LGBTQ news and entertainment
Father Tiger has brought us some great music and videos in the past (remember their Christmas-time video featuring a younger, sexy Santa) and this one lives up to their reputation.
By the way, that rainbow-flavored tiger xylophone should be a clue that the video has something to do with today’s SCOTUS rulings.
(via Towleroad)
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| Prop 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry, Sandy Stier, Jeff Zarrillo, Paul Katami with HRC President Chad Griffin |
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| Long lines formed early outside of SCOTUS (photo source) |
Eighteen-term US House Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) has won the special election to replace John Kerry in the Senate.
Markey beat Republican businessman Gabriel E. Gomez today in a special election for US Senate in Massachusetts that was marked by its brevity and by low voter interest.
Markey had 55 percent of the votes, compared with 45 percent for Gomez, with 99 percent of precincts reporting.
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Over 100,000 people are watching the live-stream as Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis enters the twelfth hour of her filibuster to block a bill that would shut down 37 of the state’s 44 abortion clinics.
Wendy Davis represents my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and I could not be more proud.
“Woman’s World” is the first song from her upcoming new Warner Bros. studio album, Closer To The Truth, which will be released on September 24th.
“Women’s World” features some of the world’s finest remixers/DJs each adding their flavor to the original including Danny Verde and R3HAB (see below).
“Woman’s World” is available now. Fans in the US and Canada can pre-order Cher’s new album on iTunes, Amazon or Cher.com.
“Woman’s World” Danny Verde Club:
“Woman’s World” R3HAB Remix:
The Texas state senator who represents my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, is attempting a one-woman 13 hour filibuster today to stand up for pro-choice rights today:
Wearing pink tennis shoes to prepare for nearly 13 consecutive hours of standing, a Democratic Texas state senator on Tuesday began her one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort that would effectively close most abortion clinics across the nation’s second-most populous state.
Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth began the filibuster at 11:18 a.m. CDT Tuesday. To derail a vote in the GOP-dominated Senate, she must keep speaking on the bill until midnight — the deadline for the end of the 30-day special session.
Before Davis began speaking, her chair was removed. Rules stipulate she remain standing, not lean on her desk or take any breaks — even for meals or to use the bathroom.
In her opening remarks, Davis said she was “rising on the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of Texans” and called Republican efforts to pass the bill a “raw abuse of power.”
Davis was greeted by loud applause and cheers of “Go Wendy!” from hundreds of abortion-rights activists who packed the Senate. Davis motioned for them to be quiet and Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who presides over the chamber, warned the spectators against making loud outbursts.
Watch Sen. Wendy Davis’ progress in the livestream above.
Whether it’s your taste or not, you have to admit Adam Lambert is vocally pretty spectacular here.
Adam Lambert sang the National Anthem on Sunday night at Broadway Bares 23, the annual strip-a-thon fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Breaking records yet again, BroadwayWorld reports, Broadway Bares made $1,430,241 in a single night:
With this year’s record total, the 23 editions of BROADWAY BARES have now raised more than $11.3 million for Broadway Cares.
Last year’s 22nd edition of BROADWAY BARES raised $1,254,176.
BROADWAY BARES started in 1992 and featured seven dancers stripping on a bar, raising about $8,000.
Former New York Times restaurant reviewer Frank Bruni repudiates the idea that Paula Deen deserves “clemency” regarding her admitted racial comments, noting that she’s 66 years old and has lived her life far south of the Mason-Dixon:
“Please. All of her adult years postdate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and she’s a citizen of the world, traveling wide and far to peddle her wares. If she can leave Georgia for the sake of commerce, she can leave Georgia in the realm of consciousness.
“Beyond which, people can change, growing past wrongful ways in the name of what’s right. We pass new laws. We adopt new language. That’s the recipe for progress: putting justice ahead of habit, principle over precedent.”
NOM has been developing it’s own avatar to try to compete with the iconic “Equality” symbol from the Human Rights Campaign. You may recall I posted about a meeting describing the development of the new avatar.
They launched it today, urging it’s followers to post for tomorrow’s SCOTUS decision:
I love Zack Ford of ThinkProgress’ response:
Hate group leader Brian Brown is already claiming victory in the SCOTUS marriage equality decisions due out tomorrow morning, according to the National Review:
“We’re thinking we’re going to win,” he told me. “And I think that even the other side realizes that they’re not going to get the decision they want.” He added that he thinks pro-same-sex marriage advocates got the timing all wrong, and that tomorrow will bring a huge victory for supporters of traditional marriage.
“This is like the life movement winning Roe,” he said. “This is the Roe decision for marriage. This is not trying to nibble at the edges; this is trying to claim that there is a Constitutional right to redefine marriage. If they lose that, then the highest court in the land will be saying one of their key arguments is wrong, and that will have a big, big, big impact.”