? WEDDING PRESENCE
Today dozens of gay and lesbian couples in Illinois are planning on filing lawsuits claiming the state?s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional because it denies due process and equality.Lambda Legal and The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois are working on two different suits, representing couples from around the state?including Tanya Lazaro and Elizabeth Matos, who have been together for 15 years and have two children. The hope is the cases will wind their way up to the Illinois Supreme Court.
A measure eliminating Illinois? ?one man, one woman definition? of marriage is before the State Legislature, but a vote isn?t expected before they break for summer recess this week.? And like many same-sex couples in the The Prairie State, Lazaro and Matos aren?t satisfied with the limited protections offered by civil unions.
?It?s not the same thing as a marriage. We want our relationship, our love and our commitment we?ve shown for 15 years to be recognized like everybody else?s,? says Lazaro, a Chicago police detective. ?When you?re growing up, you don?t dream of civil unions.?
Not everyone is rooting the couples on, of course: Conservatives, who tried to block even civil unions last year, are opposed to the judiciary making a decision on the issue: ?The courts shouldn?t mandate it. Nobody should mandate homosexual marriage,? said Concerned Women for America?s Colleen Nolen.
Ugh, is it too late to repeal women?s right to vote?
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So I started with perpetual man-child Michael J Fox and Bright Lights Big City ? unfortunately not a hidden gem beneath a terrible name, like the folk band titled My Left Foot or the-porn-version-has-the-same-name A Few Good Men. Kiefer Sutherland (this time torturing people with his impossibly large hair) and MJF having parties and family issues alike is pleasant, but it?s easy to see why it?s not a stone cold classic. I blame the lack of teenage werewolves.
Then continuing with the Back to the Future theme, we had Marty McFly?s mum Lea Thompson in Casual Sex? (in fact, everyone did). Surprisingly, the name isn?t the worst thing about this film (I?ve had an inherent mistrust of punctuated movie titles since Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot). It?s either the talking head gender clich?s, the leather jacket worn by ?The Vin Man? or the fact there?s a character called ?The Vin Man?. If you?re expecting Casual Sex? to be provocative, you?ll find more sexiness depicted on standard bus stop knob graffiti.
Which led me onto My Beautiful Laundrette. Not being an aficionado of landmark gay cinema, I had to rely on the lure of it being Stephen Frears? (surely there?s a queen/The Queen joke in there?) first global hit. It?s also so early that its star Daniel Day-Lewis was still a cockney (?I tiddly-wink your milkshake!?).
UFC president Dana White is done with Jason "Mayhem" Miller. After losing to C.B. Dollaway in a bout that was booed for being less than thrilling and an unknown backstage incident, White said Miller is no longer with the UFC.
