Open Question: Forget gay and other lgbt like people, why do Christians, hate EVERYBODY?
They a bigoted in thei actions if you are atheist, of an other religion or even if you are Christian and just go to another church. Why they hate, EVERYBODY?
HRC Mourns the Death of Leading Argentinian Transgender Advocate
HRC Mourns the Death of Leading Argentinian Transgender Advocate
Sacayán’s tragic death is a hard blow to the LGBT movement in Argentina and the region.
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Supporters of Arkansas Marriage Equality Attorney Cheryl Maples Say Judge Stiffed Her on Fees
Supporters of Arkansas Marriage Equality Attorney Cheryl Maples Say Judge Stiffed Her on Fees
Supporters of Arkansas attorney Cheryl Maples have launched an Indiegogo campaign after Circuit Judge Chris Piazza awarded her what they say is an inadequate sum for the work she did representing more than three dozen plaintiffs over three years in the state’s marriage equality case.
[Piazza] awarded $30,000 in fees and $3,000 expenses each to the Wagoner Law Firm and Cheryl Maples. They had sought much more — Maples at least $345,000 and Wagoner at least $95,748, though both had also asked for enhancements to normal fees that are allowed at times for meritorious civil rights claims.
Maples filed the state suit and Wagoner joined her not long after the case was filed. He also filed a separate lawsuit in federal court, which also produced a decision striking down the ban. A fee request is pending in that case as well.
Wagoner and Maples have become adversaries in the fee proceeding. The state and Wagoner questioned the amount of Maples’ billing, saying it was excessive. Maples has said Wagoner was unhappy because some of the plaintiffs in the state case fired him as their attorney.
Piazza joked that he needed Maalox to read all the pleadings, but took no new evidence at the hearing. He said the lawyers had done an immense amount of work on the case, but he thought the fees they’d sought were too much.
Maples reportedly wept after the proceedings:
“I devoted over three years of my life almost full time, and I thought it was worth more than that. So I’m disappointed. I could have done better at McDonald’s, slinging hamburgers, for less than $15,000 a year…I went through our savings. My husband is retired, and we lived off of our savings….I was so proud, and I’m still proud. [But it’s not right to be financially ruined] when there’s a federal statute that says there’s got to be a good reason not to award a fair attorney fee. There’s got to be a reason.”
Write supporters on her Indiegogo page, which has collected approximately $2,300 so far:
Cheryl Maples represented over 40 plaintiffs in the marriage-equality case in Arkansas for approximately 3 years. She used her life savings pursuing this passionate response to help level the playing field for the LGBT community of Arkansas. On October 14th at around 10am she sat in her wheelchair in Judge Piazza’s courtroom, the initial judge who issued the same-sex ruling in Arkansas, hoping to be reimbursed for her fees. She was not allowed to talk or present her case as Judge Piazza had determined, in his words, that her fees were “exorbitant” and he ruled that she should only receive $33,000 for the 3 years of work and representation of over 40 people. In breaking down the order it works out to between $4-$5 per billable hour for 3 years of work. Cheryl sat in her car after being helped from her wheelchair and wept. Only one person from the LGBT community was present, along with her daughter, the only plaintiff present, and she said, “I have no regrets.” It’s now time for us to stand by Cheryl as she has with us.
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Supporters of Arkansas Marriage Equality Attorney Cheryl Maples Say Judge Stiffed Her on Fees
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PRC Employment Development Specialist Rene Soto, Transcode Instructor Daphne Dorman, the Center’s Manager of Financial Services Diana Feeburg, and the Center’s Associate Director of Economic Development Clair Farley at the LGBT Center’s LGBT Economic Justice Kickoff Month Reception, at the LGBT Center on October 6.
Here's How Matthew Shepard's Tragic Death Changed U.S. Politics
Here's How Matthew Shepard's Tragic Death Changed U.S. Politics
This past week marked the 17-year anniversary since Matthew Shepard was targeted and brutally killed for being gay in Wyoming, on Oct. 12, 1998. As HuffPost Live continues its coverage of all things queer for October’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history month, USC gender studies professor Chris Freeman and activist David Drake explain how his death woke up the nation to the necessity of protecting the community. Check it out in the video above.
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What Books Are You Reading Right Now? How About Some Suggestions…
What Books Are You Reading Right Now? How About Some Suggestions…
If you take a look at Towleroad’s BOOKS channel you’ll find a long list of beautifully-written reviews from our book critic Garth Greenwell.
Garth has been writing his own novel for the past 3+ years and we’re excited here at Towleroad that it’s going to be on bookshelves in January.
Garth published an essay yesterday in Publisher’s Weekly that should be insightful for anyone thinking they’re going to sit down, write a novel, and get it published.
It’s a lonely expedition:
It took three years. I wrote the book by hand, in a series of slim spiral-bound notebooks I bought for a lev—about 70 cents—at a little stationery store on the way to school. They were wide ruled, meant for schoolchildren, and the ones I liked best had scenes of idealized village life on their covers, with the words Our Bulgaria scrawled across the top in Cyrillic. Something about composing by hand in a foreign country in the early morning dark, without a computer and its irresistible distractions, with just a small lamp lighting the page, turned writing into the most intense privacy I had ever known. I was working in a kind of figurative dark, too, since I had never written fiction before and was feeling my way forward sentence by sentence, without a clear model or shape in mind. For long stretches, months at a time, a year, I didn’t show my pages to anyone; I wrote without imagining a reader, and so without the anxiety of judgment.
Though now he has been judged, at least a little bit.
The novel, What Belongs To You, recently got an amazing advance review from Kirkus: “The life of an American expat living in Bulgaria intersects repeatedly with that of a young gay hustler in this gorgeous debut novel from Greenwell….This is a project of rare discernment and beauty, and it is not to be missed. A luminous, searing exploration of desire, alienation, and the powerful tattoo of the past.”
And Publisher’s Weekly: “a brave and articulate psychological exploration of lust and desire.”
I’d like to personally congratulate Garth and tell y’all to go get What Belongs To You.
I’d also encourage those of you who read to take a look at our BOOKS channel for reviews like Lori Ostlund’s After the Parade, Michael Klein’s When I Was a Twin, and Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and The City: A Memoir, as well as our TowleREAD feature, where you’ll hear LGBT authors reading from their own works like Christopher Bollen reading from Orient, James Sie reading from Still Life, Last Vegas, and Larry Kramer reading from The American People: Volume 1.
Towleroad readers, suggest a good book based on what you’re reading these days. What’s the last good book you read and what do you love about it? Please let us know below in the comments.
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What Books Are You Reading Right Now? How About Some Suggestions…
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Castro Community on Patrol members at the Castro Street Fair, on October 4.
Guys Get Real About Their Complicated Relationships To Adult Entertainment
Guys Get Real About Their Complicated Relationships To Adult Entertainment
We may not like to talk about it, but virtually all of us have experience with adult entertainment, and the fact that it’s so readily available, for free, means that exploring sexual fantasies are always just a few clicks away.
But we also love to shame sex in our culture, and this imbalance can lead to some awfully complicated relationships to porn.
Below, hear from guys on Whisper as they lay it all out:
Dan Tracer
Larry David Surprises as Bernie Sanders in SNL’s Democratic Debate Cold Open: WATCH
Larry David Surprises as Bernie Sanders in SNL’s Democratic Debate Cold Open: WATCH
This week’s Democratic presidential debate was front and center in Saturday Night Live‘s cold open and brought with it a couple of surprise guests.
Alec Baldwin hit the stage as Jim Webb: “I’m Jim Webb and It’s about damn time I get to talk. What has it been, a thousand years? Here’s the deal. I fought in Vietnam and I’m not going to brag about how much ass I kicked, but let’s just say I kicked every single ass.”
But the real treat at the podiums were “the real candidates” – Kate McKinnon at her scalding best, and Larry David as Bernie Sanders:
“I’m gonna dial it right up to a ten… we need a revolution! We’ve got millions of people in the streets. We gotta do something and we gotta do it now!”
Shortly thereafter Sanders/David was asked his position on regulating Wall Street and the big banks.
“Why do they chain all their pens to the desks? Who’s trying to steal a pen from a bank?”
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They also got into the emails. Sanders/David replied:
“What’s the deal with emails anyway? I forgot my password the other day, so they say, we’ll email you a new one, but I can’t get into my email to get the password. Talk about a ballbuster?”
And Clinton/McKinnon was a bit surprised by the reactions Bernie was getting:
“Wait a minute do you all like this? I’m not losing am I? Well in 2008 of course I lost. I was running against a cool black guy. But I thought this time I got to be the cool black guy?”
Watch:
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Larry David Surprises as Bernie Sanders in SNL’s Democratic Debate Cold Open: WATCH
