Blog Woes

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Frakking CSS. Frakking WordPress. Something went really wrong with my blog earlier tonight. As a result, panic redesign keeping me up way too late. Still needs lots of work, but it’s a place to start and full functionality is back.

Worst.Pick-up.Line.Ever.

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

From Overheard in New York: Turkish man: Miss, you are so lovely. Can I buy you a drink? Girl: Uh, sure. Turkish man: You are so beautiful, I would suck on your father’s dick just to taste where you came from. Girl: Uh… Thanks for the drink [leaves].

Public Cruising: the Right and Wrong Approach

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

A queer rights group in Michigan is complaining about the post-Larry Craig rise in stings aimed at cracking down on men having sex with men in places like highway rest stops and public bathrooms. “This is profiling,” said Sean Kosofsky, policy director for the organization [the Triangle Foundation]. “Heterosexuals are never targeted in public sex [...]

A request to help me train

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~ Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky It’s raining in the City and I’m pretty bored. I’ve spent the afternoon typing out ideas for law school essays and nothing is clicking yet. I have a lot of ideas, [...]

I *heart* these guys

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

So, it seems my boyfriends, Superman and Elder Aaron, are making a movie. Lie to Me (not to be confused with the delightfully pornographic Lie With Me and the Buffy episode “Lie to Me“) follows a young couple whose open relationship hits the rocks as they start falling for other people. If the universe is very, [...]

Book Review: The God Particle

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I know I’ve used the phrase “I couldn’t stop reading this book” before in my life. I’ve probably said the words “particle physics” at least once or twice (back in college, one of my roommates was a physics major and one of my co-officers in the GLB Student Union was sciencey). I’m certain that until [...]

Devils and Angels on my Shoulder

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Cowardice asks the question:”Is it safe”? Expediency asks the question:”Is it politic”? Vanity asks the question: “Is it popular?” But conscience asks the question:”Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one what [...]

Another Talking Head

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Yesterday I got one of those end-of-the-day-on-deadline calls needing a comment on the press release our organization put out. Somehow I managed to stammer out something fairly intelligent sounding, and now I can add the San Francisco Chronicle to the list of publications I have been quoted in. Many in Bay Area call anti-bias measure [...]

Bittersweet ENDA

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I wish I could be happy about this. ENDA passed the House of Representatives, 235-184. It’s the non-inclusive version, leaving the transgender community behind. By all rights, we (meaning queer activists–especially those whose very job description involves promoting workplace equality) should be celebrating, but I don’t much feel like it. For one thing, there’s not [...]

Solmonese Squirms

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

The credibility of the HRC as a whole and Joe Solmonese (executive director of HRC) are dropping like stones among the real movers and shakers of the nationwide LGBT community. On today’s Mike Signorile show, Joe Solmonese gets grilled with some tough questions about their collective flip-flop on support for transgender-inclusive ENDA legislation. He actually [...]