While You Were Out

If you were enjoying the weekend with pride or other Summer fun, here’s a quick review of Friday through Sunday, here and elsewhere:

• Law Dork: Olson/Boies Suit Gets Major Boost. Fed’l Prop 8 Challenge gets ACLU/Lambda/NCLR support. http://tr.im/pOE5
• @renwl: White House Rejects the Center for American Progress’s Recommendations To Suspend Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Through Executive Order http://twurl.nl/x88kxb
• Law Dork: Looking Back, Looking Forward. For Frank Kameny, a long-awaited apology. http://tr.im/pTtq
• @daveweigel: Confirmed: John Roberts is a robot. http://tinyurl.com/ktlksg (Check out the to-be-Chief Justice’s take on Michael Jackson back in the Reagan years.)
• Law Dork: Turning a Change in Tone Into Actual Change. Acknowledgment, access & action on LGBT issues. http://tr.im/pYPS
• I concur with @Shoq: Best Michael Jackson essay I’ve read, from fashion writer, Robin Givhan http://bit.ly/pkIq8 (But, one question:  Is the phrase “uncomfortably androgynous” when attached to others’ use of “guyliner” anti-something or other, or am I just reading too much into it?)
• The Ohio Democratic Party had its annual state dinner.  I went. State Sen. Capri Cafaro gave the best speech of the night.
• Columbus, more generally, took in Community Festival in the Short North. Saturday night at ComFest was packed! http://yfrog.com/157nhzj
• DYM SUM: A gay bar was raided in Fort Worth, forty years to the night the cops messed with the wrong LGBT folks at the Stonewall Inn, caused an uproar in the LGBT Twitterverse on Sunday.
• The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank decided “petulant” was the way to go during his Reliable Sources debate with Nico Pitney about that White house Huffington Post question Nico asked.  http://tr.im/q426 [vid]  Twitter laughed.
• Law Dork: Today in AmericaBlogReality. Mission Accomplished? Obama said “this is only one step.” http://tr.im/q5oK
• Law Dork: The Week Ahead. From DC to the states, here’s what I’ll be watching. What am I missing? http://tr.im/q6WW

Some Stonewall coverage:

• Law Dork: Today I’m remembering that raid, 40 years ago, on a bar known for “its homosexual clientele.” http://tr.im/q3HY (And that photo on the right is of my favorite piece of “gay” art that I own!)
• Adam Nagourney in the NYT: “Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture”
• Frank Rich wrote a piece in the NYT criticized by some for its whitewashing off transgender people’s involvement in both the Stonewall riots and the current LGBT movement.
• The New York Blade: “STONEWALL 40: Our History Before Pride and Rainbow Flags.”
• Doug Ireland in the Gay City News writes up “A Truly Queer History.”
• Lucian K. Truscott IV, who covered the riots for The Village Voice, writes in the NYT about “The Real Mob at Stonewall.”
• Anthony Woods, an openly gay veteran running to replace Ellen Tauscher in Congress, spoke to The Washington Post about, among other things, Stonewall.
• Finally, Andy Towle over at Towleroad finds some other interesting Stonewall coverage.

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