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Republicans , Harvey Milk and a Reagan quote

11/29/2012 Nativegrl77

$Di·chot·o·my: noun \dī-ˈkä-tə-mē. A division into two mutually contradictory groups.$

Rachel Maddow On How The Republican Party Hasn’t Learned One Damned Thing

This is one to share. We miss you, Harvey.

TISSUES, PLEASE! Harvey Milk’s Moving Speech Is Amazing To Listen To Repeatedly

The One Reagan Quote That Republicans DON’T Talk About

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We’ll fly you to L.A. for dinner with the stars : Chad Griffin, Human Rights Campaign : Dinner Sweepstakes ends Wednesday!

10/23/2012 Nativegrl77

We have to close down the dinner sweepstakes tomorrow at midnight so Get your entry in NOW!

Modern Family‘s most fabulous couple wants to have dinner with you.Donate $5 or more for your chance to win a trip to L.A. – and help our movement win marriage equality.

WWW.HRC.ORG

You know Cam and Mitch, right?

Chances are you’ve seen them on ABC’s Modern Family once or twice. Or, if you’re like me, you haven’t missed an episode.

They’re America‘s favorite gay couple. But to me, they’re Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, two dear friends (and amazing actors, I might add) who have transformed the way America sees same-sex couples.

How would you like to join them for an exclusive dinner?

Eric and Jesse are inviting one lucky HRC supporter and a guest to join them for a private dinner in Los Angeles. Laughs and good times guaranteed.*

A free trip to L.A. for a delicious dinner with two of the most hilarious people in show business should be enough reason to donate.

But there’s also this: if their characters were a real-life couple, their love would be denied recognition by California and the federal government. Denied. Just like tens of thousands of couples.

So while you and your guest haggle with Jesse and Eric over who gets the last piece of bruschetta and discuss why equality matters most to you, we’ll be putting your donation to work in this critical election, on Capitol Hill, and in schools, hospitals, and workplaces around the country where discrimination is still rampant.

And we’ll put your gift to use in getting hospitals to improve their policies so that a real-life Cameron doesn’t have to think twice before visiting a real-life Mitchell in the event of a real-life crisis.

It’s time our nation’s laws affirm what their TV show demonstrates every week.

There is so much work left to do – and your gift will enable all of it. Let us thank you with dinner.

Chip in $5 or more over the next nine days for a chance at dinner with these two amazing guys. (Travel and hotel are also on us.)

In the end, Jesse and Eric’s message is really simple. Love, patience, and a lot of humor are what really matter.

I think you’d get a real kick out of meeting them.

Good luck, Chad Griffin President

* I personally think Eric and Jesse are hilarious, but HRC’s lawyers have informed me that I can’t actually guarantee you will laugh. So let’s just say it’s pretty darn likely. Chip in $5 or more now.

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leave Minnie Mouse alone

10/17/2012 Nativegrl77

A department store is making Minnie Mouse look extremely tall and skinny for a holiday window display.

Sign Ragen’s Petition

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What’s the world coming to when we’re telling little girls that Minnie Mouse is too fat? Believe it or not, that’s exactly what the department store Barney’s is doing.

For a holiday window display, Barney’s and Disney have agreed to showcase Minnie Mouse wearing a designer dress — and distorted so she looks like she’s 5’11” and size 0.

I work with kids who have eating disorders, so I’m not exaggerating when I say the message this sends is deadly. According to one study, hospitalization for children younger than 12 with eating disorders went up 119% from 1999 to 2006. Younger than 12.

I don’t think Barney’s and Disney should be telling little girls that Minnie Mouse needs to be skinnier, so I started a petition on Change.org asking them to cancel this window display. Click here to add your name.

Studies warn again and again of the dangers of promoting an unrealistic body image. 81% of 10-year-old girls say they’re afraid of being fat, and 47% of girls in 5th-12th grade say they want to be thinner because of the pictures they see in magazines.

There is nothing wrong with tall, thin women. There is something wrong with changing a beloved children’s character’s body so that it looks good in a dress that almost nobody looks good in.

Earlier this year, Seventeen magazine agreed to stop photoshopping all models after 75,000 people signed a petition asking them to do so on Change.org. I know that if enough people sign my petition, we can convince Barney’s and Disney not to distort Minnie Mouse to make her look tall and skinny.

Click here to sign my petition calling on Barney’s and Disney to leave Minnie Mouse alone.

Thank you,

Ragen Chastain Los Angeles, California