The Unsexy Side of the Marriage Fight
If you’re gay and want to be married, you can get a marriage license today in one of seven places: Iowa, New York, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Washington, D.C. By this time next year, that number could be increased to as many as thirteen (in decreasing degree of likelihood): Washington, Maryland, Maine, New...
Gay in Washington: Do You Feel Lucky?
Call it Prop 8: now with more confusion! Last month, Washington State approved marriage equality through its senate and assembly and was signed into law by Governor Gregoire. However, no marriages will be allowed to take place until after the November election, as it awaits a Prop 8-y citizen’s votes. Yes, I spelled that right...
Christmas for Congress
Marylanders are next to bat for their marriage equality bill. Governor O’Malley will sign the bill should it pass, and he’s actively lobbying members of his legislature to pass the bill immediately. Amendments were bandied about this morning. It looks like the only amendment that passed was one that complies with Maryland law (lore?), which...
Gay News: Why Do We Always Have to Cut Things So Damn Close?
*You know who’s not gonna like a President Santorum? WOMEN. Well, as I said yesterday, women aren’t going to fare very well under a Santorum presidency. That theory was pushed forward today, ever so slightly, when Santorum Super PAC donor Foster Freiss, who coincidentally made his money off of assets and investments and not delicious...
Gays Give Good Theater
That’s right! They’re a bunch of actors, and they’re walking towards ya. But I’m not talking about the NBC show Smash, which is a huge hit, according to its title. I believe that show went through workshops previously known as Water Cooler, Pilot Pick-Up and More Huston, Less Everyone Else. No, no, the theater-y gays...
Prop 8′s Fate Explained
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...
10 Things You Can’t Get Anymore at Starbucks
Washington will get its gays married, by Joe! And Starbucks, one of the longest supporters of gay rights, publicly announced last month that they supported this bill (along with other Washington-based corp giants like Microsoft, Nike and Google). As well they should! The company knows to keep its one trillion sassy gay baristas happy,...
No One is Alone
“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...
SOTU STFU
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,...
My One Piece of Celebrity Gossip a Year
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”....
Gay in Washington: Day 2, Votes Secured
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...
Gay in Washington: Day 1, A Matter of Cleric Pride
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...
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