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06/22/2011 20:33 #54550
Guest06/15/2011 20:33 #54500
Madeline DavisCategory: ideas
Author, poet, activist Madeline Davis reading from her new memoir at the Screening Room.
heidi - 06/16/11 00:35
Yeah, I cropped some guy's head out of it and my phone was on super zoom with no flash... grainy, slightly blurry. She read a couple poems and two chapters from her memoir. The first chapter was introductory, but ch. 15 was about the 1972 Democratic convention. Madeline was the first ever out lesbian delegate to a major party convention and made a short speech asking the party to adopt a pro-gay platform plank. It failed of course, but how freakin' cool to be hearing about gay rights in July 1972 when the NYS senate may be passing a marriage equality amendment in June 2011? That's my lifetime, folks. Change is possible but it takes a lot people who have the courage to stand where she has.
She then read the 1972 speech in public for the first time since 1972. My eyes were wet. Her language asking for people to recognize our right to exist was so consistent with the rhetoric around same-sex marriage - all focusing on love. Amazing.
Yeah, I cropped some guy's head out of it and my phone was on super zoom with no flash... grainy, slightly blurry. She read a couple poems and two chapters from her memoir. The first chapter was introductory, but ch. 15 was about the 1972 Democratic convention. Madeline was the first ever out lesbian delegate to a major party convention and made a short speech asking the party to adopt a pro-gay platform plank. It failed of course, but how freakin' cool to be hearing about gay rights in July 1972 when the NYS senate may be passing a marriage equality amendment in June 2011? That's my lifetime, folks. Change is possible but it takes a lot people who have the courage to stand where she has.
She then read the 1972 speech in public for the first time since 1972. My eyes were wet. Her language asking for people to recognize our right to exist was so consistent with the rhetoric around same-sex marriage - all focusing on love. Amazing.
paul - 06/15/11 23:18
Is that your pic?
Is that your pic?
06/13/2011 22:14 #54492
Sexy sinkCategory: food
Yum!
metalpeter - 06/14/11 23:33
ah ok makes sense then
ah ok makes sense then
heidi - 06/14/11 20:55
It was sufficiently functional to wash my hands. I didn't turn it all the way on for the picture.
It was sufficiently functional to wash my hands. I didn't turn it all the way on for the picture.
metalpeter - 06/14/11 17:27
Pretty Yes! Functional I doubt it look at how little water and it looks like the pressure level is low also........
Pretty Yes! Functional I doubt it look at how little water and it looks like the pressure level is low also........
06/12/2011 17:52 #54486
GroceriesCategory: food
If I knew my street had double sided parking during art fest, I might have ventured out for groceries sooner. China & I are hungry!
paul - 06/12/11 21:14
I wonder why they don't have double sided parking the whole summer?
I wonder why they don't have double sided parking the whole summer?
06/11/2011 01:44 #54469
First cousin vs gay marriageCategory: school
Today's bar review topic is family law. Did you know first cousin marriage is legal in NYS? It's not in PA. Then someone pointed me to this infographic: first-cousin marriage vs same-sex marriage in the U.S.
(Gotta love the domain "unicornbooty")
How 'bout those states that allow both?
(Gotta love the domain "unicornbooty")
How 'bout those states that allow both?
tinypliny - 06/11/11 19:59
Pretty much all the royals in Europe wed their first cousins. Queen Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert.
Which is why, most of the royals were pretty awful when it came to recessive deleterious gene-linked diseases.
Pretty much all the royals in Europe wed their first cousins. Queen Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert.
Which is why, most of the royals were pretty awful when it came to recessive deleterious gene-linked diseases.
metalpeter - 06/11/11 19:43
Didn't IOWA produce Slipknot ? Could be wrong about that but not that I'm a fan but since one of their CDs is called that not saying they go door to door telling people you back it or we come back and tell fans back it cause you are our fans but if it can produce them why not....
Well it isn't about why would you want to Marry your first cousin it is about the fact that you should have the right to.... Hey sometimes first cousins are by Marriage and not blood related... But in terms of why you would want is if you think back to old times when there where kings and families that had wealth of kings like say the Kenedy's and Rockafellers then taking a cousin as a bride could keep the wealth in the family......
Didn't IOWA produce Slipknot ? Could be wrong about that but not that I'm a fan but since one of their CDs is called that not saying they go door to door telling people you back it or we come back and tell fans back it cause you are our fans but if it can produce them why not....
Well it isn't about why would you want to Marry your first cousin it is about the fact that you should have the right to.... Hey sometimes first cousins are by Marriage and not blood related... But in terms of why you would want is if you think back to old times when there where kings and families that had wealth of kings like say the Kenedy's and Rockafellers then taking a cousin as a bride could keep the wealth in the family......
libertad - 06/11/11 09:09
I finally got a welcomed call on my landline. They were calling to ask us to leave a message on Senator Grisanti's line telling him to support gay marriage. I have been meaning to do this for a while and then they did all the work for me, I didn't even have to write down the number and call him myself they transferred me to his line.
Apparently Grisanti is on the fence on the issue. It felt good to say that I had voted for him and that I wanted him to support marriage equality. I will regret voting for him if he does not support this. He has to realize that he shouldn't have won, it was just because Thompson screwed up so bad in office and that Thompson was in support of gay marriage.
I finally got a welcomed call on my landline. They were calling to ask us to leave a message on Senator Grisanti's line telling him to support gay marriage. I have been meaning to do this for a while and then they did all the work for me, I didn't even have to write down the number and call him myself they transferred me to his line.
Apparently Grisanti is on the fence on the issue. It felt good to say that I had voted for him and that I wanted him to support marriage equality. I will regret voting for him if he does not support this. He has to realize that he shouldn't have won, it was just because Thompson screwed up so bad in office and that Thompson was in support of gay marriage.
jbeatty - 06/11/11 07:58
Why would anyone want to marry their cousin? I guess there would be no fights about whose family they would go to for Christmas.
I'm fairly shocked that gay marriage is legal in Iowa. I lived there for a couple of years and never would have guessed such a conservative population would allow that. I guess maybe the Lutherans are accepting of equal rights? That definitely gives me hope for the rest of the country.
That whole procreation argument is BS. I know plenty of married straights that want nothing to do with children.
Why would anyone want to marry their cousin? I guess there would be no fights about whose family they would go to for Christmas.
I'm fairly shocked that gay marriage is legal in Iowa. I lived there for a couple of years and never would have guessed such a conservative population would allow that. I guess maybe the Lutherans are accepting of equal rights? That definitely gives me hope for the rest of the country.
That whole procreation argument is BS. I know plenty of married straights that want nothing to do with children.
lauren - 06/11/11 06:32
What's even more interesting is that many of the states allowing first cousin marriage put restrictions on the union, such as both are over 65 or one of the partners is no longer able to reproduce, so that there are no babies from these couplings. So much for the "marriages are for procreation" argument.
What's even more interesting is that many of the states allowing first cousin marriage put restrictions on the union, such as both are over 65 or one of the partners is no longer able to reproduce, so that there are no babies from these couplings. So much for the "marriages are for procreation" argument.
(e:paul) lol that's so Lady Gaga. Or maybe Weird Al. :::link:::
Thank goodness I don't have cockroaches. I assisted him out the window this morning. He spent the night in the sink. I think he couldn't get out.
Cockroaches are a bigger problem..
leave em.. he eats cockroaches.
What Paul said. Failing that you can drown them in a bucket. Apparently they can't swim: :::link::: And you never know what evil cousins are waiting. :::link:::
OMG. Scooter Cleopatra!
I find the best way to move them is to catch them in your eye lid and then blink real hard till you get outside.