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Corn, sodomy, and the ring
31 August 2007 | family, gay, gay marriage, lesbian, queer | No Comments
From Caryl’s post I learned that Iowa courts have moved in favor of same-sex marriage. Woo! I’m starting to lose track of what states in the US allow what kind of partnerships. Obviously Wikipedia can be trusted 100% (…), so one can look there, and now’s a good time to point out all the federal […]
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I’m sure some people would be flattered
6 August 2007 | personals, purposefully missed connections, queer | 3 Comments
It’s not a situation I would have anticipated: On a personals site, someone stating in his profile that his band is going on tour soon (my town: later this month) and that he’d need places to stay, shot me a message saying I “seem like a rad guy.” Also, according to his profile, he’s not […]
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Crimes I could commit or suffer where, unlike murder or being bashed, the news would fail to mention my sexuality
17 March 2007 | gay crime, mcsweeney's rejections, queer | 3 Comments
Gay grand theft auto Gay perjury Gay tax evasion Gay breaking and entering Gay online music piracy Gay diamond smuggling Gay arson
Is this news? Is it the right news?
7 March 2006 | cnn, homecoming, hood college, lesbian, news, queer | 1 Comment
Rock on and congratulations to Jennifer Jones, the lesbian at Maryland’s Hood College that was voted in as Homecoming King. But I have to take note that CNN thought this was newsworthy. I mean, this isn’t the first case of a GLBT student running for Prom/Homecoming/whatever Court on a cross-gender ballot. She’s probably not the […]
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My two-day boycott of my fantasy life
11 February 2006 | arguing on the internet, queer, worldofwarcraft | 1 Comment
A couple weeks ago, news came out that a GLBT player of World of Warcraft was given a warning for making an announcement about her guild on a public channel because she announced that the guild wasn’t “GLBT-only” but definitely “GLBT-friendly.” The classification? “Harassment: Sexual Orientation.” When she asked for clarification, the response was something […]
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Blood
30 January 2006 | death, family, queer, the invisibles | No Comments
This week I picked up all but the final graphic novel collections of The Invisibles. Given that I’ve been in one of my analyze-my-life modes, I figured it’d be a good time to revisit the series, since I’ve found reading it is a good way to unfuck my head. Which says something, given that the […]