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California Judges Say “Go Get Gay Married!”

May 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gay by Chris Pommier

Pictured below: John Lewis, left, and Stuart Gaffney

reacted to the court’s decision in San Francisco.

Uploaded to Flicker on May 15, 2008 by Gay Weddings

Uploaded on May 15, 2008 to Flickr by Gay Weddings

The California Supreme Court today ruled that gay and lesbian Californians have a constitutional right to marry. Despite a robust domestic partnership status in California, the Court ruled that denying gays and lesbians the right to call their unions a marriage impinges on our constitutional rights.

After the jump is an excerpt from the conclusion of the ruling. I bolded quite a bit because I’m happy.

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Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

March 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gay, Opinion, politics by Pepper

Table of contents for Pepper on ...

  1. Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos
  2. Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

OK, so the government sexcapades continue as now-former New Jersey Governor McGreevey has some sexual skeletons in his closet, like being gay.

No wait, we knew that.

He likes dudes and had fun sexxxy times with his driver.

No wait, we knew he liked dudes, and his driver is a dude. so they had sex. OK.

He likes dudes and had fun sexxxy time with his driver and his wife.

Uh-huh. So, three consenting adults allegedly had fun, sexxxy times. He says so. She denies it.

It was in the privacy of his own home with other consenting adults. Allegedly. I tried to take a minute to see if it’s illegal in NJ, just in case. Then I though, honestly that would be a stupid law anyway. So, I don’t care. Plus, the hits that come up when you type “threesomes” and “New Jersey” into Google (250,000 of them) are not what I was looking for.

The Bottom Line

McGreevey is not Eliot Spitzer, which is where this is all coming from. Spitzer broke the law, a law which he busted other people for breaking. McGreevey likes to have fun with multiple partners simultaneously. Allegedly. These do not equate.

McGreevey Wasn’t an Openly Gay Governor

Also, I am bothered that they call mcgreevey the first openly gay governor. His situation is not a triumph over intolerance; it wasn’t proof that he could be elected on his platform and his stand on important issues, rather than with whom he spent his free time (ahem, without pay cash-money). He wasn’t open.

  1. He hid it.
  2. It came out.
  3. He came out,
  4. and then he resigned in shame.

This meant that his time being openly gay and his time as governor overlapped by, like, five minutes. That he had to hide it in order to get elected is everyone’s shame.

It’s All About Who You Bl-, er Know

Giving his boyfriend jobs (and I’m not talking about neither “hand” nor “blow”) is the kind of crony-ism that all politicians, as well as captains of industry, and corporations, and other places of employment, share. It’s usually about who you know, and by extension, to whom you’ve given a job (hand, or otherwise).

I am so done with Governors, their “scandals,” and their wives. She said no, let her have that. He’s not the governor anymore, so why bother?

I think I am going to call Governor Patterson the first openly legally blind governor in the country.

Pepper is a recent graduate of Sheboygan Conservatory of Music where she studied the accordion. She enjoys Horatio Caine/Grissom fic and old episodes of Designing Women. Since she has become unemployed, she’s got a lot of time to find stuff to be annoyed about.

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Deep Thoughts, by Jonah Lenetsky
Or, How He Spent his Summer Vacation

February 13th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gay, Nonfiction, Writing by Chris Pommier

InterAlia, a journal of queer studies

Congratulations are in order. Actually, they’re long overdue. My partner, after several years in the MA/PhD track at his University, has published a paper in a peer-reviewed journal. He’s been attending conferences and presenting papers galore, but this marks a new stage of recognition from his peers. Huzzah!

Jonah wrote “Gay Pride and its Adverse: EuroPride 2006 and the Counter Performance of EuroShame” after a research trip to London during which he planned to attend EuroShame 2006 at Duckei nightclub. He planned to examine, through the lenses of performance and spectacle, the commodification of gay pride and the necessary backlash of the Gay Shame movement. Little did he know that violence would erupt that same day.

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New German monument to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust

January 29th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gay, News by Chris Pommier

As reported in the New York Times today:

On Monday, Germany’s minister of culture, Bernd Neumann, announced that construction could begin in Berlin on two monuments: one near the Reichstag, to the murdered Gypsies, known here as the Sinti and the Roma; and another not far from the Brandenburg Gate, to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust.

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Celebrities, Puppies and YouTUBE, Oh My

December 1st, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Gay by Chris Pommier

On the lighter side, Canadian-in-Los-Angeles Chris Leavins of the webshow Cute With Chris slakes America’s thirst for topless celebrities and dogs dressed as Yoda.

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