We move forward.

The Supreme Court has struck down DOMA and punted on Prop. 8These were the likeliest outcomes, in all the discussion and speculation I heard. Given the current Court, I am not surprised by it ( Read more... )

I caught Jodie Foster's acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille at the Golden Globes, and thought it was magnificent. It wasn't perfect, but it was grandly eloquent, a bit righteous, and a lot truthful. It was a cri de cœur, wanting naught so much as to be understood ( Read more... )

So, notice of this just posted today to the wiscon community:

Two Resolutions

Here's the relevant bit:

"[...]passed during the SF3 annual meeting on October 3, 2010.

"MOTION: it is the sense of the SF3 Annual Meeting that rescinding Elizabeth Moon’s GoH invitation would best serve WisCon’s goals and community."

Writer, poet, Arab, and all-around awesome person, tithenai, Amal El-Mohtar, has an amazing and heart-twisting post, Thoughts on Elizabeth Moon and the Wiscon ConCom's ResponseI found myself nodding along to her words. I know what she means when she writes about being grateful for forbearance, "[t]o be Makers of Points before we are people ( Read more... )

So, the internets (at least some of the particular bits of them that I read) are exploding with the amazing anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant/just in general fail of Elizabeth Moon over in her LJ (e-moon60).

Considering how she just kept digging herself deeper and deeper, to the point where she's so far past reason that willshetterly--Will Shetterly!--is calling her on it, I ( Read more... )

The Mexican Supreme Court upholds marriage equality in the DF.

DUDE.

The United States? Get a fucking clue already.

Sometimes, I really despair of some of my family ( Read more... )

Court overturns Prop 8 as unconstitutional.

As it damn well should.

Argentina legalizes marriage equality!

In doing so, it becomes the first Latin American nation to do so (although Mexico City, with about a quarter of the total Mexican population, did so last year).

God bless Argentina!

Seriously, US, we are being lapped.

Iceland unanimously recognizes marriage equality.