Category: Politics and Government

Stonewall Inn Owners: ‘This Is The Gay Church. This Is Where It All Began.’ | HuffPost

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The bar now heralded as the launching point for the mainstream LGBTQ rights movement had, according to Kurt, fallen to the wayside and lost touch with its queer roots. So in 2006, in light of Stonewall going under, Kelly and a group of investors bought the property ― and revitalized it.Kurt Kelly and Stacy Lentz became the bar’s co-owners in 2006.

Read more about Kurt Kelly and Stacy Lentz saving an iconic place for the “gay rights” movement.

huffingtonpost.com: Stonewall Inn Owners: ‘This Is The Gay Church. This Is Where It All Began.’ | HuffPost

HRC Launches a ‘Summer of Action’ to Rally Voters

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HRC staff, members and supporters are fanning out across the country to support voter registration efforts, phone banking, candidate events, grassroots advocacy trainings, and step up visibility and outreach at LGBTQ Pride parades, festivals and other events. The Summer of Action will also intensify HRC’s already-unprecedented grassroots effort to engage equality-minded voters in key states and congressional districts ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

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HRC UNITE RESIST ENLIST 2018

 

5 Causes You Should Support During Pride Season If You Want to Make a Real Difference / LGBTQ Nation

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Let’s skip the usual donations to big political orgs and focus on some other …

lgbtqnation.com: 5 causes you should support during pride season if you want to make a real difference / LGBTQ Nation

Salvador Dali – The Burning Giraffe

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Salvador Dali’s The Burning Giraffe is one of the artist’s most famous paintings. It was created in 1937, when the artist, at the time the most famous […]

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Salvador Dali The Burning Giraffe Salvador Dali, The Burning Giraffe Salvador Dali, Burning Giraffe, 1937, Kunstmuseum Basel Salvador Dalí, Burning Giraffe, 1937, Kunstmuseum Basel
Salvador Dali, The Burning Giraffe, 1937, Kunstmuseum Basel
Salvador Dali, The Great Masturbator, 1929, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Salvador Dalí, The Great Masturbator, 1929, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Salvador Dalí, Burning Giraffes in Brown also known as Giraffe Avignon, 1975, private collection
Salvador Dalí, Burning Giraffes in Brown also known as Giraffe Avignon, 1975, private collection
Detail from Salvador Dali The Burning Giraffe 1937, Kunstmuseum Basel
Detail from Salvador Dali The Burning Giraffe 1937, Kunstmuseum Basel

The opened drawers in the blue female figure, was according to Dalí a “tail bone woman” and they refer to the inner, subconscious within man. In Dalí’s own words his paintings form “a kind of allegory which serves to illustrate a certain insight, […]

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Salvador Dalí, Inventions of the Monsters, 1937, Art Institute of Chicago
Salvador Dali, Inventions of the Monsters, 1937, Art Institute of Chicago

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Easter at the White House Has Been Ruined…

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(from March 2017) | Queerty.com

Who thinks we may have a repeat “Easter brush-off” by #DumpTrump and Melania ?

queerty.com: Easter at the White House has been ruined thanks to Melania Trump. Sad! |Queerty

Since 1878, the Easter Egg Roll has always been coordinated by the first lady. Seeing as how Mrs. Trump not only lives 200 miles away from the White House, but has yet to bother putting together an official staff, this year’s event, like Trump’s numbers in the popular vote, is expected to underperform bigly.

The reason Melania Trump couldn’t be bothered to plan the annual White House Easter …

Source: Melania Trump hosted a private Easter Egg Roll exclusively for the rich and powerful / Queerty

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The reason Melania Trump couldn’t be bothered to plan the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, a nearly 140-year American tradition, is because she was too busy coordinating her own private, invitation-only Easter Egg Roll held for the very rich and powerful at Mar-a-Lago.

News of the hush-hush event almost remained under wraps until one pesky insider accidentally spilled the jellybeans by posting a picture of the event to her official FLOTUS Twitter account:

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CPAC Speaker Just Publicly Called Out Trump’s Infidelity. What Happened Next is Disturbing

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CPAC got weird, and not for the reasons you’d think. Yes there was the requisite guru-ification of Trump and the sorely outdated chants of “lock her up,” but that was all to be expected.

It was conservative writer and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center Mona Charen who defied expectation and actually took a surprisingly reasonable – and therefor unpopular – position on a panel called #UsToo: Left out by the Left.

When asked what gets her “riled up” about modern feminism, Charen surprised (and then pissed off) the crowd with this hot take.

 

The conservative writer dared to criticize the president and quickly paid the price.

washingtonpress.com: CPAC speaker just publicly called out Trump’s infidelity. What happened next is disturbing

The Memes From Trump’s First State of the Union Address Are In And They’re BRUTAL

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The speech was chocked full of Trump’s usual empty platitudes, coded racism, smug expressions …

queerty.com: The memes from Trump’s first State of the Union address are in and they’re brutal

How the 18th-Century Gay Bar Survived and Thrived in a Deadly Environment

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Like men’s club houses, molly houses were also places people went simply to socialize, gossip, drink and smoke. WELLCOME COLLECTION/CC BY 4.0

Welcome to the molly house. 

In 18th and early-19th-century Britain, a “molly” was a commonly used term for men who today might identify as gay, bisexual or queer. Sometimes, this was a slur; sometimes, a more generally used noun, likely coming from mollis, the Latin for soft or effeminate. A whole molly underworld found its home in London…

atlasobscura.com: How the 18th-Century Gay Bar Survived and Thrived in a Deadly Environment

George Will: Trump is Now the Worst-Ever ‘President’

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Will wrote that Trump’s support of Moore earned him the ranking of the “nation’s worst president.”

“By joining Stephen K. Bannon’s buffoonery on Moore’s behalf, the 45th president planted an exclamation point punctuating a year of hitherto unplumbed presidential depths,” he wrote, referring to the former White House chief strategist and current head of Breitbart News.

Donald Trump endorsed the Roy Moore/Alabama Freak-Show via delusional extremist Bannon

thehill.com: George Will: Trump is now the worst-ever president