{"id":5471,"date":"2010-02-13T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2010-02-13T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:38:11","slug":"six-years-ago-today-we-fled-to-canada-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/02\/13\/six-years-ago-today-we-fled-to-canada-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Years Ago Today &#8211; We Fled to Canada for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samesexmarriage.ca\/advocacy\/marriage_trail.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/logo.jpg?resize=357%2C59\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">civilmarriagetrail.org <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankjump.com\/frankandenzo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/cityhallkiss.jpg?resize=357%2C410\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Jump, left, kisses his partner Vincenzo Aiosa as they hold their marriage license at city hall in Toronto, Friday Feb. 13, 2004. Jump and Aiosa were one of seven couples from the United States who came to Toronto to get marriage licenses. (AP Photo\/CP, Adrian Wyld)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samesexmarriage.ca\/links\/personal_supporters.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/new_banner_copy.gif?resize=357%2C59\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Same-sex Marriage dot ca<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Thirty years ago, homos had a heart on for promiscuity and the right wing vilified us. Today homos have a heart on for monogamy and marriage and the right wing vilifies us. Let&#8217;s face it. They don&#8217;t like us. We&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re queer &#8211; get on with it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_405\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-405\" title=\"Rottentothe corelogo\" src=\"http:\/\/rantourage.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/rottentothe-corelogo1.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rotten to the core \u00a9 Vincenzo Aiosa<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;text-align:justify;\"><em><span style=\"color:#808000;\">I think it is really <strong>Rotten<\/strong> that we  are still not allowed<span style=\"color:#808000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color:#808000;\"> to get married<\/span> <\/em><em><span style=\"color:#808000;\">in New York State- thanks to a bunch of Republican Assholes in Albany. Also adding to the list of assholes are the Democrats who voted against the bill included Sens. Joseph Addabbo, Shirley Huntley, George Onorato and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, Ruben Diaz Sr. of the Bronx, Darrel Aubertine of the North Country, and William Stachowski of the Buffalo area. &#8211; Vincenzo Aiosa &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/rantourage.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rantourage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Frank Jump and Vincenzo Aiosa got married on Valentine&#8217;s Day, February 14th 2004 in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Thank you Equal Marriage Canada, The Great City and People of Toronto, The Honorable Justice Harvey Brownstone and his partner Marty, and Brendan Fay and Jes\u00fas Lebr\u00f3n!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidstrup.com\/marriage.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gay Marriage &#8211; The Argument &amp; the Motives<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Scott Bidstrup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_5479\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/1102a5DADTGayMarriage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5479\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5479 \" title=\"abc-poll\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/abc-poll.png?resize=500%2C341\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABC Poll<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankjump.com\/stamps3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/dontask.jpg?resize=500%2C708\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fading Ad Campaign \u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/PollingUnit\/poll-support-gays-military-crosses-ideological-party-lines\/story?id=9811516\" target=\"_blank\">Support for Gays in the Military Crosses Ideological, Party Lines Public Remains Divided on Gay Marriage but Growing Majority Favors Same-Sex Civil Unions<\/a> ANALYSIS By MIKE MOKRZYCKI &#8211; Feb. 12, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/PollingUnit\/poll-support-gays-military-crosses-ideological-party-lines\/story?id=9811516\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/gays_military_100128_mn.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(ABC News Photo Illustration)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, homos had a heart on for promiscuity and the right wing vilified us. Today homos have a heart on for monogamy and marriage and the right wing vilifies us. Let&#8217;s face it. They don&#8217;t like us. We&#8217;re here, we&#8217;re queer &#8211; get on with it! I think it is really Rotten that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,442,625,626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-dont-ask-dont-tell","category-gay-nuptuals","category-gay-pride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}