(h/t ChinoBlanco and Dawn in Maine)
This is a beautiful love story, first covered by Kerry Eleveld on Advocate.com.
Kimmel and Schwizer have lived in Hancock, Maine, a town of approximately 2,500, since the 1980s, and have taken an active role in the community -- serving on city planning boards and participating in church leadership (their local United Church of Christ congregation voted to become open and affirming of LGBT people two years ago).
"It's a community that we have really become an integral part of since we moved up here," Kimmel says, noting that Hancock, which leans conservative, has voted pro-LGBT on every one of the four nondiscrimination measures that has come before it since 1995. Full story...
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Just moments ago, we made history. The Charleston City Council passed legislation that prohibits discrimination in matters of public accommodations and housing to include protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Charlestonians.
This morning I got an email from NOM's Brian Brown stating that NOM had launched a $500,000 voter outreach campaign to make sure "New Jerseyans" know what's going on in Trenton.
It's Thanksgiving week, so I'd like to express my thanks to Pam and for Pam-- the African-American Lesbian and Head Barista here who embraces the wide diversity within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
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So here we are in Delaware for Thanksgiving with my brother and family, and we are exchanging gifts since we'll be at the in-laws for Christmas.
It's on.
Steven Goldstein from Garden State Equality:
"If the Democrats don't enact marriage equality now, after years of telling us to wait, wait, wait, it will cause a huge schism between the state Democratic Party and not just the gay community, but the entire progressive base," he said.
Blenders, I am sick to death of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." I am sick and tired of having no way to keep my family intact through deployments, of having no legal protections for my military family, having to work at not existing, and counting down the days until my family is ripped apart.
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
A story that seems to be under the headlights but very appropriate involves how the Family Research Council got caught inaccurately accusing a Congresswoman of being a religious bigot.
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