The big gay shrug / Sorry, enemies of gay marriage. Prop 8 or no, you’ve already lost Let us hereby be reminded, before sadness and frustration overwhelm once more: Proposition 8 and its ilk are merely the last, fitful gasps of a long-dying ideology, markers of a certain kind of sad, conservative desperation. They are [...]
The big gay shrug
May 27th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: · current events · lgbt · marriage · politics
Vermont governor vetoes gay marriage
April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you’d like to let Jim Douglas, governor of Vermont, know what you think of his act, he has a contact page on his website.
Tags: · current affairs · gay · glbt · lgbt · marriage · politics
WBC Protest at UChicago
March 10th, 2009 · Comments Off
The Westboro Baptist Church brought their show to campus, leading the student body to a myriad of counter-protests and celebrations of pride and diversity. Whatever the WBC’s goals are, we’ll never know, but the students’ voice was heard loud and clear: “Many identities, one community.” (Hat tip to Scalzi. Photo by froboy licensed under Creative [...]
Tags: · lgbt · politics · religion
Bears hit the mainstream
March 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off
On my flights to and from California, the in-flight entertainment promoted two new TV shows with bearish leading men. Looks like we’re making the mainstream! First, of course, there were Richard Karn in Home Improvement and Kevin James in King of Queens. But now we have two romantic leading men: Kyle Bornheimer in Worst Week [...]
Tags: · bears · lgbt · silliness · television
The geography of intolerance
November 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
California Propostion 8 Election Results. (Edit 12pm: The link went to an interactive map that seems to have gone away. If I find another one, I’ll replace the link later.)
Tags: · lgbt · marriage · politics
Hope
February 28th, 2008 · Comments Off
Barack Obama makes me cry with hope.
Tags: · current affairs · lgbt · politics

