Unreal catches up with a crystal-meth cooker gone straight, chats with an Andrew W.K.-endorsed candidate and gets local businesses' take on gay marriage; plus we totally freak out about West Nile, and Bill Haas offers something for the ladies
Supporters of gay marriage plan to gather this evening at St. Louis City Hall to voice their concern over a California Supreme Court decision today upholding that state's ban on gay marriage. The rally begins at 5:30 p.m. tonight, and follows a similar downtown gathering last November that drew 1,000 people. Check out showmenohate.blogspot.com for more information.
Is your office like The Office when it comes to attitudes and policies regarding sexual orientation? Well, then, tomorrow is your big day. Pony up $100 and send your boss (and/or ignorant colleagues) to The Diversity Awareness Partnership's workshop, "Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace." The seminar begins tomorrow morning (Tuesday) on the Wells Fargo (formerly AG Edwards) campus in downtown St. Louis. Click here for more information. And now, a lesson from The Office on how n
www.godhatesfags.comOn Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by the state of Missouri, which has a law banning protesters from funerals. Missouri passed the law in 2006 in order to banish the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church from disturbing the peace at military funerals. Westboro's members like to spout off about totally unrelated events and U.S. policies -- gay rights, mainly, hence the church's "godhatesfags" domain name -- while the caskets carrying the m
www.rushlimbaugh.com​Yesterday on his radio program Rush Limbaugh took a few minutes to address the wave of criticism surrounding his potential purchase (with others) of the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh's website has the entire transcript of his talk in a posting titled (meekly): "State-Run Media Scum Smear Rush Using Fabricated Quotes." Here's a taste of the monologue:
Darin Slyman, a.k.a. D-Sly​Apparently there was more to the story we reported last month regarding St. Louis' only LGBT newspaper, The Vital Voice. In September the monthly tabloid published its last issue for 2009. At the time publisher and owner Pam Schneider told Daily RFT the reason was because she needed time to concentrate on a redesign and office move.Turns out, Schneider left out a key detail: she was also selling the newspaper. Effective yesterday, the new owner of the Vital Voice i
