LGBTQ news and entertainment
SB-11, the Civil Unions bill, passed in the state House Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-4.
This sends the bill to the full House for it’s final vote.
The Senate passed the bill on February 11, and Governor John Hickenlooper says he will sign the bill into law should it pass in the House.
According to a recent poll, 70 percent of Coloradans support the legislation.
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| Shirtless Justin Bieber tweets from a hospital in London |
After having trouble breathing during his concert in London, Justin Bieber was treated with oxygen but returned to the stage to finish his concert.
Afterwards, Justin was taken to the hospital where he tweeted the shirtless pic above to let his fans know he was doing fine.
Very thoughtful of Justin.
A new Field poll shows Californians overwhelmingly support same-sex marriage in their state today by margin of almost 2-1.
According to the poll, conducted February 5-17, 2013, shows that 61% support legalizing same-sex marriage while 32% oppose (7% had no opinion).
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Former President Bill Clinton, who signed DOMA into law, has written an op-ed urging the US Supreme Court to overturn the discriminatory law.
President Clinton writes, in part:
Americans have been at this sort of a crossroads often enough to recognize the right path. We understand that, while our laws may at times lag behind our best natures, in the end they catch up to our core values. One hundred fifty years ago, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln concluded a message to Congress by posing the very question we face today: “It is not ‘Can any of us imagine better?’ but ‘Can we all do better?’ ”
The answer is of course and always yes. In that spirit, I join with the Obama administration, the petitioner Edith Windsor, and the many other dedicated men and women who have engaged in this struggle for decades in urging the Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.
Read the entire op-ed at Washington Post.
I know this has been around a while, but it still makes me smile for it’s humor AND truth.
Just came across Eli Lieb on YouTube. Has lots of followers there, good voice, cute and he sings cover songs I like.
Pink’s “Try” is one of my heavy rotation songs these days. Loved her performance on the American Music Awards.
The First Chamber of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice has ruled that anti-gay epithets are not protected speech under the Freedom of Expression.
From Blabbeando:
In this sense, the First Chamber determined that homophobic expressions or – in other words the frequent allegations that homosexuality is not a valid option but an inferior condition – constitute discriminatory statements even if they are expressed jokingly, since they can be used to encourage, promote and justify intolerance against gays.
For this reason, the Chamber determined that the terms used in this specific case – made up of the words “maricones” and “puñal” – were offensive. These are expressions which are certainly deeply rooted in the language of Mexican society but the truth is that the practices of a majority of participants of a society cannot trump violations of basic rights.
My own hometown of Fort Worth has a bit of a scandal going on due to a mother walking in on her son having sex.
Apparently, the woman’s cousin was performing oral sex on her son when she walked in. But instead of beating the older man, she took an electrical cord and beat her son to the point that he bled and had bruises.
From CBS-DFW:
“My cousin at the time he was 18. My son he was 15 and I had walked in the room on [my cousin] giving oral sex to my son and I started whooping my son, and I’m the one who got in trouble as a result of me whooping him,” she said. “When I walked in I saw my son, it was just disgusting to me, the way he was looking and my cousin was looking, and my cousin immediately ran out the door. And I’m just like what the?!? You know, is you serious? So that was my reaction because it disgusted me.”
“The police department told me that it was consensual, but they was committing a homosexual act in my house and we are totally against that. So I whooped my son and about three or four months later they came and arrested me for abuse,” she recalled.
The boy’s grandmother alerted the police to the incident. But things get worse from there. Apparently, the officer who showed up told the mother he would have done worse, and might have even shot the son.
Ah, my people.