Come see author and activist Sherry Wolf speak on the political struggle for queer liberation, here and around the world, this coming Monday at List Hall at Brown University. (List is near the top of College Street, on the north side — big white blocky modernist building.) Participate in a public discussion on the history, […]
Originally posted yesterday morning: Let me open this by acknowledging that I’m a community member of Marriage Equality Rhode Island and the separate but associated action group Providence Equality Action Coalition (see Facebook page), who are acting as local organisers for Equality Across America. I am a longtime gay activist with a number of prior
If you’re in the Boston area today, and are in need of a mid-afternoon, same-sex activity, wander over to Boston Common and partake in the Great National Kiss-In at 2pm. From their Facebook Group: After recent incidents in El Paso, TX and Salt Lake City, UT – where two different gay couples were harassed or
This is still almost two weeks away, but on the 16th the National Organization for Marriage plans to hold a Marriage And Family Day at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick, and the National Director of NOM (nom nom nom) is going to be making an appearance. Hopefully the weather will hold out! It’s free and
Holy crap, this is so incredibly ridiculous (and impolitic). Emphasis is RIFuture’s. Now sit down, and shut up. (And tell us who you are and where you live.) Public Viewing Guidelines Our Goal. To honor First Amendment Rights while protecting the people of Providence and our guests. The Providence Public Safety Team will ensure the
After all those terrorism jabs with his right, maybe Cheney’ll throw a nice left hook at Obama on this issue: [youtube]E5jefmsqBG8[/youtube]
I agree with the mantra of MERI et al — that we don’t put civil rights up to a vote. The thing that makes democracy interesting is the tension between majority rule and minority rights. Part of the bargain is that we recognize that we’re all minorities in some respect or another, and that we
Marion Barry is back in the limelight, for being the “1,” in the 12-1 vote by the DC City Council to recognize other states’ gay marriages: [youtube]7LYPRlG4JTg[/youtube] (Unfortunately, the only time the world seems to give a hoot about the good people of Ward 8 is when Councilman Barry does something stupid — for instance,
Oh no! Orson Scott Card — the only person to win consecutive Hugo and Nebula awards — has teamed up with Miss California and the National Organization for Marriage. (I wonder what The Other Joe Bernstein has to about all of this…) Why don’t we neutralize OSC with some footage of Sulu getting hitched: [youtube]ZyeTh8mqWpg[/youtube]
Residents of Cranston–my hometown, woot!–are upset because sex offenders are living in a local homeless shelter located about a half mile away from a school. To give you an idea of what that means, Cranston is approximately 28 square miles. And there are 24 public schools in the city, plus a bunch of private ones
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Rick Hasen, who runs what is probably the nation’s most respected elections law blog and listserv, has this piece in Slate about the unfortunate (and likely) outcome of the NAMUDNO case. On April 29, the last day of the court’s term, the justices will hear a case from an obscure utility district in Texas, Northwest
The National Organization For Marriage, a conservative group who’s all up in arms about the gay marriage thing, unveiled a new ad yesterday in the wake of same-sex Vermont couples now being able to put a ring on it: [youtube]Wp76ly2_NoI[/youtube] I can’t decide whether my favorite part is. At first I thought it was the
Please join SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression) and the RI Family Life Center for a screening of “Stronger Than Their Walls,” a documentary that follows the story of several men who were presumed guilty in Rhode Island courts and never given a fair chance to demonstrate their innocence. The families
The Brown University Departments of Africana Studies and American Civilizations bring you… (You know your department is underfunded when you have to go to the Young Communist League for financial assistance.)
We should’ve commented on this a day or two ago: Rep Art Handy’s done us proud, landing in the NYTimes for having diligently introduced marriage equality legislation for 7 years running. We’re getting damn close: Same-sex couples deserve full equality under the law, and that includes the right to marry. For the last decade or
Get used to the phrase “in a 5-4 decision”. I was brought to task recently for some unsophisticated blogginess regarding Chief Justice Roberts that perhaps did not serve my purpose. . . but I was not wrong. I find the current Supreme Court quite worrisome. If Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is any