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Anal Sex Cited As A Reason To Deny Marriage Equality?

on February 12th, 2010 by B.Graff

New Hampshire is currently debating HB1590, which would repeal the state’s marriage equality laws.
Representative Nancy Elliott, a Republican, saw this as an opportunity to go into a lengthy description of anal sex as a way of explaining why she supports the bill.
You’ll have to watch the video to get her statement in [...]

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Music You Should Know: John Morales

on February 12th, 2010 by B.Graff

Disco fans should be running to the store to purchase the The M&M Mixes
compilation just released on BBE Records.
Morales teamed with Sergio Munzibai to form one of the preeminent remix teams of the 1980s. The M&M Mixes presents alternate versions of disco classics that Morales made for his personal enjoyment. These [...]

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Watch The Homosexuals (1967)

on February 12th, 2010 by B.Graff

A piece of gay history was recently made available online.
CBS aired The Homosexuals on March 7, 1967. Hosted by Mike Wallace, it was the first major television special dedicated to homosexuality.
Considered a pioneering broadcast at the time (homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in 1967), viewing it today is a bittersweet [...]

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Words From A Gay Ugandan

on February 4th, 2010 by B.Graff

For the past few months I have been writing about the horrendous proposal to criminalize LGBTs in Uganda.
President Obama and Hilary Clinton both spoke against the bill at the National Prayer Breakfast, but a gay Ugandan offered his opinion at a competing event, the American Prayer Hour. View the clip below.

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How Will Gay Republicans Spin This?

on February 3rd, 2010 by B.Graff

Since the 1990s, gay Republicans have remained loyal to their party in spite of a platform that opposes marriage equality, adoption rights, open military service, employment protections, and most other items of interest for the LGBT community.
When asked why they continued to support people who don’t support them, the rationale was that they were changing [...]

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Doesn’t Haiti Deserve Its Own Song?

on February 2nd, 2010 by B.Graff

As part of the many outreach efforts for the victims of the Haitian earthquake, many of the music industry’s most popular performers recorded a charity single on February 1.
Over 100 artists united across genre lines – country (Keith Urban), rap (Lil Wayne, Kanye West), pop (Celine Dion, Tony Bennett), jazz (Harry Connick, [...]

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Rehab Facility Leaves Patients In The Cold

on February 1st, 2010 by B.Graff

As I celebrate another year of sobriety I’ve come across a story that confirms the worst suspicions of the rehabilitatation industry.
The Clear Haven Centre, a facility located outside Montreal, abruptly closed and dropped its patients off at the airport.
Patients were given 30 minutes to make other arrangements, as internet access was disconnected. At [...]

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