Federal Judge Allows Retirement Community to Reject Lesbian Couple

A federal court ruling says the Fair Housing Act doesn’t stop discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83

Mary Oliver, who won the National Book Award (1992, New and Selected Poems) and Pulitzer Prize (1984, American Primitive) for her poems which celebrated the natural world, spirituality, and self, has died of lymphoma at 83 at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida.

Wrote NPR: ‘Oliver got a lot of her ideas for poems during long walks — a habit she developed as a kid growing up in rural Ohio. It was not a happy childhood: She said she was sexually abused and suffered from parental neglect. But as she told NPR in 2012, she found refuge in two great passions that lasted her entire life. She said, “The two things I loved from a very early age were the natural world and dead poets, [who] were my pals when I was a kid.”‘

The NYT added: ‘Ms. Oliver, whose work appeared often in The New Yorker and other magazines, was a phenomenon: a poet whose work sold strongly. Her books frequently appeared on the best-seller list of the Poetry Foundation, which uses data from Nielsen BookScan, a service that tracks book sales, putting her on a par with Billy Collins, the former poet laureate of the United States, as one of the best-selling poets in the country.’

Oliver moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts in the 1960s “with the love of her life, the photographer Molly Malone Cook,” as NPR noted, and much of her poetry celebrated the natural beauty of the outer Cape.

Her poem “The Journey”, in full.

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.

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39 Examples of Young Men In Coitus

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Evangelical woman tells church to go F themselves after they insist she disown her queer daughter
“I realized I was being asked to choose between the two most important parts of my life: my child and my church. I chose my child.”

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British Footballer Denies Report He Came Out as Gay to Teammates

Ruben Loftus-Cheek, a midfielder with Chelsea F.C., denied reports that he came out as gay to his teammates.

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Tweeted Loftus-Cheek: ‘Any player who came out as gay, they’d have my full support and respect. But the rumour isn’t true’

UK site JOE reported: ‘The rumour began to gain traction when a Twitter account by the name of ‘Eye Sports News’ invented the rumour. They also attributed fake quotes from Loftus-Cheek’s Chelsea teammate Eden Hazard, alleging that he said the Chelsea squad were surprised by the news…’

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There are currently no openly gay Premier League footballers. In the U.S., Collin Martin, a midfielder for Minnesota United, came out as gay in June, making him the only openly gay professional athlete active in any of the five major sports leagues: MLS, NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB.

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British Footballer Denies Report He Came Out as Gay to Teammates