Bay Windows puts out an impassioned column against the ex-gay movement and the notion of “conversion.” Let me point out an interesting tidbit from that James Dobson site I mentioned:
There is growing evidence that change of sexual orientation is possible. Pro-homosexual organizations and members of the media have tried to convince our society that homosexuality […]
Fafblog is pretty funny today, but the original is so absurd that parody doesn’t take much of a stretch. (Though I think Ezra Klein misses why it’s absurd by suggesting that the “signs” aren’t true: in fact, I can vouch that they do capture the childhood and young teen experiences of myself and plenty […]
I’d highly recommend David’s analysis of John Roberts’ pro bono work for the plaintiffs in Romer v. Evans, including his take that Lambda Legal is missing the forest for the trees:
So, memo to liberal advocacy groups. Don’t get so caught up in your single-minded determination to object to anyone Bush nominates that, when […]
I swear it’s coincidence that the book club is taking up What’s the Matter with Kansas? the same week that TPMCafe is starting their book club with the very same. Sadly, this blog has neither budget nor clout to fly Thomas Frank to Boston to join us. But I heartily recommend reading and joining us […]
Maybe others have pointed this out already, but Stephanie Coontz’s op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times is a must-read. The real revolution in family structure, she argues, has not been the arrival of gay marriage, but of voluntary (straight) marriage based in romantic love, not kinship negotiation. “Gays and lesbians,” she writes, “simply looked at […]
More evidence of changing times:
But tea dance, like other Provincetown traditions, is now in jeopardy, threatened by that sentinel of progress: the condominium conversion. The Boatslip is for sale, listed at $14.5 million, more than double the $7.2 million price it sold for in 2001. And if it sells, many believe the 45-room hotel with […]
“Gov. Romney believes that voters should be given a straightforward amendment to decide the definition of marriage and not one that muddies the water by creating civil unions that would be equivalent of marriage in all respects but name.”
- Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for Gov. Mitt Romney
Heaven forbid those pristine waters get muddied.
Both Kenny at Cardinal Collective and Derek at Third Decade respond to my nostalgia for a gay ghetto with a healthy dose of skepticism. Derek writes, "Worrying about the existence of a gay ghetto strikes me as waxing nostalgic over a period of time and a place which really wasn’t a big deal to everyone." […]
This week is Gay Pride week in Boston and tomorrow is the day of the annual parade through the South End. This is my seventh year in this city and, perhaps as a consequence, there’s a certain ho-hum quality to the parade this year. As some have grumbled, any festivity once associated with these affairs […]
Don Herzog has more on the battle brewing between Catholic theocrats and the Socialist government in Spain over gay marriage. Not pretty. We’ll have to see how the measure survives widescale civil disobedience.
Mr. Herzog’s argument is odd in its expectation that Spain would have any American tradition of separation of church and state (his […]
I’m wondering why news that Spain has legalized gay marriage hasn’t gotten more play here. Or even abroad; the Guardian hasn’t had too much coverage and even the normally on-top-of-it Fistful of Euros is silent.
Yes, the law faces a legal challenge and some opposition from conservatives even if, as the Economist notes (subsc. required), the […]
Fresh off the resolution of a boycott crisis, Bay Windows has another great editorial: Our Problems Are Bigger than Microsoft. The lede says it all: “The thing that makes the Microsoft story so maddening is that despite the fact that Microsoft is an evil company, it’s our evil company.” Susan Ryan-Vollmar goes on to analyze […]
Maybe I was premature in pronouncing the death of the gay press. Susan Ryan-Vollmar has done a good job giving Bay Windows a sense of editorial focus. For those tired of the mainstream media’s lovefest with the Pope, go read her piece on John Paul’s homophobia. She’s absolutely right that the mainstream media - […]
Majikthise has a good post riffing off another blogger David Velleman’s suggestion that rather than focus on protecting the legal protection of gay rights against discrimination, harassment, etc., we can simply make all sexuality private.
[I]it’s almost impossible to live a normal life without disclosing a lot of information about one’s sexual orientation.
Heterosexuals simply […]
Susan Ryan-Vollmar - who writes an excellent blog on gay and lesbian rights, among other topics - lists in Bay Windows the reasons Cheryl Jacques was doomed.
Was it the uninspired “George W. Bush: You’re Fired!” publicity campaign in the run up to the Nov. 2 election during which Bush was . . . hired? Was […]