Your letter is revolutionary not least of all because it is about love. It is about falling in love and feeling rejected and carrying both that love and rejection with you through life. The male pronoun of the object of your desire is practically incidental.

We have all been in a love that felt “malignant…hopeless” from which “there was no escaping, no negotiating.” Your promise to your first love, that you won’t forget him, that you’ll remember how you changed each other, is so full of love and grace.

Jay-Z, reacting to Frank Ocean’s letter revealing his bi-sexuality.

Hot damn. Who knew this guy was so sensitive? (Beyonce, that’s who)

(Source: lifeandtimes.com)

Legalize Love: Google Decides To Step Into The Gay Rights Arena

Got muscle? Flex. Huzzah!

(Interesting, though, that they aren’t starting in the U.S. Well… muscles grow…)

As people who promote personal responsibility, family values, commitment and stability, and emphasize freedom and limited government we have to recognize that freedom means freedom for everyone. This includes the freedom to decide how you live and to enter into relationships of your choosing, the freedom to live without excessive interference of the regulatory force of government.

GOP pollster Jan van Lohuizen in a memo to Republican operatives, telling them that: one, you can’t legislate bigotry and call for small government at the same time without seeming like hypocritical fools, and two, their party will shrink and suffer if they remain stuck in their gross bigoted muck (okay, I’m paraphrasing and adding a little color to his original message… )

(Source: politico.com)

The creation of a society without domination.

Adrienne Rich’s response, when asked what she was trying to accomplish with her words.

motherjones:

“But dear God, we should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments, the passions of the day. No minority should have their rights subject to the passions and sentiments of the majority. This is a fundamental bedrock of what our nation stands for.”

Chris Christie, check your gay-marriage milkshake. Cory Booker just drank it.

Five minutes well spent.