OK, y'all know I'm a big fan of Al Franken. So, I love it that the email request I got from him today is about his DOMA repeal petition (yes, he's also working on the debt ceiling crap, of course). Meanwhile:

MPR News reports: "DOMA is an injustice," Franken said. "It is an immoral and discriminatory law. Our nation was founded on the premise ( Read more... )

OK, had to make a happy "YAY SAME SEX MARRIAGE!" post with my fab George Takei icon. So happy that he and his fiancé got their marriage license yesterday and will have their marriage ceremony in September. YAAAAAAAAAY!!!

In still more news, I ran across this article: Reason Why the Homeless Totally Rule[...] They [the homeless] also stick up for ( Read more... )

Taking breaks from work, I was inspired to write this lame little haiku today:
Every time you vote
For gay marriage amendments
Kittens chew your god.
Yeah, I wrote 'gay' instead of 'same-sex' because of the syllable thing. But y'all know what I mean.

So, I just finished watching the airing of The Tyra Banks Show that starofpersia and yakkette and (barely) me were on ( Read more... )

The "Women Who Love Gay Men" episode of the Tyra Banks Show, featuring two girlfags from girlfags and (maybe[*]) me, will be airing Wed. April 19th.

[*] I still have vague hopes that my little bit was edited out.

UPDATE: In some markets there are two showings of The Tyra Banks Show per day, one is 2 weeks old. In LA the new show will be on KCOP UPN ( Read more... )

OK, I know several of you have been waiting to hear how my appearance on the Tyra Banks Show (taped 2/24) went. I finally figured the easiest (and perhaps even best) way for me to write it up is to paste a conversation I had about it here (with minor mods):
( here's the scoop, both good and bad )

Seen else-LJ....

AB849 has passed the CA State Assembly!
Mark Leno's Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection act AB849It's time for for Governor Schwarzenegger to stick to his word that if such a bill were to cross his desk, he would sign it ( Read more... )