Via io9, who notes George Takei was at the Johnson Space Center “to speak about leadership and inclusiveness at an event sponsored by [NASA’s] “ASIA” and “Out & Allied” resource groups, which represent the Space Center’s Asian-Pacific American and LGBT employees, respectively.” Everything about this is great. Good day.
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By Josh Weed’s Logic…
…straight guys who want truly amazing, transcendent sex lives should marry gay men, right? I mean if this is true for gay-but-married-a-straight-lady Josh Weed… “[When] sex is done right, at its deepest level it is about intimacy. It is about one human being connecting with another human being they love. It is a beautiful physical […]
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Peers Name Same-Sex Pair “Cutest Couple” In Yearbook
And it happened in a conservative, rural part of the country—a little good news: In a community known for its conservative values, the high school senior class chose the only openly-lesbian students as “cutest couple.” Destinee Gates was as surprised as anybody that she and her girlfriend, Becca Fernandez, beat out at least three other […]
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Will Washington Voters Sign Off on Same-Sex Marriage?
Not only do our friends in Washington get to throw wicked CostCo parking lot liquor parties, they get to vote as a state on same-sex marriage before we do. The Washington legislature legalized same-sex marriage a few months ago, after Governor Chris Gregoire really sweetly came out about her change of heart on the issue. […]
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Same-Sex Marriage Going All the Way to the Supreme Court, Baby!
Good news for people who think other people should not be denied basic civil liberties because of who they fall in love with! California’s anti-same-sex marriage law Proposition 8 is headed to the Supreme Court, after a decision by the US Circuit Court of Appeals today. The appeals court decided not to reconsider the decision […]
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Sexual Minorities and the City
One reason people tend to overestimate the percentage of Americans who are gay and lesbian: we clump up in cities. We’re a relatively tiny minority, it’s true, but even if you accept the lower estimates (2%) there are still more gay and lesbian Americans than there are Jewish Americans (1.7%). And while we’re evenly and […]
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Can’t Remember the Last Time I Shopped at JCPenney
I think it was… 1987, and I was with there with my mom. But it looks like I’m going to need to drop by one soon. Smart retailers used to market to gay couples because we were all DINKs—”double income, no kids”—and so had lots of disposable income. But while gay dads by definition aren’t […]
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Federal Appeals Court Declares Huge—and Hugely Damaging—Chunk of DOMA to be Unconstitutional
This is a big fucking deal: A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a groundbreaking ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. In its unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Posted inReligion
O They Will Know We Are Christians…
…by our hate: A four-year-old child at a church in Indiana gets a standing ovation when he sings “Ain’t no homos gonna make it to heaven.” Looks like it was at a wedding. Paul Loebe at Free Thought Blogs: We all know that these actions are absolutely reprehensible and wrong. You can start by contacting […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Brian Brown Accepts My Invitation to Dinner
Brian Brown, the head of the National Organization for Marriage, publicly challenged me to a debate in the wake of Bullshitgate. Brown said he would debate me “anytime, anywhere.” Brown expected, no doubt, that I would pack a hall with hooting, hollering supporters of marriage equality who would boo and shout him down. (Which was […]
Posted inFashion
Project Nunway
No, that’s not a typo on a post about the next burgeoning Portland designer to be sucked up into the reality TV vortex (though little birds have hinted there’s a strong possibility that I will be writing such a post again later this year). But for now we’re talking about Project Nunway, a different beast […]