I don't intend to apologize for not liking the president
Why? Because it's not my job to like the president--this one or any other. Of whatever race, creed, color, gender, or sexual orientation. Unless I happen to be in love with him or married to him, in...
View ArticleSOUL Kos Friday Open Thread
We haven't had one of these in a while, and since it's such a lovely day (well, here in the Midwest anyway--first time the sun's been out and the temperature's been above 50 degrees in at least a week,...
View ArticleOn heterosexual privilege
I'm not sure where he got it (he doesn't source it, but makes it clear it isn't original to him), but fitness blogger and gay activist Davey Wavey has an interesting little list of forty things the...
View ArticleSome good news on the HIV/AIDS front
ScienceNOW published an encouraging update this afternoon on the results of two pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trials in sub-Saharan Africa. To quote the opening paragraph of the report:It's a bad day...
View ArticleThat's more like it, Mr. President! (Obama endorses DOMA repeal: Updated with...
The Courage Campaign is reporting (sorry, it's mainly a donation link--but it's the only one I've been able to find thus far) that, after 25,000 campaign members contacted the White House to urge the...
View ArticleWhen memory is lost (updated x2)
For GLBT History Month last October, I published a diary about a largely overlooked and under-studied chapter of gay history: the Nazis' persecution of homosexuals under Paragraph 175 of the German...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Doce me quaerere te
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleA Tale of Two (i)Tunes
On my commute home this evening, the universe (well, my iPod) apparently felt it was a good night to serve up two powerful women of color making an interesting musical (and philosophical) contrast....
View ArticleCollege sports are pernicious and should be done away with
I've actually thought so for some time, and not just because I spent some time today reading the report of the special investigative counsel (the "Freeh report") on the way Penn State handled (or...
View ArticleWhy Pride Weekend matters
This weekend marks the height of the annual gay pride celebrations: the weekend closest to June 28, the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Occasionally people, both within and without the gay...
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