Vermont legalized gay marriage today! And they were the first state to do it in the legislature. They even garnered enough votes to override any potential veto by their Rethuglican governor:
The House recorded a dramatic 100-49 vote, the minimum needed, to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto. Its vote followed a much easier override vote in [...]
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if Vermont can legalize gay marriage, why can’t California?
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Politics on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Milk and Sylvester and Neil Young!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Electronic Music, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Movies, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, Songwriters, Soul Music on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw Gus Van Sant’s Milk last night. Of course it was great and moving and sad and informative. And of course Sean Penn wowed us with his performance, even though we already knew it was going to be good.
But amidst all the drama and sadness and history, I got a little nugget of [...]
where the fuck were you when we needed you?
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, LAist, Los Angeles, Performers, Politics, tagged Gay, horrible injustice, Lesbian on November 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This comment on a recent photo essay in LAist about the No on 8 protest sums up exactly what’s going on in my mind.
What Ross hinted at is that yes, goddam it, where was this mass energy when we needed it? We’ve been living in a conservative, er, cesspool for years, yet for some reason, most people [...]
Prop. 8 supporters compare gays to Nazis
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Los Angeles, Personal Shit, Politics, tagged California, Gay and Lesbian stuff, nazism, Politics on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Literally. These pro-Prop 8 supporters say that if we allow same-sex marriages to stay legal, we’re just as bad as Germans who allowed Hitler to stay in power.
What is it with conservatives and shitty analogies and bogus metaphors? Obama is somehow a Marxist, and now gays are Nazis. Sure, the Nazis had [...]
Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Politics on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to admit, in all the hoopla about the debates and fires and stuff this week in California, I neglected to check out what was happening on the East Coast.
Good for them! It does feel like the walls against gay rights are crumbling state by state. The states-rights approach to gay marriage may not [...]
Prop 8 needs your help!
Posted in Gay and Lesbian stuff, Personal Shit, Politics on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The evildoing pinhead cromags who sponsored Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage amendment that’ll be on the California ballots in less than a month, are winning ever so slightly in the polls. And this only happened after they put out an ad that implies that churches will be forced to perform same-sex marriages if the proposition [...]
RuPaul stole my idea!
Posted in Bands, Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Movies, Other Stuff, Performers, Personal Shit, Songwriters, tagged drag queens, Montana, RuPaul on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every good idea deserves the disappointing crush of learning you weren’t the first to think it. And I got that sudden jolt tonight after watching an old Project Runway with RuPaul on it and doing a little research into his/her film career. I’d always thought my drag queen name would be “Rachael Tension.” But it looks [...]
Queen – “The Wedding March”
Posted in Bands, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Other Stuff, Personal Shit on August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My brother just got married to a wonderful woman, and I was able to see him off into the next phase of his life in style by helping out the DJ’s with a little music during the wedding reception. Here was my grandest contribution: Queen’s “The Wedding March” from the Flash Gordon soundtrack:
This [...]
James St. James attends some weddings
Posted in Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Los Angeles, Personal Shit, Politics, Television on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a terrible sore throat today, so painful that I can’t even eat my lentil soup!
But this video of James St. James on The Daily Freakshow attending the newly-legal gay weddings in West Hollywood Park is both funny and kind of heartwarming. Watching this at least temporarily allowed me to forget the physical and [...]
two days of gay marriage, and all’s well
Posted in Bands, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, Songwriters, Television on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yep, the gays are getting married, and the sky has not fallen. No hetero couples have split up or had their marriages ruined just because homosexual marriage has become legal, no churches or temples (or mosques) have been forced at gunpoint to have their priests or clerics perform same-sex marriages, and no one has yet [...]
