Mitt Romney’s Father Was Better Than His Son
Stumbled across an interesting artifact the other day concerning George Romney, father of the not-official-yet-but-who-are-we-kidding Republican nominee Mitt Romney. George Romney has come up a couple of times in this campaign, mostly when Mitt was stumping in his home state of Michigan. What I saw was a letter sent to George (in 1964, when he...
Keep It Sassy, Keep It Classy, Keep It Gay
It’s a slow day for news. You can always tell so when news orgs are running stories on which mini celebrity said what bad thing about gay people. For example, Manny Pacquiao, a boxer or a wrestler or whatever, said he doesn’t support gay marriage. ”Whoopdie-shit,” says I. This isn’t news. I can’t believe you...
¡Amigos Ultimos!
Last week, I experienced a rush of shameful joy in the prison sentencing of two former New York senators. These guys are two of the few Democrats who “voted their conscience” to block gay marriage rights in 2009. In fact, they voted their consciences on this so hard that they had virtually no conscience left...
‘One Million Moms’ Gets a Mother’s Day Gift
What did you get your mom for Mother’s Day? Whatever it is, it don’t hold a candle to the gift ABC gave the anti-gay group “One Million Moms”: delusions of grandeur. The radical group (and I mean “far right” radical, not “Gushers commercial” radical) has been calling for the destruction of ABC’s mildly rated hot...
Vote 2012: Gay Marriage Battleground
North Carolina, Maggie Gallagher smiles at your misery today, and that is unacceptable.
Tales From the Closet!
Today is a day for schadenfreude! With Amendment 1 in North Carolina stipping LGBT folk of what pitiful few rights they had left, I think it is appropriate to spend today looking at consequences of similar shit situations. Pull your chair close, children, and listen to a tale of two corrupt men who are currently...
Amendment 1: The South Will Rise Above
The South gets a bad rap. It’s easy to say that the South is a place of intolerance. I choose to say that the South is a place that is just extra tolerant of the past. The South has got a troublesome permanent record: low literacy, last to allow interracial marriage, no states that have...
LA Playlist: “Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl”
For Spring Break, Michael and I drove the 15 hours from New York to Chicago, otherwise known as the “Reverse When Harry Met Sally Drive.” It is known as this only in my head. It was a beautiful drive through lots of Pennsylvania nothingness countryside, and in general, made me feel better about Earth’s...
HIV Palooza
Written by Guest Writer Michael Russo Hello again. I have returned to discuss something that is truly shocking, and something I was not completely aware of until I actively researched the topic: teenage HIV in the United States. Check this out: Behavioral scientists are presently researching the adverse effects of growing up in an anti-gay environment....
Twitter & The Mundanity of Evil
“The Laptop of Cowardice” is what many critics of the Internet tubes call the culture of Facebook, Twitter and blogs that has emerged to handle problems (for topics both personal and the world over) in a way that is far too reactionary, shallow and usually negative. Well, I’m here to write a blog about...
I’m Worried About Our Opponents
The life of a pure fundamentalist Christian must be a life of nonstop gnawing terror. The sky is constantly falling in their world. As a gay man who writes about the world he lives in, I don’t think the sky is always falling. I believe I live in a treehouse in a beautiful jungle, and...
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