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Police Bring Wedding Cakes For Wisconsin Gay Couples: Today In Gay

Wisconsin became the latest state to legalize marriage equality this week, but couples in a rush to tie the knot didn't have time to plan their ideal nuptials.

Fortunately, some police officers in Madison, Wisconsin, showed up with wedding cake for the newly married couples. The Daily Citizen reported that officers Matt Kenny, Sue Carnell, and Zach Kimbrew saw the party at the City-County Building and came back with three cakes from HyVee.

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"We don't tolerate bias and bigotry in the department, and assignments are assignments," said SLCPD spokesperson Lara Jones. "To allow personal opinion to enter into whether an officer will take a post is not something that can be tolerated in a police department."

Some 30 officers were assigned to oversee  traffic and security for the Utah Pride Parade today. The unnamed officer who refused  has been put on paid administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation.

Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank has marched in the parade previously, and three deputy chiefs will march Sunday while he is out of town.


Joachim Phoenix is partnering with the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding and the nonprofit Be More Heroic to produce Camp: The Documentary, which will follow LGBT teens and other youth as they attend Camp More, a weeklong youth-leadership retreat in Big Bear, California, next month.

“We are excited to bring our long-time dream of a summer camp to life, so that our youth will learn valuable leadership tools to create more social change," says Kayce Brown, a BMH board member and co-founder of GaymerX. "It's important that we shoot Camp as a documentary to go outside of our comfort zones and provoke audiences to be more heroic.”

If you want to help bring this film some much needed support, a Indiegogo campaign was launched last week.


Speaking of documentaries, Before You Know It chronicles the lives of three out gay senior citizens—Dennis, Ty and Robert—as they navigate life and love in their golden years.

Dennis is a gentle-hearted widower in his 70s who begins exploring his sexual identity and fondness for dressing in women’s clothing under the name “Dee.” Ty is an impassioned LGBT activist who hears nothing but wedding bells once gay marriage passes in New York. Robert “The Mouth” is a feisty bar owner who presses on when his neighborhood institution comes under threat.

Born before the Civil Rights era, these men have witnessed unbelievable change in their lifetimes, from the Stonewall Riots and gay liberation, to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and Queer Nation, to gay marriage and Lady Gaga, and have lived to become part of an unprecedented “out” elder generation.

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