On Tuesday I recieved an email from Gary Simpson of Stop Hate 2000. He wrote me: John respected you, so I wanted to contact you personally to let you know John Day passed away last week. His death was a shock to us. A very simple memorial page is on the net . . . …
Immigration: The Human Cost The Onion Network News unpacks the claim that immigrants are taking jobs from American executives. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Scaring The Pants Off Men Last week saw Al Gore’s triumphant return to Capitol Hill—the once-ridiculed candidate now acknowledged as a visionary and treated with long-overdue respect. But the most remarkable moment of Gore’s hours …
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama was running a little behind schedule. He had just delivered a speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters at the Hyatt Hotel on Capitol Hill. Obama’s news hit, if there was to be one, was supposed to be his speech at the union’s presidential forum. But it was …
The political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s has become a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, it is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and general irresponsibility. Few people remember that many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established …
Evolution of a feminist daughter Rebecca Walker – the daughter of Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple,” and Mel Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer – was a nascent feminist when she laid bare the details of her freewheeling, lonely adolescence in 2001’s, “Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.” The memoir, …
The plaintiff is an elderly judge suing to recover $40,000 he paid to a religious rehab clinic which promised to cure him of being gay – it didn’t work. Alan Shore is a character on the ABC Network television series Boston Legal, portrayed by James Spader. More of Alan Shore on youtube hereAlan Shore on …
On the morning of March 8 in Sioux Center, Iowa, two buses parked outside a hotel were found covered with anti-gay slurs, along with a hate-filled message on a piece of cardboard reading: “God does not love feary fags.” The buses were transporting some 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, along with supporters, on …
While the play has inspired protest and controversy, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” is, essentially, the story of one woman. and A Seattle Repertory Theatre production of the play, adapted from the writings of Corrie, The Evergreen State College student who was killed while standing in the way of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, opens …