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The Tricky Tickets
Boi from Troy Nov 29 08The last time I touched my season tickets for USC football was on November 1st, as I was distributing tickets for the game that day and the following week, when I would be in Paris.
Gay Rights Group Set Up Judicial Defense
Boi from Troy Nov 26 08Countering threats to recall any justices who vote to overturn Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, leaders from the No on 8 campaign are planning a million-dollar judicial defense fund.
Pilgrims Believed Marriage a Right, Not a Rite
Boi from Troy Nov 24 08As we head into Thanksgiving week, Mo Rocca points out an interesting fact about the Pilgrims’ views on marriage–it was a government, not religious-sanctioned, institution.
The Rivalry Dies Once More
Boi from Troy Nov 24 08Bill Dwyre declares that the nation’s best intersectional Rivalry in in its final throes.
Now, five days from the teams’ 80th meeting, men (and women) on the Leprechaun side are balling up their fists, all right.
Prop 8 Backers Split
Boi from Troy Nov 24 08After a narrow election victory, backers of Proposition 8 are splitting among the true-believers that gays should have no rights and the pragmatists who want to defend their electoral victory in the courts.
Court to Hear Prop 8 Constitutionality
Boi from Troy Nov 20 08The California Supreme Court will hear arguments in March over the constitutionality of Proposition 8.
Huckabee: Rights Require Violence
Boi from Troy Nov 20 08
Well thank heavens this man was not nominated for President. On the View, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee seems to contend that in order for a minority to qualify for civil rights, they have to get their heads beaten in.
Judicial Review Gone Wrong
Boi from Troy Nov 19 08In both the first and final ads for the Yes on 8 campaign - supporting a Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California - proponents argued that the people, not San Francisco-based judges, should be the final arbiters of the matter.
Villaraigosa A Master of Disaster
Boi from Troy Nov 18 08Although he has fulfilled more potholes than promise in his three and a half years as Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa is proving that voters may well have picked the right man for the times when they elected him in 2005.
DC Next to Push Marriage Equality
Boi from Troy Nov 18 08Come January, marriage equality could be moving forward legislatively in both New York and now, the nation’s Capitol, according to Councilman David Catania.
SMQB: Radio Versus Tee Vee Edition
Boi from Troy Nov 17 08For the second week in a row, I missed the USC game because it wasn’t being televised where I was.
Demand Equality Now
Boi from Troy Nov 14 08After ten days of protests with no real leadership, Cleve Jones and Lance Black give direction for the gay and lesbian community–ask for everything.
Prop 11 Opens Reform Agenda
Boi from Troy Nov 13 08Although voters rejected redistricting reform three years ago as part of Governor Schwarzenegger’s reform package, the passage of Proposition 11 is giving a new hope to real reform of the State Government.
Sammon Leaving Log Cabin
Boi from Troy Nov 13 08Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon announced his departure from the organization this morning, effective early 2009.
The Dangers of False Hope
Boi from Troy Nov 12 08To win the White House, President-elect Barack Obama seized on two simple words that summed up what he meant to voters and the world: “change” and “hope”.
How LA Voted on Prop 8
Boi from Troy Nov 12 08
Here is a map breaking down precinct-by-precinct how folks voted on Proposition 8.
I am proud to point out that the two places I electioneered in the final days–the USC campus and the Marine Park precincts in Santa Monica–were among the largest NO voting areas outside of West Hollywood, Silverlake and Long Beach.
On Hating on Our Opponents
Boi from Troy Nov 11 08“We’ve got a problemo,” a text message read early Sunday afternoon as I waited to meet friends at the Cafe des Philosophes in the Marais.
The Church and Proposition 8
Boi from Troy Nov 11 08A blogger I care very much about gives his Catholic take on the passage of Proposition 8–which has resulted in one of his most-widely viewed posts ever.
Boi’nked: Jane Birkin
Boi from Troy Nov 11 08Had I not been with my friend Ludo on Sunday afternoon taking a stroll through the Left Bank, I would have never gone into the Laduree Bakery.
Sunday Morning QB: Bear Down Edition
Boi from Troy Nov 10 08Um, yesterday, I ran across a tourist in a Cal jacket and shouted, “sorry about the game!”
He seemed even less clued-in to Cal’s 17-3 loss to USC than I was, being on the continent and all.
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