In a lot of people’s lives, we’re gearing up to gift-giving season. (Not in my life. I give gifts when I see something that makes me want to get it for someone.) While you’re getting things for your parents, kids, siblings, aunts, uncles, best friend, and landlord, stop and think about someone else: the stranger, …
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DOMA, and the first gay couple I ever met
Today I want to talk about the first same-sex couple I ever encountered. That is, the first same-sex couple I knowingly encountered — as I was a theater kid growing up with theater people in the semi-rural areas of Arkansas and Mississippi, I have no doubt that there were more same-sex couples that just weren’t …
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Queer Baiting
I don’t think I’ve ever said that TV would be better if all the characters were gay. At least, not while sober and actually thinking. That doesn’t reflect the world at large. I have said, and will keep saying, that queer baiting is wrong. “What’s queer baiting?” Queer baiting is when you dangle the chemistry …
Adorably Round
Today, inspired by http://fatshionelle.wordpress.com/ (blog by my new friend Natalie Slaughter) and also by http://www.xojane.com, I am deciding that I will never again try to be thin. No, seriously. Ipstenu adores my body BECAUSE of all the things about it, not IN SPITE of the things about it. I’ve realized that I love it, too. …
Stuff Even *I* Know About Horror/Sci-Fi Movies
I don’t even watch horror movies, but I know this: If it lands during a meteor shower, and especially if it glows, don’t talk to it, pick it up, take it home, name it, and for the love of G*D and little fishhooks, don’t get any ON you. Virgins live, unless they’re over 35, in …
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We are now… civilized.
Today, even though the man felt the need to insert some words that I don’t care about from a religion I don’t practice, our “Certificate of Marriage/Civil Union” document was signed. It’s not enough. It won’t be enough until there is no legal difference between my status and a heterosexual’s status in terms of the …