I'm trying not to cry.

I am thankful that I've been out for nearly a decade, and I've never once even thought that someone might shoot me for it.

Police have not determined a motive in the slaying but said it appeared to stem from a personal dispute between King and the suspect.

Yeah, the "personal dispute" being that King was an out, flamboyant gay ( Read more... )

Ana Pascal: You were staring at my tits.
Harold Crick: No, I'm sure I wasn't. And if I was, it was as a representative of the United States Government.

Harold Crick: It says, in the file, that you only paid part of your taxes for last year.
Ana Pascal: That's right.
Harold Crick: Looks like only 78 percent.
Ana Pascal: Yep.
Harold Crick: ( Read more... )

On Our Backs is no more. Several things about this are sad:

1) I never got to purchase an actual physical copy, I just read the content on the website.
2) I'll never get to be published in the magazine or work for them.
3) I only discovered this today, and they closed shop in 2006, apparently. I learned this from bitch (new issue out!).

So looking for ( Read more... )

States with hate crime legislation on the basis of gender AND sexual orientation ( Read more... )

Today I finished After Theory by Terry Eagleton. It started off very strong but in the last two chapters it started to peter out. Around that time it began to focus a bit too much on the errors the West has made in the past several years, particularly the United States, with regard to foreign policy. Quite a drift from the purpose proposed in the ( Read more... )

"Fact and fiction are two different truths." - Patricia MachLachan

I'm re-reading Genderqueer (btw
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These charts show a list of the top 10 US cities within city limits with the the highest GLB population as a percentage of total residents.
Rank City GLB
population Percentage of
total population 1 San Francisco 94,234 15.4% 2 Seattle 57,993 12.9% 3 Atlanta 39,085 12.8% 4 Minneapolis 34,259 12.5% 5 Boston 50,540 12.3% 6 Sacramento 32, ( Read more... )

My mother is all hxc into geneology, and my father has some interesting ancestors, so I grew up kind of hyper-aware of where I came from. My mother made me particularly aware of Anne Whitney, who is primarily known as a sculptor. We made trips to both Boston and D.C. to see her Samuel Adams,  Charles Sumner and Leif Erickson statues (links are to ( Read more... )

This is not the first time I have read Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia; the first time was 2 years ago or so, but I skipped around quite a bit, focusing on the bdsm sections. This time I read every word. By now it's got to pretty darn obvious I love Pat Califia and I'm really interested in sex on numerous levels so I'm sure ( Read more... )

When Physicists Write Porn (NB: not porn)
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, a new book review.
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex by Patrick Califia
A collection of essays written over an 8 year period. They are arranged according to theme and not in chronological order, which can make reading a bit confusing sometimes (as during ( Read more... )