Getting married tomorrow. Aug 1 is the anniversary of our DP, so we put the wedding on the same day.

Small, local ceremony officiated by a friend. No big anything. Probably a reception at a later date (at a SF&F con, natch.)

It cost me $564 to get my taxes done this year, because of DOMA and Prop 8. If those two things weren't there, I'd make an honest woman of DataWolf, and do the (joint) taxes myself for a cost of ~$150.

It's bad enough that S. and I will have to *pay* someone to do our taxes because the federal government refuses to recognize same-sex pairings, but California does. California is a community property state, so even if the Feds don't agree, CA requires married type filing ( Read more... )

ladyqkat pointed me at Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today by John Scalzi. He very nicely touched on racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual orientation, ablism, and other privileges that those who have them don't ever think about. There are more good ones in the comments.

Read this: A Note on Personal ResponsibilityHumans, in an primal hunting pack like feral yappy dogs. Each individual does little, is even weak, but as a mob, they can run anyone down, exhausted. Like water on a stone, each tease, taunt, spit, poke, kick, vandalism, mockery, etc is just one more drop in the same place ( Read more... )

I'm glad I never lived in the dorms. Some days my fellow humans make me cry...

Rutgers, Friends and Family of Tyler Clementi Mourn Suicide

just because I didn't kill myself, doesn't mean I didn't feel like I was dyingThis type of shit is unusual in its absence, not in its presence. It's the bullying that all gay, bi and trans kids go through, ( Read more... )

The tides of time and justice flow against them. All of the bible thumping, science denial, and sheer homophobia are an evolutionary dead end. They fear what they can't control, what they can't shame, what they can't bend to their and their small, petty God's "will ( Read more... )

Vermont, Iowa, DC, now Maine. Why is Californika so backward? Massive political propaganda efforts by the LDS and Catholic churches ( Read more... )