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, [...]

*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 [...]

  *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 [...]

  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 [...]

  The Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most famous moments in American History, and, as The New York Times commented today, World History as well.    People oppressed all over the world now look to that speech as permission to try.  Does King’s Dream belong to just one [...]

  In addition to New Jersey, the next state at the forefront of marriage equality is Washington State.  Governor Christine Gregoire said this month that “It’s time, it is the right thing to do, and I will introduce a bill to do it.” “Not so fast,” said everyone. Even though the potential bill has overwhelming [...]

  I start 2012 on a classy note.  With the coming of the new year, the long-simmering-erupting bids from potential GOP candidates was allowed to finally, officially, take place.  Every two weeks, we were treated to another “front runner,” each of them consequently taken down by their own unfortunate inability to wield their own lunacy. [...]

If the hippies and lefties of the late 60′s / early 70′s knew that a 20-something gay guy in West Hollywood would one day soon be referring to that time as “a simpler time,” they’d never stop vomiting. Well, that’s what I’m going to talk about today. A simpler time, which doesn’t necessarily mean a [...]

In an unexpected move yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave what could possibly the defining speech of her career at the United Nations assembly.  “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” she said.  The speech was a plea for peace for LGBT people in all corners of the world. She [...]

It’s Stay On Fountain’s 300th Post, and I thought I’d celebrate it with a look forward.  Where are we all going?  First of all, we’re probably not going to be a country run by the guy above. In what has to be the greatest headline blast in the past five years, David Freddoso of the [...]

The Oscar for State Most Likely to Be Next in Line for Gay Marriage goes to…Maryland!  In the words of “The Wire”‘s gay Baltimorian gunslinger Omar– “Oh, indeed.” You may have heard some buzzing about Maryland back in March, but then again, you probably didn’t.  The gay marriage bill wasn’t very well leadershipped by the [...]

With the gay marriage wins in New York, a lot of people want to know what’s next.  A lot of states are next.  2012 is going to be a battlefield of gay rights, and it will be filled with glorious wins and damaging losses.  This is the first in a series. An increasingly likely candidate [...]

The thing I am most afraid of is not the possibility of no Marriage Equality, but of some Godawful compromise that falls an inch short of equal.  You will know we are at the end because we will be approached with a deal that will promise us 99%.  As the years have gone on, the [...]

My friend James Barry often says about the addictive southern chicken chain Chick-Fil-A, “It’s just chicken and a pickle on a biscuit, people.”  This is a quote often accompanied by a link to a story about how sickeningly anti-gay the wildly successful restaurant is. His link is often commented on by chicken lovers who instruct [...]