Friday night, went to my first meeting of Spaced Out Inc, the Melbourne queer SF club. It was a session at the Richmond Library viewing selected episodes of The Tomorrow People, a series I had heard of but never seen. We saw the first episode ever (from the Slaves of Jedikiah series), the first episode that introduced Peter Davison to the world of ( Read more... )

I have been reading (and re-reading) a lot of fiction. Kerry Greenwood recently lent me The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan. It is a dark and vivid fantasy with a seriously pissed-off central character: Ringil, a gay war hero of aristocratic background who is mouldering out in the boondocks ( Read more... )

About the strange marriage between marriage radicals and opponents of same-sex marriage.

A statement in support of civil partnerships: There's something special about marriage. It's not about religion. It's not about morality. It's about commitment ( Read more... )

The (probably) first recorded same-sex couple.

A (straight) Italian soccer star cheerfully gives an interview for a gay magazine: "I don't deny that I was delighted to read in the papers that I've become a sex symbol for both women and homosexual men."

Berlin’s gay mayor could go furtherThe staid, established queer folk of Greenwich Village find ( Read more... )

Read two recent American books on giving homosexuals equal protection of the laws (specifically, the right to marry with its attendant protections, privileges and responsibilities). Evan Wolfson’s Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry and Johnathon Rauch’s Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good For Gays, Good For Straights ( Read more... )

A young Dutch boy sings about having two fathers.

Gratuitous hunk-with-coffee shot.

Gay twin, straight twin and being who you are. Segment watchable via here.

The American Pyschological Association studiously disagrees with the notion of ex-gay therapies: “The APA’s concern about the positions espoused by the National Association of Research ( Read more... )

In this post, a conservative American wonders whether the drive for homosexual equality will end up criminalising Christianity. He cites a recent column from Melanie Phillips in the UK about the alleged drive to criminalise Christianity in Europe ( Read more... )

(Yes, another post on gay stuff, but I am nutting through things and this LJ is called Thinking Out Aloud. So, some thoughts on the very long run social history of attitudes to homosexuality partly provoked by thinking further about a question fizzyland raised on an earlier post. Note that I am talking about very general tendencies. The complexity of ( Read more... )

Since homosexuals are [almost] always born into heterosexual families and overwhelmingly heterosexual milieus, they are the most isolated of all social groups. So the easiest to demean and slander. And find it the hardest to achieve social “critical mass” to stand up for being treated as just folk (or even a sense that there are other people like ( Read more... )

Tackling the “no gays” taboo in English soccer.

Preserving records of the early gay civil rights movement. More. The website. The correspondence section thereof is particularly good at documenting attitudes.

How gay parents are changing the social landscape by simply being there.

About differentiating same-sex marriage from polygamy and ( Read more... )