComment by The Assimilated Negro: Why the drink gotta be medium though? Martin Luther King ain't "large" enough to get a f*ckin' large drink.... more » | Other threads
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rosa parks
Rosa Parks Day, the New York Way
Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of Rosa Parks's famous civil disobedience, and, in an a Elijah-like tribute, the MTA joined with transit systems across the country to ask passengers to leave the seat immediately behind the driver empty in Parks's honor. The Times reports today that the vast majority of MTA riders, even those on packed rush-hour buses, were happy to comply. More » -
newsweek
See, they tried to warn her. Boyz in the 'Burbs [Newsweek]
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obits
RIP Rosa Parks
This requires noting: Rosa Parks died yesterday. We have little commentary on the fact, as, except inasmuch as Rosa Parks affected nearly every aspect of the world we live in today — and, of course, she did — she wasn't a New Yorker and she wasn't in media, and these are the things we write about. (Also, we're white, Northern, and we sort of like sitting in the back of MTA buses — it's where the door is.) But there's this: She was — she is, she will always be — a woman who galvanized a movement that changed the country, and we remember always being amazed during Black History Month in elementary school that such a world-historical figure was actually breathing the same air we were. Attention, as Mrs. Loman says, must be paid. Even by us. More »
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