“When you have a minority group who are targeted by hate crimes and violence, it is the duty of the government and elected officials to step up and show respect to that community,” Stevenson said.
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Read it here: Full Islamic Society of Greater OKC statement on Orlando attack
This heinous act contradicts the Holy Month plus the very teachings and practices of Islam. This is against our beliefs.
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Read it here: Full OKC Pride statement on OKC Pride events and Orlando nightclub attack
Pride was born of a need to stand up against oppression, discrimination and to fight for equality.
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What better way to celebrate your freedom than grilling it to perfection over an open flame? We’ve combed local meat markets for the best ingredients.
What better way to celebrate your freedom than grilling it to perfection over an open flame? We’ve combed local meat markets for the best ingredients.
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Throwing stones at glass houses
“Everybody understands terrorism destroys people’s lives, it destroys property. All I meant was, all I was saying was the homosexual agenda is destroying people’s lives. I never meant to call them terrorists,” Kern said in defense of her beliefs. And then … and then she said that disagreeing with her belief is akin to being […]
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Women in Oklahoma lawsuit to allow gay marriage will be in OKC on Saturday
Mary Bishop, Sharon Baldwin, Sue Barton and Gay Phillips, all of Tulsa, sued the state and federal governments for the right to marry and for recognition of the marriages of same-gender couples nearly a decade ago. “It is expected that matters surrounding the state’s same-sex constitutional marriage ban will begin to move very quickly in […]
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Oklahoma’s public defenders
I remember when public airwaves were made available for public good, to inform us about what was going on in the world, not to tell us what we were supposed to think about it. The celebrity culture of broadcasting has changed this, combing news and editorial comment (My Two Cents, et al.), along with the […]
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Doubting Pokes
T. Boone Pickens OSU uber-booster T. Boone Pickens, who was not implicated, said he was “disappointed” in the magazine’s reporting, which details allegations of players and recruits receiving improper payments, academic misconduct, drug abuse and inappropriate sexual conduct between football recruits and members of OSU’s hostess program, Orange Pride. “Many of the sensational allegations go […]
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OkC pride Week!
A host of activities this week celebrate OKC’s annual Pride Week, including: —OKC Pride Block Party, from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at the N.W. 39th Street Strip, featuring entertainment, music and a crawfish boil; —the family-friendly OKC Pride Festival, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at downtown’s Film Row, featuring entertainment, food and […]
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Pioneering pride
Another Pride Week has passed. Never before have we had more of a reason to stand with the LGBT citizens of Oklahoma than now. With the breakthrough of a sitting president endorsing and recognizing the rights of gay citizens to marry and hold the same legal rights as heterosexual couples — for the first time […]