Michele Fogal interviews me, mostly on gender roles.

Fran Wilde interviews me, mostly on food.

Tor is giving away its spring fantasy collection, including Range of Ghosts.

I feel like I need to say something more about the first link, which is this ( Read more... )

First things first: as a matter of fact, I am pretty goddamned proud of myself.

Since Twitter hashtags are finite beasts, here is a compiled list of all the recommendations, assembled by megwrites on Dreamwidth, who has done yeoman's work.

Why not support a Big Gay* Novelist today?

I am also pretty goddamned proud of my writing partner.I'm ( Read more... )

This is not moral decay, but ethical growth.

<3

The Mumpsimus: Rick Bowes on Stonewall at 40.

An interesting examination of the relationship between the queer community and the African-american civil rights movement. (And no, people of color are not responsible for the passage of Prop 8., so please, guys, stop spreading that meme until you do a little reading.)

I have to say that slit's experience of the modern queer community is not very ( Read more... )

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.

The court ruled 4-3 that gay and lesbian couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry under the state constitution, and Connecticut's civil unions ( Read more... )

Oh, Scott Card, No.Because really, apparently we can't bring about any advance in basic human rights in this country without having to put down an armed insurrection first ( Read more... )

More sentence-level work:

How to take a flabby sentence and make it buff!: I scorched my palm on the painted wood.

Painted wood scorched my palm.

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This Sunday, on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl will look into the U.S.military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, offering evidence in the form of Army Sgt. Darren Manzella that the armed forces look ( Read more... )

I figured out in the shower this afternoon why it is that it gets up my goddamned nose so badly when reviewers refer to Carnival as "slash" or "yaoi."

It's because that terminology carries with it the assumption that the only reason a woman would write queer characters is because she's getting a voyeuristic thrill out of it. And that, right there ( Read more... )

This is important, now. Remember.

Gay marriage is just like yours.

Only gayer.

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