Thursday, April 30, 2015
Via JMG: Gallup: 780,000 Married Gay Americans
Approximately 0.3% of adults in the U.S. are married to a same-sex spouse, and another 0.5% identify as being in a same-sex domestic partnership. In examining the total population of 243 million U.S. adults, these survey estimates suggest nearly 2 million adults are part of a same-sex couple, of whom 780,000 are married. These data are based on 80,568 interviews conducted on Gallup Daily tracking from Jan. 28-April 19, 2015. Overall, approximately 0.3% of all respondents during this time period both identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) and said they were married, and in a follow-up question, they indicated that they were married to a same-sex spouse. An additional 0.5% of adults identified as LGBT and reported being in a same-sex domestic partnership.Wingnuts sites are running with the 0.3% number. Of course.
The 780,000 American adults who are estimated to be married to a same-sex spouse translates into approximately 390,000 same-sex married couples in the U.S. Similarly, the estimated 1.2 million adults living in a same-sex domestic partnership translates into 600,000 domestic partnership couples. Thus, there is a total of almost a million same-sex couples in the country, of which nearly four in 10 (39%) are married.
At 990,000, Gallup's estimated number of same-sex married or domestic partner couples in the U.S. is significantly higher than past estimates derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), which in 2013 put the number of same-sex couples at roughly 727,000. Of this group, more than 250,000 reported they were married. The Census Bureau, however, has cautioned that the ACS estimates of married same-sex couples may not be reliable as they have determined that a large portion of recorded married same-sex couples may actually be married heterosexual couples who miscoded the sex of one of the spouses.
Via JMG: Disney Broadway To Host LGBT Families
Playbill will celebrate its second annual Playbill Pride initiative with Family Day OUT, a June 13 event that invites LGBT families and allies to attend special performances of Disney's The Lion King and Aladdin on Broadway. A partnership with Disney Theatrical Productions and Family Equality Council, Family Day OUT is sponsored by Amtrak and will bring together LGBT families, friends and allies who believe that all families are equal and deserve the same respect and protections under the law. The event is part of Playbill's second annual Playbill Pride initiative, a month-long celebration of the theatre world's LGBT community, which will return this June.Get tickets here.
Family Day OUT kicks off at 11 AM with a pre-matinee party and lunch at Times Square's B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, where families have a chance to meet cast members from Disney’s Broadway productions of Aladdin and The Lion King, participate in hands-on activities hosted by Disney Teaching Artists, and celebrate Family Equality Council — the nation's leading advocacy group committed to securing family equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer parents. Family Day OUT will continue with select seating at the 2 PM matinee performances of Aladdin and The Lion King.
Via Coffee Party Movement / FB: Traditional marriage
"Traditional
marriage" is a crock. The only "tradition" they're screaming about is
of oppression, discrimination, misogyny and brutality. And ignorance of
history (including same-sex unions sanctioned in the ancient church as
well as many Native traditions). May the US Supreme Court succeed in
taking a bold step towards "a more perfect union", and greater justice,
as the USA purports to foster." - FB amigo RL
By "traditional marriage," do you mean like in 1769, when women were property? #marriagequality #freedomtomarry
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Posted by Catraca Livre on Thursday, April 30, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día- Flower of the day 30/04/2015
“O serviço desinteressado é o amor em movimento. Quando o amor é
colocado em movimento ele gera felicidade. Se você é o canal desse amor,
a felicidade passa por você para chegar ao outro, e você também se
sente feliz. Esse é o poder do serviço: ele faz com que você se torne um
elo na corrente da felicidade.”
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“El servicio desinteresado es el amor en movimiento. Cuando el amor es
colocado en movimiento genera felicidad. Si eres un canal de ese amor,
la felicidad pasa por ti para llegar al otro, y también te sientes
feliz. Este es el poder del servicio: hace que te vuelvas un eslabón en
la corriente de la felicidad.”
“Selfless service is love in action. When love is set in motion, it generates happiness. If you are a channel of love, happiness flows through you to reach the other, and you also feel happy. This is the power of service: it makes you become a link in the chain of happiness."
“Selfless service is love in action. When love is set in motion, it generates happiness. If you are a channel of love, happiness flows through you to reach the other, and you also feel happy. This is the power of service: it makes you become a link in the chain of happiness."
Via Daily Dharma
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