We Need More Shows About Housewives, Damn It!
All things good and fun have their zenith, celebrate their own ingenuity and then reach too far into the masses and become dumb and dull. You struggle to remember what was ever new and silly about it in the first place. *I’m talking about Sheryl Crow songs. *I’m talking about Chuck Norris jokes. Chuck Norris...
15 Minutes of Blame
Apparently, Kirk Cameron went on CNN’s Not-Larry-King-Anymore Show with Piers Morgan to announce that he’s gay! Or that he thinks gay people are unnatural. Either one, I’m not sure. I’ve spent the last four days in a Twitter-proof mason jar. Mr. Cameron did indeed go on Piers Morgan and said “Gay people shouldn’t marry...
Gay News Roundup: Nothing but the Truth
This week, Zimbabwe President Mugabe had this to say to British Prime Minister David Cameron about the human rights of gay people, via AFP: “Nature is nature. It has created male and female,” Mugabe told thousands of supporters at his 88th birthday celebration at a stadium in the eastern border town of Mutare. “You David...
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...
Good Game
“Sheriff, when two events happen simultaneously pertaining to the same object of inquiry, we must always pay strict attention.” — Agent Cooper, TWIN PEAKS Sometimes news just intersects. The two events: 1) The New Jersey marriage bill, which was just approved by the Senate and Assembly, is now on the desk of Governor Chris Christie....
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,...
Gay News Roundup: Mawwiage
*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...
Whoa-hio!
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...
Gay News Roundup: Hang In There, Little Leaf!
*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...
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...
Who Claims the Dream?
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...
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