In May 2008, the California State Supreme Court ruled that gays in California must be able to legally marry, or it would violate the state’s laws.  18,000 couples were married before the very public Prop 8 vote took that right from us.  It was ruled that those 18,000 couples would be allowed to keep [...]

*New Hampshire gays get the right to mind their own business until next January. New Hampshire has had gay marriage for over two years now, and for the foreseeable future, it isn’t going anywhere.  The efforts by some to repeal the toddler-aged marriage law, and make the states that have gay marriage 5 going on [...]

My brother is getting married next month in Lexington, Kentucky, which is just over the riverbed from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lives with his future wife.  My boyfriend and I visited them for Christmas this year, and their lawn looks a lot like these guys’ lawn:   When you watched that video, what did you [...]

  Yeah, those e-books will be the death of the publishing industry and print books as we know it!  What?  I wrote an e-book based on this website?  E-books!  Behold the future! Here’s the deal:  Stay on Fountain is growing.  We’re expanding to bring in more guest writers to make sure you subscribers get new [...]

  *One Million Moms makes a national fool of themselves for the second time this year, and it’s not even Valentine’s Day. One Million Moms stepped up their campaign this year to be America’s Jar Jar Binks, obnoxious, harmless, bumbling and tartly offensive. The one similarity they don’t share with the Binks is they aren’t [...]

A little light reading for this Saturday morning.  And when I say light, I mean an idea that doesn’t take a lot of attention to wrap your mind around.  It’s not even something I’m worked up about.  It’s so ballsy and false, and the people running it so toothless, that I invite you all to [...]

“Someone is on your side, someone else is not.” I had myself a big gay day back in November 2008 when I drove to a No on Prop 8 campaign while sobbing to Stephen Sondheim’s “No One is Alone.”  The song, to the uninitiated, is from the musical Into the Woods, and it’s about reconciling [...]

  D.C. State of the Union time!  It’s like Presidential New Year’s Resolutions.  A lot of news people have blathered that Obama isn’t going to get done practically any of the things he says he’ll get done.  Exactly!  Just like a New Year’s resolution.  But every President does this, promise a whole batch of stuff, [...]

It doesn’t get more personal than marriage.  A personal decision that has serious life reverberations should have a master chef’s balance of seriousness and frivolity.  It’s a marriage, not a land deal (anymore).  A marriage is a song that’s somewhere between the extremes of Edwin McCain’s “I’ll Be” and Harry Belafonte’s “Man Smart, Woman Smarter”. [...]

  If the wind doesn’t change in the next month, Washington State will join Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, New York and Washington D.C. to become the seventh state that holds gay marriage laws.  The House has the votes to approve it, the Governor will sign it, and the Senate yesterday found their 25th [...]

  At 10:00 am Pacific time, the Washington Marriage Equality bill will go before the Senate Committee, followed by its encore appearance at 3:00 pm for the cheap seats in the back (aka the House Committee).  Then, we’re off to the races.  The Seattle Times believes that the one-two-three of this bill’s passage will be fairly [...]

  Washington State is now poised to become the 7th state to have the benefits of Marriage Equality (8, if you count Equality-riddled D.C.).  Governor Gregoire has pushed for the bill, set to be introduced in front of the state congress this Monday.  The house will very easily pass this.  The senate is the last [...]

Written by Guest Writer Michael Russo, Student Nurse   Well, hello there, everyone.  My name is Michael Russo.  I am many things:  former medical student, current nursing student in an accelerated nursing program, foodie, avid Nicholas Sparks reader (yes I read Nicholas Sparks; although the plots are beginning to melt into one and leaving me knowing [...]

  Okay, here we go… MARYLAND! –baton pass– The Governor-backed marriage amendment in the land of crabs, Ravens and shitloads of crack has a long road ahead, as The Washington Post reports today.  The area is seen as a natural soft spot for Marriage Equality.  It’s adjacent to what is rapidly becoming the 13 colonies [...]

  The Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan, who wrote a terrific Newsweek piece arguing for President Obama’s second term, answers daily questions on his site.  Today’s question has a longer, more nuanced answer than usual.  I found watching it to be a centering, quiet and healthy experience.  The question is “How do you define ‘patriotism’?”  It’s [...]