Seen via james_nicoll and bovil:

It boggles my mind that in this day and age, someone can believe that governments that permit same-sex marriage should be overthrown. I've seen some pretty out-there statements about homosexuality - it's impossible to spend any time surfing the Internet without coming across someone who claims that we're out to destroy society as ( Read more... )

If I had any way of getting to Hamilton in an hour, I would be attending this evening's meeting of the Hamilton School Board.

No, I'm not from Hamilton, nor am I a parent or a student, but people need to speak up. Here's the email I received a few minutes ago:

( The Hamilton Family Action Council is attacking the Hamilton School Board's equity policy on sexual orientation. )

Damn it, this is the third time I've tried to post this... Firefox keeps shutting down on me every time I try to start a post. Hopefully the third time is the charm...

First, bowling: I had a decent night, with scores of 198, 154 and 159, and we won all three games. h8torun was declaring her scores tonight, so it's good that she was over her average in ( Read more... )

That pretty well sums up my night at bowling. 145, 153, 150. Pretty consistent, but pretty consistently mediocre (not to mention 15-20 pins below my average). I just couldn't get untracked all night, and we only won one game out of three, though the third game was close (if only I hadn't gotten a split in the tenth frame ( Read more... )

I got the following from American Airlines today, in response to the email I sent them the other day, referenced in this entry. Note the bolded section:

September 27, 2006 ( Read more... )

Here's the response I got to the email I sent to American Airlines last night, complaining about their homophobic attitudes and informing them that I would no longer be flying on their airline:

Dear Mr. Sibley ( Read more... )

Found on rockgoddes' LJ:

American Airlines threatened to divert a Paris-to-New York flight because a gay male couple kissed. WTF?

Interesting how the purser was initially sympathetic, but then changed her tune once the couple in question brought up the possibility of homophobia... anyway, I went to the American Airlines website and wrote an email to their ( Read more... )

Some of you have already read the details on gurudata's LJ, but those of you who are members of LGBT fandom who aren't on his friendslist should be informed of this development... and even those of you who aren't may want to read this.

A few weeks ago, gurudata (who is head of Publications for Gaylaxicon) contacted a printer (Moffitt Print Craft Limited in Guelph ( Read more... )

It seems the Westboro Baptists - Fred Phelps' cult - are going to be picketing the funeral of the miners who died last week in West Virginia: here's the first story on the protest, from The Record Delta, a newspaper in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Phelps' people claim that the miners "died in shame and disgrace, citizens of a cursed nation of ( Read more... )