Gay Bar Forced to Cancel Blackface Drag Act Shirley Q. Liquor

From the Rod 2.0 report:

“Protests from hundreds have forced a Portland gay bar to cancel an event” featuring the offensive and racist blackface act of drag queen Shirley Q. Liquor, reports The Oregonian.

The South Carolina-born bar manager claims “never in a million years” did he anticipate that booking the blackface caricature of an“inarticulate black welfare mother with 19 children” would become “a huge race issue.”

Tattoo a giant red flag on the forehead of anyone who thinks Shirley Q. Liquor is funny.

This play is in Charlotte right now! In a matter of 10 minutes, it will warm your heart and rip it out.

Hear that?

That’s the sound of brass balls clinking against one another in Africa.

David Kuria, an openly gay man, is running for a seat in Kenya’s senate, partially to help reduce the spread of HIV in his country.

Meanwhile, activists in Uganda staged a gay pride parade.

In both countries, homosexuality is against the law.

People in Africa are challenging laws and social norms for the sake of self expression, equal rights, and human health and safety.

I cannot wait to set foot on this continent.

A tad melodramatic, but commendable nonetheless.

gaywrites:

Next week North Carolina will vote on Amendment One, the measure that would ban recognition of same-sex relationships, be they marriage or other kinds of unions.

Recent numbers from Public Policy Polling show that 55 percent of respondents favor the ban on marriage equality, whereas 41 percent oppose it. These results are pretty consistent with other polls - in April, a poll found that 40 percent of people opposed the measure.

However, when respondents were asked specifically about whether they agreed with outlawing civil unions, only 38 percent said yes and 46 percent said no. According to Public Policy Polling, this could mean not everyone is totally aware of what the amendment will actually do, and therefore some educational outreach efforts are in order.

North Carolina friends, please start talking this up as much as possible. We do not need another state taking away our right to love. 

Don’t worry, I’ll break it down for everyone. NO to amendment one. Vote AGAINST it.

You see, “gay marriage” attacks are silly. “Civil union” attacks are dangerous. This amendment proposal does a beautiful job of hiding just how damaging it could be. NC voters, let’s show them we’re not fooled.

Also, if you’re one of those people who get easily confused by “do I vote yes or no?” ballot language (as many might have been with Prop 8), here’s an easy way to remember. On this site, see the headline, just above the picture? Now look at the steering committee, which includes Human Rights Campaign. The HRC is against amendment one. Pro gay = No One.

You’re welcome.

An old college friend of mine made this. Nicely done, I must say.

"First of all, we’re going to stop somebody from getting a marriage license because they’re gay? … I never saw the reasoning behind getting in people’s personal lives."

Conservative country music star Toby Keith expresses his opposition to Amendment One, the North Carolina measure that would incorporate a ban on same-sex marriage into the state’s constitution. More surprising reactions here. (via gaywrites)

Dear Toby Keith,

Whenever I visit my father, his stereo system is programmed to a pop-country radio station that tends to play the same songs repeatedly. Some of these songs are okay (you know that Miranda Lambert is my homegirl and I’m perfectly fine with Taylor Swift as well), but some songs make me want to take a mallet to the stereo. The worst is that one in which you encourage putting a boot in someone’s ass as a defense mechanism because doing so is the, “American way.”

I always thought you were such a douche for making that song.

Sometimes a douche can have a totally respectable opinion, though. For that, I thank you.

Love,

JR (who never understood the widespread admiration for Jimmy Buffett and probably never will)

danielextra:

Weekend’s first movie poster, which like the movie, is beautiful. Photography by Quinnford & Scout. Design by Sam Ashby. 

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gaywrites:

A North Carolina Republican leader recently confirmed that a constitutional ban on same-sex unions is likely to come up in the fall session.

If it’s approved, speaker Thom Tillis said, citizens will vote on the matter in 2012. If state lawmakers approve it, the Democratic governor will not be able to step in and veto it. 

“The defense of marriage is one that a number of folks in our base feel very strongly about,” he said, before pointing to “data” that he claims shows same-sex marriages are less stable and nurturing than their straight counterparts.

If Tillis has his way, North Carolina would join Minnesota among states with gay marriage bans on their ballots during the 2012 election cycle. And the entire Democratic Party might be forced to address the issue when its convention arrives in Charlotte.

Oh, this is bad news. Let’s get ready for a fight. 

That’s normal, right?