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The big gay shrug

May 27th, 2009 · Comments Off

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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.)

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Hope

February 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

Barack Obama makes me cry with hope.

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