News Headlines - Signs of culture shift on gay issues : Townhall.com

Nine other states _ New Jersey, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, Maine, Hawaii and Wisconsin _ have granted similar rights to gay domestic partners in varying degrees. _A Pew poll taken last year found that ... If my daughter, the Marine, had a openly gay roommate assigned to share her room, she would be enormously uncomfortable and totally disgusted if the roommate brought a sexual partner to their jointly shared space. If gays are openly admitted to the ...

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Not-So Magnificent Seven

Instead, those seven—Robert Bennett of Utah, Sam Brownback of Kansas, Mike Crapo of Idaho, John Ensign of Nevada, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John McCain of Arizona—withdrew their co-sponsorship in the days before ... In an online diary that has since been scrubbed from the Web (but not before being captured on Daily Kos), he wrote that he was forced to live on an all-black dormitory floor after refusing to live with the gay roommate he was ...

Beats & Eats: 2009 Tours & Music Festivals

Metallica Dave Matthews Band: I wouldn't be summertime without Dave Matthews touring. Fleetwood Mac: Think I'll be taking mom to this show for her birthday :) Cher in Las Vegas: My gay boys should be going out for this one! ... Think I will take the new roommate to see them. Eric Clapton: Touring the United Kingdom in early 2009. Coldplay: Another UK tour, you know... just in case you happen to be over there. Oasis The Pretenders: They're still around? ...

homosexuals need more exposure to fight stereotypes

when my roommate told me about that conversation, i felt uneasy. my neighbors and i had never really talked, just curt nods of acknowledgment as we walk to our separate rooms on the floor. i felt they had a predisposition about gay guys ...

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » WATB

Dude, my roommate is a full-fledged wingnut, to a literally unnerving degree (as in, “too bad the South lost the Civil War”, etc). He was complaining about the march to soshulism when Bush was in office. He pointed to the decline of the ..... CNN reports that some Republicans are accusing Jon Scott Ashjian, “a new Tea Party candidate running for U.S. Senate in Nevada, of being a fake. The allegation? He was put in the race by agents of Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to ...