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Visiting classics
Ironic by Alanis Morisette
Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right
It’s summer already!!
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Jason Reeves - Rescue
I remember how we met
I remember where we went
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My friend Sarah commissioned this sign from me on a piece of what looked like old butcher block. :) I need to start selling these!
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Eugene Domingo, not only winning People’s Choice award for Best Actress in the recent Asian Film Awards, but also making everyone laugh with her crazy personality.
Kind of true
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
You’ve honoured me this evening to a degree I feel I don’t yet deserve. When I read about the work of my fellow honourees, I felt humbled and certain that among us, I am the one with much to prove. I believe I’ve received this award not so much because of what I’ve done, but because of the way I was born and raised. I was born the younger sister of a gay man, my older brother Mike, and the daughter of parents who were both empathetic to and loving of the LGBT community. In my household, being gay was and is - no big deal. When my brother came out we hugged him, said we loved him, and that was that. When he brought home his first boyfriend …when he brought his first boyfriend, now husband home for a couple of weeks one Christmas, my father’s only comment to my mother was: “Please, try not to mix up our underwear.” We had no idea that I would become recognizable because of my work and that we would become publicly labeled as having an “alternative family lifestyle”. Just for the record, we don’t feel that there is actually anything alternative about our family values. So for semantic reasons only, it’s with some hesitation that I accept the HRCLI award. I don’t consider myself just an ally to the LGBT community, I consider myself your family; and so, I’m doing, what we should all do, with our families. I’m loving you, I support you, I completely accept you as you are as I hope you do me, and if anyone, ever, tries to hurt you - I’m gonna give them hell! …There are people who’ve said that I’m being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption ..basically of gay rights, but with all due respect, I humbly decent. I’m not being brave, I’m being a decent human being, and I don’t think I should receive an award for that, or for merely stating what I believe to be true; that love, is a human experience, not a political statement, however, I acknowledge that sadly we live in a world where not everybody feels the same. My family and I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives. When our rights are equal, and when the political limits on love have been smashed. This award does not represent in anyway the pinnacle of my relationship with the LGBT community, rather, it is a triumphant roar to announce that we are just beginning our fight together. In closing, to paraphrase Enis Del Mar, who was unforgettably embodied by the late, the great, Heath Ledger: I swear HRC, I swear. I have not yet done enough to deserve this award, but don’t worry, the best is yet to come.I loved her before, but this totally enhances that by a billion. This woman is amazing!! Sitting here crying right now after sitting through this speech to write it down for all of you guys. Incredible!
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Because everyone should have the right to tie the knot!
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Obsessed with Revenge. :P
De-homosexualization in Ecuador?!?!?
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador will investigate and act forcefully against any clinics found to be trying to force homosexuals to change their sexual orientation, a Health Ministry official said Thursday.
Gay rights activists in the South American country say four clinics that engaged in coercive practices, three in the capital, have been shut down in recent months but that others still to operate clandestinely.
“Sadly, authorities have not yet taken the corrective measures necessary to regulate the work of clinics that offer ‘de-homosexualization’ treatment,’” said Efrain Soria, director of Fundacion Equidad, an anti-discrimination group.
Health Ministry official David Troya told The Associated Press the agency will deal firmly and drastically with any clinics that offer such treatments, which have been denounced by critics as abusive.
Newly named Health Minister Carina Vance, who studied at the University of California and has publicly defended gay rights, is hiring someone to work exclusively on the issue, said Troya, an adviser to Vance.
“We are going to take the necessary measures in a firm and drastic manner as regards this subject,” he said.
The ministry is “clear and emphatic” that in line with the World Health Organization findings, “homosexuality is not an illness and that as such a cure can’t be suggested, so that whoever offers treatments is deceiving people and acting illegally,” Troya said.
Paola Concha told the AP that her family sent her in 2006 to a clinic to “cure” her of homosexuality.
“I received physical and verbal aggression during the 18 months I was interned in one of these centers,” she said. “Nearly daily they beat me, and many times I was handcuffed to a pipe.”
Concha said the women’s ward of the clinic where she was held was later closed. She said other women who were “treated” along with her are afraid to go public with their stories.
Troya said the few clinics offering “de-homosexualizion treatment” that were shuttered by authorities were closed not because they offered such services but for other reasons, such as failing to meet sanitary standards.
Soria, the anti-discrimination activist, said complaints had been filed in courts against all of the closed clinics.
He said the clinics running “de-homosexualization” programs camouflage themselves by advertising that they treat such disorders as substance abuse.
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