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Strippers and marriage

By Grace Published July 24, 2011

I’ve got two unre­lated news items for you: one on strip­pers and one on marriage.

Let’s start with the strip­pers. If I had a nickel for every time I said that…

The city of Louisville’s new reg­u­la­tions on adult enter­tain­ment estab­lish­ments are way harsh. For exam­ple, the ordi­nance pro­hibits the sale of alco­hol and, I shit you not, nudity. If it is the city’s goal to force all strip clubs out of busi­ness by fall, then they will prob­a­bly be suc­cess­ful. Read Jonathan Meador’s fas­ci­nat­ing fea­ture story for the Louisville Eccen­tric Observer (LEO) Weekly.

I presided (yes, I) over the wed­ding of my best friend yes­ter­day. I am awe­some and am very cheap ($10 per parental tear drop), for all you pre-nuptial cou­ples out there ;) And today was the first day that gay cou­ples could get mar­ried in New York. Be sure to lis­ten to NPR’s cov­er­age; it made my eyes leak.

To the hun­dreds that were mar­ried today in New York, and to my won­der­ful best friend and her won­der­ful hus­band, I say, Con­grats, you crazy kids! Happy ever after!

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New York equal marriage bill passes 33–29

By Grace Published June 24, 2011

At approx­i­mately 10:30 pm, Fri­day, June 24, 2011, New York became the sixth and most pop­u­lous state in the union to extend mar­riage rights to all.

MOTHER FN A.

Six down. Forty-four to go. The momen­tum is ours.

As for tonight, there’s beer to be drunk and equal­ity to be toasted.

We leave you with this:

UPDATE

Oh yeah, and you should watch Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s speech, too:

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Update: New York Senate now debating some boring bill

By Grace Published June 24, 2011

The livestream video of the New York State Sen­ate def­i­nitely works. They’re now debat­ing S4BOR, spon­sored by Sen. Berry Bor­ing, which estab­lishes the NYAWN2011 act.

The NY Sen­ate tweeted that there are four bills cur­rently on the agenda (none includ­ing the equal mar­riage bill), and that “It could be sev­eral hours” till the big vote.

Watch here:

Watch live stream­ing video from nyse­n­ate at livestream.com
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BREAKING: New York Senate to vote on equal marriage bill tonight

By Grace Published June 24, 2011

Yee­haw! Great news, y’all: Sen­ate Major­ity Leader Dean Ske­los has con­firmed that the Sen­ate will vote on the equal mar­riage bill tonight! Kudos to the Sen­ate major­ity con­fer­ence for doing the right thing and allow­ing this bill to come to a vote. It’s been a long time coming.

Now, the only hur­dle is to pass the damn thing. Rumors have cir­cu­lated for the past few days that the one vote still needed to pass the equal mar­riage bill has been secured. What is cer­tain is that all will be rev­eled tonight.

You have two options for watch­ing LIVE cov­er­age of the proceedings:

  • Read the New York Senate’s Twit­ter feed, which you’ll find here. They’ve been live-tweeting any and all activ­ity on the Sen­ate floor, send­ing hun­dreds of Tweets each day.
  • Watch live stream­ing video of the Sen­ate right here:


We can’t attest to how well the livestream video works, since the Sen­ate hasn’t been in ses­sion when­ever we’ve tried it out. They do play some durned sexy standby music, though. You can be bet we’ll have it stream­ing tonight, so why not watch his­tory hap­pen right here on HerLinked?

Also, read Ske­los’ state­ment from just a moment ago here.

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Will New York make history today?

By Grace Published June 21, 2011

The New York State Sen­ate may vote on the equal mar­riage bill today…or it may not. We’ll keep you updated. More info here.

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I’d go gay for these Republicans

By Grace Published June 21, 2011
  • NY Sen­a­tor Roy McDon­ald for the most quotable quote of all time (on sup­port­ing New York’s equal mar­riage bill):

Well, fuck it, I don’t care what you think. I’m try­ing to do the right thing.

I would like to have this tat­tooed on my fore­head. Read the awe­some­ness in its entirety here.

  • New Jer­sey Sen­ate pres­i­dent Stephen Sweeney for admit­ting:

I made a deci­sion purely based on polit­i­cal cal­cu­la­tion to not vote for mar­riage equality…I failed in my respon­si­bil­ity as major­ity leader to actu­ally lead. I was wrong.

  • New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who spoke a few weeks ago about the inevitabil­ity of mar­riage equality:

It is not a mat­ter of if, but when. And the ques­tion for every New York state law maker is, Do you want to be remem­bered as a leader on civil rights or an obstructionist?

I believe this is what is known as a rhetor­i­cal ques­tion, but if you are still unsure, read this.

  • The two NY State Sen­ate Repub­li­cans who sup­port the equal mar­riage bill. Who will be the third?

 

 

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Welcome to the club, Michelle Bachmann!

By Grace Published June 18, 2011

Michelle Bach­mann joins Paw­lenty and Gin­grinch in an exclu­sive club of mis­er­able peo­ple: those who have been glit­tered. Michelle’s turn came after leav­ing the stage at the RightOn­line con­fer­ence in Minneapolis.

You’ve gotta admire that the activist made no effort to blend in at this con­ser­v­a­tive con­fer­ence, with her ankle-length, flowy skirt and boho hand­bag.

Check out the move­ment here and here.

 

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We Heart NY

By Grace Published June 16, 2011

NY state assem­bly passes equal mar­riage bill

The New York state assem­bly has given us the great­est rea­son of all to “heart” New York: they voted “yes” for mar­riage equal­ity last night! This is the fourth time they’ve voted “yes” on this bill, but that just makes us heart them four times more. Now it goes to the sen­ate, where they  need just one itsy bitsy more vote before New York becomes the sixth state in the coun­try to allow gay marriage.

Repub­li­cans hold the major­ity in the sen­ate, which means they’ll need to add one more Repub­li­can to the two that are cur­rently sup­port­ing the bill.

To the NY Sen­ate Republicans…

who are con­sid­er­ing vot­ing for this bill (I assume because you either know it is the plain old right thing to do and are will­ing to take the polit­i­cal risk, or, per­haps more likely, rec­og­nize the moral imper­a­tive and do not fore­see that your sup­port will jeop­ar­dize your reelec­tion) we urge you to DO IT. Con­tinue read­ing »

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