I got this from virginia_fell. It's a petition to keep the Prop 8 constitutionality challenge open to television and public scrutiny.

Play Garrison Keillor off, keyboard cat Dan Savage.

Edit: There is a decent chance that Keillor was just being satirical, but he's so chronically unfunny that I wouldn't be able to tell. Is that what this is about? He's not as funny as Stephen Colbert, so he doesn't get the right to rattle off a few stereotypes for lulz? Discuss.

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The second sketch, about Cirque du Soleil... yeah, I totally noticed that a long time ago, and it took a while for the full incongruity of it to hit me. At Cats I was thinking to myself all like, "those dudes in the tights who were dancing with each other and not with women... they're probably gay, but we're clapping for them so I guess it's ok... ( Read more... )

Well, the new legislation adds to this something called aggravated homosexuality. And this can include, for instance, if a gay man has sex with another man who is disabled, that's aggravated homosexuality, and that man can be - I suppose both, actually, could be put to death for this. The use of any drugs or any intoxicants in seeking gay sex - in ( Read more... )

Alan Turing posthumously apologized to at length.

Gotten from colubra

Sci-fi scenario purportedly teaches tolerance better than vanilla tolerance lecture.

Apparently ambiguous and non-communicative just wasn't cutting it for Obama on the DOMA thing. And to think that a year ago, him wanting to talk about it only evasively (if he had to at all) was relatively a plus.

Love the singer. Hate the song.

Those fuckers over at NOM appeal to the heteronormative ideal of beauty as an authority on gayness. And then they ask whether supporting marriage is bigotryNo, motherfuckers. You're right, supporting marriage isn't bigotry. Monopolizing it and restricting it arbitrarily is. I'm sure you'd be able to understand the difference if the power company ( Read more... )

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