Tag Archives: Gay Pride

October 06

Careful, he might be you: Michael Burge’s first Australian hero

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October 05

Pride – The Unlikely Union between Miners and LGBT Activists

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Coal miners and gay activists. I saw Pride – a wonderful film – about these two marginalized communities joining forces. The movie follows the LGBTers who help miners during the lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. The miners, while slow to accept this strange alliance, ended up becoming a powerful force […]

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August 05

Pride Monday

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Today I am feeling particularly proud. There is someone I have started hanging out with and he’s a pretty special guy. Also, the announcement of Ben Whishaw coming out as gay and marrying Mark Bradshaw put me in the mood. I am dedicating my blog today to the guy I am dating, my predecessors, my peers, […]

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July 04

Mark Zuckerberg Marched At San Fran Gay Pride

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg led 750 of his colleagues at San Francisco Gay Pride. Zuckerberg’s participation in the parade came after he posted a Facebook status last week lauding the U.S. Supreme Court  ruling that a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages, was […]

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Why isn’t there Straight Pride month?

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Posted via CNN. On North Halsted Street, between Buckingham and Roscoe in Chicago, a monument stands with a plaque in honor of a brilliant thinker who is as responsible for the way we live our lives today as any person who has ever lived. His name is Alan Turing, a Brit, and among his many […]

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