This gorgeous image was taken by famed photographer Marius Bugge for my Pride Magazine 2011 cover story on Dan Savage. (Marius also shot our last two covers with Dan Choi and Rachel Maddow.) This year's issue of Pride will begin appearing in the usual locations this weekend and I'll post an excerpt from my interview shortly. By the way, I had to flee back inside the studio when Dan leapt up on that 18th floor railing for this shot, which embiggens nicely.Saturday, June 4, 2011
Via JMG: Dan Savage For Pride Magazine
This gorgeous image was taken by famed photographer Marius Bugge for my Pride Magazine 2011 cover story on Dan Savage. (Marius also shot our last two covers with Dan Choi and Rachel Maddow.) This year's issue of Pride will begin appearing in the usual locations this weekend and I'll post an excerpt from my interview shortly. By the way, I had to flee back inside the studio when Dan leapt up on that 18th floor railing for this shot, which embiggens nicely.
Gay? Straight? Sexual Orientation Not A Choice, But Set At Birth
Sexual orientation is neurobiological and is set at birth, according to a report delivered by Jerome Goldstein, M.D., a board-certified medical neurologist and Director of the San Francisco Clinical Research Center. “Sexual orientation is not a matter of choice, it is primarily neurobiological at birth,” Goldstein told the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS), in Lisbon, Portugal, adding, “Clearly the basis of sexual orientation is in the brain and differences in brain structure and function and the province of neurology.”make the jump here to read the full article
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Via JMG: AFA Launches Anti-Gay Phone Campaign To Local Home Depot Store Managers
Via press release: Home Depot is having its annual shareholder meeting this week. Many shareholders are upset with Home Depot's sponsorship of numerous gay pride events and support for homosexual marriage. Shareholders will be addressing the board of directors personally this week and plan to make sure the board of directors know they need to end the boycott! But...they need YOUR support. Your local store manager is the closest personal contact you can have with the company. They are the "eyes and ears" of the company and can make sure your concerns get to the right people. Today, call your local Home Depot store and ask to speak to the manager. You can find the number to your local store here (click "Store Finder" at top of page) or in your local phone book. Politely let him know you are boycotting his store until the company agrees to remain neutral in the culture wars and stops supporting homosexuality.Do call your local Home Depot and personally thank the manager for their support of their LGBT customers.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Via JMG: HomoQuotable - Peter Tatchell
"We witnessed a high level of fraternisation and collusion between neo-Nazis and the Moscow police. I saw neo-Nazis leave and re-enter police buses parked on Tverskaya Street by City Hall. Our suspicion is that many of the neo-Nazis were actually plainclothes police officers, who did to us what their uniformed colleagues dared not do in front of the world’s media. Either that, or the police were actively facilitating the right-wing extremists with transport to the protest. "During the Second World War, Mucovites stood against the Nazis. Now the Mayor of Moscow is colluding with neo-Nazis. He gave the neo-Nazi groups permission to stage a protest calling for violence against gay people, while denying Moscow Gay Pride a permit to rally for gay equality." - Famed British activist Peter Tatchell, reporting from yesterday's demonstration in Moscow.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
JMG Tweet Of The Day - Miley Cyrus
Pop singer Miley Cyrus has been telling her one million Twitter followers to boycott Urban Outfitters because its CEO is a raving teabagger who contributed to Frothy Mix. Go Miley!Via AmericaBloggay: Fmr. Lt. Dan Choi Beaten in Moscow
Fmr. Lt. Dan Choi just texted me. On Saturday, May 28 he was thrown to the ground and kicked by neo-Nazis and the Russian police for the simple "crime" of marching peacefully in Moscow's LGBT pride parade. There's video of the entire thing, and it's horrific.
And the US government has said nothing.
Please sign Dan's open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking her to condemn the anti-LGBT violence in Moscow, and to reaffirm the human rights of lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people in Russia and around the world.
The Russian government has banned "Pride" for years, in direct violation of a decision by the European Court of Human Rights. And today they used violence against Russian and international human rights activists for peaceably exercising their rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.
Dan needs our help. Our Russian brothers and sisters need our help. And so far the US government is offering no help at all. (A State Department official actually claimed he couldn't do anything because the entire US government is on vacation until Tuesday!)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a longtime ally of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. She was there when we needed her to speak out against LBGT human rights abuses in Uganda. And we need her to speak out again today.
Dan Choi has agreed to personally deliver this open letter with all of your signatures to the State Department upon his return to Washington. We can make a difference here, with your help. Sign Dan's open letter to Secretary Clinton urging her to speak out against the violence in Moscow.
Thanks so much,
John Aravosis and Joe Sudbay @ AMERICAblog
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