All posts by JD Uy
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Energy vs. Experience: DC gay group revises focus over bus controversy; Ads removed tonight anyway
”We posted the draft letter in the spirit of organizational transparency, to raise public awareness about the ads and to encourage community feedback on the...
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Step Back in Time: Gays, Holidays and Stressful Family Roles
”You have all the built-up family expectations and the mythology of the holidays, you have the regular family drama, plus this…. There’s this added tension...
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Uh, duh: Entertainment Weekly thinks 45-year-old ”Rudolf” animation seems like a gay allegory
”The 1964 Rankin-Bass animated classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer has been my favorite Christmas special ever since I was a boy, sitting on our yellow...
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Anti-gay ad on DC Metro buses tests gay community’s definitions of free speech
Photo by David Uy / MetroWeekly.com “Let the People Vote on Marriage.“ Content of an advertisement currently appearing on the side of DC’s WMATA buses....
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Deadly dance floor: Gay bar brawl ends in death of gay man in Toledo [video]
”He was such a homebody. This was only the second time this year he went to a bar and this happened to him. He never...
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Gay newspapers’ troubles revealed in Chicago, Atlanta, DC, …
”The last two to three payrolls, we’ve been having issues from a cash-flow standpoint…. This is a rough week because it’s Christmas too. There’s the...
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Historical look at gay stereotypes in comic books and cartoon strips
”What could be more wholesome than Mickey Mouse, the big-eared emblem of the Disney empire? Yet a Mickey Mouse comic strip from January 22, 1931...
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Gay marriage legalized in Mexico City
”For centuries, unjust laws prohibited marriage between whites and blacks or Europeans and (indigenous) Indians. Today all those barriers have come down.” Victor Romo of...
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First gay wedding featured by Martha Stewart magazine
”We’re humbled and honored to have been deemed ‘good thing’-y enough to grace this mass market mag’s pages. It’s one time you won’t hear us...
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Know Thy Adversary: Anti-gay conservative, Robert P George (Chairman of National Organization for Marriage), profiled by NY Times
”People have lost their grip on the true reasons for marrying, so they are unwilling to make all the sacrifices real marriage requires…. If I,...
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Congressional Budget Office estimates “Domestic Partners” Act: 10 years = $898 million
H.R. 2517 would make same-sex domestic partners of certain federal employees (both current and retired) eligible to receive the same employment benefits as married spouses...
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Hillary Clinton: Persecution of gays in countries like Iran, Uganda are at top of Human Rights list
“Once rights are established, governments should be expected to resist the temptation to restrict freedom of expression when criticism arises, and to be vigilant in...
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Evangelical Lively claims innocence, cries “it’s racist” to insinuate he had influence over Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill
”I don’t have any special power to influence these people. They asked for my opinion, and I gave it. It’s pretty racist to suggest that...
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Catholic Archdiocese of DC insinuates Jesus says “No” to gay marriage because its like incest & sex with animals
”It occurred to me to wonder what Jesus would say about the redefining of Marriage that is happening in this country of the last number...
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Professional Rubgy player, Gareth Thomas, comes out gay
“It is the toughest, most macho of male sports, and with that comes an image. In many ways, it is barbaric, and I could never...
