Flags flew at half-staff over Fire Island. Thousands of mourners stood for hours outside the Frank E. Campbell funeral home on Madison Ave. It was Friday the 27th of June 1969, and Judy Garland was dead at 47, victim of pills, booze and misery. On record players and radios all across New York, she still yearned to be in the wonderful faraway place where troubles melt like lemon drops.
A real estate agent got more than he bargained for when he made his feelings on the upcoming gay marriage postal vote public. Rod Robertson put up a sign reading ‘please vote no to SSM (same sex marriage)’ outside his Sunshine Coast, Queensland, office. The sign bears the name of his Cooloola Sands, a new housing estate near Tin Can Bay, and was spotted by locals who posted it online or called in.
A group of Iowa conservatives announced over the weekend they will campaign to defeat Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins, who was part of the court’s unanimous 2009 decision to allow gay marriage in the states. But Wiggins, unlike three Iowa high court judges rejected by voters in 2010, is backed by a group of activists fighting their own campaign to defend him. On Nov. 6, Wiggins faces a retention vote as every judge does every eight years, and needs simply more yes votes than no votes to keep his position.
It’s been barely a week since the government committed to a postal plebiscite on marriage equality, but the vicious No campaign is already underway. Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine have both penned long screeds on the issue, while disgraced Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop went on Sky News to spout nonsense about polygamy and bestiality.
Transgender rights activists emphasize that they belong to a minority that’s defined by a gender identity that is different from that typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. This transgender identity presupposes that ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ are innate psychological states that are intrinsic in the human subject, conceptualized as things akin to hair color or skin pigmentation.
When two openly gay students at Kearney High in Missouri flipped through their yearbooks to their photos, rather than finding the inspirational quotes they’d chosen to go below their pictures, there was nothing but blank space because school officials removed the pro-gay quotes out of concern that other students could be offended, according to KCTV.
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