2009-04-03 09:10 | Holy crap, Iowa!

At Pandagon: Iowa Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality

I link there, rather than directly to a news site, because along with the news you get a nice smattering of Freeper wailing.  Yay, lamentations!

I had no clue Iowa had this on the table.  My boyfriend is from Iowa, so he is v. pleased as well.

Woo!  Who's next?

2008-10-27 11:39 | Event: Write to Marry Day

Here is the Wikipedia article on California's Proposition 8. The proposition is seeking to add this to the California Constitution: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Being liberal-minded myself, it is no surprise that I am firmly against this bigoted proposition. I am against restricting marriage to a man and a woman, I am against nullifying existing marriages, and I am way against giving even a millimeter of ground to people who are in fact that insecure about their marriages.

Two wonderful things:

• Google's position is vote no on Prop. 8.
• Apple not only says no to Prop. 8, they have donated $100,000 to the No On 8 campaign.

Donate to No On Prop 8 here.

2008-09-17 12:49 | Wahahahaha.

Couple fight gender-neutral language in wedding license

"To the state of California, however, she is either "Party A" or "Party B." Those are the terms that have replaced "bride" and "groom" on the state's new gender-neutral marriage licenses. And to Bird and Codding, that is unacceptable."

I… can't stop laughing at this.

""We just feel that our rights have been violated," she said."

*dies laughing*

2008-07-22 10:27 | Anti-homophobia list.

tigtog at Hoyden About Town reposts this list:

Notice: To all those who think Homophobia is wrong and want to fight for a better future for our gay and lesbian friends, please repost this:

• I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
• I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
• I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
• We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
• I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
• I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
• I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
• I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
• We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
• I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
• I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
• I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
• I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
• I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
• I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
• I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
• I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
• I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
• I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

2008-02-02 13:52 | Maybe I could learn to like New York…

An appeals court has ruled that a gay couple's marriage in Canada should be recognized in New York.

"The state Legislature "may decide to prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages solemnized abroad," the ruling said. "Until it does so, however, such marriages are entitled to recognition in New York."

And here's the ACLU press release on the topic.  This is fantastic!

Oh, hey, and, lookit this:

A[n Oregon] state law allowing gay couples to register as domestic partners belatedly took effect Friday after a federal judge ruled the state's process of disqualifying petition signatures was consistent enough to be valid.

I love waking up to good news.

2007-12-14 00:08 | I had too many tabs open.

It's links o'clock again.

* The Just World Theory: "According to the hypothesis, people have a strong desire or need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable, and just place, where people get what they deserve."

* brownfemipower writes on domestic violence in movies: "What would happen if we decided that there were no 'winners' (those who do the culturally acceptable thing and do what we all hope *we* would do in a similar situation) or 'losers' (those who still love the person who is abusing them, or chose to stay for whatever reason, or are killed before they can escape)-just people who have the right to live and love and grow and change?"

* Shauna writes on learned helplessness and political apathy.  As I'm squarely in the camp of largely depressedly apathetic, this post hit me hard, and I plan to let this sit in the mental crockpot for a while.

* In an LJ thread, hotcoffeems makes an awesome statement: "I get irked by this notion that there is a tiny amount of compassion available to us as humans, and therefore it must only be meted out in tiny dribbles to those some tiny-minded individual arbitrarily decides is "deserving enough." I don't care if someone "made their bed", they shouldn't be abandoned to it when things go horribly south."

* In a post about mix-and-match minorities, Katie comments on something interesting – being part of the LGBTI community and being deaf.  And now I want to go be That Person who transcribes YouTube posts.  Goodness.

2007-11-14 11:13 | I love this Bonnie person, and I don't even know her!

This here is the best rant I've read in ages.  At Alas, A Blog, Bonnie takes down Robert's stupid comparing-GLBTQ-to-pedophilia nonsense, and lo, it is beautiful.

2007-08-22 23:26 | I typoed that as 'Pandagod'.

Pam at Pandagon posted about Kevin McCullough, who ranted about gays and marriage and dragons…

…dragons?

The post is good.  The comments are spectacular.  Observe ye a sample, by karpad:

[Lesbians are] missing out on dragon slaying, is what.
But I think they have some kind of proto-magical super virginity or something, so they get to ride around on unicorns.

If we legalize gay marriage, lesbians will be required to defend their spouses against dragons AND still get unicorns. They can ride into battle on their unicorns, with flowing, brightly colored clothing with their magic swords with their awesome, awesome battlecry of MAGIC FUCK YEAH! WOOOOOOO!

And since all lesbians would have wives, both partners get both a unicorn AND a dragon. That just isn't fair. and the overhunting might extinguish the dragon population.

Eventually, there will only be one dragon left, it'll be soul-bound to some snotty evil prince, and then Dennis Quaid would have to kill Sean Connery.

Is that what you bitches want? Dennis Quaid killing Sexy Old Sean? and a species of beautiful, inspiring animals going extinct? That's why I'm against gay marriage.

Best Logic Evar(tm).  Go read the rest.

2007-04-02 17:08 | I can't even think of a title for this.

At two sites, the question goes:

"What is the most anti-LGBT encounter/interaction you've ever had?"

The responses (at Pam's House Blend and at Pandagon) range from funny, to sad, to outrageous, to fucking sickening.

I occasionally encounter people (online, thank god) who don't see what the big ol' fuss is, regarding LGBTQ-folk and their silly desire to, yknow, feel equal.  If I were dictator of the world, I'd have them read through both of those posts before ever speaking again.

I'd be more wordy about this, but I haven't eaten enough today.