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A lesbian-owned maternity shop in Brooklyn's Park Slope is offering a discount to lesbian moms only, although the owner doesn't ask patrons to "prove" that they are gay.
While a few people have looked "questioningly" at the placard advertising the unique discount, Paperno says the overall response to the lesbians-only promo is positive. "People are tickled by it," Paperno says, "And I love that response more than anything. It's fun." While some people may not share Paperno's sense of humor, she says her "girl's club" discount is one of the perks of running her own store. "It's not politically correct," Paperno acknowledges with a laugh, "but neither am I. Never have been, never will be. This is my store, and I can choose to do this discount for the people who need it most."The Freepers are having a field day with this one.
An openly gay Brooklyn man required ten hours of surgery and three metal plates in his face after a February 22nd anti-gay attack by a group of six teenagers. Via yesterday's Brooklyn Paper:
Barie Shortell, 29, was on N. Fourth Street on Feb. 22 at around 10:10 pm when he brushed past six teenagers wearing hooded sweatshirts. “Oh s–t, is that a guy or a girl?” one of the teens yelled. Shortell thought to himself that the slur was “juvenile,” but he crossed to Wythe Avenue just to be safe. But the group followed and shoved Shortell against a wall, fracturing his jaw, nose and eye sockets. He has no recollection of the attack. “I feel pretty confident they perceived me as a gay man and attacked me, but I can’t understand why they did what they did,” said Shortell. “I looked horrible. Blood was everywhere.”At the insistence of the NYC Anti-Violence Project, the police have classified the attack as a hate crime, although no suspects have been apprehended. Today the AVP issued a press release denouncing the recent spate of hate crimes in NYC, which have taken lives in Staten Island and Queens this month.
The AVP points out a coming fundraiser for the above victim, who has no medical insurance. "The Barie Response is organizing a benefit for Barie to assist him in paying his medical bills. The benefit will be at on Wednesday March 23, from 7PM to 10PM at Blackout Bar, 916 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. While AVP is not sponsoring the benefit, we will be present to provide safety and outreach information." You can donate directly via the above link.
[Image via Advocate]
When did Topher Grace get so hawt? By the way, the original Don't You Want Me came out thirty freakin' years ago. Now help Paw-Paw to his rocker.
According to Buzzfeed, the latest silly trend in Brooklyn is the catpack - a meshed backpack for carrying your kitty around town. Sometimes I feel bad that Shelley never gets out of my tiny apartment, but I'm very confident that if I tried this with her, the screaming would be heard from here to Harlem. Maybe these are just for trips to the vet?
"There is no possible medical, nonsexual assistance that a partially naked person could possibly be rendering to another naked person in the position described." - New York state arbitrator Mary Crangle, ruling that two female high school teachers had been fucking in an empty Brooklyn classroom. The teachers claimed that one had been feeling faint from low blood sugar and the other was just, you know, making her comfortable. Both have been terminated.
