Online Chat with a Live Anti-Civil Rights Mormon
Filed under: activism, gay culture, health and wellness, technology
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I just discovered that the Mormons have a live online chat. So, being the activist that I am, I logged in and politely (yes, with civility) asked “Beth” why the estimated $23 million that the Mormons gave to pass Proposition H8 in California was not used to feed the hungry, clothe and house the homeless, help the poor and elderly, etc., according to the teachings of their religion.
An Army of Lovers Cannot Be Defeated - San Francisco Protests Loss of Civil Rights for Gay People’s Right to Marry
UPDATE: Please join me and thousands of others on Saturday, 15 November 2008, in a national day of protests to fight for the civil right of gay people to marry. PLEASE GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND SIGN UP NOW: JOIN THE IMPACT. Spread the word on Facebook, Myspace, IM, email, blogs, Twitter, and all other forms of communication and social networking!
America Begins to Revive and Create an Inclusive Nation
Filed under: activism, art, fables of fabulous faggotry, gratitude, health and wellness, technology, video
America just voted into office a visionary, educated, progressive Democrat for President: Barack Obama! He will be our first out bi-ethnic President, being of African and European (”white”) ancestry, and he represents the hopes, dreams, and lifetimes of work by generations of Americans from all walks of life. I am very proud that I voted for President-elect Obama, as did virtually all of my friends and family of creation in San Francisco. Last night, in the Castro - good old 94114 - the fabulous San Francisco Late Nite Coalition shut down the street and everyone celebrated this monumental and historic election.
Gay People for Obama-Biden
Filed under: activism, gay culture, technology, video
Terry Bean has created a great blog to elect Barack Obama to the Presidency: LGBT for Obama. Here are some dynamite videos offering statements from everyday Americans speaking of their support for Barack Obama for President of the USA, courtesy of Terry’s great blog (thank you!).
Google comes out against anti-gay California Proposition 8
Filed under: activism, gay culture, health and wellness, technology
Mega-corporation, Google, has taken a clear stand against California’s upcoming Proposition 8, in the company’s official blog, joining such heavyweights as Levi Strauss, maker of the gay-ubiquitous Levi’s 501 jeans worn by many gay men in the 70s and 80s. Proposition 8 (”Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry“) is the state popular initiative that would remove the California constitutional right of same sex couples to marry. In California, propositions can be placed on the state ballot for a direct, popular vote by Californians. These initiatives are a powerful way for citizens to circumvent an often sluggish state legislature, state courts, or governor.
The Large Hadron Collider with the Higgs Boson Starring as the God Particle
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, just turned on and began using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, and is the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex in the world, created to search for evidence of the Higgs boson.
A boson is a quantum particle that was named after Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist, in the mid-20th century. The Higgs boson has been called the “god particle” and represents one of the most elusive pieces of evidence for how it is theorized that the universe emerged from quantum fluctuations in the fabric of the spacetime continuum. Seven of Nine (played by actress, Jeri Ryan), a human that had formerly been a Borg drone in the series, Star Trek: Voyager, was featured in an episode, “The Omega Particle”, where she revealed that all Borg had an embedded command to seek out the so-called “god particle”. Now, science fiction is meeting hard scientific fact in the LHC’s research.
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