- The Broadway show “Hair” will marry a bunch of gay couples live onstage in front of the audience after the July 25 show! New York State’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage goes into effect the day before. Gay people getting married surrounded by naked hippies? Conservative heads = exploding. [Washington Post]
- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cannot wait to get off the “merry-go-round” and return to “private life” in the next 18 months. [NYmag.com Daily Intel]
- Do the Emmy Awards only reward Latina stereotypes? [Latina]
- Anna Holmes, founder of Jezebel.com, on the late Betty Ford and the restrictions America puts on its First Ladies. [Washington Post]
- Feministing.com co-founder Jessica Valenti on Got Milk?’s sexist milk ads about PMS. [The Daily]
- Three-quarters of Google+ users are male, according to a third-party data tracker. [Mashable]
- Interviews with women in the mostly male world of hackerspaces. [Make]
- Check out week #2 of Fennel from Vag Magazine doing her vlog parody, “That’s Not Feminist!” This week: are Vibrams five-finger toe shoes feminist? [YouTube]
INTERNATIONAL
- Meet Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete of Mexico, who met with transgender women in Guatemala and has repeatedly spoken publicly about her support of gay rights. [Queerty]
- Four young Afghan women are training at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, so they can join the Afghani air force. [AP]
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