Originally posted by neo_prodigy at Spirit Day
 
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George Takei and his husband Brad Altman show queer couples how to fill out their census form. They are utterly adorable and make me tear up at the same time. George Takei is wearing his Starfleet uniform and Brad Altman is wearing some weird foil hat, and they remind me of my grandparents, the way they've been together forever and know each ( Read more... )

I just realised this year, though I probably should have already known, that male figure skating is full of hetero-sexist bullshit. See one Stojko, Elvis, in an interview with Salon.com: There’s been a lot of discussion about masculinity and figure skating recently. Do you think the discussion has been productive?It basically started about one ( Read more... )

Today is clearly Totally Awesome Video Day.

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Way to go Vermont!

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Relatedly, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com did an analysis of when states are likely to stop passing marriage bans. It's pretty encouraging:The model predicts that by 2012, almost half of the 50 states would vote against a marriage ban, including several states ( Read more... )

I hate Rick Warren. I started hating him back when I still went to a Southern Baptist church, because my Sunday School teacher based months worth of lessons off his book The Purpose Driven Life, thus giving me the opportunity to observe that it's so much bound patriarchy and drivel ( Read more... )