HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARVEY MILK.

(May 22, 1930)

“Somewhere in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all of a sudden realizes that he or she is gay; knows that if their parents find out they will be tossed out of the house, their classmates will taunt the child, and the Anita Bryant’s and John Briggs’ are doing their part on TV.
And that child has several options: staying in the closet, and suicide. And then one day that child might open the paper that says ‘Homosexual elected in San Francisco’ and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight. Two days after I was elected I got a phone call and the voice was quite young. It was from Altoona, Pennsylvania. And the person said ‘Thanks’.

And you’ve got to elect gay people; so that thousands upon thousands like that child know that there is hope for a better world; there is hope for a better tomorrow. Without hope, not only gays, but those who are blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us’s; without hope the us’s give up.
I know that you can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give them hope.”

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LGBTQ* Political Cartoons

We must maintain our (cis male, white, heterosexual) history…?

Posted 1 week ago

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Oh, these times are a’changin’

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LGBTQ* Political Cartoons

Not special rights. It is about the same civil rights.

Posted 2 weeks ago

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LGBTQ* In Case You Missed It

Ellen’s audience gives President Obama a standing ovation

Posted 2 weeks ago

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(following from Washington Post)

North Carolina passes gay

marriage ban Amendment One

Posted by Rachel Weiner at 09:17 PM ET, 05/08/2012

North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage today via a statewide ballot measure, according the Associated Press.

North Carolina already had a statute banning gay marriage. Amendment One declares that “marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state” — vague language that opponents say could threaten domestic partnership protections for all couples while closing the door to any sort of same-sex unions.

Twenty-eight states have constitutional amendments that ban gay marriage; another ten ban it by statute. Until today, North Carolina was the only state in the South did not have a constitutional ban.

While the country is about evenly split on gay marriage in polls, supporters have yet to succeed at the ballot box. Statewide ballot measures on gay marriage have come up 31 times since 1998. Advocates for gay marriage lost each time.

Amendment One opponents were better funded than Amendment One rivals. But Jeremy Kennedy, campaign manager for the anti-amendment Coalition to Protect North Carolina’s Families, told The Fixbefore the results came in that too much of that money came late in the race.

Posted 2 weeks ago

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tyleroakley:

Rights for LGBTQ Americans, a state-by-state guide.

Reblogged 2 weeks ago from tyleroakley

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LBGTQ* Political Cartoons

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Game of Life

Posted 4 weeks ago

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People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee

Posted 1 month ago

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LGBTQ* Charts and Graphs

HRC Polls Christian Support

Christian LGBTQ Support Graph

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LGBTQ* Political Cartoons

Political cartoon response to N. Carolina’s bill to ban gay marriage. Cartoon prevalent to many states and countries.

Posted 1 month ago

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1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Posted 2 months ago

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