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Stephen Lynch and “Gay Panic”

April 8, 2013 By mathelman 19 Comments

About a month ago, Congressman Stephen Lynch put out a feel-good YouTube video discussing his view of LGBT issues.  It begins: I think I’m informed by my own experience.  My cousin, Brian, is gay.  I saw, as he was growing up, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gay panic, hate-crimes, homophobia, lgbt, ma-sen, stephen-lynch

Ford Hall Forum: “AIDS, Social Justice and the Politics of Transformation” (9/30/10)

September 28, 2010 By aidsaction Leave a Comment

This event is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House, a museum and National Historic Landmark dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, as part of the Partners in Dialogue series. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aids, boston, discussion, drugs, event, forum, health, health-care, hiv, homophobia, lecture, poverty, racism, sexism, transphobia, violence

DREAM Now Letters: Yahaira Carrillo

July 21, 2010 By kyledeb Leave a Comment

I was born in 1985 to a barely-turned 16 year-old who had been kicked out of her house while she was pregnant for being a disgrace to the family. I lived with my mother in an abandoned house in Guerrero, Mexico. She struggled to find … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dream-act, dream-now-letters, homophobia, illegal, immigrant, immigration, kansas, lgbt, mexico, migrant, migrant-youth, migration, missourri, undocumented, yahaira-carrillo

Tea Party Activists call Congressmen “F*gg*t” and “N*gg*r”

March 21, 2010 By tblade 8 Comments

"Oh, but the Tea Party isn't predicated on racism and bigotry!" TPM: Just after [Rep. Barney] Frank rounded a corner to leave the building, an older protestor yelled "Barney, you faggot." The surrounding crowd of protestors then erupted in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barney-frank, gop, hcr, health-care, health-care-reform, homophobia, john-lewis, michele-bachmann, n-word, racism, racists, republicans, tea-baggers, tea-party, teabaggers

Healing California’s Sickly Populism

May 27, 2009 By massmarrier 12 Comments

Cross-post: This also appears at Marry in Massachusetts. In the recent decade, we have seen more and more anti-gay and anti-marriage equality groups try to conceal their bigoted let-the-people-vote petitions to prevent or wrest from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, california, homophobia, massachusetts, populism, prop-8

Warm Holiday Greetings from Pope Benedict XVI

December 22, 2008 By Laurel 32 Comments

I hope the Pope and Georg, his "personal secretary" have a very merry Christmas indeed. The Happy Couple Woof! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: catholics, gay, glbt, homophobia, lgbt, pope-benedict, religion, roman-catholic-church

MA-GOP Still Pimping MFI’s Homo-hate via Churches

October 27, 2008 By Laurel 14 Comments

Here's Helen's emailVoter Guides Sent By:  helen@brionforsenate.com   On: Oct 10/26/08 10:03 PM 2008 Gen. Sen M...Voter Guide.pdf (87.1 KB, download) Hello Everyone, ...We also have Voter Guides that we want to deliver to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cangiamila, homophobia, lgbt, ma-gop

Duck Tours are homophobes.

July 30, 2008 By david-in-chelsea 32 Comments

Maybe we should be boycotting DUCK TOURS, since it seems they are certainly chummy with WRKO's homophobic right wing loon, Howie Carr, who refers to gay people like me as "sodomites": The following is from WRKO's home page: "Join us TODAY, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boycott, carr, duck-tours, homophobe, homophobia, howie

MTV Street Team ’08: Marriage Equality For All?

June 16, 2008 By kyledeb 27 Comments

As a straight white male, I will always acknowledge that the privileged lens through which I view the world does not make me the best person to speak on issues like this, but I'm going to try, and people are free to weigh in through … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: associated-press, bay-windows, boston-globe, boston-heral, current, deval-patrick, gay-marriage, homophobia, katherine-patrick, laura-kiritsy, lgbt, marc-solomon, marriage-equality, mass-equality, massachusetts, same-sex-bi-national-couples, same-sex-couples, uniting-american-families-act

Republicans: All for states rights…except when they’re not

May 30, 2008 By Laurel 17 Comments

Here is what is eating gilbert grape"An inevitable result of such 'marriage tourism' will be a steep increase in litigation" over whether the couple's home state must recognize their marriage, said Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gop, homophobia, marriage, states-rights

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SenJoanLovelySen. Joan B. Lovely@SenJoanLovely·
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Honored to be guest speaker at @MarianRyanDA Opioid Task Force alongside @TheNANProject ED Jake Cavanaugh & peer mentor John Oxenford. Pleased to provide a legislative update & share efforts to support mental well-being among youth & adults. #MAPoli

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.@WSJopinion:"There’s no doubt that a racist subculture exists in America and is spread on social media. Politicians and media figures have an obligation to condemn it and such conspiratorial notions as 'white replacement theory.'" #BuffaloTerrorist

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“We have some commitments” from delegates, @chrisforma says on @bloombergbaybiz. “But a lot of them, you know, show up at the convention and vote how they feel.” Adds that “even today I'm calling up to the last minute.” #mapoli

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Inbox: The second round of $500 payments to essential workers from the Baker administration will roll out in June. #mapoli

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Massachusetts needs to harness the drive and curiosity of its students and expose them to STEM careers early, but we can’t do it unless companies are willing to hire interns, write @MassLtGov Karyn Polito and @MassEducation Sec. James Peyser. #mapoli https://trib.al/L5S4j5v

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