Tommy Karr

Category: Social

  • Idaho Republicans’ Push to Overturn Marriage Equality: A Social and Economic Misstep

    Idaho Republicans have introduced a resolution urging the Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality, claiming that marriage should be defined as between one man and one woman. This discriminatory move not only endangers LGBTQ+ rights but also risks economic consequences and reflects a disconnect with public opinion, which overwhelmingly supports marriage equality.

  • Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Facebook and Instagram

    I’ve been wrestling with this decision for a while now, but I’ve finally reached a point where I feel I need to speak out and take action. While I’m not able to fully delete my accounts because I need access to manage work-related pages, I will no longer post or respond on my personal page.…

  • Subway Etiquette Fail

    Politeness: A Lost Art? (or, Is It “Manspreading” When A Woman Does It?)

    I’m completely opposed to, what the media has deemed, “manspreading” on the subway, but let’s not pretend this is a “mens only” club. As I boarded the F train at Delancey/Essex moments ago I found what should have been a seat. On a seat designed for three people sat, left to right, an elderly woman with her…

  • Did One Person’s Narrow Mind Open Up on Twitter Last Night?

    UPDATE: Lindsay Smith has posted on her own blog about her experience in the back-and-forth that occurred (and will no doubt continue to occur with others) on Twitter. Check it out here! ORIGINAL POST: Last night, a Twitter exchange began between an LGBT advocate and, probably bored, high schoolers who were, again, probably, looking for…

  • NYC Subway Sign by Irina Slutsky

    NYC and the Case of the Missing Consideration

    Greg Savage just shared, on The Huffington Post, his article “How did it get to be ‘OK’ for people to be late for everything?” (originally written in his blog on June 7, 2013). In it he decries the late-arriver. “In recent years it seems that a meeting set to start at 9 am, for some…

  • Jane Elliott and the Brown Eyes vs. the Blue Eyes; Equality Simplified

    I’m embarrassed to say I had never heard of Jane Ellliott and her Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes experiment until I stumbled across it on Reddit today, but having just watched this 14:37 clip of the 1970 Peabody Award-winning filmThe Eye of Storm (made for ABC News and later included in the 1984 documentary A Class Divided) I am…

  • Schnipper’s Supports Marriage Equality USA!

    Just found this on Schnipper’s Facebook page and can’t offer them enough kudos for taking this action! Help us support Marriage Equality. Throughout the month of August, we will donate $1.00 from every purchase of a Schnipper’s Chicken Filet Sandwich to Marriage Equality USA (a non-profit whose mission is to secure legally recognized civil marriage…

  • Whitebriar Bed & Breakfast Tells Woman “Guess That’s Why God Invented AIDS”

    Thanks to Jeremy at GoodAsYou for sharing this shocking story. I am once again shocked at the hypocrisy of someone spewing bigotry in the name of “Christianity”. After Joianne Fraschilla posted on Facebook how she was saddened that Whitebriar Bed & Breakfast of Edgewater, NJ was promoting anti-LGBT through their yard marquee she received the following response from the proprietress.…

  • Christ Just Can’t Get a Break on Broadway

    I’m sure it is nothing.  Maybe just happenstance… an unexpected alignment in the universe… if anything, but this year’s confluence of Christian influenced (I’d be pressed to say “themed”) Broadway musicals have had a rough few days. First (June 12), Godspell announced it was closing after it’s June 24th performance. Next (June 19) came word…