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Have a great weekend guys. I’m off to visit friends in Albany, NY for the weekend. Do you have any plans? Are you celebrating Pride this weekend? Staying home? Do tell.
Pride weekend in New York City and San Francisco
As we head into the last weekend of June, New York City and San Francisco ready to have a memorable Pride celebration coming on the heels of two historic rulings from the US Supreme Court.
I want to wish everyone in both cities and everywhere else a happy and safe pride.
Flashback Friday
This week’s Flashback Friday post is courtesy of The Boston Globe archives and shows Commercial Street in Provincetown in 1979.
Want to see more? The Boston Globe recently posted a collection of vintage images of Cape Cod here.
The New Yorker
This might go down as my absolute favorite magazine cover following the historic US Supreme Court rulings earlier this week.
Furry Friday
Half Arab, half French, Adam Champ is 100% sexy and very Furry Friday worthy. Don’t you think?
Dear $18 cocktail
Joe My God posted this photo from Penn Station earlier this week, and I have to admit I love the Visit Philly tourism banner. Maybe I need to book a trip to Philadelphia.
Tweet of the day: Joan Rivers
Yesterday, after the US Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, Joan Rivers sent this tweet out to her followers.
Does wealth corrupt?
Last week NPR’s News Hour ran a segment called Why Those Who Feel They Have Less Give More. The segment is based upon the controversial study, Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior by Paul Piff.
Apparently the study has created a bit of an uproar with people saying this is about class warfare, but I thought it was interesting. My Liberal friends shouldn’t get too smug about this study because it paints quite a hypocritical picture. A consistent finding in all seven studies Piff ran was that social progressives or “Liberals” were just as likely to act unethically / immorally as their social conservative counterparts; meaning your political persuasion didn’t impact your behavior.
I’m not a sociologist so I didn’t bother to read the study that I link to in this post, but it does beg the question, does wealth corrupt? In study after study even those who came from a poorer background – when in simulated tests where they were made to feel “wealthy” – exhibited the same exact unethical decision-making tendencies. Below is the NPR segment that spurred the post.
I love Provincetown
One week from today, I will head down to Provincetown for the first time this year. Aside from Boston, there is no place I feel more at home and more myself than Ptown. Never visited Provincetown over the 4th of July holiday? A couple years ago I posted this video of what you can expect.
Buh-Bye Proposition 8
I’d like to say I’ll miss you, but frankly, I’ve never liked you very much; good riddance to you and everyone who supported you.
Time to celebrate
LGBT community and their allies could not have hoped for more favorable rulings from the US Supreme Court earlier today. In particular, striking down DOMA provides LGBT couples equal protection under the law in states that recognize same sex marriage. This includes tax benefits, pensions, immigration rights, etc… Parties and celebrations will be taking place all over Boston and through out the US.
Are you going to go out and celebrate today? Where will you go?
Supreme Court ruling on DOMA and Prop 8
Today the US Supreme Court sided favorably on two key rulings that has had the entire LGBT community waiting with baited breath; The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8.
DOMA was ruled unconstitutional because it was deemed that it unfairly deprived of the equal liberty of persons and violated their Fifth Amendment rights. The ruling said, “DOMA singles out a class of persons deemed by a State entitled to recognition and protection to enhance their own liberty.”
Page 20 of the opinion said: “careful consideration” standard: In determining whether a law is motivated by improper animus or purpose, discriminations of an unusual character especially require careful consideration. DOMA cannot survive under these principles.
What this means: same-sex couples who are legally married will be entitled to equal treatment under federal law– with regard to, for example, income taxes and Social Security benefits.
California’s Proposition 8 The US Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs lack standing and same-sex marriage is declared legalize in California.
From the majority opinion: We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to. We decline to do so for the first time here.
What this means: Same sex marriage is now legal in the most populous state in the USA.
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