jamiatt:

Paperback launch party June 6.

Free drinks from Tumblr!

Featuring THE MIDDLESTEINS ALL-STARS:

Jason Diamond (Vol 1. Brooklyn/Flavorpill)
Ophira Eisenberg (Screw Everyone, NPR’s Ask Me Another)
Emily Gould (And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Books)
Rachel Fershleiser (Tumblr Lit Goddess, Six-Word Memoirs)
Maris Kreizman (Slaughterhouse 90210)
Beth Lisick (Everybody into the Pool)
Rosie Schaap (Drinking with Men, NYT Mag’s Drink Columnist)
Bex Schwartz (TeenNick)

I expect nothing less than free cars from Tumblr for everyone who attends.

rosalindrobertson:

Gawker is crowdsourcing TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to pay off the drug dealers who have a video that allegedly shows the mayor of my city smoking crack.

And I think everyone in this city should ask - How DARE you?

Let me talk to you a second about drugs, criminality, poverty, gangs and guns….

“This rampant stupidity has only managed to elicit one base emotion in me that I can only express by saying - to Gawker and to each one of you who has donated - Fuck you all. And go to hell.”

Well said.

(via runningmule)

tylercoates:

Dear Center Community,

I know you share my sadness and outrage at the recent string of anti-gay violence gripping our city, including the horrific murder of 32-year old Mark Carson on Friday night, just blocks from the Center. I want you to know that the Center is committed to standing with community partners and leaders, and doing everything in our power to respond and denounce this wave of violence against our community.

On Monday evening we will gather on the steps of the Center, along with the Anti-Violence Project, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, community members, other elected officials, and LGBT community leaders and allies, and march to the site of Friday’s shooting to demand an end to hate crimes against our community. At the end of the march, we will rally to denounce hate violence, call for justice and to mourn the death of Mark Carson. Please join us, and help spread the word.

New York is our city, and we aren’t going backward. Join us on Monday evening to honor Mark and help ensure everyone hears our message.

In solidarity,
Glennda Testone
Executive Director

MARCH AND RALLY IN RESPONSE TO LGBT HATE CRIMES – Monday, May 20th at 5:30 p.m. beginning at the Center, 208 W 13th Street, and proceeding to West 8th Street and 6th Avenue.

I was incredibly moved by Saturday night’s vigil in memory of Mark Carson, who was randomly and brutally murdered on a busy street corner in the West Village in the early hours of Saturday morning. I was simultaneously disappointed that more people didn’t show up. When something like this happens, it’s disheartening to look at the lack of response from the straight community, who tend to lend their support for the LGBT community when it comes down to the populist causes and when the Pride Parade rolls down Christopher Street. (I get it: weddings and dance parties are fun, murder and disease and addiction are not.)

I’m trying my best to keep my anger at a minimum, because rage never really inspires much of anything positive, at least from me. But this is happening IN OUR CITY, in a neighborhood that is populated by straight and gay people alike, and when a young gay man of color is gunned down in the street by a stranger simply because he was gay, THERE IS A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. 

It’s hard to believe that this has happened, that it’s the fourth hate crime directed toward gay men this month in Manhattan, the second to take place in the West Village (and those are the attacks that are reported). It leaves me flabbergasted. I have been lucky and have never found myself uncomfortable or afraid that I couldn’t walk down the street either with my friends or with my boyfriend. I regularly hold Andrew’s hand in New York City, as I should be allowed to do without being afraid that someone will take offense that I’m able to do anything that would be seen as normal if we were a man and a woman. 

Perhaps I am being naive, but it’s an increasing shame that more people aren’t FUMING about this. I encourage my gay friends to say that to their straight friends, to make sure this isn’t seen as a problem that affects a small percentage of the community. We are your family members, your loved ones, your friends, and the straight community’s near-silence is incredibly disappointing.

I know the news that Tumblr was bought by Yahoo is surely inciting some crazy reaction .gifs this morning, but perhaps you’d consider sharing this news instead? 

zackcelebration:

Hey. Look. It’s the piece I wrote for Talkhouse. It’s raining and that stupid foodie festival got rained out, so what a wonderful opportunity to read about my dreams getting rained out by the cleansing shower of the world’s indifference.

You’ll want to read what it’s like to be in a band by the guy who gave us “Every generation gets The National it deserves.”

tylercoates:

A gay man was gunned down in Greenwich Village early today by an armed bigot who hurled homophobic slurs at him — and claimed to be the Newtown, Conn. killer before the murder, police said today.

The 32-year-old Brooklyn victim, whose name has not been released, was walking with a pal on Sixth Avenue near West Eighth Street about midnight when they were approached by three Hispanic males, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

One man snarled homophobic slurs at the men and asked them if they were “gay wrestlers,” Kelly said.

The men continued moving and made a right onto West Eighth Street.

One of the Hispanic men left and the other two continued to follow the victim and another man.

Both the victim and another man with him were wearing tank tops, cutoff shorts and boots.

“Do you want to die here?” the shooter asked the victim.

He pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot him once in the cheek.

“It was a quickie. He shot him and he went straight to the ground,” said a bouncer at a nearby club. “Half his body was lying on the sidewalk and half was on the street.”

The man died shortly after at Beth Israel Hospital.

I am incredibly saddened by this story. This is the fourth hate crime committed against a gay man this month, the second just steps from Stonewall. There will be a candlelight vigil tonight in front of the Gray’s Papaya on 6th Ave and 8th St where the shooting took place. Please come if you can; reblog this even if you can’t make it. We should refuse to live in a place where we can’t walk down the street without being afraid of this happening to us. It’s disgusting and unbelievable.