Jezebel
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The "Yes On Prop 8" intolerants would like all the protesters to know that Prop 8 "doesn’t discriminate or take rights away from anyone" and that they have no plans to seek to restrict the rights of the LGBT community any further. Marriage isn't any big deal, gay people! California resident Melissa Etheridge disagrees rather vociferously and is contemplating a tax protest, since the state doesn't see fit to recognize her as deserving of equal rights. Go Melissa! [AFP, Yes On 8, Daily Beast]
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"Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday at the culmination of a labor protest that brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth," reports CNN. Sounds funny, but the costumes were actually a great way for workers to call attention to their plight. Maids, bell hops, cooks and dishwashers from three Disney-owned hotels claim that Disney's latest proposal makes health care unaffordable for hundreds of employees and creates an unfair two-tier wage system. Also, Disney allegedly wants to create a new category of part-time employees who would receive greatly reduced benefits. Life is not Fantasia, you can't expect a broom to sweep itself and not need a primary care physician. [CNN]
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Unconditional Love Can Make A Jezebel Cry
On Saturday in Florida, PFLAG staged a small protest outside of an "ex-gay" seminar being held by a group called, completely unironically, "Love Won Out," which is naturally funded by fundie group Focus on the Family. The group encourages parents to bring their teenage and pre-teen children to be "fixed" because, as they told PFLAG participants, it's not that they think that gay people choose to be gay, any more than alcoholics or kleptomaniacs choose to be that way, but you can learn to act "normal." Anyway, rather than showing the crying children being led into a church to be taught how foul and amoral they are, click the picture to see a video of a lot of older people talking about their unconditional love and support for their children. [Bilerico Project]
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The Beauty Of War
Lush is trying to start a revolution in the bath: They're calling their latest fizzing bath product a "ballistic," and have named the product Guantanamo Garden. "When immersed in water, each product releases a photograph of Sami Al Haj or Binyam Mohamed, who are prisoners at Guantanamo, and information on how to learn more about the human rights charity Reprieve," reports WWD. Which is, um, a little hardcore for bath time. [WWD, sub req'd]
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