Iceland’s parliament voted 49-0 today to add “man and man” and “woman and woman” to their existing marriage laws.
The Marriage Scorecard to Date:
Netherlands (2001)
Belgium (2003)
Spain (2005)
Canada (2005)
South Africa (2006)
Israel* (2006, marriages from other countries)
Norway (2008, Civil Unions since 1993)
Sweden (2009, Registered Partnerships since 1995)
Portugal (2010)
Iceland (2010)
Happy news time!
Remember the whole flap over Constance McMillen? We covered it (along with pretty much any self-respecting, sex-positive bloggers) so no excuses if you haven’t.
FIERCE!
The Huffington Post reports, by way of the Register Star, how two gay friends, seniors at Hudson High School, were OVERWHELMINGLY voted in as prom King and Queen. Administration gave their blessing and, clearly, so did the student body en masse. Aside from brief, and likely amusing, confusion over which of them would wear the tiara instead of the crown, well, the image above makes it clear how that little tiff was solved quite amicably indeed.
Yay humanity! You get a gold star today!
Way back in the day, it was a ripe, juicy quince that tempted us to sin. Now, it’s the digital products produced under Apple brand.
But Steve Jobs is having none of it. He touts his latest product, the iPad, as a device that guarantees “freedom from porn”, a promise he means to extend to all Apple’s products. So much for ripe and juicy.
Enter “Freedom From Porn”, a campaign intended to support people’s legitimate consumption of porn, and indeed any legal form of media out there on any device capable of delivering it.
Their plan? As the fine print in the image above suggests, they believe that flooding Steve’s email with links and vids of your favorite porn will convince him to perhaps sit down… take a load off… or rub one out anyway, and hopefully rethink his position.
You make hardware, Steve. Let us decide the software. Or softcore. Or wet/hard/kink ware. If that isn’t an actual computing term it needs to be.
Amidst all the convoluted details and disappointments, the optimist in me says “when” is better than “if”
Oh Mississippi. The ACLU must be so tired of visiting you. The same state that has seen the highly publicized legal battle unfold over Constance McMillien is back in the news.
Before all the prom drama, we previously covered the story of Ceara Sturgis, an honor student at Wesson Attendance Center who had her senior photo banned from the yearbook because she rocked a tux. She fought the decision with the help of the ACLU, and now yearbooks have been printed… with no trace of Sturgis AT ALL. No photo. No name. Nothing.
Ironically, with all the news coverage more people will see the photo that high school officials tried to ban. Object lesson: Courage gets you recognized.
And what does cowardice and hatred get you? Angry calls and e-mails! Wesson Attendance Center needs to hear that they cannot go around erasing students from their yearbook.
Principal Ronald Greer can be reached here: rdgreer@copiah.k12.ms.us
Principal Oscar Hawkins can be reached here: ohawkins@copiah.k12.ms.us
The school’s phone number is (601) 643-2221 and their fax number is (601) 643-2458
Find them on the web here
Oh Mississippi, when are you going to learn…
It’s nothing new that queers can’t get married in the great state of Texas. But if you have the guts to get married and then move here, you better be sure as hell you wanna stay that way. Round these parts not only do we protect the sacred institution of marriage, but the sacred institution of divorce too!
(AP Photo/Thao Nguyen) Angelique Naylor stands near the Texas state capital in Austin, Texas
Protecting the Sanctity of Divorce… that slogan’s gonna look so good on a poster
This is gonna be a long one folks, but this story needs to be posted in it’s entirety. This is required reading, especially in light of Obama’s recent memorandum regarding hospitals. In the name of human decency, this shit needs to get right, and it needs to happen right now.
(from the National Coalition for Lesbian Rights) Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.
One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital…. Read more »
I have no jokes here. I barely have words. This story speaks for itself and sickens me with the kind of inarticulate rage usually reserved for genocide.
But if genocide is the act of obliterating an entire ethnic group, then this tragedy of errors is clearly the act of obliterating a person so completely, invalidating them, that her bravery in choosing to resist and live is simple incalculable.
Just a small handful of the tools and documents required for the average rape kit. I speak from experience here when I say getting one of these done is both time consuming and deeply humiliating.
For some statistics on just how many assaults there are every year, you can go here to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network. Among the important highlights? One in six women, on average, and one in thirty three men are sexually assaulted at some point in their life. College age women are at four times the national average risk. About 3/4 of victims knew their assailant beforehand, as a friend, colleague, peer, someone they interacted with on at least a few occasions.
But there’s more to this story … Read more »
Can queers visit their partner’s bedside at a federally funded hospital? Yes we can.
“There are few moments in our lives that call for greater compassion and companionship than when a loved one is admitted to the hospital. In these hours of need and moments of pain and anxiety, all of us would hope to have a hand to hold, a shoulder on which to lean — a loved one to be there for us, as we would be there for them.”
“Yet every day, all across America, patients are denied the kindnesses and caring of a loved one at their sides… uniquely affected are gay and lesbian Americans who are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives — unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated.”
Read the memorandum here
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