Toronto’s controversial mayor Rob Ford stands alone against proposal to address city’s homeless LGBTQ population

In a 37-to-one vote, Toronto’s City Council resoundingly passed a measure that would seek to aid the city’s homeless LGBTQ population. According to the Toronto Star, “The three-part proposal asks the city’s shelters chief to look into allocating 25 percent of beds in an existing youth shelter to people who identify as LGBTQ2S (lesbian, gay,…

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Greater Fort Lauderdale supports repeal of ban on same-sex marriage in Florida

GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced its unconditional support for the overturning of bans on same-sex marriage in Florida. Florida’s prohibition of same-sex marriages, including a ban on recognizing same-sex marriage performed in states where it is legal, may be repealed this year pending the outcome of two…

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Extant

dvr this CBS, Wednesdays, 9pm The impossibly beautiful and supremely talented Halle Berry comes to TV in a Steven Speilberg-produced sci-fi mystery. She plays an astronaut who spends 18 months alone on a space station and returns to earth pregnant. And she has no idea how. ER vet Goran Visnjic also stars as her husband…

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Under the Skin

dvd of the week With Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer has made an indelible, hypnotic masterpiece of an art film. In dark and rainy Scotland, a particularly vapid Scarlett Johansson drives a van around Edinburgh, stalking men. After she finds a man who is alone, she seduces and when he is completely naked (and often…

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The City: Top to Bottom

thursday, july 10 James Drake: Anatomy of Drawing And Space (Brain Trash) This exhibition is the culmination of two years of active creation, reflecting imagery from throughout the artist’s forty-year career. In 2012, the artist committed himself to drawing every day. Some drawings are immediate, others take days. The resulting 1,242 drawings cull from his…

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