This morning from 10 am to 11:30, I listened to a special episode of Go, the CBC program normally hosted by out journalist Brent Bambury. This time, Go was hosted by Canadian actress Sandra Oh, who introduced some of the gayest music ever--Erasure, ABBA, Cher, Scissor Sisters, and so on--in celebration of a population that, as Bambury said, ( Read more... )

Over at Xtra, Senator Laurier LaPierre has an article examining how, 40 years ago, gay sex was decriminalized in Canada.

[Justice Minister John] Turner argued that the Liberals' sweeping electoral victory in 1968 meant the proposed omnibus bill had already "been tested by public opinion and received a popular mandate ( Read more... )

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh blogs about how same-sex marriage, in Iowa and elsewhere in the world, has come about through a series of incremental steps through the steady acceptance of anti-discrimination legislation.

Of course, some people might like this slippery slope, because they like what's on the bottom. (See Deb Price, ( Read more... )

• James Bow argues convincingly why the 2003 defeat of the Progressive Conservatives in the 2003 Ontario provincial elections had everything to do with the polarizing legacy of former premier Mike Harris.
• Far Outliers reports that the economic crisis has cut down on the number of North Korean migrants in China.
• Joe. My. God observes that the organizers ( Read more... )

Acts of Minor Treason speculates on the constellations people might see in the sky from the star HD 98618, a very Sun-like star a hundred light-years away
• James Bow is decidedly unimpressed by the decision of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Recife to publicly excommunicate the mother of a nine-year old who became pregnant with twins after she was ( Read more... )

• Andrew at Acts of Minor Treason wonders why Soviet material and cultural kitsch is prized, at least in Toronto, despite its totalitarian associations.
• Far Outliers examines the serious problems facing the 1944 Soviet invasion of Romania and looks at the dispersal of ethnic businesses across multiethnic suburban neighbourhoods in Alabama's Birmingham ( Read more... )

Kaj Hasselriis's article in Canada's Xtra

"The gay community in India is in its 'flower power' phase," a fag in Delhi told me the other night. In other words, the country's homos are still too busy fucking to get political ( Read more... )

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton worries about the effect of Kindle and other E-book technologies on ready and free access to information.
• James Bow reports on the discovery of a Berkshire pond filled with Daleks.
• Broadsides' Antonia Zerbisias reports on a slew of excommunications visited by a Roman Catholic archbishop in Brazil on people who ( Read more... )

Joe. My. God links to a news report about a North Carolina anti-gay marriage groups deepest fears.

More than 1,000 people, many from Baptist churches across the state, stood on the ice-covered lawn outside the Legislative Building on Tuesday to demand that state legislators give them a chance to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares the sad news that Annex restaurant Dooney's Cafe seems to have gone out of business.
• Centauri Dreams covers the news that Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Titan are both slated to receive orbiters. It also speculates on the interesting question of whether Europa has a thin ice crust above its water ocean or a thick one, the ( Read more... )