Today will be noted in history as when the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, removing a federal obstacle to gay marriage in America. Many of my Facebook friends are gay and/or progressive and so there were a lot of positive and celebratory posts there. But on the other hand, I do work in a newsroom, and conservative people and ( Read more... )

Before I forget, hoping raistlyne  had a good birthday!

Now onward to a big weekend in downtown Indy. the_dark_snack  and I will be at the Independent Music and Art Festival, and will spend some time at the Talbott Street Art Fair nearby. All the fun we have at that each year, we never get to the Pride festival -- but that's part of the downtown madness as well.

If any ( Read more... )

Today, a continuing injustice will be done in the Indiana State Legislature.

But the biggest problem is not the injustice itself, but the manner in which people look at the issue.

The church I go to is the local member of Metropolitan Community Churches, the "gay church," founded and mostly attended by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered ( Read more... )

In light of the recently passed and signed law to end the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, I felt compelled to comment, being an Army veteran who has become closely involved with GLBT issues in recent years.

First I will note that with all the reports of how bad DADT has been, it seems forgotten that the rule originally came about to soften ( Read more... )

It's bad enough that people are killing themselves because of the hassles and condemnation they face for being gay, but a couple of weeks back I got this in a press release from Mr. Unclear-on-the-concept:

"Gay" Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides

Apparently Ellen DeGeneres is doing a bad thing because she would rather kids live and be accepted ( Read more... )

Like most folks, I've been following the goings-on with the fight to oppose or preserve California's Proposition 8 banning gay marriage (other than the ones that are already in force) in the state.

In the conservative panic e-mails and news reports, Prop 8 supporters have been carping about "the will of 7 million California voters" (I lifted that ( Read more... )

Another day, another birthday post. I'm not usually into noting celebrity birthdays, but this one's just too cool, too fun to pass up ( Read more... )

Thanx to nonabloch  for pointing to this:

Myth of the 'gay lifestyle' justifies bias

Quotes from the article:
I don't worship Barbra Streisand, I don't watch any TV show with the word "Housewives" in its title and I love fishing, beer and Madonna. But more important, I'm just a father trying to keep my son away from drugs, get him into college and have a ( Read more... )

Rarely has the law of unintended consequences manifested in such a big way:

Texas Gay Marriage ban may have inadvertently banned ALL marriages.

Want a quick no-fault divorce? Move to Texas and have your lawyer inform your spouse that by the state constitution, your marriage is void. (Betcha somebody tries it!)

There's a kerfluffle going on up at Purdue University, because one of the school's librarians (who does not have a classroom teaching job, according to AP) posted on his otherwise-uninteresting conservative townhall.com blog: "An Economic Case Against Homosexuality"

Basically he says that gays have burdened us with the costs of AIDS and that our ( Read more... )