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Having toured extensively since releasing his album, Love, earlier this year via Sacred Bones, Amen Dunes (aka Damon McMahon) shares the new video for album standout track, "Splits Are Parted." As described by McMahon, "Splits Are Parted" is "a song about always leaving and always looking back."
Large dogs in smaller shelters on the Western Slope. Small dogs at the Dumb Friends League, the largest sheltering organization along the Front Range. The solution to getting all sizes of Colorado dogs adopted as quickly as possible? Transfers across the state.
“In the metro Denver area, we receive a lot of small breeds, such as Chihuahuas,” says Judi Heady, director of the Dumb Friends League Quebec Street Shelter. “Because we have so many, they often wait longer than large breeds for new homes.”
The opposite is true in places like Grand Junction, Rifle and Mesa County that are filled with large dogs in need of homes, but an adopter base looking for smaller companions.
Since July, the Dumb Friends League has been working with animal shelters along the Western Slope—transferring small dogs out in exchange for large-breed dogs, which are vastly popular in the Denver area and easily adopted within a few days. “We have the adoption resources and the community support to get larger dogs into loving homes very quickly,” says Heady.
At least once a month, staff from the Dumb Friends League embark on a two-day trip across the state to shelters including the Rifle Animal Shelter, Roice Hurst Humane Society and Mesa County Animal Shelter—both in Mesa County—and Colorado Animal Rescue in Glenwood Springs, delivering adoptable small-breed dogs and picking up approximately 20 to 25 large dogs in need of homes. Once the dogs arrive back at the Dumb Friends League, they are given a day to relax and acclimate; they are also evaluated for health and behavior, and are spayed or neutered, if necessary, before being placed up for adoption.
“This transfer program is a great example of Colorado shelters working together to care for the homeless animals in our state and get them into loving homes,” says Heady. In fact, Colorado is a model state for saving homeless pets’ lives, with more than 90 percent of all pets entering Colorado shelters adopted, transferred to rescues or reunited with owners.
On Tuesday, the Dumb Friends League welcomed 19 lucky dogs—ranging from huskies to cattle dogs, beagles and shepherd mixes—from the Western Slope, who will soon be walking alongside their new Front Range families. Across the state, patrons of Western Slope shelters will be settling in with their new lap dogs. It’s a win-win, both for Colorado citizens and Colorado canines.
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin apologized to the transgender community during a speech in Atlanta last Friday, expressing regret over the group's decision to back a non-trans inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in 2008. During his keynote address at the Southern Comfort Conference, Griffin acknowledged his role in causing the divide between HRC and the trans community.
"What happens to trans people is absolutely central to the LGBT struggle. And as the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization, HRC has a responsibility to do that struggle justice," Griffin said.
Thirty-two state attorneys general filed two amicus briefs with the Supreme Court last Friday, urging the justices to settle the question of whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. The officials asked the court to review three cases out of Oklahoma, Virginia and Utah.
"The time has come to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of marriage," the officials wrote in one of the briefs.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday heard arguments on the legitimacy of marriage equality bans in Hawaii, Nevada and Idaho. The judges, two of whom have ruled for LGBT rights in previous cases, expressed strong skepticism over the arguments for keeping the bans in place.
"You're sending a message that these are less desirable families," Judge Marsha Berzon said. Hawaii's ban, though still on the books, was overturned in 2013 via legislative action.
Today the state of Utah completed the paperwork asking the Supreme Court to review the 10th Circuit’s ruling in Herbert v. Kitchen, affirming the freedom to marry and legal respect for same-sex couples’ marriages in Utah. The case is now fully briefed and ready to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Herbert v. Kitchen, along with four other marriage cases from Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Virginia, will initially be considered at the Court’s September 29 conference. The other four will soon be fully briefed as well.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, released the following statement:
"Utah’s brief to the Supreme Court gets at least one point exactly right: the freedom to marry is a matter of ‘immense national importance’ and deserves to be heard as quickly as possible by America’s highest court. Tens of thousands of families in Utah and throughout the country are being harmed by indefensible marriage discrimination, which nearly 40 federal and state courts have deemed unconstitutional. It’s time for the Supreme Court to bring the country to national resolution by taking one or more of the pending marriage cases in its upcoming term. America is ready for the freedom to marry.”
In a remarkable showing of the country’s readiness for the Supreme Court to resolve the question nationwide, attorneys general from 32 states, along with dozens of American businesses, have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to act now. Since the Supreme Court struck down the core of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in June 2013, dozens of state and federal courts have upheld the freedom to marry, with only two courts ruling the other way. Every appellate ruling has been in favor of the freedom to marry, including the Utah and Oklahoma cases in the 10th Circuit, the Virginia case in the 4th Circuit, and the Wisconsin and Indiana cases in the 7th Circuit.
Last week, Freedom to Marry signed a friend-of-the-court brief along with other leading organizations advocating for families and couples who have suffered because they are either denied the freedom to marry or their lawful marriages are not respected by discriminating states. The brief can be found here: http://freemarry.3cdn.net/d70e2407cc970e9db0_sbm6bhxaw.pdf
Check out the new video from MOXXI featuring RuPaul's Drag Race alumni Pandora Boxx and Alaska. Opulence!
SiriusXM announced today that it will launch The Barbra Streisand Channel, an exclusive channel featuring the works of Grammy, Oscar, Emmy and Tony award-winning artist Barbra Streisand.
The limited-run channel will launch on Friday, September 12 at 5:00 pm ET and will run through Friday, October 10, via satellite on Sirius channel 69 and XM channel 73. The Barbra Streisand Channel will also be available online on channel 69 and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App.
The Barbra Streisand Channel, the exclusive, limited-run channel, will feature music spanning Streisand’s legendary career, from her 1963 debut through her newest album, Partners, scheduled to be released on September 16. The channel will be fully dedicated to Barbra Streisand’s extensive body of work and will include selections from her live and studio recordings. The channel will also includ
Beverly gives us one last taste of summer in a water park takeover with
the new video for "All The Things" directed by Stephanie Szerlip and
Maia Stern. Nylon dosed it "a song that pretty much begs to be blasted from your car windows immediately."
Beverly kick off their first North American tour with The Drums next
week in Philly to support their recent and critically acclaimed debut
album, Careers (out now via Kanine Records). To transport the record live, Drew Citron is currently joined by Jamie Ingalls (Chairlift) on Drums, Scott Rosenthal (The Beets) on bass, and Caitlin Frame (FRAME) on guitar and synth.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today called on the Treasury Department to investigate the leadership of the World Congress of Families for possibly violating U.S. sanctions imposed against Russian officials following the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine.
According to a new Mother Jones piece, the World Congress of Families (WCF), a U.S.-based organization that is considered an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, may be in violation of U.S. law by dealing with Russian officials Yelena Mizulina and Vladimir Yakunin. Both Mizulina and Yakunin were included in rounds of U.S. sanctions announced earlier this year, and appear on the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.
In a letter to Adam Szubin, the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the Treasury Department, HRC’s Government Affairs Director David Stacy stated:
“The World Congress of Families has consistently praised Vladimir Putin as the standard-bearer for traditional ‘family values,’ and its connections to his regime are well-documented and widely-known. We urge the Office of Foreign Assets Control to investigate the matter and determine whether the World Congress of Families violated U.S. law through collaboration with sanctioned Russian officials.”
Two members of WCF’s leadership, Larry Jacobs and Don Feder, are listed on the seven-member organizing committee for an event this week in Moscow titled “Large Families—the Future of Humanity, ” and both have confirmed they’re traveling to Russia to participate in the event. Mizulina is also listed on the organizing committee, and the forum is being hosted by Istoki Fund, which is an endowment run by Yakunin.
WCF has long held ties to both officials; Mizulina, a State Duma Deputy, is the author of Russia’s notorious anti-LGBT propaganda law. She has met with Jacobs and other WCF officials several times over the past few years and was slated to organize a parliamentary session as part of a WCF summit in Moscow, which was cancelled following the annexation of Crimea. Yakunin was also slated to be a financial supporter of that summit.
Active in several nations across five continents, the Rockford, IL-based World Congress of Families (WCF) has organized large international “pro-family” conventions that bring together the most fringe activists engaged in anti-LGBT extremism since 1997. In August, HRC’s Foundation released a report that exposed the World Congress of Families as one of the most influential groups in America promoting and coordinating the exportation of anti-LGBT bigotry, ideology, and legislation abroad.
“The World Congress of Families coordinates a dangerous group of activists that spread anti-LGBT rhetoric and promote anti-LGBT laws abroad. Their advocacy abroad harms LGBT people from Russia to Nigeria and beyond, said Ty Cobb, HRC’s Director of Global Engagement. “Their harmful impact is being felt in nearly every corner of the globe, and we urge all fair-minded Americans to reject the World Congress of Families and their exportation of anti-LGBT hate.”
In July, WCF announced that its next annual international convention will take place in Salt Lake City in 2015, making it the first ever hosted on American soil.
By StevieB
The issue with dating again, if there is just one issue, is the complex dance of ritual required. These movements to attract just the right individual; this being a complete painfully long blog post of its own, just to begin the hallowed and celebrated rites of gay mating.
First off, is the sorting of the guys pinging you on Grindr. Are they coming in for a hard landing on the trick tarmac, or deplaning into the potential dateable concourse. That was a horrible analogy; let's forget I attempted to compare dating to air travel. But... they both require a whole body scan to look for foreign substances, and there's the joy of having your luggage searched by a stranger wearing rubber gloves. They both have very long lines, sometimes delayed for hours before take off. And, they both have the distinct possibility of falling from the sky in a mangled mass of bloody flesh and twisted steel.
Yet, my argument does hold merit. That a lot of energy is expelled in the messaging back and forth. On the positive side, I can easily sort out the around five-thousand guys who have the "NSA, right now" philosophy. Not because I object with the philosophy, it's just that Daddy has stuff to do, and my day is too planned out to drop everything and meet up with a blonde with shows me his bunnywabbit pink anus. As I write this, I have five hundred words due on the Arab-Byzantine wars, I don't have a free moment to bring Nasty home for a holiday. Also, I'm an old fashioned girl.
That being said, the planned outings are very nice. Getting a new shirt, freshening up the haircut, putting a new layer of Just For Men in the beard. And.... in case you're listening to other bloggers out of the streets, my beard looks completely natural when it's dyed. I asked my Mother and my Pastor, and out of anyone they wouldn't lie to me. With all that being said, I'm VERY new to the whole dating thing. The last "first date" I had, occurred on the same day that the first iPhone was launched, June 29, 2007. I am, and the world, is a different place in the years that have passed, We're on the verge of iPhone 6, and Steve 4S. It doesn't help that the few guys I've had this strange "first date" experience with were seventeen when the iPhone launched. Yet, it seems they have been out on more dates.
It's a strange gay dating world out there in Denver, Co. Yet, I plan on diving into the dating pool.
This post originally appeared on Steven Bennet's website Nice to See StevieB. Republished with permission.
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Sudan. Iran. Saudi Arabia. These are 3 of the 10 countries where you can be sentenced to death for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
If you haven’t already, HRC urges you to tell Secretary of State John Kerry that we need a senior official focused on LGBT human rights. We need to advance LGBT equality around the globe—because in many cases, lives are at stake.
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in the Idaho marriage equality case, Latta v. Otter, in San Francisco.
The case was brought by four same-sex couples who argue that Idaho’s laws barring same-sex couples from marrying and prohibiting the state from respecting the marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. The couples are represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Boise attorneys Deborah Ferguson and Craig Durham of Ferguson Durham LLP.
Ninth Circuit Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Marsha S. Berzon, and Ronald M. Gould will hear the case, as well as marriage equality cases from Hawaii and Nevada beginning at 1 p.m. Pacific today at the James R. Browning US Courthouse, 95 7th Street, San Francisco.
