Background: LJ recently ran an ad by a group opposed to gay marriage.

As you can probably predict, people rightly complained.

But now? People are complaining about LJ's response.

I've got absolutely no complaints about this.

Quicker than any of us could ever have expected. One of the people who works for LJ honestly seeming unguardedly appalled, rather ( Read more... )

So some dude claims AmazonFail was his doing for lulz.

http://community.livejo urnal.com/brutal_hon esty/3168 992.html

I'm not sure I buy it. It's definitely plausible that the whole thing was a prank...

...but so is the idea that some random dude wants the prestige of zomgz bringin' Amazon to its ( Read more... )

Amazon.com revokes rankings of books deemed to consist of "adult content." Apparently, having a gay character makes a work of fiction too 'adult' for Amazon.

Partial list of books with ranking revoked at amazon.com. Includes Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain'

Something Important, ganked from ginmar

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

As Ginmar says:

Prop 8 is a motion to forcibly divorce legally-married couples. Read that again. Those couples married, like all couples should be able to do, and now Ken Starr and his Gaycist buddies are trying to take that right---and those marriages----away. ("Gaycist" comes from a girl holding up a sign in the ( Read more... )

This is completely adorable!

Click to view

says something right on for once. :)

Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry

Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue ( Read more... )

This post is, well, just a whole pile o' good. I excerpt:
So I've been sort of half-assedly observing some of the blogs I read having a small explodiation about something about burlesque and the fallout from same, with the usual suspects having a "Why aren't you people concerned about raunch culture and teh pr0n, this is the most important feminist ( Read more... )

I was just chatting with my dad and mentioned George Takei's upcoming wedding to him.

His comment?

"That's as cute as, like, puppies!"

Awesome Straight Person is awesome. :)

<3 my dad.

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage BanBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ( Read more... )