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Politics Happy Hour: Purple Heartbreak

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

Roskoff’s Raucous Politics: As The Dust Settles

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

Allen Roskoff is AKA William’s new Political Director and columnist. Allen will be bringing us the best, the worst, and the unbelievable in LGBT politics.

Need help with separating the politicized spin from the political facts?

Let Allen give you a hand.

The New York’s Times Maureen Dowd’s October 25, 2009 column accuses the Catholic Church of being misogynistic, homophobic, and of enabling rampant pedophilia.

She reports that “Pope Benedict XVI wrote a Vatican document urging women to be submissive partners, resisting any adversarial roles with men and cultivating ‘feminine values’ like ‘listening, welcoming, humility, faithfulness, praise and waiting.’” Dowd also reminds readers that the Pope was once a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth, and pardoned a schismatic bishop who claimed that there was no Nazi gas chamber. Benedict also maintains that distributing condoms in Africa could make the AIDS crisis worse.

Know what I think? I think the government should take over the Catholic Church, citing human rights and criminal violations that include the practiced pedophilia that have taken place in the archdiocese’s churches.

After the jump

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Allen Roskoff, Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, John Liu, Maureen Dowd, Pope Benedict XVI, Roskoff's Raucous Politics

GLSEN’s New Twitter Gay Slur Counter

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

I really love this idea.

Remember a few months ago when GLSEN launched an effort to stop the use of the homophobic phrase “that’s so gay” with its kind of bitchy and totally effective ThinkB4YouSpeak ad campaign featuring copy like this: “That’s so ‘gamer guy who has more video games than friends.’” Great, right?

Well, GLSEN has seen that ad campaign and raised it a social media watchdog with ThinkB4YouSpeak’s launch of its new widget — a gay slur counter for Twitter! Yup, every time someone on Twitter tweets a “fag” or a “so gay” or “dyke” or “homo” it gets counted.

I love this so much, I’ve added the slur counter to the right sidebar of AKA William. (I don’t like when those words are used at all by anyone for any reason.)

Seriously, check it out. Oh, and if you have a site, you can grab the widget code, too.

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Atlanta Housewife Kim Zolciak Performs “Tardy For The Party” – Live

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

Last night, Kim performed live for the first time. Gotta love her for putting herself out there and doing her thing. Watch. After the jump

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Kim Zolciak, Tardy For The Party

Fundraising Campaign Launches To Restore CA Marriage Equality

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

Yes! on Equality and TruthandHope.org and Restore Equality 2010 launched the Million for a Million campaign to fund petition signature-getting.

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Million for A Million

Washington’s Ref 71 Officially Passes

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

It’s been officially called: Washington state voters have approved the state’s new “everything but marriage” law.

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Ref 71, Washington

A Good Stiff One – Damian From Toronto (NSFW)

Fri, Nov 6, 2009

After a week of having our civil rights taken away in Maine, listening to people who masquerade as Christians telling us how we are trying to oppress them, and reading about another gay bashing in NYC, I decided I should post someone gay and badass in today’s “A Good Stiff One” because I’m thinking we all could use some inspiration in getting rough.

I also wanted to show some peen because that’s that all the hubbub is about right? Bigots don’t like it when guys like peen too much. (Or when girls like titties too much, but, personally, I’m sticking with the peen.)

And then, call it fate, I came across these pics of East Village Boy Damian from Toronto. Big, beefy, badass, tattooed, pierced, peenage. Fate.

Check out the motivating NSFW pics. After the jump

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A Good Stiff One, Damian, East Village Boys, Guys, Tattoos