Tag: Gay
Equality Is Awesome
On the 28th of March, 2004, I started this blog with a post about sweetgum buds. Later that day, I attended a meeting of the Greater New Orleans Green Party, where the group endorsed a statement I’d written on the subject of marriage equality. Everybody should have the right to get married. The sex of […]
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I was just coming home from the first real parade of the carnival season, fired up and aglow with the love, and I get online and I check my e-mail and I find myself on Facebook, looking at a kindly invitation to enjoy the next night’s diversions, looking at the profile of a friend, and […]
Read More → The Love That Dare Not Speak Its NameMorning Rage
Seems like there’s always something in the morning paper to make my blood boil. This morning it was a story about a legislator from Slidell who wants to get “gay books” out of the children’s section. The book that sparked this particular episode is King and King, which seems to have provoked a federal legislator […]
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Election results are in: Should we amend the state constitution to forbid gay marriage? Most Louisiana voters said yes, surprise, surprise. What a fucking stupid idea. We’ll be seeing a big turnover on the Orleans Parish School Board, which seems like a good thing. Sandra Hester didn’t win, but she came in second with a […]
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Gay people are getting married in Massachusetts today, and this straight, married man couldn’t be happier. I love weddings. In fact, the stories in the news today brought a tear to my eye. I can’t help but feel overwhelmingly positive about this development. Maybe I’m just starved for good news. But this feels like a […]
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