The AggreGAYtor: July 11
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
By David Estlund, 12:25PM, Fri. Jul. 11, 2014
President Obama lays down the bump heard 'round the City of Austin, Colorado keeps the aisle open, and Nancy Pelosi sticks to her HRCs, as your AggreGAYtor tunelessly whinges.
The Good
"I said to him 'Equal Rights for Gay People' and Obama asked 'Are you Gay?' and I said 'Only When I'm Having Sex!' and then we terrorist fist bumped!"
Colorado marriages keep rolling on despite the ban remaining.
Laverne Cox is nominated for an Emmy.
A trans woman is serving in a Baptist pulpit.
BloombergView comes out against religious exemptions.
Paul Krugman launches into full-tilt economic Cassandra mode.
Paris Hilton made a unicorn.
The Bad
Nancy Pelosi continues to back the Hobby-Lobby-hobbled ENDA.
The Church of England has blocked a married gay clergyman from service.
Here is a six-pager about how not-queer the Golden Girls were.
The Fugly
Whoever Dale O’Leary is, she probably shouldn’t be given a national platform.
A gay porn star was kicked out of a Kentucky water park for being too sexy.
Texas’ GOP Platform is too crazy for the RNC to touch.
It Came from the Tubes
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