Good News Abounds From Puppies to Parliament This Sunday Funday

Carmen
Feb 3, 2013
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HAPPY PUPPYBOWL SUNDAY.

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Charlize Theron’s ALH

Ummm.

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Hilary Rules, Boys Drool

Hillary Clinton is no longer my Madame Secretary but I figure this is a good time to encourage all of us to buy Hillary Clinton themed merchandise on Etsty.

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For your further enjoyment, Buzzfeed found a photo of Hillary Clinton in every country she’s visited.

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Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes

In France, slow but steady progress continues to be made toward marriage equality. Yesterday, France’s parliament voted 249-97 to redefine marriage as being between two humans and not a man and woman.

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An Illinois Valentine

Illinois might see marriage equality on Valentine’s Day.

Image by Kelly Prizel Photography
Image by Kelly Prizel Photography

The president of the Illinois state Senate wants to send same-sex couples a valentine in the form of a vote for marriage equality February 14.

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“I’d like to pass it out of committee next week and pass it on Valentine’s Day,” Senate president John Cullerton said of the pending marriage equality bill during a meeting with theChicago Sun-Times editorial board Thursday.

All The Mayor’s Marriages

Mark Kruznan, mayor of Bloomingdale, Indiana, showed his support for same-sex marriage by marrying same-sex couples himself on Thursday in public. Badass!

Thursday night at about 10 o’clock, the mayor of Bloomington, Ind., married more than a dozen same-sex couples on the opening night of the town’s 10th annual Pride LGBT Film Festival. Inside the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, couples took the stage en masse and exchanged vows with Mayor Mark Kruzan presiding.

But the nature of the ceremonies wasn’t strictly celebratory; Mayor Kruzan, joined by several city and county council members, hosted the mass wedding as a protest against Indiana’s proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.

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ONE Archive Kicks Ass

The ONE archives in Los Angeles are ready to be devoured by your eyes and hearts.

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A fascinating exhibit opens Saturday night at West Hollywood’s ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives Gallery and Museum: “Queers Print,” a study of LGBT publishing that emanated from Los Angeles in the mid-century. The exhibition includes issues of The Ladder, ONE, The Lesbian Tide, and The Advocate, which launched 46 years ago. With over 40 different magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and zines, “Queers Print” allows the public to peruse six decades of LGBT history. “Los Angeles’s significance as a center for the queer press, as well as more broadly the history of queer activism, is often overlooked in national histories of LGBTQ struggle and it is the intention of this exhibition to raise awareness of this region’s importance, specifically in the realm of the history of publishing,” Jamie Scot, ONE’s project and development manager, said in a statement.

“Queer Print” runs at the ONE gallery, 626 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood, 90069, until March 17.

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Monkey’s Uncle Takes Selfie

This shit is bananas.

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Award-winning photographer David Slater had his camera hijacked by a crested black macaque in Indonesia. The crested black macaque is extremely rare and endangered which makes these pictures all the more special.

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Carmen

Carmen spent six years with Autostraddle, most recently as Community Director, Feminism Editor and Social Media Co-Director. She is now the Managing Digital Editor at Ms. , host of Bitch Media’s POPAGANDA podcast and Contributing Editor and co-founder of Argot magazine. Her words have also been published by BuzzFeed, ElixHER, Everyday Feminism, Girlboss, Mic, MEL, and Feministing, among others. Her successful work over the last decade in digital feminism—as a writer, social media maven and activist leader—has earned her the titles of “digital native,” “intimidating to some,” and “vapid and uninteresting.” Everything else you need to know about her you can find out at carmenfuckingrios.com.

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