Testimony continues in San Francisco, California, Tuesday, expert witnesses for the prosecution called to the stand. Harvard historian Nancy Cott took the stand in the morning, her testimony crucial to dismantling the theory that the state has a compelling interest in protecting and restricting marriage to heterosexual couples because the purpose of marriage is to procreate. George Chauncey, a Yale professor and expert on the history of discrimination against gays and lesbians testified this afternoon, Chauncey critical to establishing that homosexuals should be a protected class under the federal constitution. Cross examination by the defense will continue Wednesday morning. Also Wednesday, and perhaps more important for the moment, the United States Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to lift its temporary stay banning cameras from the trial and to permit the recording and uploading of the trial to YouTube, or extend the order.
In Iowa Tuesday, a petition containing over 18,000 signatures collected by supporters of gay marriage was delivered to state legislators. The petition urges lawmakers not to defer to anti-gay marriage proponents and pass an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman. They also delivered a list of some 71 church, community, and labour organizations that concur. A counter protest of sorts was also held in front of the state capital buildings by opponents of gay marriage who want a voter referendum to be held.
More indication that Uganda President Yoweri Museveni intends to either diminish or dismiss entirely the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, Museveni understanding that the horrific bill would not merely compromise the human rights of homosexuals in the African country, but would compromise foreign aid Uganda so desperately requires.
Photographer Rick Day is releasing a new book, the collection titled Players, a look at Day’s fascination with athletic imagery, the preview NSFW.
The campaign for the ES spring and summer 2010 swimwear collection, the preview also NSFW.
Thad Castle stars in a new Spike television comedy – Blue Mountain State – the series about the sexual escapades of a small, fictional college football team, which seems to be about little more than nubile, sweaty young men in jockstraps, not, naturally, that there is anything wrong with that.
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