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How much do you love Wanda Sykes?

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A Personal Message From Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid

Dear Friends and Family and Anyone with Upstate New York Roots,

We need your help!

Members of the New York State Senate are on the fence about marriage equality and many even oppose it. Because we see our relationship as morally equal to the relationships that our beloved siblings and friends have with their partners, we are writing to ask for your active involvement.

Calls, emails and personal contact from you and your friends can make a difference in changing the minds of our law makers.

We ar

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Counting Crows

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

by Julia Ward Howe

Arise then ... women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be tr

Describe the float you would like to see in your local gay pride parade. Don't forget to mention your city.

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My Report Card

In the spirit of self-criticism, I share with you my assessment of my own First 100 Days of Obama.

First, you know the MSM* is in a heap of trouble when they have to hype Barack Obama’s first one hundred days in office as if it were a new national, international, and intergalactic holiday. Wolf Blitzer re-assembled the BPTOT* pantloads. John King stroked his board. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talked some shit with Jon Stewart. Despite the party-poopooing, Gathering Storm meteorologists at FO

Opposite Marriage

A-She-Ville

What a glorious time to visit Asheville, North Carolina! Kudos to my planning team. It totally makes up for Detroit in February. It had been a cool, long rainy non-springy spring in the Northeast, gray and overcast, and I was in desperate need of some color for my palette. Of course the day I flew out of New York it was into a clear blue sky with a heat promised that would surely blast open the flowering trees down by the Hudson River.

Asheville in Blue Ridge mountained western North Caroli

If I wrote a memoir, what event would you like to read about?

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