Updating the 2006 law that legalized civil unions under Mayor Alejandro Encinas RodrÃguez, Mexico City's legislators voted 39-20 to legalize same-sex marriage in the nation's capital, with Mayor Marcelo Ebrard expected to sign it into law — mirroring closely Washington D.C.'s own move this month. Mexico City becomes Latin America's first jurisdiction to grant the [...]
We're still trying to figure out just how intertwined Lou Engle, the self-professed "visionary" behind prayer group TheCall (one word!), is with leading conservatives inside the GOP, but Alternet spotted him with the Family Research Council and Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, so there's some connection — at least as much as Barack Obama has [...]
The Way We Live Now: It's no longer enough for a popular vlogger to throw up an inspirational music video on YouTube and call it a day. Now, several popular YouTubers must collaborate with each other — and then invite everyone else to participate. Which is what this foursome is doing with a video mash-up [...]
I was sitting in Starbucks today and heard this song. It’s an oldie but a goody. Oh, Ben Folds whatever happened to you? Also in other news: did you know that Fresno’s City Council finally decided that having a night life wasn’t such a bad thing after all? It’s like Fresno’s almost a real city. Now we [...]
It comes to my mind often when I’m editing the party pictures from Integration. I’m expecting similar results with our once a month Evolution party, which will happen this Saturday. Stay fierce, everyone. 
Tickets are $10 all pre-event ticket buyers will be entered to win a Marriott/The Original New Year’s Eve package!
Tickets will be available at these locations:
Funny Bone
Just Out
The Original
In the days leading up to my departure for Maine, I wasn't sure what to expect from the people I'd meet here. I'm no stranger to ballot campaigns; we've had our share of those in Oregon. I rode on Tuesday to a suburb outside of Portland, Maine with another volunteer staff to meet with nine high school students about their interest to get involved with the No On 1 campaign. Our goal was to start a “Friends and Family†Volunteer Recruitment Phone Bank with them on the spot, and to organize a few times when they and their friends could volunteer together, canvassing door-to-door the weekend before Election Day. We rolled up to their neighborhood Starbucks at about 3 o'clock and met the students inside. They'd come straight after school, and had heard about the campaign at an all-ages concert, where they'd been watching their favorite local band. Three of the youth were band members! A few of them had worn their No On 1 buttons to school that day, and mentioned that they'd started conversations with other students about the issue, and what it meant to them. After introducing ourselves and briefly describing the state of the campaign, we read through a script and role-played it, making sure to arm the students with the facts needed to express to their friends and family members how much this means to them and why we need their help in the last two weeks of the campaign. When we asked the students to get out their mobile phones and start calling to sign their friends up for volunteer shifts with the campaign, they excelled at the task! After about a half hour, the studthe students made a plan to gather together with their newly signed up volunteers for a morning canvass on Halloween, knocking on doors to get out the vote. None of the nine students were affiliated with the Gay Straight Alliance at their school, (and none mentioned that they identified as LGBT,) but all shared a sense that whoever you are and whomever you love, couples deserve to be recognized equally under the law.
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