Here are the three biggest hand-wringing fears/misnomers people have had about gay marriage, even those who support it:
1. This unimportant issue will cost Obama re-election!
2. Marriage equality wo...
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We're approaching, if not looking in the rearview mirror at, a watershed moment in American civil rights history. A majority of the American public now supports marriage equality for same-sex couples....
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Maybe they should have called Barack Obama the homosexual "Black Abe Lincoln."
Buried in the polls showing that Obama's same-sex marriage support has had no effect on his own re-election prospects (...
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WNYC reported yesterday that five "avatars" are going to be taking up customer service duty at Port Authority airports.
The above video is a demonstration of what one of these projected robots will ...
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It's fair to call it the Obama Effect: leaders in the black community, old and young, political and cultural, are coming out of the closet to back same-sex marriage. And they are a motley crew, from t...
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TMZ is reporting that disco legend Donna Summer has danced her last dance, having lost a battle with cancer. She was 63.
We just happened to be listening to "Last Dance," Summer's 1978 hit, when we ...
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From the Department of Karma and Fortuitous Timing:
President Obama will be speaking at Barnard's graduation today, but the women's college will also be honoring Evan Wolfson.
Wolfson, who will be...
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There are many culprits who helped push Obama out of the same-sex marriage support closet this week, with Malia and Sasha (who didn't see the difference between their friends' parents who are opposite...
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After publishing our piece yesterday "5 Reasons Why Toure Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama," we had the chance to talk about the president's new support for marriage equality with WNYC's Bri...
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What a gay week! The President came out for gay marriage, while his opponent, Mitt Romney, had another kind of coming out.
In timing that couldn't have been more poetic or suspicious, depending on yo...
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After President Obama came out for same-sex marriage yesterday, it didn't take the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's oldest and most prominent group of gay Republicans, long to pile on him. They cal...
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We like the idea of Toure, but as a person and concept, he's got two sides.
There's the Good Toure, who writes beautifully,...
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State Senator James Alesi, one of four Republicans to cross the aisle and vote for the Marriage Equality Act last summer, announced last night that he's not running for re-election.
He was for same-...
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Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the City Council, frontrunner for being the Democratic nomination as the next mayor, and bride to be this month, gave her pleasant reaction to Obama's endorsement of s...
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President Obama has told ABC news that he supports the right for same-sex couples to get legally married.
Obama told ABC, in an interview where he appeared relaxed and calm (even if he'd been pushed ...
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Update: President Obama has indeed come out of the closet, telling ABC news that he does, in fact, support the right for same-sex couples to get married. Read our report, with reactions from New York...
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North Carolina made history today. Not only did voters approve a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but they made the Southern States of Bigotry set complete, in becoming the last holdout state ...
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Brooklyn born writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak has died. He was 83-years-old.
Sendak was the author of Bumble-Ardy, In The Night Kitchen, and, of course, Where The Wild Things Are.
We just wen...
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A fascinating story on WNYC this morning: a new report finds that the city's largest private employer is the nonprofit sector.
When we wrote our cover story "The Nonprofit 1 Percent," we saw that the...
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The Beastles, Boston-based dj BC's well-received (but ultimately unauthorized and subsequently yanked offline) Beatles-Beastie Boys mash-up, is now fully available online. In memory of Adam Yauch, Bo...
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When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate almost four years ago, he did so knowing Biden was notoriously volatile when it came to predicting what would spill ...
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Theater director Lorca Peress is directing two one act operas opening this weekend at Queen College's Goldstein Theater. My Kinsman, Major Molineau (making its New York premiere) and The Image Maker (...
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg released his budget yesterday, and it's not a pretty read for children. According to Council Speaker Christine Quinn, it could axe 42,000 slots for childcare.
Also, according ...
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"Exit Strategies": PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
Kronos Quartet with Rula Jabreal, Tony Kushner and Marjane Satrapai
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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As you may have heard, Sotheby''s had a good day yesterday, auctioning off Edward Munch's "The Scream" for a record $119.9 million dollars.
Not having such a good dayr The still locked-out art handl...
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