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• 20 Photos From Mayor Ed Murray's Rally to Celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Marriage Equality

  27-06-2015 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  My favorite photo from the whole day yesterday. Is that Seattle's Mayor KISSING HIS HUSBAND RIGHT ON THE LIPS—RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE?!? Why, yes, yes it is! Kelly O
  Singing "We Are The Champions" by Queen works at almost every sporting event. It was so much sweeter here. People cried. I wish Freddie Mercury had lived to see this day. Kelly O
  Ooh, Harvey Milk woulda loved to see this victory too. Kelly OLove wins. This time. Kelly O
  It's still so important to vote. There's still so much
  
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• Guest Editorial: Hasn't Brian Williams Suffered Enough? By Brian Williams

  27-06-2015 23:14 via thestranger.com
  
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  This has been a difficult year for our troubled nation, and I don't think I have to tell you that it doesn't show signs of getting any easier. Racial injustice, climate change, the corporate sleeper hold on the political system—more and more, we've come to accept these dreadful realities as a given, the price of doing business for a crumbling empire set to the percussive soundtrack of late-stage capitalism's death rattle.
  It's not my nature to be a Gloomy Gus
  
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• Accept the Apology, Already—Even Internet Homophobes Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt Sometimes

  27-06-2015 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Sometimes people learn and grow because they actually learn and grow.
  I couldn't pick Iggy Azalea out of a lineup. Don't know who she is, never heard her music, not following her on social media. But here's something I learned about Azalea after two minutes on Tumblr: The Australian rapper is insanely, rabidly, outrageously homophobic. The proof? These tweets:
  "When guys whisper in each others ears I always think its kinda homo."
  "Wondered why my butt felt like it was about 2 grow legs, flip me
  
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• White House Lights Up for Pride

  27-06-2015 04:58 via thestranger.com
  
  America should be very proud. #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/qH1OA1BV2j— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 27, 2015If you had told me in 1986—when gay men were dying in droves and no one gave a shit—that the White House would... look like this one day. I wouldn't have believed you. I would've slapped you. #ItGetsBetter.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• You Need to Watch President Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pickney Today in South Carolina

  27-06-2015 02:48 via thestranger.com
  
  In addition to singing "Amazing Grace"—with the choir, the surprised people on the dais, the whole crowd then joining in with him—he spoke about history:
  Reverend Pinckney once said, "Across the South, we have a deep appreciation of history — we haven't always had a deep appreciation of each other's history." (Applause.) What is true in the South is true for America. Clem understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other. That my liberty depends on yo
  
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• Kacey Musgraves Sings "Follow Your Arrow" to Celebrate Marriage Equality at NPR's Tiny Desk Concert

  27-06-2015 02:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Kasey Musgraves supports the kissing of boys and/or girls. s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
  What a great day. The Supreme Court of the United States finally voted for Marriage Equality in all 50 States.In celebration, country star Kacey Musgraves took advantage of her Tiny Desk Concert at NPR to sing "Follow Your Arrow"—an anthem for getting together with whoever the hell you feel like.This particular track is off 2013's Same Trailer Different Park, but she released sophomore album Pageant Mate
  
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• VIDEO: Mayor Ed Murray's Remarks on Historic Marriage Equality Decision

  27-06-2015 02:20 via thestranger.com
  
  We dish out plenty of criticism to Mayor Not-Mike-McGinn and tunnel-loving, NIMBY-defending Council Member Tom Rasmussen. And certainly, they still have a lot of work to do.
  But I could watch their remarks responding to this morning's SCOTUS decision all day. Now you can, too."This journey has been historic," Murray said. "It has been long. It has not been easy, and it has often been painful. But we are here today because of the courageous families—gay, lesbian, transgender, and straight&
  
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• Yacht Rock is 10 Years Old

  27-06-2015 01:42 via thestranger.com
  It's been a decade already?
  The hilarious 10-part series of videos that changed a lot of things about comedy, entertainment, music culture, video distribution, and the kind of clothes young people think it's ok to wear in public, was released 10 years ago today, according to an oral history published in Rolling Stone. Like everyone, I was a great admirer of this series and subsequent viewings bear out its elemental brilliance. (If you haven't revisited these vids in a while, what are you waiting
  
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• Things Get Weird in The Overnight

  27-06-2015 00:32 via thestranger.com
  
  “Yeah, you two should totes come over to my place.”
  Have you guys ever had those nights where you stick around some probably horrible people because you're already kinda drunk and there might be fun drugs coming and if nothing else this could make for a good story? Now imagine doing that in your mid-30s, at your kid's first playdate in a new town. Welcome to The Overnight.
  Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) are two white people who, along with their kid, have recently mov
  
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