At 9:08 PM on April 22, 1994, Richard Milhous Nixon died at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. Four days earlier, the 81-year-old former President had suffered a massive stroke at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, and swelling in his brain left him in a deep coma….
18 
“It’s so easy that when you begin you can’t stop.”
im gonna die omfg
“Wipe down all surfaces with a clean cloth”
“In fines Belgarum contendet” or in english, “He will strain in the edges of Belgium”
“But the corpse never answered him a word”
“Teresa comienza a bajarse del Castillo.” (Teresa begins to get off the castle.)“Cuz then or course I was born and everything changed.”
What
“Opportunity for advancement and job security tend to be slim or nonexistent”
oh
i guess thats what i get for not putting my feminist school book away.
“He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment’s warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death.”
woah..
:(…. “Swit issued $33 million of stock and paid dividends of $8 million.”
What?… I guess that could work.
“It was the finest entertainment I ever saw overseas.” WTH. That just ain’t right.
Beautiful message from a straight man who supports MARRIAGE EQUALITY. Photo was taken at the Defense of Marriage Act rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington DC, 3/27/17.
Photo: Gay Marriage USA
“Same Love” - Macklemore feat. Mary Lambert
KNOWhomo is looking for SUBMISSIONS!
Hello Fabulous and Fantastic Family and Friends,
We’re working on a project and we’d love for YOU, yes YOU, to be part.
Everyone is talkin’ about equality and marriage. Talking. And talking. And screaming occasionally. And talking.
Well, how about we give them some people to look at? Some faces in the crowd?
The KNOWhomo family would like to add faces to the debate and show how we love, support, feel, embrace, and exist, all the while, singing Macklemore’s “Same Love” at the top of our lungs.
The project?
We are trying to collect photographs from people who would like to be part of the website’s Equality/Support video. The photos submitted will be added into a video with “Same Love” playing behind it.
We are currently looking for more, diverse photographs.
We’d love to show photographs of you with friends, allies showing support, and pictures of your commitment ceremony. We’d like to add photographs of fun first dates, pride events, and moments caught between you and those you love (all G/PG rated). We’d love to splice in photographs of PFLAG members and GSAs.
***Please just make sure everyone featured in the photograph has your permission to submit it before doing so.
We are also looking for photographs that highlight lyrics in the song.
If you’d like to be a part, please send us your photograph via SUBMISSIONS or to our email, knowhomo@gmail.com by Saturday, 8am EST.
Please feel free to pass this project on.
Thank you for your time and you participation. Keep On, Keeping On!
-Rebecca
“Same Love”
(with Ryan Lewis)
(feat. Mary Lambert)When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay
‘Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight
I told my mom tears rushing down my face
She’s like “Ben you’ve loved girls since before pre-k tripping, “
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn’t she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, “Yeah, I’m good at little league”
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing God, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don’t know
And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don’t know
And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
I can’t change
Even if I try
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
“Man, that’s gay” gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we’re saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don’t have acceptance for ‘em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It’s the same hate that’s caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren’t anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that’s not important
No freedom till we’re equal, damn right I support it
(I don’t know)
And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
We press play, don’t press pause
Progress, march on
With the veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law
When kids are walking ‘round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn’t gonna solve it all
But it’s a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it’s all the same love
About time that we raised up
And I can’t change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
I can’t change
Even if I try
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I’m not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
Love is kind
1721 Why history is important to me, summed up in four images.
I love this “Know Where You Stand” deal.
(Source: photojojo, via crunchmonster)
2013: A meteor’s debris crashes into a Russian city, injuring 1,000 and frightening kindergarteners.
1954: Ann Hodges, a Georgia housewife, just wanted to take a nap when suddenly a meteor rock fell through her living room window and made her the first American to be hit by a space rock.
eek! this happened on the same day 59 years apart!
(via pbsthisdayinhistory)
Over five years together. My Carlitos (right) & I (left). I drive him crazy, but I’m just crazy in love. He’s my best friend, my rock and he’s gonna hate that I posted this. Oh well, sometimes I need to proclaim my love a little louder than usual. :)
So yeah, my impatient ass submitted twice. Whoops. Haha. As much as I love my Boyfriend though, it can be posted twice… it can be posted a million times and it still wouldn’t do it justice. :)
I am proud and excited to share with everyone the cover to my new book, TRIBUTES AND TRASH TALK: What Our Presidents Said About Each Other, which will be available this week on Amazon.
I’m also incredibly fortunate to have had the immensely talented and all-around amazing Betsy Dye design the cover, which is beyond anything I could have imagined, let alone created myself. Betsy’s on Tumblr and currently putting together her graphic design website portfolio. Artistically, she is a magician. Betsy also happens to be the personification of the words “lovely” and “awesome”.
More to come this week as we approach the release date of TRIBUTES AND TRASH TALK!
i want, i want, i want!!
I submitted this before I knew what I was doing with Tumblr. Haha. It’s a good picture of Carlos and I though. :) I was impatient and thought it didn’t upload, hope they don’t post the second one, I’d look kinda dumb submitting two! Ha!This is Carlos and I, him on the right and myself on the left. Five years and then some and just as in love as the first day. Never believed in love at first sight until him. And I fall all over again every time I see him.
With all the rain and sun we’ve had here in San Francisco over the past couple of weeks, rainbows have been a daily occurrence. This one happen to terminate right on The Castro flag this morning (click detail photo.)
This makes me smile.
(via sufferingsardines)
LGBTQ* History You Should Know
Paragraph 175 & Pink Triangle History
PARAGRAPH 175 — German Criminal Code
May 1871 - March 1994. From 1871 - 1994, over 130,000 men were held/charged with violation of Paragraph 175. For 123 years, this code criminalized homosexual acts between two men in Germany. It was with this law that homosexuals were persecuted during WWII in concentration camps.
PINK TRIANGLE — Color & shape given to gay/bisexual men in the concentration camps
Want to know more?
A Survivor’s Story — Read Here
Paragraph 175 — Read Here
Pink Triangle History — Read Here
(Upsetting) Post-Camp History — Read Here
Pink Triangle Memorial — Read Here
Theatre/Play about Pink Triangles: Bent — Read Here
Graphic Novel, including a Hitler Youth Homosexual Relationship — Read Here
