Lucky 7: Our Seventh Year in Review

The 2008 elections filled our hearts with hope even while the economic downturn emptied our pockets. We spoke out against corporate greed, fought for our right to marry and shamed those that would hold us down into becoming more tolerant. A crane collapsed in Manhattan; a plane landed in the Hudson River and justice prevailed with the country’s first transgender-related hate crime conviction. Here is a look back at the past year and the events that most affected us.

WW. EIGHT AIN’T ENOUGH

Like a roadside tragedy, the media couldn’t stop staring at Nadya Suleman, the so-called “Octomom,” who gave birth to octuplets
in January. The unemployed, divorced California woman, who has six previous
children, plans to give the media what they want: she is reportedly fielding options for a reality-TV show. Vivid Entertainment’s offer for Suleman to star in a porn, however, she has declined.


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