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northland10 wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 9:56 pm
There is a place for them in the Episcopal Church where we actually believe in God's love. We don't take the Bible literally, we take it seriously.

neonzx wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:59 am

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:30 am Uh, Legos is a Danish company. I'm pretty sure they've been for equality for a long time.

Correct. And it's privately held, not publicly traded.

keith wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 6:32 am

neonzx wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:59 am

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 12:30 am Uh, Legos is a Danish company. I'm pretty sure they've been for equality for a long time.

Correct. And it's privately held, not publicly traded.

And they've been making multi colored bricks since day one.

Milo Yiannopoulos says that as soon as he became "ex-gay," dogs stopped barking at him, which he believes is a sign from God.

Don't negotiate with insurrectionists. @WonderDogAbides 6h
Replying to @RightWingWatch

Milo, if the dog is too busy humping your leg instead of barking, it's because you smell like a bitch.

Who was at Stonewall?

Raymond Castro was not the kind of person who worried about the police when he was a young man socializing in 1960s Greenwich Village. "I was never afraid of the cops on the street," he said, "because I was not an obvious person. I was not flaunting my homosexuality to anyone. I wasn't holding hands. It would never have occurred to me to try and have a confrontation with them [because] you don't want to be arrested for any stupid reason. I never had any problems with the police. I never had problems with anyone anywhere, until that night."

Dick Leitsch was listening to the radio while packing for a trip to London when he heard a report about trouble in front of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. "I got in a cab," he recalled, "but couldn't get any closer to Stonewall than 14th Street, so I got out and walked."

When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives in this article.

This article was published in conjunction with our doc, Stonewall Uprising, now available to stream on our website and the PBS video app.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:08 am He became an "ex-gay"? During Pride Month? Just to get back to some sort of public notoriety?

This is the dude who used to brag about all the dicks he had sucked, amirite?

Did he go through some sorta "cure the gay" therapy at a church or sumpin'?

Seems a bit suspicious, IMHO.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:08 am He became an "ex-gay"? During Pride Month? Just to get back to some sort of public notoriety?

This is the dude who used to brag about all the dicks he had sucked, amirite?

Did he go through some sorta "cure the gay" therapy at a church or sumpin'?

Seems a bit suspicious, IMHO.

The Justice Department in a court filing Tuesday said it can “vigorously” defend a religious exemption from federal civil rights law that allows federally funded religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students, a move that surprised some LGBTQ advocates who said the wording went further than just an obligation to defend an existing law.

In the filing, the Biden administration said it “shares the same ultimate objective” as the conservative Christian schools named in the case.

“What this means is that the government is now aligning itself with anti-LGBTQ hate in order to vigorously defend an exemption that everyone knows causes severe harm to LGBTQ students using taxpayer money,” said Paul Carlos Southwick, director of the Religious Exemption Accountability Project, which filed the case in March on behalf of dozens of current and past students at conservative religious colleges and universities. “It will make our case harder if the federal government plans to vigorously defend it like they have indicated.”

At issue in Hunter v. the U.S. Department of Education are 40 LGBTQ students at conservative religious colleges and universities who are suing the government for its role in providing funding to schools with discriminatory policies. The schools say they have a First Amendment right to promote traditional religious beliefs about sexuality and gender.

Sesame Street is celebrating Pride Month by going where it’s never gone before.

This week, the iconic children’s show dropped a very special episode called “Family Day,” introducing two gay dads, Frank (Alex Weisman) and Dave (the brother of Nina, played by Chris Costa, who works as a bike store owner on the street), and their daughter, Mia (Olivia Perez).

Directed by Alan Muraoka, who currently plays the owner of Hooper’s Store on the program, the episode focuses on Big Bird, who thinks his grandmother (Granny Bird) can’t make a party before he’s surprised by his neighborhood family.

Muraoka shared the exciting news on Facebook, saying he was “honored and humbled” to have directed such a milestone episode.

“Love is love, and we are so happy to add this special family to our Sesame family. Happy Pride to all!!!!,” he wrote.

I love Cooney’s theory about commercial jingles. She figured that, if kids could sing beer commercials after hearing them, they could learn their letters and numbers in songs, too.

Originally aired on January 26, 1970, it's Episode 56. The main street story has Mr. Hooper (Will Lee) making the orange version of Oscar (Caroll Spinney) an awful sounding baked bean sundae. Gospel and civil rights legend, Mahalia Jackson, is the big time musical guest singing "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands". 58 years old at the time, she retired in 1971, and died of heart failure and diabetes complications in 1972.

Other than many cartoon repeats, we have the debut of Kermit's (Jim Henson) Lecture about the word IN with an early green version of Grover (Frank Oz) and a monster surprise, Fred, performed by Jim Henson with a slowed down voice; the repeat of Kermit's Hair Lecture with Beautiful Day Monster; Ernie (Jim Henson) and Bert (Frank Oz) play the What Happens Next game, also new; Buddy (Brandon Maggart) and Jim (James Catusi) pack shoeboxes; Bob (Bob McGrath) welcomes a great horned owl and a Dorset lamb; and Gordon (Matt Robinson) reads "Dandelion" by Don Freeman. Enjoy!

orlylicious wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:21 pm Thanks for sharing that, Neon, brought back some happy memories.

Throughout the decades, Sesame Street has stood up for equality by welcoming several out celebrities on the show — including Ellen DeGeneres, Billy Eichner, Billy Porter and recently Lil Nas X.

While most of the response has been positive, there has been quite a few anti-LGBTQ critics. Last year, Porter responded to the homophobic attacks that came after his February 2020 appearance, where he [wore] the velvet tuxedo gown and jacket by gay designer Christian Siriano, which became iconic after Porter wore it at the 2019 Oscars.

“If you don’t like it, don’t watch it,” Porter told Page Six at the time. “What about me singing with a penguin [on the show] has anything to do with what I’m doing in my bedroom?”

“The really interesting thing for me is that that’s what it’s all about when it comes to LGBTQ people — the first thing everyone wants to talk about is how we having sex,” Porter added. “Stay out of my bedroom and you will be fine — that is none of your business

WILTON MANORS, Fla. — One person was killed and two people were injured Saturday evening when they were struck by a pickup truck just as a Pride parade was beginning in South Florida, a city official said.

The white pickup truck was lined up with other floats in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Wilton Manors when the driver hit the gas and struck the two victims, WPLG reported.

Several media outlets, including the Sun-Sentinel, WPLG and WSVN, said one person had died, citing Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, who attended the event.

The twilight parade, themed “Out of the Darkness, Into the Light” began in Wilton Manors at around 7 p.m., but the crash reportedly took place in Fort Lauderdale, WSVN reported.

It seems increasingly probable it was an accident. Still filled w sadness.

— Chris Caputo (@chris_caputo) June 19, 2021

Dean Trantalis was first elected mayor of Fort Lauderdale in 2018 and was re-elected in November 2020. His 2018 election represented the largest victory in city history for a candidate running for a first term as mayor. The 2020 election was also by landslide proportions and featured the largest turnout ever in a city race.

Trantalis disagreed, calling it “a terrorist attack.”

“This is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community,” Trantalis told WPLG. “This is exactly what it is. Hardly an accident. It was deliberate, it was premeditated, and it was targeted against a specific person. Luckily they missed that person, but unfortunately, they hit two other people.”

Trantalis said the truck missed Wasserman Schultz’s car “by inches” before crashing through a gate and into a plant nursery. He believes it was a deliberate attempted attack of the Democratic congresswoman.

The driver and the victims were all members of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus, according to chorus President Justin Knight.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are affected,” said Knight, who was not at the scene but recognized the driver from video. “Our fellow chorus members were those injured, and the driver was a part of the chorus family. ... To my knowledge it was an accident. This was not an attack on the LGBTQ community.”