By Guest Writer, Addison I want you to close your eyes, and imagine that you’re 12-years-old again. Maybe you’ve mentioned to your Mom that a girl in your class is beautiful. Maybe your geometry teacher called home to alert them to your “concerning” behavior. Maybe your little brother raided your stash of Playboy magazines. Maybe [...]
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Ladies, Gentlemen, and Undecided, Gay Marriage May Be Coming To a State Near You!!
By Guest Writer, Addison A couple of days ago I was sitting in my office, door closed, with a brief open in front of me… crying. I’ve never shed a tear at work. It’s just not my style. But, reading this brief written to the United States Supreme Court in support of marriage equality moved me. [...]
How to Get a Domestic Partnership in Cali
I originally posted this on the Huffington Post. But thought it would be good to have in my archives for when people ask me about it. Before signing domestic partnership papers with my wife last year (yes, I call her my wife), we were told by several people who had walked that path before us [...]
Cali Poll says “The Writing is on the Wall”
“This Poll is a Caution to the Right Wing That Leads the Republican Party Today,” Says Courage Campaign’s Rick Jacobs Los Angeles — A new Field Poll released today shows that support for same-sex marriage in California has increased dramatically with 59% of residents favoring same-sex unions to 34% who do not — a now-25% [...]
Debunking Bigots
I found this article on Think Progress LGBT. I just had to share because it goes along with what I was saying. We pretty much have truth, reason and logic on our sides. Now we just have to wait for people to start thinking for themselves. The following article was written by Zack Ford. How [...]
Gay Values & Ellen Degeneres
I’m sure you have all seen or read about this. There is yet another bigoted group, called One Million Moms wanted JC Penny to fire Ellen as their spokesperson, because she’s gay. As an outspoken lesbian, I am often conflicted as to how to best combat the biggotry and hatred that’s out there. It’s [...]
Queer Occupy Wall Street’s Protest the HRC
This is an email from my inbox today. Just wanted to share. Didn’t see the point in rewriting it, so I just thought I’d let you read it for yourself. We contacted you earlier this week about Queer Occupy Wall Street’s protest of the HRC NYC Gala. Following are details of tomorrow’s event, but [...]
Little Red Buckets of Hate
Facebook conversations sometimes roll over into real life and this is one of those times. A friend posted this article and I shared it. It’s about NOT giving money to the Salvation Army this Holiday season because they are homophobic, have denied help to the LGBT in need, and actively funnel money into the Religious [...]
The History Of Marriage
As a great follow up to Down with DOMA, WWG sent me this video. Al Franken Fact Checks Chuck Grassley: Marriage Has Evolved Over Time This morning, in a vote of 10 to 8, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and allow [...]
Long Beach’s first openly lesbian pageant contestant
So actually, you can thank Rexie for showing this to me. And when I opened the link and saw this hot lesbian with spiky hair and tatts, I was like, “Suh-weeet!” Then to find out she’s the first openly gay woman in a Long Beach Beauty pageant!? Well …. it’s about time!!!! I think women [...]
A Butch Voice From Another Generation
I recently had a brief email encounter with a reader that almost made me cry. It all started with a simple misunderstanding when she read an old blog of mine. It was one of those old blogs from when I was dating a stone butch, who wouldn’t “allow” me to touch her below the shoulders. [...]
The Long Arm of DOMA
On the heels of the 3rd anniversary of Prop 8 passing, Remi came home today with some disheartening news from her work. We already knew that since she works for a federal agency, there was a good chance that they wouldn’t offer any domestic partner benefits. But over the last few years, we had heard [...]
Remembering Prop 8
Today I received the following press release and wanted to share it with you. It’s a sad day for our community. But hopefully we can use the anger, sadness and injustice to spur us forward and continue the fight for equality. November 4, 2011 — Today marks the 3rd year anniversary of the passing of [...]
9/11 and Invisibility for LGBT Spouses
It was ten years ago today that our world changed. I’m sure like our parents, that can tell you exactly where they were the day President Kennedy was assassinated, each one of us can remember the exact moment we heard about the Twin Towers. I was just waking up, still in bed. When my boyfriend [...]
I AM EQUAL PROJECT
I was on FB today and saw C.D. Kirven’s sexy new photo and had to investigate. Of course one the cool artists I profiled on CCL is the first one to bring another cool project to my attention. The I AM EQUAL PROJECT. Since I couldn’t possible explain it better then the creators themselves, read [...]