we were just pretending
~ Miranda July
Such a great shot.
Imagine a World Without Hate (Official Video) (by ADLNational)
In honor of its Centennial Year, the Anti-Defamation League put together this remarkably inspirational PSA that imagines a world without hate crimes. Set to John Lennon’s “Imagine,” the video shows what people like Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank and Matthew Shepard might be doing today had they not been cut down before their time by perpetrators of racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
Lena Dunham: Your First Time (by BarackObamadotcom)
“You don’t want a guy who says, ‘Oh hey, I’m at the library studying!’ When really, he was out NOT signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act.”
Tami Fitzgerald, chairwoman of Votes for Marriage NC, the main group behind the amendment, said: “We are not anti-gay, we are pro-marriage. The whole point is you don’t rewrite the nature of God’s design for marriage based on the demands of a group of adults.”
Did nobody ever explain to Tami fucking Fitzgerald how a free society works? BRB, gotta go punch a wall until these involuntary growling sounds subside.
(Photo: Patrick Semansky / AP via the New York Daily News)
Way to be, Nobel Committee. That is both ballsy and awesome.
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Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same. Now, of course, 60 years ago, the governments that drafted and passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were not thinking about how it applied to the LGBT community. They also weren’t thinking about how it applied to indigenous people or children or people with disabilities or other marginalized groups. Yet in the past 60 years, we have come to recognize that members of these groups are entitled to the full measure of dignity and rights, because, like all people, they share a common humanity.
This recognition did not occur all at once. It evolved over time. And as it did, we understood that we were honoring rights that people always had, rather than creating new or special rights for them. Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
From Hillary Clinton’s awe-inspiring speech on Human Rights Day. Read/watch the whole thing here. Sometimes everything doesn’t suck. (via likeapairofbottlerockets)
Hillary! Yay!
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