Monday, November 28, 2011

Bible Verse Of The Day



The Friendly Atheist tells the story of the Christian bookstore who denied a patron's request to place the above Bible verse on a t-shirt.
They had a t-shirt printer that was used to put verses. I asked if a printing of a Timothy 2:12 shirt was reasonable. Being Christians, they had never looked that far into the Bible, so they looked it up with their handy dandy on site Bible. When they recited the verse (A woman happened to be the reader of the Bible) they informed me of how disrespectful of their religion I was being. I was unsure of how I was being disrespectful by asking for a verse from their Holy Book.
I've been known to quote Proverbs 23:2. That one doesn't go over well either.




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Dear Santa, Can I have one for Christmas??

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Bizarre Hat Fashions with a Kitchen Theme!



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George Michael Hospitalized



George Michael is reportedly worsening after being admitted on Monday to an Austrian hospital for the treatment of pneumonia. His management has announced the cancellation of the remaining dates on his world tour. Via yesterday's Vienna Times:
He is currently in intensive care on the 13th floor of the red tower as a result of heart problems believed to be caused by the shortage of oxygen caused by his pneumonia. On Thursday afternoon he was fitted into a special full-body bed designed to keep all the pressure off his lungs and to help them to function - so far without any sign of improvement. Head doctor from the nearby Otto Wagner Hospital, Norbert Vetter, said that the reason a person with a lung problem was being treated in the cardiac unit probably lay in the fact that if there was a lung problem - and not enough oxygen being taken into the body - then that could affect the heart especially if the heart had already been damaged in some way. He added in the worst case the heart could cease to function.
Business Week quotes one of the singer's doctors as saying he has "severe community acquired pneumonia." Michael's spokesman confirmed his condition as "bad." Some tabloids are already rushing out with AIDS rumors and commenters on anti-gay sites like Free Republic are saying exactly the sort of things you'd expect from loving Christians.

UPDATE: Pink News reports that Michael's team is denying the Vienna Times report about his heart.
The star’s spokeswoman said in a statement: “George Michael is ill with pneumonia and any other speculation regarding his illness is unfounded and untrue. “He is receiving excellent medical care, he is responding to treatment and slowly improving”. A source told the Daily Mail: “George has woken up and he’s in good spirits. Doctors are very pleased with him, and he’s making progress.” “He’s been in terrible pain. He’s had a dreadful chest infection, but he’s been in good care. He’s in very capable hands”.



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Friday, November 11, 2011

A Strategy to Change Minds: Focus on the Gay Family


In response to California’s passage of Proposition 8, one couple used YouTube to show the world what a gay family with two adopted children looks like — a message that resonates this National Adoption Month.

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Jay Foxworthy, left, and Bryan Leffew with their children.
Neither of them knew much about the future, but it looked bright when Jay Foxworthy and Bryan Leffew decided to register as civil partners in the state of California. It was Leffew’s birthday that clear night in 1998, and Foxworthy took him out for a night on the town, under the starlight, as two people in love do in San Francisco.
The following morning at breakfast, Foxworthy officially proposed with a birthday card slipped across a tiny table inside an IHOP restaurant. “I was not expecting it, so I cried, which made our waitress worry,” remembers Leffew.
Right then and there, beside a wide selection of eggs and pancakes, they felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. The only thing that stood in their way was a quick trip to the city clerk’s window where they would sign a white piece of paper. “I felt like I was married even before we signed,” Leffew said. “And I didn’t give a damn what anybody else thought about the legality of it.”
Today, stories like these of two people invariably in love and now raising children are helping to fight against discrimination and hate through home videos posted on their YouTube channel, "Gay Family Values." And with a little help from Jaye Bird Productions, those same videos and values will make their silver screen debut in 2012 in a feature-length documentary, The Right To Love: An American Family.
“We hope the film can help people see the issue of marriage equality and same-sex families in a new light,” they wrote about the project in response to questions from The Advocate. “It’s so easy to only think of these issues as ideas or concepts that you agree or disagree with. It turns into something else when you know these are matters of life and love for real people who have names. You probably know many of them.”
Watch a trailer below and follow some of the moments from their videos on the following pages. 


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Two years after Foxworthy and Leffew took children Selena and David into their home, they decided to leave their civil union for more equal green pastures — marriage. Luckily, they decided just before a certain 2008 referendum would throw California’s marriage equality rights into the hands of voters who found it difficult to breathe the same legal air as the gay community.
“Literally the moment that President Obama was giving his victory speech about how the promise of the civil rights movement had come to fruition — with flags flying in the background and throngs of tearful onlookers — the ticker tape feed was announcing that Prop 8 had passed,” Leffew said.
Like most members of the LGBT community then, Foxworthy and Leffew were shocked. They couldn’t believe that their state, one of the most gay-friendly in the U.S., saw same-sex marriage unworthy of equal protection under California law. (It was also the first time that the California constitution was used to strip away rights.) They sighed. In truth, they cried, too, as if they had swallowed hope. They cried those furious tears of defeat even though they were one of the 18,000 couples the California Supreme Court allowed to remain married.
Moving Into Action 
The next morning, after the shoulders of California’s history drooped, they started to wonder about why the “Prop 8” side refused to show gay couples and gay families on television or in print. “We were the ones being impacted by the law and it seemed as if the Prop 8 proponents were scared to push away moderate voters by showing living, breathing LGBT people,” they wrote. “We had initially hoped that Californians would see through the scare tactics of groups like the National Organization for Marriage” and their “gays are coming for your kids” tripe.
But the majority of concerned, pro-traditional family proponents like NOM, the Mormon Church and Focus on the Family certainly didn’t. So in protest, Foxworthy and Leffew pulled out their digital camera and made a YouTube video that showed how ballot initiates impacted families like theirs. “We wanted to dispel myths and fears about the LGBT community by giving the world a window into our family, and now, three years and 269 videos later, we are still doing it,” says Leffew. “All of it was essentially done in response to the passage of Prop 8.”
Reality Sets In 
It’s one thing to want a family and another when you actually bring children home for the first time.
“You will second guess everything you were so sure you could handle before,” said Leffew, who is the stay-at-home parent. “I had never learned how to cook, and now here I was, responsible for the nutritional needs of a 5 year-old-boy and his baby sister.”
Leffew had to learn fast, and he was scared to death that he wasn’t doing it right.
“I worried that they would not accept us as parents and that we would always be second in their mind to their biological parents.” Thankfully, none of his worries became reality. “Every day that went by found us more and more able to handle what came our way, even the emotional stuff.”
But the couple still inherits those tough and terrified prophesies that come from the heterosexist voice and worldview. “But hopefully, by seeing our lives, those who hold homophobic views will gain a different and more informed perspective on same-sex families, marriage equality and gay rights in general,” they wrote optimistically.
The Adoption Process 
Not surprisingly, the question most often posed to Foxworthy and Leffew is about the logistics of gay adoption. In these delicate days, divided as they are, there is little guidance out there for gay couples looking to build a family. “You are really on your own to figure it out and every state has different rules,” they wrote.
Foxworthy and Leffew decided several years after their civil union, in 2006, that they wanted to adopt children after one of Foxworthy’s coworkers (he works in law enforcement) directed them to True To Life Children’s Services, a private, gay-friendly adoption agency in Sonoma County. “TLC treated us like gold, and they walked with us through the entire process,” he said.
Once they were registered for fost-adopt, they began the process of leafing through piles of books that contained thousands of profiles of children available for adoption in California. The agency, soon thereafter, was contacted by the social workers of two biological siblings named Daniel and Selena. “I was staggered by the number of kids that I had seen in those books,” Leffew says. “Daniel’s profile initially scared me a bit because they made his medical records sound much worse than they were.”
Daniel was taken into state custody due to the drug use and criminal history of his parents. “Daniel’s mother had lost all legal rights to any child she might have in the future, including Selena,” Leffew said. “So, both Selena and Daniel were placed in foster care until a suitable adoptive family could be found.”
That suitable adoptive family turned out to be Foxworthy and Leffew. “It was love at first sight for all of us,” the couple exclaims. “Daniel was barely 5 then and Selena was just over 1 year old.”




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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Vision Test






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Hillary Clinton Appoints Ellen DeGeneres as Global HIV/AIDS Envoy



Clinton announced that she had named Ellen DeGeneres as a special envoy for global AIDS awareness. “Your words will encourage Americans in joining you to make their voices heard in our campaign to achieve an AIDS-free generation,” Secretary Clinton wrote to DeGeneres in a letter released Tuesday. “The enormous platform of your television show and your social media channels will enable you to reach millions of people with the strong and hopeful message that we can win this fight.” Full story here!



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Make plans for Gaybingo Platoon, Saturday, Nov. 19.

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2011 Gaybingo (TEN) Reservations: 
Group seating: Group seating will be limited to the first ten (10) single purchases of 15-25 tickets only. This allows more open seating for the entire event. You must purchase your group tickets as one purchase and forward your emailed order confirmation to gaybingo@rcdallas.org. Include your group name. Only the first ten reservations will be taken. If you purchase your group tickets and are not one of the first ten, please make sure your group is in line early so you can all sit together. 

Note: Tickets go on sale the Tuesday after each month's Gaybingo event.

 
Purchase tickets early. 
Doors open at 5:00p.m. and the Most OUTrageous Game in Town begins at 6:00p.m. Pre-purchased tickets get first entry. Tickets not picked by 6:00p.m. are subject to being resold.
 
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2011 marks Gaybingo Dallas' tenth year of providing entertainment in a safe, fun environment to over 400 faithful Gaybingo supporters monthly.

Gaybingo Dallas is an event of Resource Center Dallas. Proceeds help fund the Center's much-needed programs and services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and North Texas communities and those impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Sponsoring these events demonstrates your commitment to diversity that goes beyond market share and employment. By giving to Resource Center Dallas, you are giving to the only agency of its kind in North Texas - an agency that strives to create a community of acceptance by affirming the identities of all people in all aspect of their experience, including sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, color, class, and family status.
GAYBINGO VOLUNTEERS: Grab your friends and sign up for the next Volunteer 101 class.  Register today for the next class by calling 214-528-0144 or email  gaybingo@rcdallas.org 
Join our Stage Crew, Sales & Marketing team and/or our Entertainment Committee (Something Fabulous!!! Productions). As a volunteer, you can choose from different shifts that lead up to making a successful Gaybingo event. Register today for the next volunteer orientation class by calling 214-528-0144 or email Gaybingo@rcdallas.org.
 
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After Gaybingo, join volunteers, players and cast as we continue to celebrate with our Caven, Inc. sponsors at JR's, TMC, Sue Ellen's or just stay at Station 4 (S4)
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The Top 10 Workout Songs For November



San Francisco, CA – Nov 6, 2011 – This month's top 10 list has a little of what you'd expect—and a little you might not.  Flo Rida, who's no stranger to this list, shows up once again.  Enrique Iglesias continues his transition from balladeer to club rocker.  And Kelly Clarkson, after faltering with the first single off her new album, bounced back ferociously with the second.
As for surprises, they're mostly entries from folks relatively new on the dance scene.  Highlights include songs from Tim Berg (who remixed his own track under his Avicii moniker), Skrillex (whose collaboration with Kaskade is the first dubstep track ever the make the Top 10), and Wolfgang Gartner (who's made the chart with a little help from Will.I.Am).
Here's the full list, according to votes placed on Run Hundred--the web's most popular workout tracks.
To find more workout songs-and hear next month's contenders—folks can check out Run Hundred's free database of music to run to. Visitors can browse the song selections there by genre, tempo, and era-to find the music that best fits with their particular workout routine. 



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Friday, November 4, 2011

Undercover Cops To Work SF Bars


from Joe. My. God. by Joe
This weekend undercover San Francisco cops will be working the bars of the Castro in a campaign to stem a renewed wave of pick-pocketing incidents.
San Francisco Police Sergeant Chuck Limbert, Mission Station's liaison to the LGBT community, said the operation would begin this week, but he wouldn't specify when. Officers would be "specifically looking for individuals that target bars for theft of property or criminal activity," such as pickpockets and purse snatchers, he said. He said the operation would continue "until the problem is solved." Limbert said overall crime in the area is down over the last three years, but he wants to see further decline. "If we're getting two reports out of a bar on a specific night, that's two too many," he said. Limbert acknowledged Castro bar-goers might be nervous about undercover police visiting nightspots, but he suggested that would be good in the case of people with nefarious intentions.
Unsurprisingly, bar managers report that the most-stolen items are iPhones.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

New England Born Randy Harrison of 'Queer As Folk' Fame Turns 34



Wow, when little Justin from Queer as Folk turns 34, it sure as hell makes me feel old. Well he is still cute and sweet as hell.  For more on what Randy has been up to since Queer as Folk has gone of the air, click here!





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Gaga Launches Anti-bullying Born This Way Foundation



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Lady Gaga continues her campaign to promote self-acceptance and end antigay bullying by announcing the launch of her Born This Way Foundation, reports the Associated Press.

The entertainer will use the title of her hit pro-LGBT anthem and best-selling album as the name of the non-profit that will focus on youth empowerment and "issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development."

Gaga will personally direct the foundation, along with and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta. "Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment," Gaga says in a statement.

The foundation will work with several partners, including the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the California Endowment, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

"Lady Gaga will help empower and give voice to young people who find themselves overwhelmed, under-supported, disconnected, isolated, bullied, or struggling," says Dr. Bob Ross, the CEO and president of The California Endowment. "This brand of leadership is sorely needed in today's world."

The foundation will be officially launched sometime next year and an advisory board is expected to be announced soon.



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