The Four Unicorns of the Gaypocalypse
A personal blog. Sometimes I make GIFs.
The Fosters - Pilot
Just some casual lesbian domestic affection from ABC Family’s The Fosters.
okay, just one more of the precious cheerios bb :) (x)
i just had to make this gif from that cheerios commercial because this kiddo is way too adorable. (x)
Diane Sawyer: So, have you thought, how many women is enough? How many women [on the Supreme Court] would be enough?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nine, nine. [Applause.]
Sawyer: Oh! Oh. [Laughs.]
Ginsburg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long long time, right? So why not nine women?
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The Lesbian and Gay Band Association performs “Tonight” from West Side Story and “The Edge of Glory” by Lady Gaga for President Obama during his second Inaugural Parade. LGBA is made up of members of LGBT bands from 27 states and DC. In 2009, the band made history as the first ever LGBT group to be invited to participate in an inaugural parade, and this year it was the parade’s second-largest contingent, with 215 members.
LGBA’s inclusion took on additional significance in light of President Obama’s second inaugural address, in which he invoked the historic Stonewall riots and declared, “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law”—the first time the word “gay” has ever been used in an inauguration speech.
LGBA artistic director Marita Begley told the New York Times, “This is a parade that’s a tapestry of all the things that make up this country. It feels like the president is saying, ‘These people are Americans, welcome to the table.’ ”
“It’s really good to be here,” she said, “as full citizens.”
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someone shared this on facebook and i just
what
like, does the person who made this think that medical malpractice only became an issue after the affordable care act??
But our health care system is the greatest in the world!
I heard this NPR interview the other week—can’t recall which program—where a man was being interviewed about the small but disturbing number of people each month who end up having a sponge left in them after surgery, or having the wrong body part operated on, or similar. The guy made some remark about how these medical mistakes might increase under the ACA because more people being treated means more overworked doctors, or some such, which seemed suspect to me, but whatever.
But then the interviewer felt the need to ask him whether these medical errors were a problem before the ACA. Even though it was pretty clear from the interviewer’s statements that they were, and also DUH.
The discourse on this topic, and of course many others, is just so very broken.
Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories chronicles the impact of domestic violence on children and the recurring failings of family courts across the country to protect them from their abusers. In stark and often poignant interviews, children and battered mothers tell their stories of abuse at home and continued trauma within the courts. The one-hour special also features interviews with domestic violence experts, attorneys and judges who reveal the disturbing frequency in which abusers are winning custody of their children and why these miscarriages of justice continue to occur.
Watch the full documentary here, or watch just Manya’s story here.
