DADT Overruled!!

[canadian_jay]

Got the happy news in my inbox from the Courage Campaign newsletter (the AFTAH one that came a little later mysteriously didn't mention it, and chose to grump about 'those evil homosexualists who're blaiming the rash of suicides on Christianity'. But that's another, more depressing, story.) (Okay, to be fair, they might've had their newsletter

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[tay_21]

Yeah, that about sums it up. Most of the country (not necessarily on this issue) is like, 'oh, silly ninth circuit'. And then we move on because a ton of their stuff never holds up. I honestly don't know how I feel about this issue. So, I'm not commenting on that directly. I know in the beginning it was a kinda stupid Bill Clinton compromise that really solved nothing, but I don't know now honestly.

(Yeah, they are a bit odd out there. It's why half the country has nick named California, 'The Land of Fruits and Nuts'. :-D Which really isn't fair, because most of California is pretty cool. I love visiting there actually it's an amazing state. That's one of the big states in the 9th Circuit.)

Ha! That sounds hilarious. Although the whole rainbow thing kind of annoys me because I love rainbows and I used to draw them on everything. However, since I'm not really into the whole gay pride thing, I don't put it on near as many things as I used to. People would draw the completely wrong conclusions about me. hehehehe. Not that I really care about what other random strangers think about me, I would just get frustrated. Plus, why did they pick a rainbow as a symbol anyway? No one has ever been able to answer that for me. Hmmm

[canadian_jay]

Lol! And fair enough. You can always come over to the chat if you have any urge to discuss it. ;P

(LOL! Land of Fruits and Nuts. Love it. xD I'm not entirely sure what the 9th Circuit is, tbh, but I have the feeling I don't really wanna bother trying to figure it out, lol.)

*g* Shame, that. I suppose so long as you include the pot of gold/make it obviously *just* a drawing of a rainbow... but yeah, I do sympathize at the inconvenience/getting frustrated.

Do you really want the whole story? Well, I'll give you the short version, as I understand it. I doubt it was ever specifically picked, but rather developed more 'organically' as it were, sort of like how in-jokes and inside lingo develops. It comes from the popularity of the Wizard of Oz (original movie) in the old gay community back then - particularly the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow has apparently been a favourite of the gay (here specifically meaning 'homosexual males') community for a long time. It became widely known/was "chosen" as a symbol in the '70s, apparently, but I'm assuming from what little I know, that it has its roots in that. I don't really know though - queer history isn't exactly well studied by anybody. :(

[canadian_jay]

(Just checking up on Wizard of Oz - by 'original' I mean the one with Judy Garland, which wasn't actually the first ever, lol.)

[tay_21]

Hahahahaha. That make total sense. Every gay guy I know thinks Judy Garland is "simply fabulous". LOL!

I freaking love that song. I mean I love the whole movie actually, but I love that song the most from it. It's so beautiful. I especially love the version by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole'. It's the song that originally aired on the TV version of Primeval when Lester gets his job back from Christine Johnson. It was also in FInding Forrester. Such a beautiful rendition and mix of two very iconic songs.

[canadian_jay]

*bg*

It is a nice song, that's for sure! And LOL, did it really? I think I have the TV original airing version of Primeval on my harddrive, dunno if I ever noticed that. Was probably too busy squeeing.

[tay_21]

Yes. I'm full of useless information like that. :-D

I had to find it on youtube. I also found the original version of the Abby/Connor kiss which was originally aired with the song "I Only Have Eyes For You". I liked that much better, even though I loved the random song they used for the DVD version.

[canadian_jay]

Hee! At least some of my copies of the eps for S3 are the original TV version. Not sure which ones, though. Not that I'd recognize a song anyway, lol.

[tay_21]

I can't wait to watch this show as it actually airs. I've never seen an original airing. However, I'm not sure all the music actually translates to the over seas markets. :-/ Still it'll be cool. Of course the big plus to the DVD's was that I didn't have to wait to see what happened. I got all three season's in one go. :-) I really freaking love this show, and I can't hardly wait for it to air over here. I just wish they would give us a release date.

[canadian_jay]

*g* It'll be interesting. I'm glad January is the start of a new term, not exams like in high school - I'll be able to pay attention to finding some way to get access to the show as it airs.

[tay_21]

Oooh! Clue me in if you find one? Pretty please?????? *bats eyelashes fetchingly* hehehehe

[canadian_jay]

Hee! Is it not airing on BBC America at the same time?

[tay_21]

No, I think there is going to be *at least* a couple weeks behind from what I understand. Maybe more. I know that some of the Brits will be working on getting it up on the interwebz, I just kinda suck at finding stuff like that and getting it to work. I can't get anything from Megaupload to work. It's very frustrating.

[canadian_jay]

Oright, lol. I remember you saying that about Megaupload. I laughed at you. xP Well, if/when I do track it down, I can always email you the files as attachments or whatever.

[tay_21]

Oh, that would rock so hard it's not even funny! hee hee! And it's no laughing matter that I'm technologically retarded. J/K