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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Love Is…
So… You were mad at love because love was acting like an idiot.
Love tried to make you laugh, but you were not buying it,
because you were mad at love, and mad you were gonna stay!
But you laughed anyway.
Too bad.
Now you’re the idiot, driving around for hours trying to find a place to dump the body.
My Dad wasn’t perfect, but neither am I.
This August will mark the ten year anniversary of my…
Without further ado, the completed short.
Two boys cross their societal boundaries and fall in love. In time, they change each other, and eventually, their divided world.Senior graduation animation produced at the Kansas City Art Institute, May 2013. Directed by Ann Mendenhall and Stephanie Son.
Enjoy!
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I just love this. :)
My expectations of love must have been set too high.
I have yet to swing from a chandelier. :\
(CNN) — It was a wonderful life.
That’s how Edith Windsor describes her partnership with Thea Clara Spyer. Theirs was not a fleeting romance — the women were together 42 years sharing ups and downs, laughs and tears. They also shared what they’d earned together, including from Windsor’s job as a programmer with IBM and Spyer’s work as a psychologist.
“We were mildly affluent and extremely happy,” Windsor said. “We were like most couples.”
But even after they married in 2007 in Toronto, some 40 years into their courtship, the two women were not “like most couples” in the eyes of the state of New York, where they lived, nor in the eyes of the U.S. government, which under the Defense of Marriage Act mandates that a spouse, as legally defined, must be a person of the opposite sex.
This fact hit Windsor hard in 2009, while in a hospital after suffering a heart attack a month after Spyer’s death. As she recovered and mourned, Windsor realized she faced a hefty bill for inheritance taxes — $363,053 more than was warranted, she later claimed in court — because Spyer was, in legal terms, little more than a friend.
“It was incredible indignation,” Windsor recalled feeling. “Just the numbers were so cruel.”
This anger gave way to action. Why, she and her lawyers argued, should her relationship with Spyer be any different when it came to rights, taxes and more than a heterosexual couple? Why should Windsor have to pay, literally, for losing her soulmate — even though, by 2009, New York courts had recognized that “foreign same-sex marriages” should be recognized in the state as valid?
read more at cnn.com
It seems that women are nearly always the ones who lead the way.
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Parenting done right.
with Anthony Quinn and Faye Dunaway
theme song by Diana Ross and the Supremes
A few hippies “go with the flow” and end up kidnapping a retired Mafia kingpin.
God we fuck up teenagers’ heads. We tell them that biological conditions are moral punishments and then we get all shocked when they don’t practice rational risk management of biological conditions. We teach them “sex is super desirable and all the cool kids do it, and it’s hideously shameful and will destroy your life” and we wonder why they act an eensy bit neurotic about it. If you tried to design a system for making sexually active kids confused and unsafe, you couldn’t do much better than the American media and school system.
And for once, the answer is relatively simple. Just talk about sex like it’s a part of life. Some people have sex and some people don’t, because people are different. STIs aren’t bad because they’re Dirty Crotch Rot; they’re bad because they’re contagious illnesses like strep throat or whooping cough, and you can ask a doctor to check for and treat them just like you would with strep throat. Unwanted pregnancy isn’t a scarlet A; it’s a mostly-preventable accident that sometimes occurs when people are going about their normal business of having sex. You can ask the school counselor about a variety of topics, including career planning, problems at home, questions about sex, or conflicts with teachers.
If we could just get the goddamn stick out of our collective ass and accept that sex is a human activity and teenagers are humans, maybe there wouldn’t be quite so many plaintive “I don’t understand my body and I’m confused and scared and I don’t know anyone I can ask in person” messages flying out into the world.
The Pervocracy - “Teenage Panic.”
(via fuckyeahsexpositivity)
It amazes me, after three decades of HIV/AIDS, we are STILL afraid to talk openly about sex. Meanwhile, the instances of new infections are growing because most people still don’t understand the proper way to protect themselves from STDs and pregnancy.
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I pricked my finger in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation and to send my love to the 34 million people around the world living with HIV and AIDS. Please share this Valentine’s message to show your support for efforts to end AIDS, the worst disease of our age. Visit www.EJAF.com for more information. Thanks, friends.
