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Actions and Info for Last Day of Pride Month

For the last day of Pride Month, here's a few hits on LGBT issues that we haven't already covered this month.

Lt. Choi's trial is starting, and you can still send a message of support.

Pandagon has a great collection of the administration's responses on DADT.

The Nation says Obama's stance on marriage equality puts him on the wrong side of history.

Was San Francisco's Pride celebration co-opted by corporate sponsors?

Democracy Now!: Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary

Sherry Wolf, author of SEXUALITY AND SOCIALISM: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation, will be speaking at two events this week.
At the Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco:
Friday July 3rd: Prop 8 is Going Down! Winning Equal Marriage in California, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 4: Sexuality and Socialism, 9:30 - 11:00 am More information. 
And with City Lights Wednesday, July 8th at the Women's Building for a Stonewall Anniversary event:
With Tommi Avicolli Mecca, fellow veteran LGBT activist and author of Smash the Church, Smash the State. Moderated by Rose Aguilar, host of KALW's "Your Call"
For more information, visit City Lights.

Last Day to Get Marriage Equality Shirt for Only $10!

If you've been admiring our two-sided Marriage Equality shirt, today is your last chance to pick it up for less than half the normal cost!

Since it's the last day of Pride Month, we'll have this shirt on sale in our store for only $10 through the end of the day!

The shirt's design flatters most figures, and will help spread the word for the upcoming push to undo Prop. 8.

Amazing Girl: Caroline Moore

Here's a great little story about a 14-year-old who discovered a new supernova, the youngest person in history to do so!  It's nice to have had a couple of posts in the last few months highlighting girls in science, and we can only hope that soon it will be common enough to have girls and women making scientific discoveries that we won't have to treat it as special and newsworthy.

Melissa Roxas, Filipina-American Activist and Feminist, In Her Own Words

We've been posting about the Pinay Power 2012 nationwide search for the 100 Filipina women who represent the Filipino American voice. Seems to us that Melissa Roxas is a perfect candidate for the "Nicole" category.

Melissa Roxas' Press Conference (2 of 4): Statement by Melissa Roxas

Disney, Girl Power, and Emily Yeung

I had no idea Disney Playhouse was doing these spots with Emily Yeung. Thanks to Renee of Womanist Musings for introducing me to these. It gives me some hope that Disney may be breaking out of the girl=princess mold.  These spots would actually encourage me to let my daughter watch the Disney Channel!