Munich introduces gay traffic lights for Pride

Munich has introduced same-sex couples on their traffic lights for Pride this weekend.

The new lights at pedestrian crossings show gay, lesbian and straight pairings waiting or walking hand-in-hand.

They were inspired by the Vienna traffic lights, which introduced them during this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Harold Klink, of German Engineering News, was one of many to praise the new lights.

‘I like the gay traffic lights in Munich!’ he said, and referencing the curved backs: ‘I think the boys should urgently go to the physio though!’

Green party politicians launched the measure, according to The Local, overcoming resistance from the Christian Social Union group.

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Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Implies Gay Parents Are Pedophiles

Angela Marie Costanza and her wife, Chastity Shanelle Brewer, were legally married in California. They were in the process of suing to have their marriage recognized in their home state of Louisiana and for second-parent adoption when the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality a constitutional right.

Yesterday, the Louisiana Supreme Court dismissed their case, ruling that SCOTUS’ ruling “solved the matter.”

But not all the justices agreed.

In a two paragraph dissent, Justice Jefferson D. Hughes III, who was elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2012, began by saying he couldn’t resist sharing his “honest convictions” over such an important matter. (What is the purpose of getting up on one’s soapbox if not to share their “honest convictions,” after all?) Then he got right to the point.

Related: Bobby Jindal’s Twitter Q&A Goes Horribly And Hilariously Wrong

He didn’t bother providing any legal arguments to support his position that the state should not be forced to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. “Marriage is not only for the parties,” he wrote. “Its purpose is to provide children with a safe and stable environment in which to grow.”

“This case involves an adoption,” he continued. “The most troubling prospect of same sex marriage is the adoption by same sex partners of a young child of the same sex.”

Why is this so “troubling”? Hughes stops just short of saying, but the implication is clear. That old gays-as-pedophiles slander. But not all of Hughes’ colleagues are complete idiots.

Justice Greg Guidry responded to Hughes’ allegations by pointing out: “[t]he dissenting opinion appears to be unaware of the facts of the case before us, which involves the intra-family adoption of a boy by the female spouse of the boy’s biological mother.”

Related: The Craziest Damn Shiz Conservatives Have Said About Gay People

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Watch Drag Race queens give impromptu dance performance at Manchester airport

The Haus of Edwards have given an impromptu dance performance at a Manchester airport.

Alyssa Edwards, Shangela and Laganja Estranja werked it in the English city on the way to perform in Belfast.

From what we can tell, this was filmed back in March but it has only emerged now on social media.

Performing to Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj’s Bang Bang, they flick, they move, and there’s even a death drop from the sickening Laganja.

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Joe Morgan

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Excerpt: Is This Really What Being a Christian Is About?

Choreographer and coordinator George Scott Chandler shares his journey growing up gay in a Southern Baptist community in this excerpt from his new memoir, FWD March: Living in a World of Music and Motion.

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Vatican Radio site posts, then removes photo of lesbian kiss

The German version the Vatican Radio website posted, then removed a photo of two women kissing – only to re-upload the same image and delete it again.

The image accompanied an article titled Church’s Sexual Morality is in Motion, which was published on . It was then deleted on Saturday after readers called attention to the photo, only to be re-uploaded on Monday. It has since been removed again.

Veteran Vatican reporter Edward Pentin first spotted the picture and tweeted that Vatican Radio had opted for a ‘remarkable choice of photo’ and noted the ‘uncritical’ content of the article.

The article quotes Martin Lintner, president of the European Society for Catholic Theology, who believes sexuality will be ‘increasingly perceived in its personal and holistic dimension,’ rather than the traditional procreative one.

He added that the Synod on the Family evidenced a ‘rethinking’ of the Church’s attutide toward homosexuality.

The German site reflects the views of the German-speaking hierarchy, which is the most liberal on sexual morality.

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Darren Wee

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So a lot of you may not know this, but I consider myself to be a great cook. Sure, other people may not consider me to be a great cook, but that just means they have bad taste. Haha, I’m only kidding. I mean, just because I set the smoke alarm off when I cook doesn’t mean I’m a bad cook, right? All it means is that we have to eat on the porch because the house is all smoky. And it’s more fun to eat outside anyway. Anyway, the reason I bring it up is because I’ve been cooking all day today. There’s supposed to be a big neighborhood BBQ coming up and I want to wow everybody. Though, I must have made five different dishes today and still I can’t decide on what I want to bring. To be honest, I am a little worried about it because I try to make sure that all of the food that I make is healthy. I mean, of course it’s fine to have unhealthy stuff every once in awhile, but I just feel better when I eat healthy, and when I make food for other people, if it’s bad for them I just feel too guilty. :/ Well, wish me luck you guys.

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Man Receives Father's Day Card From Dead Son — 26 Years Later
The Father’s Day card may have been 26 years too late, but for one dad in Lynchburg, Virginia, it was a priceless gift from beyond the grave.

In 1989, Duane Schrock Jr. wrote his dad a note for Father’s Day and sent it in the mail. The card was lost in transit and his dad never received it.

Until now.

Duane Schrock Sr. told WSET that his son’s card finally found its way to him, fittingly arriving at his home a few days after Father’s Day this year.

“Somebody picked up the ball and carried it and after all these years they must still have forwarded it,” Schrock, who is 87, told the news outlet. “I still kind of tear up when I think about it.”

The card had evidently been returned to sender and forwarded on several different occasions. Shrock says he’s moved all around the country in the intervening years.

“Dear Dad,” the card read, per ABC News. “We haven’t been in touch for quite a while, I’m doing fine and am very happy in Richmond, I’d like to hear from you. Have a Happy Father’s Day. Love Duane.”

Shrock said the letter was an especially poignant surprise as his son, who was gay, died of AIDS in 1995. Shrock added that their relationship had been strained when Duane was alive because he’d struggled to accept his son’s homosexuality.

The letter, Shrock told WSET, was “like a sign from heaven that his son is doing just fine.”

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