Start calling, writing, or e-mailing your representatives now: the State Senate goes into special session next Tuesday, and marriage equality is one of the possible issues at stake. All the info you need is at that link.
The text of the e-mail I just sent to Majority Leader Sampson, and Senator Onorato, follows.
Honorable Senators —
As a young gay man and a proud citizen of Astoria, Queens, I urge you to please do the right thing and schedule a vote on marriage equality for gay & lesbian men & women during the upcoming special session.
Senator Onorato, I know your position on the issue, but on behalf of your thousands of gay & lesbian constituents, their families, and the children growing up in your district who will one day be your constituents, I strongly encourage you to reconsider your stance. I hope to someday raise a family in this beautiful district, but I cannot do so in good conscience if my children will grow up in a place where their family’s right to exist on equal terms is publicly denigrated by our own representative. I honestly beg you: when this issue comes up for a vote, please do not stand in the way of my chance to be treated as an equal citizen in the eyes of the law.
Across the country, with every hateful, discriminatory ballot measure that strips away the rights that the Constitution should assure, millions of young gay men and women — myself included — are giving up hope that America will ever respect them as human beings, and are becoming sadly accustomed to a life of grinding bigotry. Please, do not let a chance go by to give us a fresh shot of hope.
Thank you for your time, and have a wonderful weekend!
-Chris Conroy
Astoria, Queens
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I HAVE TO HAVE THIS. That “Viva La Vida” cover is exceptional; like all the best PSB covers it makes you wonder how any other band could possibly have written a song that was so obviously meant to be a Pet Shop Boys song.
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Directional reblog to strongly encourage Vicky (and others) to VIEW THE HTML SOURCE ON THIS PAGE
I started my Christmas list today!!!
Yes, please!
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Reblogging this one just to add the “If I Won The Lottery…” tag.
Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Before Having Drinks With Someone Tonight And Not Looking As Cute As You’d Like To But So It Goes Wednesday
Just spent an hour and a half being reminded how disastrous the US health-care system is. God bless Warner Bros. for the generous benefits they try to provide for us, but man oh man what an uphill battle it must be for them to avoid nevertheless leaving us stuck with incredible costs.
But remember: single-payer government-run health care would be THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD and IN NO WAY MORE EFFICIENT and could not POSSIBLY beat the kludged-together half-assed accountability-free system we have now. REMEMBER THAT.
Sorry, dad and brother who are both doctors, but this shit has gotta happen.
A Facebook friend made a good point: “homophobia” does not mean what it says. On the one hand, it’s a nicer way to say someone is a bigot, because somehow that would be offensive? But at the same time, the idea that it describes someone as having a FEAR OF GAY PEOPLE is linguistically inaccurate.
The word originates from the Greek words homós (meaning “one and the same”) and phóbos (meaning “fear”). So really, “homophobia” means that you’re afraid of what you are - a fear of the same.
There’s some irony there, but I’m too annoyed to deal with it right now.
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For what it’s worth, I stopped using “homophobia” a long time ago. I just use “bigot.” I’m through using nice words.
…I’d get on Amazon MP3 and iTunes and purchase every single song that had ever been a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Just because. And if it was out of print or unavailable for download, I’d start hitting up EIL.
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Dear Tumblr Friends*,
I’m hoping to self-publish the book Live Wrong and Prosper: Your Morals for A Million, partly because this game never gets old to me and partly because I have a backlog of hundreds and hundreds of questions I’m excited to share with the world. I’m using Kickstarter to raise the money for publishing costs, and I’m asking for your help; by donating anything you can – even, say, $1.00 (and every donation is much appreciated) – I can get this book made. Plus, you get rewards – prizes of sorts – for giving! If you’ve enjoyed the blog at all – and I really, really hope you have – I hope you’ll give whatever you can to help me complete the book.
To check out my Kickstarter page and watch me ask random strangers on the street some Live Wrong and Prosper questions (Note: Apparently, most people would NOT eat a bowl of their own shit for $1M) please visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/easylover/live-wrong-and-prosperthe-book.
I appreciate any help, including just reblogging this.
Thanks,
Kali
* We are friends, aren’t we?
This is a thing that everyone reading this should do.
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God, fans of outrageous hairdos and hands-on-faces are soooo predictable.
Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish - Telegraph -
Today’s serving of Intriguing Sea Life. (Thanks, Craig)
