In rural Michigan when I was growing up in the seventies, "homo" was what you called someone who was a target of bullying. The designated person to kick and beat and punch and bully. This was not something anyone examined or questioned, it was just as natural as chickens focusing their wrath on one of their flock to peck to death. Now I hear that ( Read more... )

My son has a friend whose birth name was Jane. This person has declared themselves to be without gender and prefers that other people refer to this person with a pronoun from another language than my own. Using my native language to refer to this person is considered disrespectful and oppressive of me. I have managed the challenge by avoiding ( Read more... )

The building I bought on Main Street, my office building, was built in 1836 and apparently one of the first people to use it was an abolitionist member of the Free Soil Society, an insurance agent/fiduciary/financial trustee named "Billy Elliot". That's sort of cool since two hundred years later it has a similar use ( Read more... )

I am the sort of person who wants to be spoiled.  I hate not knowing what is about to happen.  When I'm reading a book and I know I won't be able to finish it before bed, I pop to the end to make sure the characters will still have speaking parts.  If I ever get around to reading "Game of Thrones" (I won't) I will have read the entire wikipedia ( Read more... )

Dear Abby letters today are about coming out as bisexual women. I know at least one of the writers, for sure, and another maybe.

Being bisexual, if not entirely lesbian, is pretty much de rigeur here.

This morning I told my Small Boy that today was the last time he'd see a date like this.  We had 1/1/01.  We had 2/2/02.  We had 3/3/03.  We had 4/4/04...  We had 10/10/10, 11/11/11 and now, 12/12/12.  That's it.  That's the End of Days (like this one ( Read more... )

A local judge has ruled that taxpayers must fund the sex change operation of a convicted murderer because she suffers from gender identity disorder and the 8th amendment requires that we provide her with all necessary medical care, and her doctors say she needs to have a complicated operation to turn her penis inside out to form a vagina.   (I have ( Read more... )

( A 94 year old spots something new under the sun. )

So, what's up with the 207?

I just had a friend call from Maine.  I recognized his number on my caller ID and I answered with, "I assume you're calling to apologize?"

I cannot believe they didn't affirm gay marriage.  WTF?

I've really been trying hard to process the movie Milk.

First of all, Sean Penn is astounding in this.  I get shivers from how good his acting was in that.  Oscars were invented for actors like that.  I don't even have to see any of the other performances, this was a standout performance for the ages.

But it's not an easy movie to see.  For one thing ( Read more... )