January 26th, 2012
compare and contrast.
January 24th, 2012
Presidential Trivia—The Newt Gingrich Edition
How many Presidents have ever been divorced?
The answer, of course, is one: Ronald Reagan.
Every other candidate who has ever been divorced has lost. Just a thought.
January 24th, 2012
END HIV STIGMA
Hershey-Funded Boarding School REJECTED an HIV-Positive 13-Year-Old Boy for Admission, Calling His Status a “Direct Threat to the Health & Safety of Others”
Please join AIDS Healthcare Foundation in sending a message to the Hershey Company and the Milton Hershey School that HIV/AIDS discrimination is not acceptable.
Send an e-letter to 3 Hershey Company Board Members—Robert Cavanaugh, James Mead & James Nevels—who also sit on the Milton Hershey School Trust Board, and demand that Hershey denounce this discrimination and facilitate the enrollment of the HIV-positive student at its school. Go to www.endHIVstigma.org.
January 24th, 2012
For me it is the second—-first marriages are for practice.
For some, second marriages are for keeps.
For others—well, third time is a charm!
January 21st, 2012
Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day!
In honor of Squirrel Appreciation Day on Jan. 21, here are 21 noteworthy facts about these ubiquitous and opportunistic rodents.
January 21st, 2012
LGBTQ* Perspective and Insigh
Homo History- Eli Sanders (following text)
“The problem is as follows: Gay people, since forever, have mostly been born into straight families.
Heterosexual procreation is great and all—thanks, mom and dad—but heterosexuals tend to be better at making gay babies than raising them. Even if a hetero couple is thrilled to have made a gay, they’re not likely to regale their son or daughter with tales of Stonewall, or what the baths in San Francisco used to be like before they were closed, or why the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is so important, or why Brandon Teena should be remembered.
Every queer person has to figure all of this out on his or her own. Some do, but a lot don’t, especially now, when being gay seems to require less and less explanation—to oneself and to the culture at large.
But really, homos. Even if the bad old days are receding, there’s no excuse for gay cultural illiteracy. “
January 21st, 2012
January 21st, 2012
History has a sense of humor
Today, Newt Gingrich may win the South Carolina primary. Today in 1997, he was the first Speaker of the House reprimanded and fined for ethics violations.
History has a sense of humor.
January 21st, 2012
She has less tolerance for the skepticism she says her relationship has sparked among some gay activists who find her midlife switch in sexual orientation disingenuous.
“I totally reject that,” she said heatedly. “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.” Her face was red and her arms were waving. “As you can tell,” she said, “I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.”
January 20th, 2012
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