Part of me doesn’t like to rehearse nature v. nurture arguments about gayness, in part because at a certain point I got tired of concerning myself with arguing about gayness in a public forum, choosing instead just to get on with living my life, in part because my thoughts on the matter seem to shift […]
It’s funny, just this week, my friends and I were musing about the rate of gay divorce in Massachusetts in the couple of years since the Goodridge decision. Oddly enough, we hadn’t seen the news coverage on gay divorce that we’d predicted.
Well, via Adam Reilly, I see that Bay Windows is reporting that the Goodridges […]
Jay, too, links to my recent marriage post. I appreciate his link and savor a dig at the theocrats any time I see one. I just want to clarify something, though. He summarizes my argument as,
In other words, domesticated marriage life has made gay culture more boring.
The thing is, though, not all that many gay folks […]
I guess it pays to be a curmudgeon. The Herald took the theme of my post on gay marriage this weekend and ran with it for an article in today’s edition. Let me thank them for a piece that’s pretty decent, if concise, and for including the URL of this site, which is a courtesy […]
Last year, Gay Pride had me asking, “where have all the gay bars gone?” This year, the question, suggested by a friend’s comment last night, is: has gay marriage been a bad thing for Massachusetts?
Not bad in the way right wingers mean, of course, what, with the epidemic of divorce, self-mutilation, childsnatching and God know […]
Some encouraging analysis from the pollster-analysts on the NewsHour on the federal anti-gay-marriage amendment. We seem to be witnessing one of those paradoxical political situations where the Republicans are playing the anti-gay card for political expediency yet don’t seem to be getting much traction for such an expedient move. Unlike 2004, now the move is […]
So I went yesterday to the Youth Pride event at the Arlington St. Castle. After Romney’s half-scuttling of the Governor’s Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth and Article 8’s frothing at the supposed sordid goings on, I wanted to show some support in the face of right-wing rabble-rousing.
Let me just say for the record […]
At base I like Russ Feingold. And it’s great to hear a national pol put forth the proposition that anti-gay-marriage laws are wrong. But unlike Lynne and others, my initial reaction was "Oh well, he’s no longer a viable presidential candidate." Am I being incrementalist? Internalized homophobia to blame? Or should we heighten the contradictions?
By […]
Mass Marrier "sentences" me to read the dissent for the SJC decision. At 43 pages, I’ve been skimming the decision, rather than reading, but so far I don’t find the dissent more compelling than the decision. I’ll defer to Jason on the legal reasoning involved, but suffice it to say that in legal cases, there […]
The SJC upholds the law preventing out-of-state marriages contrary to the state laws of the origin state.
MassMarrier and Under the Golden Dome are blasting the law and the SJC, so I thought it might be a good time to revive my 2004 post on why that 1913 law is good for gay marriage. Shorter version: […]
In the current issue of Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, there’s an interesting interview with Keith Boykin (sorry, no online version), who argues that the "down low" - i.e. the lifestyle/identification of black men who sleep with other men but who are not gay-identifying - was all media hype and invention. I’m inclined to believe […]
To be a metrosexual, don’t you actually have to be straight?
I may have a few quibble with Andrew Sullivan’s End of Gay Culture essay, but by far it’s the smartest thing I’ve read on the shift going on in gay and lebsian culture right now. A lot of people are eloquent in putting forth the argument for rights, equality and integration. Another group grasp what […]
It’s big news, the defeat of the anti-gay-marriage consitutional amendment in the legislature, but the most encouraging thing was how it wasn’t big news. Instead of the tight votes and baited breath of the first time around, we had a resounding defeat of the measure, even if you back out the votes who voted against […]
Yesterday, a friend emailed a facetious response to news that AG Tom Reilly has certified a constitutional amendment initiative to ban gay marriage in MA: "2008 will be fun."
Indeed. I’m not excited about the prospect of the protraction of the political battle over this. I actually have faith that the citizenry will, in the […]