I can’t ignore the whole Mary Cheney explosion. Was it a low blow by Kerry? No. It was a completely clumsy one. Cheney’s out. When you’re out, you’re out and you better have the cahones to expect the rest of the world to do with it what they will. But, of course, it’s not Mary [...]

Seven queer couples are suing for the right to marry. I’m not sure why this tactic is being employed; both legislative committees and the state legislature have worked with marriage equality activists to bring about rewritten laws and the outcome’s been sensitive, thoughtful change. Gay couples have rights to shared hospitalization decision, second parent adoption, [...]

For McGreevey’s coming out to intersect with his crony-isms and corruptions? I’d call it a car wreck but I’m trying not to rubber neck too much. I thought Time’s coverage put the various elements of this event into thoughtful scope and understanding the complexities of coming out may, in fact, have contributed to an initial [...]

I figured New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey’s resignation would have everything to do with the scandals surrounding his donors, but imagine my radar going up when I heard him say, “From my early days in school, until the present day, I acknowledged some feelings, a certain sense that separated me from others.” My first [...]

Sure, the FMA failed, but our politicians are still trying to score points with conservative constituents. What with the Marriage Protection Act passing in the House this afternoon, I’d say it’s time to pressure your senator to work against its passage in the Senate. And, no, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suddenly making nice in [...]

Is because I was busy composing an essay on gay marriage for publication. So it disturbs me that conservative forces in the Senate have pushed the FMA forward towards a vote, claiming they’ll find out who’s for and against gay marriage. Of course, they completely remove the prospect that one could be against gay marriage [...]

Yeah, that’s what I did while suffering in the Florida sun — I watched the heat that melted Jack Ryan’s political bid. And, yes, I have a complicated and semi-unresolved view of the whole thing. On the face of it, I agree with the NCFS statement that individuals are entitled to the privacy to seek [...]

Yes, I’ll be on vacation next week, but I plan to blog at least once. I figure that if I can blog leisurely from a less headline-dependent vantage point, you’ll get content and I’ll be able to relax. But until then, headlines!
OK, I saw a noticable blip in my referrals from Kinja and I got [...]

debating the whole Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Why? Well, to put it bluntly, a lot of those pictures mirror what we do. In fact, if we took exactly the same pictures of ourselves at play, we’d hail that as a pretty damn good party. So yes, it’s disturbing to see our methods of extreme erotic [...]

When I credited Hanne Blank with stirring the pot of media interest in chic lit? Well, I had a chance to attend her reading at Wesleyan University (where progressive thinking reigns) and it was wonderful. What a fine author she is and her work is so compelling that it’s re-energized my own writing — at [...]