Uruguay’s Colectivo Ovejas Negras is giving New York a run for its money on marriage equality. Otherwise known as the Black Sheep Collective has launched a TV-ad campaign featuring 34 local stars to back up the equality bill now before the national Parliament.
“The bill — written by Uruguay’s first transgendered lawyer — will soon be discussed by Parliament, and we’re optimistic,” said the collective’s Álvaro Queiruga.
Sean Avery, an ice hockey star, is not a person I knew about until this spot for New Yorkers for Marriage Equality. But his common sense and possibly brave decision to speak about the equality he expects for himself, and supports for others, makes me wonder where the other sports stars are in this debate. Cristiano Ronaldo is a notable other example.
I don’t think sports stars are special people – but they do have large followings and a way of connecting with more macho and less political crowds that we needs as supporters of equality.
How about Ian Thorpe doing an ad for Australian Marriage Equality? Just saying …
Hello folks. Somewhat in contradiction with my support for republican systems of government, I’m off to London tomorrow for THE Royal Wedding event of the well, let’s face it, the decade, only.
No, Stan isn’t a prince, and he isn’t shagging the security detail, we’re just joining a garden party. The relevant point is that means I won’t post for a few days.
I do support this effort by Peter Tatchell and Equal Love though. I wonder if they’ll do a shout out to the gays in during their vows? It’d be the only way to top the last memorable speech in Westminster Abbey – by the groom’s uncle at his mother’s funeral in 1997.
I love this. Louis J Marinelli set up a Facebook page for the US “National Organisation for Marriage” (NOM) that generated so much anti-gay hate that it made him change his mind! That’s right, a key NOM strategist is so turned off by his own supporters that’s he’s joined our side (you may remember him from Facebook’s largest anti marriage equality page: “Marriage: one man, one woman”)
“I began to understand why the gay community was out there claiming opposition to same-sex civil marriage was all about hate. I soon realized that there I was surrounded by hateful people.”
Here’s a further expose from Marinelli about NOM’s faked levels of grassroots support.
Brilliant video here, looking at developments in France. If you’re at all confused – check the channel description for the explanation.
This speech shows exactly how and why marriage is a civil right, and why it’s stupid for ethinic minority communities to pitch themselves, or allow themselves to be pitched, against sexual minorities.
The lesson in the case of the Maryland cave-in, so eloquently detailed here by Jonathan Capehart, could not be clearer.
OK, so I was asleep when Pat Robertson, the American evangelist and Bill O’Reilly the FOX TV guy came out with their views that legalising gay marriage and prosecuting hate crime is the step before encouraging sex with ducks. But I am glad that these comediennes (Garfunkel and Oates) have brought me up to speed. Enjoy.
