A straight older man in Amsterdam who works above the store Gays&Gadgets was standing in font of the store holding a bag from the gay store when 2 younger guys(look Moroccan) started shouting abusive things to the guy and when he walks after them to confront them one of the guys kicks the older guy who kicks back, falls on the floor and the Moroccan guy starts kicking him some more. This was all on camera and that is another sign only cameras at gay hotspots does not help. More police and heavier sentences for the homophobes are the only things that might help.
A revised version of the Diary of Anne Frank called “The Definite Edition” has been pulled by a school system in Virginia. The book that was published on the 50th anniversary of her death in a concentration camp and had according to a parent it had sexually explicit material and homosexual undertones referencing to a passage where Anne has a crush on another girl. Such an important book, one of the most important in the world ever and people complain that their teens read something about a girl-girl crush. Ridiculous.
Obama keeps disappointing the gays by only making promises and not doing anything real. He has promised once more in his State of the Union that Don’t Ask, don’t tell will be repealed, but he did this already before and still nothing has happened on this issue. And during a Town Hall meeting when he was asked about the issue of gay marriage the only thing he came up with was the old and boring gays should be able to go to the hospital when their partner is dying. Dodging the question because he is against it and does not want to upset the gays even more. Especially as a black man he should be in favor of equality.
Brisbane lesbian Narelle Oliver (pictured) has been ordained as the first female priest within the Independent Catholic Church of Australia.
The social worker, who was ordained late last year, said her vows were not a political statement but rather a personal decision, reported The Courier-Mail.
“This is a deeply spiritual journey, not a political statement for me,” she said.
Oliver, who says mass every second Sunday in a decommissioned Methodist church in Hemmant, said the Independent Catholic Church – a small denomination of ‘Old Catholics’ who split from the Roman Catholics in 1870 – was “a place where people come and celebrate their faith and be accepted”.
For mass times and other information, visit www.independentcatholicchurch.com or call (07) 3841 4674.
News Source: Queensland Pride
Proposition 8, a new provision to the California Constitution, reads:
Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
— Wikipedia
Your gay wedding is a special day for you, your loved one, relatives and friends. You’ve chosen the flowers, the rings, the wedding finery. Now here’s how to make it official in the State of California.
First, lay in a supply of handguns, rocket-propelled grenades, and shoulder-launched missiles. I’ll explain how to use them later. Your wedding needs to be scheduled on a weekday during the County Clerk’s office hours. Plan carefully! Your wedding may result in injury, mutilation, imprisonment, death and/or a hefty fine.
You should invite all of your friends who own trucks, SUVs, Escalades, and Humvees. These should be outfitted with gun mounts on the hood, and an anti-tank guided missile system on the back.
Invite many guests, you will need them to replace those felled by return fire from your local police and sheriff. Instruct your guests that wedding wear should be something that allows them to run, climb, and lay down covering fire. Discourage female guests from wearing gowns and high heels. Instead they are to wear khaki and camo.
On the wedding day, it is best to exchange rings, vows, and have a ‘traditional’ though not official, wedding before you head off to the courthouse. This prevents later disappointment in case the brides or grooms die during the official ceremony firefight. Drill your wedding guests into a mean combat unit ahead of time.
You prepared the Armored Vehicles (AVs) the day before by mounting guns and missile launchers. The AV’s were disguised with painted well-wishes such as “Just Married” and the weapons covered with white daisies. Now the AV’s caravan to the courthouse and fan out around the entrance, flattening any obstacles like fire hydrants and signs.
Upon arrival, elite wedding guest weapons handlers unwrap the Grenade Rifle Entry Munition M-100 system (GREM). We highly recommend the GREM, which can blast a door in from half a football field away. You never know who or what awaits you behind the courthouse door. Aim the GREM at the door and command the guests to insert their pre-issued earplugs that match the wedding color scheme.
Using the GREM you’ll have no trouble entering the courthouse unimpeded. The wedding guests follow pre-planned orders and enter in formation. Ignore the approaching sound of wailing sirens. If the Clerk is alive, threaten her until she gives you the certificate that you came for. If she fell victim to the GREM, make staff rifle through the drawers and give you a marriage certificate. Make sure that it is signed by a County official!
Once you have the certificate, order the wedding guests to draw their pistols and cover the wedding couple’s exit, and have guests withdraw in formation. If law enforcement has arrived, the guests should lay down covering fire while the wedding couple leaps into the AV and peels off, launching missiles as it retreats. If the police gun down one or both of the wedding couple, trained wedding guest medics should retrieve the newlyweds to an AV as soon as battlefield conditions permit.
Wedding guests should retreat to the AV’s as feasible, and follow the preassigned escape plan. Do not leave any wedding guest behind! This is rude and potentially fatal. Each AV should follow its unique evasion plan to the secret Wedding Reception location.
Upon arrival, guests may change into wedding attire, tuxes, gowns and heels so long as they retain a fully loaded pistol upon their person at all times. If the bride or groom or both have been injured or killed, the guests should make arrangements for medical attention that is waiting on-site, or dispose of the bodies. In case both brides or grooms have perished, the guests may use the Reception as a wake, funeral and reconaissance point for their new life on the lam.
Planning is the key to a successful gay wedding under Prop. 8, we cannot emphasize this enough. Planning, training, skill, courage and of course, love! No wedding would be complete without all of these. We wish you luck on your California gay wedding. Write and tell us about it, if you make it.
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Queer Question Time have invited journalist, Julie Bindel, to form part of their panel for the QQT debate at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern on Friday, 29th Jan. While reserving particular vitriol for trans people, Julie Bindel has used her position in the media to be an outspoken opponent of queer identified people in general.
In her Guardian column of November 2008, she dismissed queer people as merely those “who are into kinky sex”, expressed prejudice towards bisexual people and the non-binary identified, comparing them to “devil worshippers” and declaring that she did not want to be associated with those “defined by odd sexual habits or characteristics”, and said that she wanted nothing to do with the wider LGBT movement, asking for “an amicable split”.
Now she is appearing on a panel to comment upon and discuss queer issues, and this discussion is being hosted in the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, traditionally regarded by London’s queer community as one of its “safe spaces”.
Julie has reserved much of her vitriol for the trans community, who have been described by her as “looking like the cast of Grease” and who she dismisses as mere dupes of “reactionary male psychiatrists”, with 1950s ideals about binary gender roles. In 2007 she appeared in Radio 4’s “Hecklers’” debate, arguing that hormonal and surgical treatment for trans people should “not be available”, and that they should be offered “talking cures” instead, expression a view similar to those of the US Christian right who favour so-called “ex-gay/ex-trans” reparative therapy.
Indeed, the homophobic Christian Right would find much in common with Julie’s views on gender identity and sexual orientation. She has often described homosexuality as a choice and suggested that sexuality can be changed by psychotherapy. In a world where the Religious Right seeks to extend its influence over the globe, as demonstrated by recent events in Uganda, Julie as a “respected representative” of the lesbian and gay community provides dangerous ammunition to those who wish to see sexual orientations and indeed, our very identities outlawed and have us coerced into their reparative therapy programmes. Indeed, her writing is already being cited by those in the UK “seeking to uphold Biblical values to the transvestite, transsexual and transgendered person”:
http://www.parakaleo.co.uk/article9.html
When queer people expressed their concerns about the invitation of someone who seems to fundamentally opposed to the queer movement into the heart of a space which has traditionally been regarded as safe and welcoming to queer people, we were dismissed by the organisers, who just kept repeating themselves over and over:
“QQT is an event for the LGBT community to debate current affairs. The panel is made up of a cross section of society whose opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the QQT organisers or the RVT.”
Furthermore, it appears opportunities to challenge Julie’s anti trans, anti queer views in the talk itself may be severely limited. This amounts to the organisers of QQT silencing queer people in our own spaces, and must not be allowed to stand unchallenged.
Please dress fabulously, bring rainbow flags and placards for a peaceful demonstration outside the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Let’s show those wishing to impose a corporate-friendly, assimilationist agenda that queer people who reject the constraints of heteronormativity, cisnormativity and rigid binary thinking *do* have a voice, and that we can shout loud enough to be heard.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/05/facebook-groups-social-networking (Bindel typically misrepresents and stereotypes the members of this facebook protest group in Zoe Williams’ article)
http://www.g3mag.co.uk/joomla104/ (you have to download a PDF of G3 Magazine Dec 2008. Bindel’s article is at the back. See editorial also.)
Kate Bornstein blog: http://katebornstein.typepad.com/
If you are unable to attend please add your comments to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s QQT pages.
Queer Question Time Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=169053002441&ref=search&sid=678395520.3134693742..1
I am obsessed with Sarah and Veronica from Big Brother Italy. I think their relationship is real. The dramas that go on between these two is evidence enough to me that it is real. Love is an absolute killer of an emotion and how how can it be anything but true love. If the stories are true that they have been told to cool it and hook up with the guys on the show than I don’t understand how they can agree to do such a thing. Sarah dissapoints me if this is true. Her hooking up with that new guy in her and Veronicas bed of all places. I don’t understand a word of Italian so I am getting my understanding of this relationship via After Ellen boards, but even without words body language is pretty strong. I don’t think it is being done to get attention, not if it is true that lesbianism is not accepted in Italy. There would be no point to play that angle. Veronica at least has not really done anything to bad with “the pit” since declaring her love for Sarah. I honestly believe her and him are just friends and he is looking out for her. And who would not blame him if he is just being there for her in the hope that she realises she want to be with him. I am doing that right now. Being the friend hoping that one day my friend will want me and not all these other guys. How can they not want to spend every second with each over. I mean one of them will be leaving the house this coming eviction. If I was either one of them and I was the one who did not go I would leave anyway. Love is love and it is rare and once you find it hold onto it and never let it go. It may not last, it may not mean forever, but it should not be ignored and once an opportunity passes you by you don’t always get a second chance. Don’t let the pressure of tv stand in the way of true love.
I’ve really enjoyed reading other lesbian oriented blogs. I don’t have a community of lesbian women in my age group (or outside it, but I’m an ageist, there I said it) to talk to and reading other blogs makes me feel less isolated. I still identify as being a 20-something. It also makes me feel a bit old at 27 to be coming out, but it was the right time for me.
I even considered joining my local lesbian meetup group last night, but I am not an old, pear shaped, bowling interested, mom jeans wearing dyke. Yes, I deserve to be ostracized. I have deep wells of shallowness. I will persist in going out out, eventually I will stumble into friends or scurry back into the closet. I lost my optimist card today.
Purge: I had sinus infection symptoms last night, but after a good night sleep I’m feeling much better although not 100%. My father (the lifelong verbally abusive emotionally crippled alcoholic who my mother left a month ago…to move into my house…) called while I was trying to sleep and blasted me with a heavy dose of self pity and blamed me through his tears for I don’t know what but it’s my fault because of my lack of sympathy. He’s cutting me out of his life because I haven’t been supportive enough: new locks on his house, changing his phone number and won’t be giving me the new one. The cold ugly feeling is rising in my chest again. I refuse to be accountable for his fucked up life choices. Until I can solve all the ugliness in my life with hugs; I’m going with the indifferent approach.
I wish my mom would make a plan for her life and move out. I’m a bad daughter, a terrible person, and a frustrated lesbian. I hate being closeted in my own home. But coming out to mom without a her to point to and say “see” seems like a pointless interjection of awkwardness into my daily life.
Today I got called back into the guidance office “for a quick moment”. I was taken back to Ms. H’s (I need to come up with decent but fake names for my people lol) office and she pulled out a sticker and handed it to me. When I looked down it was *drumroll*…..
Yes! She let me put up the first safe space sticker in our school! That was one of my main goals for this year when I attempted to start the GSA. Although I personally could not be involved for obvious reasons, she said that I was the one who got the ball rolling and so I got to put it up! There have now been a handful of teachers trained by glsen and those teachers will now train other teachers within the school over the next few months. Hopefully those stickers will be popping up all over the place!
I’ll admit though, it was kind of a sweet and sour moment. It reminded me of all the pain I face in the future in regards to my family, but gives me hope for the future generations. That was my whole purpose to begin with. I complain a lot because of the pain I feel of losing my family but really, I just wanted to help others and that sticker is a symbol of what I set out to do….even if it is just a sticker.
We sit here watching the seconds tick off the clock. Three hours from this moment we will be telling a trauma story face-to-face for the first time in our long life.
We have been told that this will feel great once it’s ovah. We have been told that this will represent a new and magical phase in our therapy. We have been told that T can handle it and she will think no less of any of us for hearing a disgusting horrific story.
The rational parts of the system get this. Unfortunately they have been completely overridden by whoever it is who determines these things.
****TRIGGER ALERT PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL OR SKIP THIS PART****
We are afraid that once a story is out the rest will come bombing down the slopes like an avalanche, to suffocate and freeze us to death. We worry that T is going to can us for being just too big a job. We fear that we will piss and shit ourselves just as did the little girl whose story is to be told. We fear we will black out forever or at least to wake up in a nutward again.
But most of all we are terrified that we are gonna feel nothing. That we’ll discover the human parts of us were indeed f*cked out of us before we were old enough to be in school.
Nobody rescued us then and there’s nobody to rescue us now. Is what is. There has got to come some point where the scales of justice tip in her favor and we just don’t wake up.
The new girl is bleeding all over everybody else and it’s a royal pain. But we get the feeling that she’s not going anywhere until somebody can finally see her. She is here to teach us the lesson that people did these things to that poor little girl. She wasn’t born this way.
Unfortunately we never learned much abou safety or self-compassion so there’s no help to come. Well, maybe we’ll get lucky and Get into a fatal accident before that time. Something anything. Please.
Jasper has been exploring the world of the love that dare not speak its name, becoming a “tranny dyke”, as she terms it. She would be amusing if she wasn’t so darn aggressive and offensive elsewhere. This time she has decided to approach “lesbian separatists” and after being taken to school on some of their blogs, has backtracked and now just wants to be friends.
Ms Jasper, despite the post modern rhetoric, separates people into two categories that inform the rest of her philosophy. Like virtually all transgender activists, Jasper uses the designation “Male at Birth” and “Female at Birth” to build the rest of her house-of-cards point of view. They may refer to these categories different, such as “assigned male” or whatever, but you get the idea. So Jasper goes on about MAB’s and FAB’s.
What is interesting is how Ms Jasper has suddenly decided that lesbian separatists have a point, after being strongly rebuffed. She has now entered a friendly dialogue with her new friends where she bargains away the rights of others under the premise that she is the same as everyone else she decides is “MAB” and therefore is somehow duly appointed to represent everyone. The irony of a “horizontal” philosopher who sets up hierarchies is lost on Ms. Jasper.
First, I’d like to state that I have no interest in the “radical lesbian” or “lesbian separatist” argument. That is something the TG politicians have brought on themselves, using us as some kind of assault weapon. Because the TG have successfully made our birth condition the equivalent of fetish transvestitism under their “umbrella”, nobody knows who we are any more. This erasure was necessary in order to pursue the “male lesbian” scenario, among other things. Those lesbian women who find themselves under attack from the trans hordes are prefectly within their rights to resist the invasion. That is much of what we are trying to do as well.
Transwomen like Jasper are the ultimate expression of transgender. She is the perfect TG. Also like other TG activists, despite all of her “radical” theory, she falls back into the same binary that we all live in and respects the rights of those “FAB” people while ignoring those of transsexual men and women. Jasper does this because she claims that transsexuality doesn’t exist. There is nothing radical about postmodernism in the end.
I was having a bit of fun watching Ms Jasper’s antics, until I read some of the things she was saying about the transsexual condition more closely. Because Jasper says that “male femininity” is just a variation, she out and out denies that there are children who suffer from a real physiological transsexual condition. Her uninformed viewpoint comes down to the same old thing as many of the TG and other outsiders; if society were just more accepting, transsexuality wouldn’t exist. What an ignorant, arrogant, and horrible opinion.
In the comments thread on my last post, a discussion broke out about children and their parents who deal with these sorts of issues sprang up towards the end. The fact that children are subjected to the label transgender, or “gender” anything is deeply troubling to me. I strongly believe that burdening children with all the adult sexual baggage that comes with the “transgender” label is grossly unfair to them, and may be dangerous to their mental and possibly physical health later in life. The stigma of these things never goes away once unleashed, and that is a tragedy because there are other ways of dealing with these issues.
I think this provides the strongest reason of all for ending the concept of transgender as involuntary umbrella. All of this gender proselytizing does have an effect; it even impacts how doctors and other professionals treat their patients, unfortunately. I was one of those children once, and I know what kind of damage that nonsense can do, Jasper. Shame on you and your transgender allies for your part in this.
I don’t take kindly to people who want to make light of this birth defect. People who want to erase it into a system of gendered nonsense for their own prurient interests deserve to be vilified for the real harm they do. When transgender activists like Ms. Jasper misrepresent who and what we are to other people, impersonating us in their fun and games, they do malicious damage to everyone who was born with the transsexual condition.
And I especially abhor being used as a weapon against other women. The TG and their activists are always quick to do that; it seems to be one of their main goals in co-opting transsexuality.
I’m not sure if Ms. Jasper will post my comment in its entirety on her blog; she seems to be into creative editing for favorable context. So I’ll post it here.
Yeah, here’s the thing Jasper. I was born physiologically “different” than you, and your denial of that just makes you look silly. We have no “shared origin at birth”; your claim is an attack on my personal sovereignty as well as reality.
Just so you know people like me have “trans-hoods”, not childhoods; we never develop that understanding of “male as self” that you did. Our experience of the world from birth until death is fundamentally different from yours. I share no experience of maleness with you in that sense. Are you starting to see why you are wrong about the transsexual birth condition?
When you mocked those “MtF” people by telling them who they are, you committed an act of political and personal violence against them. The reason they deny being “male” is because, if they were born transsexual, they never were. Not in the sense you demand that they be, for your own purposes. You are fixated on genitals like most men, thinking that they absolutely define physical brain structure, if you think of that aspect at all.
All this theorizing has as its goal to erase women and invade their space, using people like me as a battering ram. You do not have my permission to do this, nor any post-transsexual person’s as far as I know. This is another reason I oppose the TG political construct- it has become a weapon against women.
You can try to turn it around all you like, as you have done in the posts above this one. That is known as “imposing your will”, something that you “MAB” people seem to be very good at. You don’t even see how aggressive and domineering you are, do you?
That’s what is known as “male privilege”. I deal with that all the time from TG’s. And it seems you are going down that same route.
You do not speak for me. You do not speak for “transsexuals”. You do not speak for anyone but yourself. If you want to invade women’s space, you do it all on your own with no excuses.
Up to now I have been focusing what I have been calling the transvestite side of the transgender paradigm. People tend to have a particular view of transvestites which is actually quite misleading, due to the strong propaganda put forth creating the image of the “heterosexual crossdresser”. But the truth became readily apparent later when transvestites blossomed into the transgender under that rubric.
We are all familiar with the images on television, or perhaps you have seen them in your own town, of a male person tottering on heels in fetish clothing that no woman would wear in a public setting, if she would consider wearing such ridiculous things at all. What most people don’t know is that far from being the “heterosexual crossdresser” as they generally liked to portray themselves prior to the advent of hardcore transgenderism, the vast majority of these modern full-time transvestites are actually gay. Arnold Lowman, aka Virginia Prince, coined the transgenderist term specifically to hide this truth and shame real transsexual people. More on that later.
For now I’d like to explain the other part of the TG paradigm, which completes the (male) transgender circle. I am purposefully leaving out the phenomenon of the “Transman”. The transgender paradigm is a behavioral phenomenon, not a physical one such as found in transsexuality. Therefore the female-bodied at birth transgender person may be quite different from the male-bodied at birth transgender person in their reasons for what they do. Because we are discussing a behavior and not a state of being, it is more appropriate to segregate the two sides in a manner which would not apply to transsexualism, the common cause of which is most likely shared between both male- and female-bodied at birth transsexuals. So on to the “shemales”.
As with most things transgender, your common sense and instincts are correct when it comes to “shemales”.
Lately of pornographic fame, the “shemale” is generally a gay man who has decided to make use of his slender physique to profit from those who are attracted to male genitals but who, for one reason or another, cannot accept that attraction in themselves.
Contrary to widespread belief, most shemales generally do not take hormones (for long if at all) because, strangely enough, having a female balance of hormones is tremendously uncomfortable for a person with a male balance of traits in the brain.
Instead, they rely on plastic surgery and silicon injections to mould their bodies to approximate the female form for a time, while retaining their essential maleness. This is important for their target market, closeted gay men. The image on the screen allows for arousal in a state of temporarily reduced inhibitions. In the case of shemale sex workers, the client is aroused by the smell of testosterone emanating from the male prostitute, as well as his underlying hardened physique.
It is an unfortunate circumstance that in most of Western society there is a very negative attitude towards sex. More to the point, there is a very negative attitude towards sex between males. In many primates, sex between male members of the population is used to establish and reinforce the pecking order. And this is probably the case with humans as well.
Being attracted to other males carries a huge stigma for a man, and dealing with that attraction for some is too great a dishonor. Even when such relations are accepted in a culture, the dominance and submission aspects are still in play, giving us such things as the old Roman standard that only the submissive man is truly debased.
Shemales provide an outlet for men with closeted gay feelings to express them in a safe environment.
If the male genitals are attached to a “woman”, there is no shame, because they are not submitting themselves to a lower place on the male heirarchy. Also, the sheer novelty of such an image is bound to pique interest in those given to fetish, as the bizarre tends to evoke the addictive sexual response in those so inclined. The circle of addiction can then begin, adding complexity to the situation as the population of “admirers” grows.
Shame and lust exist side by side in shemale attraction: The gay attraction to “shemale transgenders” mirrors the more male-bodied, yet also gay, attraction for the “transvestite transgender”.
And that’s the link that holds what seems like two sides of the TG paradigm together. In reality, they are both the same, only the minor details are different.
And that is why transgender sits so comfortably among the GLBT- it is simply another form of men being gay. Whether it is with a “shemale”, or with a 24-7 (older transvestite-type) “transgender non-op”, the focus is on male genitals and gay sex.
Virginia Prince, hopelessly addicted to shemale pornography, closes the loop and provides the archetype of the transgender phenomenon. The legacy of its creator is seen throughout the TG world today, for they are men who hate themselves for their gay feelings, and take that out on transsexual women by erasing, silencing and violating us whenever they can.
The sooner these gay men can overcome their shame, the sooner we can put an end to transgenderism as an abusive political force. People like Ron Gold, and probably most of the GLB, understand this instinctively having written similar things. Their only error was in confusing the transsexual-born with the those who exhibit transgender-gay behavior. Who can blame them after all the misinformation?
In essence, transgender is just variant form of gay behavior.
This is why its adherents cling so strongly to the GLB. Yet there would be no need for people to become one of these older “transvestites” or a younger “shemale” sex workers if shame over homosexuality did not exist. This, in addition to my belief in equal rights for all, is why I support acceptance of gay and lesbian women so strongly. Not tolerance, but genuine acceptance and an embrace of all people as brothers and sisters. Few callings are higher than bringing equality to those who do not have it.
For us, the (post)transsexual men and women, being thought synonymous with men’s sexual pecadillos is so degrading and dehumanizing as to evoke rage. We have lost our humanity so that a few men could avoid their conscience, and for cynical politics. Their privilege trumps our existence. The injustice of this is reason enough for every one of us to stay the course and see this through. We must separate ourselves from the gay and lesbian discourse at any cost.
We really have nothing for the GLBT or the gay world at all. Being born different does not give other people the right to victimize us, either for our politics or for our bodies. In this we share common cause with the intersex. It is sad to see young pre-op girls being victimized by the sorts of predators that live in the TG world. Sadder still is the victimization of intersex babies first by medical “professionals”, and later by the same predators that assault us, transsexual woman.
There are much better ways to transition these days than hanging out in the gayborhood, and I urge all those who feel trapped there to reach out beyond its borders. There IS another way. Though the TG machine has done it’s best to “educate” the world about us, in order to keep us as vitcims, we endure. And we triumph.
So these two lovley ladies have been together for 4 years & Married in 2008. They’re everyones favourite lesbian couple, but favourite couple in general. Ellen Degeneres & Portia de Rossi scored 31% of more than 25,000 votes to take out the top spot. They are just as popular as Brangelina, TomKat, Beniffer & More.. Celebrity Fix wants to finally give these pair a name.. Choices: Pellen 41 % say yes. Pollen 48 % say yes. Ortia 11 % say yes.
Perhaps you’re a reader of Queer Fresno and already know about dickwad Governor Don Carcieri vetoing a law in Rhode Island allowing funeral decision-making rights to domestic partners. Essentially the Governor said he didn’t want gay couples to be allowed to make the arrangements for their deceased partner’s burial and Stephen Colbert properly lambasted him for it.
Well today the Rhode Island legislature gave Mr. Carcieri what for by overwhelmingly overriding his veto. From the article:
The House — and then the Senate — voted to override Republican Carcieri’s veto of a bill giving domestic partners the right to claim the bodies of — and make funeral arrangements for — their loved ones.
The House vote was 67 to 3 and the Senate vote was 29 to 3.
The only one of dueling defense-of-marriage, same-sex marriage and gay-rights bills introduced in Rhode Island last year that cleared the General Assembly, the legislation was an outgrowth of the personal tale that Mark S. Goldberg told lawmakers about his months-long battle last fall to persuade state authorities to release to him for cremation the body of his partner of 17 years, Ron Hanby.
There’s no reason this shouldn’t have become law in the first place. Thank you Rhode Island for doing what’s right.
In a shocking release just moments ago, New Jersey Senate President Richard Codey announced that he will push the New Jersey Gay Marriage Vote to this Thursday, the 7th.
This is a huge boon to equal marriage supporters, if passed it still falls under current NJ Governor Corzine who has pledged to sign the bill into law. From www.nj.com:
“Given the intensely personal nature of this issue, I think the people of this state deserve the right to a formal debate on the Senate floor,” said Codey, in a statement.
Many legislators have refused to say publicly where they stand on the matter and how they would vote. Legislators who are in favor of the measure have said support for the bill won’t be known until the votes are tallied.
“I hope this is just an example of Mr Downey’s black sense of humour. It would be drastic, but I would withdraw permission for more films to be made if they feel that is a theme they wish to bring out in the future. I am not hostile to homosexuals, but I am to anyone who is not true to the spirit of the books.”
—Andrea Plunket, who holds the US copyright to the literary Holmes saga
I’m sorry but homoeroticism is effing everywhere in literature. Sure the Narrator and Tyler Durden Fight Club in may not be getting it on in the background but you can’t deny the bromance there. Likewise with Sherlock plus Rachel McAdams’ character is the closest thing I’ve seen to a fag hag in a period piece ever. Also: she’s not hostile to homosexual she just doesn’t want them on-screen or in any way associated with her whatsoever? Bitch, please.
As for the most recent incarnation of the book it’s pretty good. Holmes, as played by Robert Downey Jr., seems to have three skills: drinking, conducting science experiments whilst drinking and punching real good (again while drinking). Plus him and Jude Law do have pretty good chemistry, homoerotic or not, and the wisecracking is pretty enjoyable. Granted the movie itself doesn’t stay too true to the book but the upside of having a movie is that action scenes are much more enjoyable in moving picture form then they are in text, so I’m willing to forgive Ritchie for the artistic license.
In Australia: A Sydney public school teacher’s assistant has appeared in court following a sex scandal with her lesbian lover.
Nepean High School teacher’s assistant Sharron Anne Lee, 40, was involved in a threesome at a drunken New Year’s Eve sex party which later descended into a brawl.
Parramatta Bail Court heard yesterday that Lee, a teacher’s assistant, had fought with her girlfriend of three years, Carlie-Anne Bell, from Glenmore Park, in her bedroom while the man they had picked up at the Penrith Panthers club, Nikola Murgevski, watched on horrified.
The three had continued partying at Rooty Hill RSL before retiring to Lee’s bedroom after playing “strip pool” in Lee’s backyard, the court heard.
Court documents said the fight had begun because Bell was upset that Lee was having sex with a man, Murgevski.
The alleged attack saw Bell hospitalised with a tear to her bowel lining and severe bleeding.
Bell was rushed to Nepean Hospital where she was expected to undergo surgery.
The Court heard Lee was a teacher’s assistant at the school in an “Aboriginal program” Department of Education spokesman Mark Davis refused to say whether Lee would be suspended.
“At this stage we wouldn’t have any comment to make on the situation with the teacher,” he said. “We’d await the outcome of the court proceedings.”
It is not known if Lee’s child was home. Lee was charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm. Police prosecutor Kristy Madden said the charges related to “an unusual set of circumstances” and the facts read “horrifically”.
Lee was refused bail and will appear before Mount Druitt Local Court on January 11.
So the drama is over. Ryan and I are no more, and instead of feeling sad this morning I feel more relieved than anything else. The relationship was very one way and was very draining. With school break ending on Monday, I decided that I would have a nice long weekend of no work. I don’t go back until Monday afternoon. I am back to my 20 hour a week job and I am excited about going back to school and seeing my friends who have gone on vacation for most of the holiday. Tomorrow I have one of my friends Emma coming over and we are just going to veg all day!
Today I woke up not really all the horny. It’s probably the first time in a while that I didn’t masturbate first thing in the morning. I went downstairs and had some breakfast, and decided to polish my nails. I know most of you are thinking this is boring as hell, well this is my life, it’s not all rainbows and unicorns as my friend says. I decided to go festive and did red nails with white stripes, still in a festive mood I guess. After that I went up and shaved my legs. At that point I felt I deserved an orgasm and a scooted my butt so that the faucet was shooting right on my clit, leaned back, thought of one particular facebook friend (that I admire quietly through a series of pokes) and came nice and hard.
With that business out-of-the-way, I shaved myself, only cutting myself once on my knee. Decided I still like the landing strip so I shaved around it. Toweled off, put on some really sexy lingerie, that I had bought a few weeks ago but never wore, a pink and black lacy bra, black blouse, pink short skirt, boring white panties but these pink and knee high socks. I took myself to Kohls and blew through my gift certificate as I counted no less than three older men actually follow me around the store (a little creepy, although I know they just wanted a peek of me).
I picked up a new purse and wallet, a pair of pink Vans, a sweater, and a scarf. I know,I know, no fun stuff, but I think Kohl’s underwear selection is kind of boring. I headed back home and chilled out with my mom and my brother’s girlfriend. After we finished the movie, I went up to my room and hopped on Facebook to do some flirting Only to find one of my friends picture’s is popping up all over Facebook as fraud “lesbians” who are really men. I felt horrible for her. It’s such an invasion of privacy.
I was going to leave a long post about fraud on Facebook, but I think everyone’s aware of it. I just wonder if the guys who do it truly understand how difficult it is to come to terms with being bi or gay for that matter. Look at me, I am terrified to come out of the closet, I am still afraid someone will find this blog from school or my profile on Facebook and blast me at school because I’m different. There are some girls on facebook that I know are real, there are some I think are real and all others will be purged soon.
One of the reasons I started this blog was to slowly come out of the closet and see what it’s like to not worry what others will think of me being bi. As much as guys want a girl who is bi, I’ll still be considered a freak. I don’t even want to think about the girls that will probably avoid me in the locker room or just stay away from me period. It’s very stressful, especially since I want a girlfriend now more than ever and I don’t know how to go about it without completely coming out. With only half a year of high school left I just don’t want to risk it. So I just dream of my Facebook girls and chat with them and maybe sometime I will meet one.
I don’t have a habit of making New Year’s resolutions but as I look back on all the changes of the past year I want to look forward as well. Where have I come from? Where am I headed?
2010 is going to be the year in which I react to everything that happened in 2009. All the changes, the realizations, the massive introspection.
What do I want from 2010?
I want to live as the person I am discovering myself to be.
I want to find out just who that is, male, genderqueer, lesbian, who knows?
I want to learn new things, read new books, listen to new music, meet new people.
I want to study hard, because that’s what I enjoy.
I want to spend time with my friends, because it’s so rare that I have any, and I may not get the chance again.
I want to solve a Rubik’s cube in 30 seconds.
I want to play a beautiful solo violin recital.
I want to get into graduate school and move away from home.
I want to learn Polish.
Robyn Ochs discusses the 2nd edition of her groundbreaking book “Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World” which she co-edited with Sarah E. Rowley. Ochs is the second person to teach courses on bisexual identity issues at the university level and is an accomplished lecturer having spoken at over 400 colleges and universities and conferences around the world. Robyn provides an in-depth understanding of bisexuality. Robyn shares her experience as an LGBT activist, her wedding to her wife Peg Preble and meeting President and Mrs. Obama at the White House.
Robyn_Ochs, writer, educator, activist
Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, Edited by Robyn Ochs & Sarah E. Rowley
Yes! She let me put up the first safe space sticker in our school! That was one of my main goals for this year when I attempted to start the GSA. Although I personally could not be involved for obvious reasons, she said that I was the one who got the ball rolling and so I got to put it up! There have now been a handful of teachers trained by glsen and those teachers will now train other teachers within the school over the next few months. Hopefully those stickers will be popping up all over the place!
I’m sorry but homoeroticism is effing everywhere in literature. Sure the Narrator and Tyler Durden Fight Club in may not be getting it on in the background but you can’t deny the bromance there. Likewise with Sherlock plus Rachel McAdams’ character is the closest thing I’ve seen to a fag hag in a period piece ever. Also: she’s not hostile to homosexual she just doesn’t want them on-screen or in any way associated with her whatsoever? Bitch, please.
Only to find one of my friends picture’s is popping up all over Facebook as fraud “lesbians” who are really men. I felt horrible for her. It’s such an invasion of privacy.
