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A highlight of Scotland’s cultural Olympiad programme, Speed of Light is part sporting event, part performance art. Thousands of runners wearing special energy-harvesting suits will light up Arthur’s Seat as they make their way up the famous hill, every night for three weeks from 10 August-2 September - as featured in our cultural holiday planner for 2012
Gorgeous.
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Interviewer: I certainly don’t see Gwyneth Paltrow as punk rock.
MS: Look closer.
Michael Stipe Is Not Grumpy - NYTimes.com
Amazing.
The Maccabees - Pelican
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Some have suggested that gay rights and human rights are separate and distinct; but, in fact, they are one and the same. Now, of course, 60 years ago, the governments that drafted and passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were not thinking about how it applied to the LGBT community. They also weren’t thinking about how it applied to indigenous people or children or people with disabilities or other marginalized groups. Yet in the past 60 years, we have come to recognize that members of these groups are entitled to the full measure of dignity and rights, because, like all people, they share a common humanity.
This recognition did not occur all at once. It evolved over time. And as it did, we understood that we were honoring rights that people always had, rather than creating new or special rights for them. Like being a woman, like being a racial, religious, tribal, or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
