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May 11 2013
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Exactly twenty years after Andrew Sullivan’s seminal essay “The Politics of Homosexuality,” Minnesota state representative Tim Faust (D) delivers an absolutely extraordinary, stirring speech on marriage equality, leading the Minnesota House to pass the same-sex marriage bill with a vote of 79:59.
Well, I have to start by admitting that not too long ago, I probably would have voted ‘no’ on this bill, but in the past there have been a couple things that changed my mind on this… . The question that keeps going through my mind over and over again is, “Do we, as a society, have the right to impose our religious beliefs on somebody else?” A right that I have taken for granted, and most of the people in this room have taken for granted, since the day we realized what the opposite sex is. That is a right I have taken for granted for a long time, and yet some people, because of others’ religious beliefs, do not have that right.
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Last summer, I got married. And, before that, I had dated a woman for four years. And she was a wonderful woman, and I realized, after four years, that I could’ve married her and I would’ve been happily married to her for the rest of my life. But I also realized I could be happy without her. And I decided, after four years, that I wasn’t going to marry somebody I could live with — if I got married again, it was going to be to somebody I could not live without. And so we broke up.
And in a few months, I met my wife. And it didn’t take me very long to realize this was somebody I could not live without. And how lucky I am, how lucky we are. And yet, in this state, there are people that feel that way about each other, that cannot live without that other person, that feel the same way they do about each other that I feel about my wife — and yet, because of religious beliefs of other people, they do not have the right that I have taken for granted since the day I realized what the opposite sex was.
Wonderfully moving speech.
May 09 2013
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Cleveland, OH | May 9, 2013 I ran into Simonte Bowen as I was wandering around the downtrodden Cleveland neighborhood where Ariel Castro held 3 women prisoner for the last decade. We spoke about the news, about its repercussions for the neighborhood, and life in America in general. After a long talk about cheap tattoos, Simonte asked me whether it was better to enlist in the Navy or Army. He was looking for a better future, and wondered which service would better educate him. It wasn’t about patriotism or war, it was about trying to hold onto the American dream in an area that has felt so hopeless and abandoned. #photojournalism #documentary #reportage #photooftheday #picoftheday #iphoneography #mobilephotography #igers #cleveland #ohio #castro #houseofhorrors #navy #army #tattoo #portrait #streetphotography #america #americandream
Hope.
May 06 2013
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Photograph by Alessio Romenzi
Photojournalism Links: Curated by Mikko Takkunen, a collection of the best photojournalism around the web from the past two weeks.
Good stuff
Jan 12 2013
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Jan 08 2013
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Left in lieu of a tip. Gotta love those Republicans, huh? Share on FB.
Dec 09 2012
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On December 8, 1980, legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz photographed John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the couple’s New York City apartment for Rolling Stone magazine. Though Leibovitz had intended to shoot Lennon alone, insisted Yoko be in the photograph. At the end of the shoot, Lennon said the photograph of him nude curled around his wife “captured our relationship exactly.” Five hours later, he was shot outside of the Dakota Building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Rolling Stone’s used Leibovitz’s photograph as the cover of the January 22, 1981 Lennon tribute issue and in 2005 was names the top cover of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
The iconic photograph can be found in the master-collection Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years.
Dec 07 2012
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