Linkage for 6-12-09
Jun 12th, 2009 by Viviane
Happy Loving Day!
DOJ Abortion Violence Suits Cratered Under Bush:
“From 2000 until 2008, during the eight years of the Bush administration, the Justice Department filed only one civil case under the FACE Act. From 1994 until 1999, in contrast, in just five years of the Clinton administration, the Department filed 17 civil cases under the FACE Act — in addition to its much heavier load of criminal cases that we’ve reported before.” (via @chelseagsummers)
GodzillaBukkake (via @monochrom)
15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People (Alternet):
“We often don’t realize that sex regulations extend beyond archaic blue laws banning things like having sex in a toll booth, or forbidding sororities on the basis that women living together constitute a brothel. Such prohibitions may remain on the books, but people seldom, if ever, face charges for breaking them. The sex laws that do get enforced every day tend to be a lot less laughable.” [via @raquelita]
Gay Crawler Gay Crawler is an LGBT search engine that provides users access to more than 25,000 user submitted sites and reviews in more than 327 categories of specific interest to the community. (via Queers United)
And you thought getting dumped via Facebook was bad (via @mollena)
Picturing Sex: An article about the curator for the Kinsey Institute’s juried art show (online galleries):
“It’s about personal background, what society and culture did you grow up in, the mores and values of your world. I tried to be as objective as possible but I knew there would be times when my life story would enter into how I look at things and what kind of art I like.” (via @livingsexuality)