According to a post on Times Square Chronicles:

Harry Connick Jr. is set to stars in a gay remake of “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”!

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Kind of reminds you of the Civil Rights opponents of the 50′s and 60′s doesn’t it?

According to a post on Blog Critic:

Coming out of his victory in the CPAC straw poll, the first candidate to try to grab that spotlight was Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) who fired the opening salvo of the election with a long and convoluted statement opposing gay marriage and supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, addressed to the people of Iowa.

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According to Bibrary Bookslut:

The Bibrary is dedicated to reviewing LGBT themed literature (with a definite empasis on the ‘T’), imaginative fiction (fantasy, horror, and sci-fi), erotica (both vanilla and kinky), and to whatever else captures my fancy (which generally involves the expression of alternative sexualities, genders, and lifestyles).

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Such as in the story they posted about Rutgers university’s decision to give some consideration to transgender student.

They start with the headline:

Rutgers OKs Steamy Gender-Neutral Showers

OMG!  You mean college students…who are adults…are going to shower with people of the opposite sex?  OMG, what next…will college student be playing beer pong and having sex?

FOX, you’re the epitome of what’s wrong with America and you need to keep your ignorance to yourself.  The right wing in this country, headed by FOX, is nothing more than a cult…serving the Kool-Aid a different way.

According to a post on Rod 2.0:

Bravo and much respect to Nelly Furtado, who Tweeted that she cannot keep the $1 million she was paid for a private concert for Libya’s Qaddafi family. Furtado will donate the sum to charity.

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According to a post on LGBTQ Nation:

In the final minutes of the day, a Wyoming House committee voted 4-2 on Tuesday to approve a bill which would invalidate same-sex marriages performed out-of-state.

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So, with that being said, MetroWeekly has compiled a list of 25 must see gay films which includes:

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (1993)

There are times when a film simply needs to be upfront about being didactic — and this dispatch from the early days of the AIDS epidemic is a classic of event-movie didacticism. Adapted from Randy Shilts’s history of the epidemic, And the Band Played On didn’t set out to be a major work of art, unlike its Broadway contemporary, Angels in America. Band was about making the case to America that AIDS mattered — that people who were dying from it mattered, that the hatred unleashed against those who had the disease mattered. The cast reads like a who’s who of Hollywood, including gay and lesbian actors Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin and B.D. Wong. It’s not a triumph of filmmaking — like any fictionalized documentary, it takes some liberties with facts in order create heroes and villains — but it is an essential cinematic moment for gays and lesbians in America. The saddest thing, in retrospect, is how many of the lessons it wanted to teach have yet to be learned.

Find out the rest and watch the trailers at: Metro Weekly!

Such is Sarah Hoffman, author of a blog “On parenting a boy who is different“.

According to one post:

If you’ve found my site, perhaps your son is a pink boy, too. Or your nephew, grandson, neighbor, student, or friend. Or you were when you were a boy. Maybe you are right now.

This is a MUST read for anyone regardless of gender or sexuality!  Get more here!

If you think about it, discrimination against various groups can be found all throughout history.

But what causes the tide to turn?  One professor from Towson discusses this at ABC.com:

Amy Becker, assistant professor, Dept. of Mass Comm. & Comm. Studies at Towson University,  published the article that will appear in Social Science Quarterly exploring what factors influence public support for same-sex marriage.

Professor Becker joined Good Morning Maryland on February 17th to talk about her new article. She says there is more of a social acceptance of same sex marriage due to rise of gay characters in shows like, Glee.

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