phred-Again
By donwill
I see phred, seeking to keep his numbers up, is bringing up his new generation to replace all his other minions who have been sent on their way to hell in a hand basket. Check it out if you’ve got the stomach for it here –>- Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns to Drug Therapy
- Gay legislators having impact in marriage debates
China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer’s Problem
By @donwill
By DAVID BARBOZA SHANGHAI – Last year, an expensive, red-brick residential complex opened here, equipped with a hair salon, cinema, toy-cluttered game rooms and a karaoke suite offering the latest in pop music.After Giffords Shooting, Several AZ Republicans Resign Amid Fears of Tea Party Violence
By @donwill
What the Arizona Republic calls a “nasty little battle” has broken out among Republican members of Arizona’s Legislative District 20Saskatchewan Court: Civil Commissioners Must Marry Gays Regardless of Religious Beliefs
By @donwill
A Saskatchewan court today ruled that civil commissioners are legally compelled to marry gay and lesbian couples regardless of theirSantorum’s “Gay” Campaign Slogan
By Advocate.com Editors Former Sen. Rick Santorum announced Thursday that he will begin raising funds for his presidential bid using the campaign slogan, “fighting to make America America again” — a line from a pro-union, pro-immigrant poem written by gay poet Langston Hughes. Best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance, the line comes from Hughes’ poem, “Let America Be America Again.” Read the poem in full at ThinkProgress.org. Santorum has spent a fair amount of his political career fighting gay rights advancements, having once compared same-sex couples with people who have sex with dogs. Hughes, on the other hand, wrote and ...
Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns to Drug Therapy
By GARDINER HARRIS of The NYTimes DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Alone with his psychiatrist, the patient confided that his newborn had serious health problems, his distraught wife was screaming at him and he had started drinking again. With his life and second marriage falling apart, the man said he needed help. Dr. Matthew Levin, son of Dr. Donald Levin, is completing training to be a psychiatrist. The elder Dr. Levin said he hoped his son would not feel his ambivalence about their profession. But the psychiatrist, Dr. Donald Levin, stopped him and said: “Hold it. I’m not your therapist. I could adjust your ...
Gay legislators having impact in marriage debates
DAVID CRARY From Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Of America's 7,382 state legislators, only 85 are openly gay or lesbian. They are, however, playing an outsized and often impassioned role when the agenda turns to recognizing same-sex couples with civil unions or full marriage rights. In Hawaii and Illinois, gay state representatives were lead sponsors of civil union bills signed into law earlier this year. In Maryland and Rhode Island, gay lawmakers are co-sponsoring pending bills that would legalize same-sex marriage. In New York, a gay senator, Tom Duane, is preparing to be lead sponsor of a marriage bill in his chamber ...
Chick-fil-A Drops Antigay Event
By Advocate.com Editors The Chick-fil-A name has been removed from banner ads promoting a marriage event sponsored by the antigay Pennsylvania Family Institute. The company tweeted that it was “looking into the issue” on Tuesday but has yet to issue an official statement. Chick-fil-A had been listed as a sponsor for February’s “The Art of Marriage” event, sponsored by the conservative, antigay group. This isn’t the first time the restaurant chain has been taken to task for its support of antigay groups. In 2009, Change.org reported Chick-Fil-A had supported Focus on the Family. That group, founded by the Reverend James Dobson, endorses so-called reparative ...
Chris Colfer and Darren Criss: A Valentine’s Kiss?
From Towelroad TV Guide's William Keck hints at some potential action between Dalton's main warblers, which he gleaned from a congratulatory call to Chris Colfer over his recent award nominations: "After coming out of the closet and battling homophobia, will Chris' Kurt finally find love with Blaine on the February 8 Valentine's Day episode? I hear the two will be crooning Robin Thicke's "When I Get You Alone" outside a Gap store as Blaine prepares to profess his love. 'There might be a development,' hints Chris."
China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer’s Problem
By DAVID BARBOZA SHANGHAI - Last year, an expensive, red-brick residential complex opened here, equipped with a hair salon, cinema, toy-cluttered game rooms and a karaoke suite offering the latest in pop music.
Ireland recognizes foreign gay marriage and partnerships
by Jessica Geen - Ireland now recognizes foreign gay marriages and civil partnerships. Gay couples living in Ireland who have married or had a civil partnership abroad will be recognized as civil partners from today. The change is part of Ireland’s new civil partnership laws, which give gay couples almost all the rights of marriage. However, couples who wed in countries where gay marriage is legal will find their unions downgraded to civil partnerships. And some unions, such as French PACS, will not be recognized because they are deemed not to offer as many rights as Irish marriages or civil partnerships. Unions from 27 ...
Maryland set to expand gay rights, same-sex marriage
Maryland then would be the 7th state - along with - Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., in sanctioning same-sex marriages. 6 states -- California, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington -- currently grant same-sex couples all the same rights as marriages, short of the designation. 4 other states -- Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Wisconsin -- offer lesser levels of protections for gay couples. By Evan Glass, CNN congressional producer - Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley has said that he would sign a same-sex marriage bill into law. STORY HIGHLIGHTS • Democrats optimistic about chances of approving same-sex marriage ...
More young people are winding up in nursing homes
The Associated Press - Twenty-six-year-old quadriplegic Adam Martin works with physical therapist Wes Bower at the Sarasota Health and Rehabilitation Center, the nursing home where he lives. "It's just a depressing place to live," Martin says. "I'm stuck here. You don't have no privacy at all. People die around you all the time." Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26. It's no longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his ...
A Gay Commander in Chief: Ready or Not?
By MAUREEN DOWD Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Jimmy Carter is putting the out in outspokenness. In an interview with bigthink.com, the former president was asked, “Is the country ready for a gay president?” Even as John McCain and other ossified Republicans were staging last-minute maneuvers to torpedo the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, the 86-year-old Carter was envisioning a grander civil rights victory. “I would say that the answer is yes,” he said. “I don’t know about the next election, but I think in the near future.” The news that Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer will smooch in an upcoming ...


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Blood test could spot Alzheimer's |
A Gay Commander in Chief: Ready or Not? |
Hi. I am now going to touch your junk |
Chris Colfer and Darren Criss: A Valentine's Kiss? |
Court rejects appeal over DC gay marriage law |
Peter & Hazelmary Bull, British Hotel Owners, Fined For Refusing Gay Couple A Room | 
