Tag Archives: same sex marriage

Rep. Michele Bachmann Urges “Spiritual Warfare” Against Marriage Equality, Reproductive Rights

Jessica WakemanMay 14, 2013 //

Katelyn Campbell just said no to her school's abstinence-only sex ed. Read More »

No "Feminist" Blog

Beliefnet wouldn't use the word "feminist" on a blog. Read More »

Nutso Religious Graphic

Your slutty behavior is killing flowers (or something?). Read More »

Rep. Michele Bachmann is urging Christians to engage in “spiritual warfare” to put their religious values in government, like banning marriage equality and criminalizing abortion. Scary, scary stuff. [Raw Story]
In related I’m-moving-to-Canada news, North Carolina’s state Senate has advanced a bill that erroneously lists abortion as a cause of premature birth. Although the medical community vehemently disagrees, abortion opponents frequently claim that abortion causes breast cancer or makes it difficult for women to have children in the future. The NC bill includes abortion as a cause of “preterm birth” up there with drug use lack of prenatal care. [RH Reality Check]
On Planned Parenthood and the real lessons of the Kermit Gosnell case. [The Daily Beast]
“Elementary” actress Lucy Liu on the limits placed on her for being an Asian actress in Hollywood. [xoJane]
On the inappropriate comments being made about Angelina Jolie losing her natural breasts to a double mastectomy, which she chose to have to prevent breast cancer. [Slate] Keep reading »

Rhode Island Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage!

Jessica WakemanMay 6, 2013 //

France Legalizes Gay Marriage

France becomes the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriage. Read More »

NZ Passes Gay Marriage

And parliament breaks into song to celebrate! Read More »

Nancy Reagan Loves Gays

Hey, GOP: even Nancy Reagan supports marriage equality. Read More »

Rhode Island became the 10th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage last week! The state House and Senate both approved marriage equality and the governor signed it into law on Thursday. Congratulations, Rhode Island! [Feminist.org, Salon]
Today In Irony: the Air Force’s chief of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman. [HyperVocal]
The cost of birth control is higher in some low-income neighborhoods than in wealthy ones, according to a small study done in Florida. [Huffington Post]
Will this TED talk turn every man who watches it into a feminist? [Upworthy]
Meet Holly Jacobs, 29, who stood up to an ex-boyfriend who posted private pictures of her on revenge porn websites. [BetaBeat]
Good news, gays! You can change, just like rapists and murderers, according to Christian wackadoodle Pat Roberson. [Think Progress] Keep reading »

Hey, Conservatives: Even Nancy Reagan Supports Marriage Equality

Jessica WakemanApril 17, 2013 //

Gay Marriage Wins

"TIME" magazine declares that gay marriage has already won. Read More »

Sonia On Gay Marriage

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasts discrimination against gays. Read More »

The Gay Agenda

Walk the dog, cook dinner, break up a heterosexual marriage. Read More »

Former First Lady Nancy Reagen supports marriage equality, according to a new Sirius interview with her daughter Patti Davis. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Religious Right! In the interview, Davis explained her mother does support the legalization of gay marriage but emphasized that Reagan “is not comfortable going out in the public eye and getting in the firing line of anything.” Okay, that last part is kind of shitty. But I’m still happy to hear even Nancy friggin’ Reagan believes all love is created equal. [Huffington Post]
On how poverty drove women into Kermit Gosnell’s illegal abortion clinic. [Think Progress]
A Philadelphia priest allegedly sexually assaulted a woman and smeared menstrual blood on her face and then told detectives he couldn’t speak about the assault because it happened at confession. The church then sent him to Poland. [AlterNet]
Oh, look, another Internet shitstorm about feminism! [Daily Dot] Keep reading »

New Zealand Parliament Passes Marriage Equality Law, Breaks Into Song

Winona Dimeo-EdigerApril 17, 2013 //

Golden Girls On Gay Marriage

Sophia Petrillo sums it up perfectly! Read More »

'I'm Gay' Cake

A girl named Laurel comes out to her parents with an "I'm gay!" cake. Read More »

Gay Marriage Wins

"TIME" magazine declares that gay marriage has already won. Read More »

Watch the joyous moment!

Today New Zealand became the 14th country (counting France, which will make it official with a final vote next week) to legalize same-sex marriage, and they rang in equality in grand style. Once the vote was announced, the gallery cheered, and then a voice from the balcony started singing the traditional love song, “Pokarekare Ana,” which includes the following lyrics (translated):

“I have written you a letter, and enclosed with it my ring. If your people should see it, then the trouble will begin… My poor pen is broken, my paper is spent, But my love for you endures, and remains forever more.”

Skip to 1:20 to see the joyous moment! [YouTube via Think Progress]

Yeah, What Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Said

Jessica WakemanMarch 28, 2013 //

Marriage Equality Memes

25 Marriage Equality Signs Making The Rounds On Facebook

25 pro-gay marriage signs making the rounds on Facebook. 26 Photos »

Gay Marriage Wins

"TIME" magazine declares that gay marriage has already won. Read More »

Who Is Edie Windsor?

Meet the 83-year-old who's challenging DOMA! Read More »

QUOTABLE

Preach!

“Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?”

– Here’s Supreme Court Justice/all-around baller Sonia Sotomayor‘s response to the anti-gay argument during the Prop 8 hearing this week. Lawyer Charles Cooper, who was defending California’s Prop 8 ban on gay marriage, had nothing to say in response. A “wise Latina” indeed! [Latina]

Hitched: The Future Bride Onesie Is Coming For Your Children

Andrea GrimesMarch 27, 2013 //

Yesterday in Austin, Texas, a city I’m very proud to call home, 250 people gathered on the south steps of the state capitol for a nice round of bigoted back-patting, peppered with lines like this, from state senator Donna Campbell: “They want to redefine marriage between a natural man and natural woman the same way they want to redefine the Constitution.”

This, of course, while the Supreme Court was hearing arguments on same-sex marriage.

“Our core values are being attacked on a daily basis,” Campbell told the crowd.

I like that line, about “core values” that are “being attacked,” because if there’s one thing that gives me a little pleasure when thinking about people like Donna Campbell, and others who would deny civil rights to all Americans because something something Jesus, it’s the thought that maybe they stay up at night seriously worried that the gays, or whoever Donna Campbell thinks “they” might be, are coming for her values and children, cowering beneath their quilted comforters.

Maybe that thought is funny to me because things like the “Future Bride” baby onesie exist in the world. If anyone is coming for your children, it is hyper-normative heterosexuals who can’t even wait for a little girl to get out of goddamned diapers before casting her as a sexual being. Keep reading »

Watch This: The Golden Girls Explain Same-Sex Marriage

Winona Dimeo-EdigerMarch 26, 2013 //

'I'm Gay' Cake

A girl comes out to her parents with an "I'm gay!" cake. Read More »

Edie Windsor: 5 Things To Know

Meet the 83-year-old who's challenging DOMA! Read More »

Chris Kluwe On Gay Rights

Read the NFL player's letter in support of marriage equality! Read More »

Preach it, Sophia!

As the fight for marriage equality reaches the Supreme Court this week, this video is a reminder that “The Golden Girls” were able to sum up the case for gay marriage in less than a minute. Where is Sophia Petrillo when we need her? [YouTube]

Starbucks CEO Shuts Down Marriage Equality Complainer

Jessica WakemanMarch 21, 2013 //

At a recent shareholders meeting, a shareholder complained to Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz that sales dipped after the company publicly announced support for marriage equality. “You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company,” Shultz told the shareholder. “Thank you very much.” Baller. [Queerty]
Girls playing video games? Who’d've thunk! [Kotaku]
Also, a woman runs a science blog and everyone loses their marbles. [Guardian UK]
The University of Tennessee pulled funding from a weeklong sex ed event for students after Fox News started harping about how a drag show and “lesbian bondage expert” were going to hurt these fragile kiddies’ minds. [Think Progress] Keep reading »

Hillary Clinton Comes Out In Support Of Marriage Equality

Jessica WakemanMarch 18, 2013 //

Senator's Gay Son

Republican Sen. Rob Portman's reversed his stance on gay marriage over son. Read More »

Repub. for gay marriage

"I want to throw a wedding for my kid." Read More »

Obama Supports Gays

The president comes out in support of same-sex unions. Read More »

You Go, Hill!

"I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples."

As if you needed another reason to love former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton!

Clinton just released a PSA for the Human Rights Campaign in which she comes out in full support of marriage equality for lesbians and gays:

“LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones. And they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law, embedded in a broader effort to advance equality and opportunity for LGBT Americans and all Americans.” Keep reading »

Tokyo Disney Hosts Its First Same-Sex Wedding

Winona Dimeo-EdigerMarch 11, 2013 //

Quick Pic

“My partner Hiroko and I just held a gay wedding at the Tokyo Disney Resort. Even Mickey and Minnie are here to celebrate with us!”

Koyuki Higashi shared the above photo and the happy news of her wedding ceremony at the Tokyo Disney Resort in a tweet that has amassed nearly 7,000 retweets and sparked an article in The New York Times. While Mickey and Minnie blessed the couple, unfortunately the government doesn’t agree: gay marriage is not currently legal in Japan. Still, a huge congrats to Koyuki and Hiroko, and let’s hope it’s not too long before marriage equality is a reality around the world. [Twitter via NYT]

Same Sex Disney Couples