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Senator Ted Lieu says if minors suffer conversion therapy, it could lead to suicide

09 May 2012| By Joe Morgan

California is set to ban gay ‘conversion’ therapy in a law that is being hailed as the first of its kind.

Supporters say the legislation, which went…

gaywrites:

Musical artist Queen Latifah made all kinds of headlines yesterday when it was announced that she would be headlining the Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival this month. Most commonly, tons of media outlets reported that with this announcement, Queen Latifah was officially coming out of the closet. 

It is not a huge secret that Queen Latifah has had semi-public relationships with women, and for this she’s long been suspected to be a lesbian. But straight celebrities perform at pride festivals all the time - as this post from the New Civil Rights Movement points out, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Lopez, among countless others, have performed at pride events as allies. From the post:

Reports that state that Queen Latifah has come out should take a moment to examine their journalistic standards and remind themselves that coming out is a personal choice, and unless there is a career component to it (read: possibly closeted gay journalists and their ability to credibly cover some LGBT-related stories, for example,) it’s unfair to pressure someone to come out or to say someone has come out when they have not.

Personally, I agree that it’s not fair or accurate to say that someone is coming out because they’re publicly committing to performing at a pride event. Everyone at their own pace, if at all. What say you?

qbits:

Better late than never, I suppose. Still, how many have suffered through the internalized homophobia perpetuated by the ex-gay movement? Or worse, not been able to endure the suffering and taken their own lives believing it was their own fault for not being able to ‘change’?

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cookingcaveman:

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Jeff,

First, I want to say I LOVE your Cooking Caveman blog. I’m there all the time every since I found it. I love your recipes, and I’m really trying to move my life style to caveman.

I read in one of your post that you only eat one time a day(at night) with a caveman dessert. I…

Imagine you’re a middle-school science teacher, and you get to the section of the course where you’re to talk about climate change. You mention the “C” words, and two students walk out of the class.

Or you mention global warming and a hand shoots up.

“Mrs. Brown! My dad says global warming is a hoax!”

Or you come to school one morning and the principal wants to see you because a parent of one of your students has accused you of political bias because you taught what scientists agree about: that the Earth is getting warmer, and human actions have had an important role in this warming.

Or you pick up the newspaper and see that your state legislature is considering a bill that declares that accepted sciences like global warming (and evolution, of course) are “controversial issues” that require “alternatives” to be taught.

Incidents like these have happened in one or more states, and they are likely to continue to happen. Teachers are encountering pushback from many directions as they try to teach global warming and other climate science topics.

The evangelical Christian from California’s central valley had never had an orgasm alone nor with her husband of 25 years.

“I didn’t know I wasn’t having one,” the 59-year-old mother of two told The Daily Beast. Yet after chatting with some church girlfriends, she learned what she was missing….

longformorg:

A suburban dad. A fictional television blowhard. And now a political money launderer. How one funny guy became three.

Charles McGrath | New York Times Magazine | Jan 2012

npr:

The idea that an ugly face might hide a subtle mind has attracted scientific inquiries for many years. At first, scientists wanted to know whether it was possible to read someone’s intelligence from the shape of his face. In 1918, a researcher in Ohio showed a dozen photographic portraits of well-dressed children to a group of physicians and teachers, and asked the adults to rank the kids from smartest to dumbest. A couple of years later, a Pittsburgh psychologist ran a similar experiment using headshots of 69 employees from a department store. In both studies, seemingly naive guesses were compared to actual test scores, and turned out to be accurate more often than not.