DeVos Won’t Say If She Would Withhold Federal Funding From Schools That Discriminate
Rep. Barbara Lee called DeVos’s statements “appalling and sad.”
Daily Archives: May 25, 2017
IMG_2825_NORRENA_2017_Frameline41 Press Kickoff
WATCH: Ian McKellen powerfully recites Harvey Milk’s ‘Hope Speech’
WATCH: Ian McKellen powerfully recites Harvey Milk’s ‘Hope Speech’
The acclaimed out actor read’s the 1978 address.
How a Fake News Story Engulfed Katy Perry, Migos, and Drag Queens
How a Fake News Story Engulfed Katy Perry, Migos, and Drag Queens
Unconfirmed rumors about homophobia launched social media outrage that still roars.
Flurries
Flurries
maria.morisot posted a photo:
What shape
is the sky?
These birds,
in flocks, like flakes
of black snow;
Covering my sight,
in these days,
I can only imagine
your eyes,
blue pools
of death.
And I will dive
headlong,
into the past
of my unrequited
Sentence.
pleasetouch.me/2017/05/25/flurries/
Another video of Trump being a total a-hole, shoving a Prime Minister out of his way for photo op
U.S. House Reps Introduce Resolution Condemning Anti-Gay Violence in Chechnya
U.S. House Reps Introduce Resolution Condemning Anti-Gay Violence in Chechnya
On Tuesday, United States lawmakers took their first real step toward addressing the anti-gay torture and persecution in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya when members of the House of Representatives introduced a resolution condemning the violence.
H.Res.351 was introduced by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (D-Fla.) and co-sponored by 52 others, both Democrats and Republicans, and was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs the same day it was filed. The text of the resolution is not yet available on Congress’ website.
The resolution comes after news broke last week that the U.S. denied visas to people fleeing Chechnya who were trying to avoid the concentration camps where gay men have been tortured and in some cases murdered.
Also last week, the southern Russian republic was also slapped with a suit by three French gay rights groups in the Internal Court, accusing the Russian republic of Chechnya of carrying out a “gay genocide.”
The suit and the fleeing Chechens are a response to reports that gay and bisexual men in the country are being rounded up and tortured in concentration camps. Some men, accord to reports, have even been killed.
In response to the allegations, the State Department, former Vice President Joe Biden and current United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley all called for an investigation into the claims.
“I am disgusted and appalled by reports from both the Russian media and non-governmental organizations that authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have rounded up, tortured, and even murdered individuals who are believed to be gay,” Biden said in a statement in April. “When faced with such crimes of hate and inhumanity, it is the responsibility of every person of conscience to speak out—to oppose this campaign of violence before it continues further.”
International figures, including German chancellor Angela Merkel and a panel of UN experts, have spoken out against the allegations, despite Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov’s denial of reports that gay men are being detained and tortured in the southern republic.
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U.S. House Reps Introduce Resolution Condemning Anti-Gay Violence in Chechnya
Men Cry Discrimination Over Women-Only Screening of ‘Wonder Woman’
Men Cry Discrimination Over Women-Only Screening of ‘Wonder Woman’
Men are losing it over women-only screenings of the first female-led superhero film in 10 years.
Theo Trump Franken? Nee, bedankt!
Theo Trump Franken? Nee, bedankt!
Red Cathedral is in the Pyrenees posted a photo:
Trump & Erdogan are in Belgium for a NATO meeting.. and over 12000 Belgians took to the streets to protest their presidencies.
It’s objectively too late to restrain population and consumption growth so as to avert what ecologists of the 1970s called a “hard landing.”
It is the lie that human society can continue growing its population and consumption levels indefinitely on our finite planet, and never suffer consequences.
Perhaps Donald Trump succeeded because his promises spoke to what civilizations in decline tend to want to hear. It could be argued that the pluralistic, secular, cosmopolitan, tolerant, constitutional democratic nation state is a political arrangement appropriate for a growing economy buoyed by pervasive optimism. (On a scale much smaller than contemporary America, ancient Greece and Rome during their early expansionary periods provided examples of this kind of political-social arrangement). As societies contract, people turn fearful, angry, and pessimistic—and fear, anger, and pessimism fairly dripped from Trump’s inaugural address. In periods of decline, strongmen tend to arise promising to restore past glories and to defeat domestic and foreign enemies. Repressive kleptocracies are the rule rather than the exception.
Man agrees to 1000+ mile road trip with Grindr hookup. What could possibly go wrong?
Man agrees to 1000+ mile road trip with Grindr hookup. What could possibly go wrong?
“My friends thought I was crazy,” Jack Rushall says. “And I was.”