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[Gay Rights] Wyoming: What Republicans SHOULD be.
MuddBudd
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So, new thread time.
"This has been a great year for gay rights, I can get homo army married on an aircraft carrier now, right?"
Not quite. Let's go over where we stand on the major issues.
DADT:
The military is in the planning stages of the repeal, but we're looking at it probably being in full effect sometime near the end of June.
Gay Marriage:
UPDATE: 02/16/2011
The contentious issue of whether the Prop 8 defendants have standing is going to the CA. State Supreme Court on March 14th.
Gay Teen Suicides:
Rorus Raz had a great post about this, so I am poaching it.
"This has been a great year for gay rights, I can get homo army married on an aircraft carrier now, right?"
Not quite. Let's go over where we stand on the major issues.
DADT:
The military is in the planning stages of the repeal, but we're looking at it probably being in full effect sometime near the end of June.
Gay Marriage:
UPDATE: 02/16/2011
The contentious issue of whether the Prop 8 defendants have standing is going to the CA. State Supreme Court on March 14th.
Gay Teen Suicides:
Rorus Raz had a great post about this, so I am poaching it.
The skinny on gay suicides.
For those unaware, we had a seemingly sudden surge in gay teen suicides around early-to-mid September. It's hard to say if this was an actual increase in gay suicides or just the media opting to cover them. Either way, too many kids needlessly dead and, unsurprisingly, the cause of these deaths is related to homophobic bullying in schools.
Dan Savage decided enough is enough and came up with the "It Gets Better" campaign, which invites adult members of the LGBT community to post videos to YouTube about their experiences as gay youth and that, yes, it gets better. Before long, YouTube has tons of videos telling personal stories of suffering in school with the encouraging successes that happened after. Even straight people such as Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama made their own videos encouraging these kids to hang in there.
It wasn't all sunshine: geese came and honked about them damn queers getting attention and an ounce of respect. Luckily, they've all been spectacular failures. One school council member even resigned after his horrific homophobic ranting on Facebook. Bottom line: these people are slowly becoming marginalized.
Unlike the continued struggles with gay rights, It Gets Better can be counted as a quantified success story: the Trevor Project has had a dramatic increase in calls from troubled teens. YouTube has more videos than I can count. I did mention this got Presidential attention, right?
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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Also this:
[The Onion] Breaking: Anti-Gay Senator Caught In Affair With Horse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeKI8biAglU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQNwMxqM3E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDlOD1Hw9k
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
*spoilered the rest for huge images*
Note: The Gayroller is a real thing and this will totally happen in real life.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Sorry, were you working on one?
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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For those unaware, we had a seemingly sudden surge in gay teen suicides around early-to-mid September. It's hard to say if this was an actual increase in gay suicides or just the media opting to cover them. Either way, too many kids needlessly dead and, unsurprisingly, the cause of these deaths is related to homophobic bullying in schools.
Dan Savage decided enough is enough and came up with the "It Gets Better" campaign, which invites adult members of the LGBT community to post videos to YouTube about their experiences as gay youth and that, yes, it gets better. Before long, YouTube has tons of videos telling personal stories of suffering in school with the encouraging successes that happened after. Even straight people such as Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama made their own videos encouraging these kids to hang in there.
It wasn't all sunshine: geese came and honked about them damn queers getting attention and an ounce of respect. Luckily, they've all been spectacular failures. One school council member even resigned after his horrific homophobic ranting on Facebook. Bottom line: these people are slowly becoming marginalized.
Unlike the continued struggles with gay rights, It Gets Better can be counted as a quantified success story: the Trevor Project has had a dramatic increase in calls from troubled teens. YouTube has more videos than I can count. I did mention this got Presidential attention, right?
It even has a theme song!
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You need to change that mental image up for one of him choke-slamming Kirk.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Holy shit Quinto is gay? Was that, like, well-known? My sister will be so disappointed.
Well, you don't have to be gay to make an It Gets Better video.
Lies, the president is on the gay takeover of America.
There's been rumors for a few years now. Even some suggesting that he and Chris Pine were a couple, and Paramount was desperately trying to keep it quiet.
From what I gather, he was/is following the Neil Patrick Harris trail: Never denying it or getting a beard gf, but also never making an outright statement that he is gay. He just refuses to comment on his personal life. He is in a glass closet so to speak. Mathew Boomer(Bryce) of White Collar does the same thing.
He will probably come out someday, but not because people outed him. Don't blame him either. Hollywood might be liberal, but gays don't get a lot of parts.
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They said it would lead to polygamy
It does carry the advantage of giving you congressman looking at retirement or at least another 2 years before they have to run again though.
And a bunch of people who are leaving office who have nothing left to lose, so are possibly willing to make hard choices they wouldn't make if they were up for election in two years.
It's a knife that cuts both ways, really.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Not every law maker goes on to be a lobbyist and not all lobbies give a shit how you voted on DADT.
So unless you're looking for a job lobbying for Focus on the Family or something it won't matter to your new employer in the oil industry or what have you, not that they'd be hiring Democrats anyway.
"A divided federal appeals court allowed the armed forces on Monday to continue discharging openly gay and lesbian troops until at least next spring while the court reviews a challenge to the "don't ask, don't tell" law."
Not sure if that's actually new information, or just a clarification of what's in there already, but what does that do in re the memo about discharges?
Shouldn't change anything about Gate's end run around DADT, as the military isn't actually required to investigate or discharge anyone.
This just means that the stay will last until the spring pending appeal. Doesn't stop congress from repealing.
MIRACLES.
You mean 6-3 against the will of the people!
(sigh)
As it is, this seems like it's more of a stumbling block then a possibility of going backwards. I think educating and informing people over the next 2-4 years that gays are not mind-controlling invading alien monsters would be the best strategy in this kind of political climate.
Also judicial appointments should be by caged death matches.