4 Non-Money Things (and 1 Money Thing) You Can Do for Marriage Equality!
The most important thing in this election is THE FOUR. TheFour2012.com is a website that brings you messages of love and support from people of all kinds, from committed gay couples, to grandparents, to religious leaders, to public figures like Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, and sports figures like Brendan Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens and...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Gay in Washington: 24 Down, 1 to Go
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...
The Roundup: The 300th Post, Sing It!
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...
Hey History!
Gays have had a subjugation closer to that of women than of Blacks and Jews. AIDS is the closest we’ve come to having an evil befall us that, at least at the outset, was singularly ours. We’ve been appendix sufferers during a lot of historical calamities and horrors. During the Holocaust, we were there, just...
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