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[論壇] last friend 搞笑版
2008-05-24 11:58:22
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Hilary will support Same sex Binational couples?
2008-05-22 12:50:41
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Lesbian couple cremated together
2008-05-19 10:58:13
What a tragic love story!
note: Chennai is the city in India.
Lesbian couple cremated together 19 May 2008, 0403 hrs IST
,TNNCHENNAI: When they were alive, their relatives tried to keep them apart. After they killed themselves on Saturday, the relatives agreed to cremate them together on Sunday.
Christy Jayanthi Malar (38) and Rukmani (40), who set themselves ablaze after being abused by their families who objected to their "unnatural relationship," got a joint cremation at the Moolakothalam corporation cremation grounds near Basin Bridge.
Thiruvallur district sub collector M S Sangeetha initiated an inquiry into Rukmani's death since she was married, for the second time, only for four years. "Initial inquiries revealed that dowry harassment was not the reason for the suicide. We are authorised to inquire only into the dowry issue and the other possible angles would be investigated by the police," a district administration official said.
The way the couple ended their lives visibly shocked the neighbourhood. The relatives, who had tried to separate the two women, wept profusely as the bodies, side by side, were taken into the electric crematorium.
The bodies were earlier handed over to the families after post-mortem examination at the Stanley government hospital in north CHENNAI.
A senior police officer said action would not be taken against the relatives. "We can't say the relatives pushed the women into suicide. They might have verbally abused them, but that was to bring them back to normal life," a senior police officer said.
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[論壇] What a hypocrite!
2008-05-17 15:18:40
Today is one day after the California Court “unbanned” same sex marriage.
I suppose to celebrate like rest of the les/gay in the city, but this evening I totally do not have a mood.
my 2nd sister congratulated me.
2nd sister: I am so happy for you, little sis.
Me: thanks!
2nd sister: By the way, big sister said this November election, she will for sure vote yes on “banning” same sex marriage.
Me: huh? What do you mean? Did she serious?
2nd sister: yes, she did.
Me: what the hell she talked about? She knew my ‘status’ and she likes my wife very much and why she votes against my kind?
2nd sister: you know your big sister never likes gay people!
Me: I am gay people! She knew it all these years!
2nd sister: well, it does not make her "not" to go against gay!
2nd sister paused and continued: you know your big sister, she acts kind of gay even mom “said” so.
Me: I know; she is crazy about woman all these years. She actually acts gayer than me!
2nd sister: well, she is kind of weird.
Me: I guess she tries to ‘distance” from any gay people, and her way is going against me. What a hypocrite!
After conversation, I felt so depressed. I “knew’ my big sister, she ‘never’ really “like” about my relationship, but I thought after all these year (8 years) she might changes little bit. After hearing this response, I know I am just being naïve.
Same sex marriage in California will have a difficult battle in the up coming months, we are not only battling with punch of religious/conservatives, we also needs to battle with those “closeted” hypocrites (they are gay but not claimed to be gay like my big sister), they are the one which we should aware of. Because you never know when they would turn back and go against you. -
CA Court's okay same sex marriage!
2008-05-16 02:14:09
This is the most wonderful news I hear this year!
Bravo, same sex marriage! 
I cannot wait to tell my wife about this! Tears of joy as same-sex marriage advocates get the word
Thursday, May 15, 2008
(05-15) 10:45 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- There were whoops of joys and hugs and tears among scores of gay rights advocates and same-sex couples this morning outside the California Supreme Court building in San Francisco as word spread that the justices had cleared the way for gay and lesbian marriages.
Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, a gay rights group, ran out of the building on McAllister Street and screamed, "We won!" just after the decision was released at 10 a.m. Many people unfurled California state flags with rainbow stripes sewn on across the bottom.
"This is an incredibly historic day," said Judy Appel, executive director of Our Families Coalition, who is raising two children with her partner in Berkeley. "I'm so thrilled, I'm so excited for what this means for my family and all Californians."
Dave Chandler, who along with his partner, Jeff Chandler, was a plaintiff in the case, said, "I'm just cheering the joy. I'm feeling the joy all over. I feel that our kids will be well-protected when we have all the rights, responsibilities and benefits that married couples enjoy. The state of California has renewed my hope."
He said his partner was at their San Mateo home watching their two children, ages 1 and 4. The couple were married on Valentine's Day 2004 at San Francisco City Hall, one of nearly 4,000 same-sex weddings that were later annulled by the state Supreme Court.
Stuart Gaffney hugged his partner and proclaimed, "We're going to be newlyweds after 21 years together."
David Bowers and his partner were the first in line at the court clerk's office and the first to get a copy of the decision. The couple were also married at City Hall in 2004.
"That was one of the best things of my life. This is the next best thing," Bowers said. "There's tears everywhere. This can't be bad."
Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said of the four justices who voted in favor of gay marriage, "I believe all four votes will be vindicated by history."
The three other justices, "in some future day, will wish they could take it back," she said.
"This is a wonderful day to be alive and to be in this movement," Kendell said.
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CA State high court's ruling on same-sex marriage to be issued Thursday
2008-05-15 13:55:03
Tomorrow, I will expect to hear the good news!
if the state court rules for same sex marriage, California will be the 2nd (the first is Massachusetts) in the country to allow same sex marrage! I am looking forward to hear more good news from other side of the coast. 
State high court's ruling on same-sex marriage to be issued Thursday
Attorney Shannon Minter, back to camera, is hugged by plaintiff Stuart Gaffney on Tuesday as Gaffney's partner John Lewis, right, looks on. Minter argued on behalf of Lewis and Gaffney in the same-sex marriage case now before the California Supreme Court at the State of California Building in San Francisco. Chronicle photo by Kim Komenich
State high court's ruling on same-sex marriage to be issued Thursday
Protesters stand at the entrance of the State of California Building in San Francisco, where the state Supreme Court heard arguments on the same-sex marriage case Tuesday. Chronicle photo by Kim Komenich
san_francisco122:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/14/BAMH10MC8M.DTL State high court's ruling on same-sex marriage to be issued Thursday
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
(05-14) 16:46 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- More than four years after San Francisco defied state marriage laws by allowing nearly 4,000 same-sex couples to wed at City Hall, the state Supreme Court is set to decide Thursday whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California.
But the decision, due at 10 a.m., may not be the last word. Conservative religious organizations have submitted more than 1.1 million signatures for an initiative that would amend the state Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. If at least 694,354 signatures are found to be valid, a tally that is due by mid-June, the measure would go before the voters in November and would override any court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.
Californians have already voted once, in 2000, to reaffirm the 1977 state law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The 2000 initiative, Proposition 22, was not a constitutional amendment.
The marriage case is the most prominent and politically explosive dispute to come before the court in decades. The justices have largely managed to stay out of the public spotlight since 1986, when voters removed Chief Justice Rose Bird and two liberal colleagues who had joined her in overturning nearly all death sentences to come before the court.
The current court, with a 6-1 majority of Republican appointees, has a centrist record on social issues and has ruled in favor of gay-rights advocates in a number of cases, including three decisions in 2005 requiring equal treatment for same-sex parents in disputes over child support and custody. The justices seemed sharply divided at their hearing in the marriage case March 4.
Win or lose, supporters of same-sex marriage have scheduled a "celebration of love and family" at the San Francisco LGBT Center, 1800 Market St., at 5 p.m. Thursday, with similar observances planned in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo and Palm Springs.
"Express your joy - or frustration - with dignity and resoluteness," the advocacy group Equality California advised participants in an e-mail message.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose order authorizing the City Hall weddings started the chain of events leading to Thursday's ruling, said the case represents progress, regardless of the result.
"Even if we are not successful, we will have pushed the ball forward," said Newsom, who was testifying to a congressional committee today in Washington, D.C., and scrapped a planned trip to Chicago to return to San Francisco on Thursday.
The case began in February 2004, when Newsom told the city clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, saying he doubted the constitutionality of the marriage law. The state's high court halted the weddings a month later, then nullified the marriages in August 2004 and ruled that Newsom lacked the authority to override California law.
The court did not rule on the validity of the law, however, and instead referred the issue to lower courts. Constitutional challenges were immediately filed by 23 couples - including some whose marriages had just been annulled - and by the city of San Francisco.
A Superior Court judge in San Francisco declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional in March 2005. Judge Richard Kramer said the law violated the right to marry the partner of one's choice - a right first established by California's high court in a 1948 ruling allowing interracial marriages - and also constituted sex discrimination.
But a state appeals court upheld the law in October 2006. In a 2-1 ruling, the court said California is entitled to preserve the historic definition of marriage while protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination by granting marital rights to domestic partners, most of whom are same-sex couples.
That is the argument advanced by state Attorney General Jerry Brown's office, which is defending the marriage law in court. Two conservative organizations, the Campaign for California Families and the Prop. 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund, have entered the case and argued that broadening the marriage law to same-sex couples would weaken traditional matrimony.
Massachusetts is the only state whose high court has ruled that the state's constitution gives same-sex couples the right to marry.
The California case is titled In re Marriage Cases, S147999. The ruling will be available at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions.
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問卷 questionairre from Ducky (鴨子)
2008-05-02 11:03:25
Well, it seems like I cannot say no this time!
I wonder I could later forward this questionairre to 8 people! (I am too shy to know or make friends!) Okay, let me try my best! 
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Greg妳被我點到寫問卷啊~鴨子不管啊~我已經被點兩次了~~這次換Greg
而且這次還是加強版~不準妳拒絕囉~因為會被我魯
被點名了~換我來點
遊戲規則：
1.被點到名的人要在自己的部落格裡寫下自己的答案
2.去掉一個自己不喜歡的問題，再補上你自己的一個問題
3.傳給其他8個人，列出8人需要回問題的名字
4.到此8人的部落格中留言通知他們說【你被點名了】
5.被點名的人不可以拒絕回答問題，若完成遊戲的人會得到眾人的祝福
6.被點到名的8人在自己的部落格註明是在哪裡接收到的
7.收到的8人，要繼續傳給其他人，但不能回傳，讓遊戲繼續下去
8.完成遊戲的人，你們的願望在不久的未來將都會被實現
點名人：1.想要成家嗎?
A： yes (I already did)2.想要小孩嗎?
A： yes (my wife and I have "bunch" of kids (kittens))3.下輩子你想當什麼?
A：My wife's husband4.你最想去哪個地方?為什麼?
A： Taiwan (this is where my wife is)5.最受不了自己哪個缺點?
A：too shy6.如果有不開心的事，你會怎麼辦?
A： call my wife/friends7.最害怕失去的東西?
A： my wife8.喜歡當男人還是女人?
A： man (my wife's hubby)9.如果你是個大胖子你會怎麼辦?
A： I already am and I guess nothing I could do!10.如果你有個朋友很像外星人你心裡會怎麼想?
A： that is nice to have a friend so unique11.如果可以回到過去，你會做什麼?
A： to meet my wife when she was a teentager (so we can "date/meet" much earlier)12.你將會如何向喜歡的人告白呢？
A： I already did. (I wrote email to ask my wife to marry me)13.誰曾經做過讓你最感動的事，什麼事?
A： my wife, the first time she said she loves me.14.如果到了30歲結婚前夕被男友(女友)拋棄，你會怎麼做?
A： stay home and suffer.15. What is your favor color and why?
A： blue, it means calm, cool and harmony.
16.我現在最希望是?
A： US Federal governemnt will pass the same sex marriage law17.現在最想買的東西
A： wii18. 最近做過最呆的事
A： watching last friends the whole day19.如果你現再有一百萬，你會做什麼?
A： pay off my credit card, my house payment and have vacation with my wife20.請問你交了男朋友(女朋友)你會變怎樣?
A： I already did, I became very shy and gentle!21.現在最想說的話:
A： I love you so much, babe. (babe is my wife)
