Early November last year, I stayed up into the wee hours one morning obsessively refreshing my web browser. The incoming precinct results for Prop 8 confirmed that my rights were being stripped away from me. I should have been celebrating the election of Barack Obama that night, but I felt alone, brokenhearted, and demoralized.
Tuesday night was an echo of last November, as it became clear that our rights were being revoked in Maine as well. I headed out to an election night "celebration" with the League of Pissed Off Voters, who have been solid friends and allies to me as an organizer. Full story...
This week of thanks, gives us all pause. It is time to be grateful for so many wonderful things in our lives.
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Matt Hennie, a product of the legacy media, both gay and otherwise, launched Project Q Atlanta to cover LGBT Atlanta in September 2008.
So lemme see if I have this right... women are to wait until they are 50 for a mammogram, till 21 to have a pap smear, and all the research that showed otherwise is in the toilet?
Do you hear the wheels of the insurance industry crushing women's bones? Because I do.
In case you haven't seen, Adam Lambert kissed a boy on TV last night at the American Music Awards.
Sometimes, history happens right before your very eyes. Saturday seemed like one of those instances.
Jerame and I will be flying to San Francisco early next week to cover the Victory Fund's 2009 International Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference.
Antonin Scalia is apparently doing a speaking tour supporting the "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution, whereby a justice has to use his or her telepathic powers to read the minds of people who died 200 years ago, a power they only use for the fair and correct application of the law.
I'm addicted to vintage theater lobby cards, especially the campy/cheesy ones. Since I can't buy them all (or at least that's what my partners tell me), I have to get my fix by blogging them.
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