Next week, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is holding a fundraising dinner ($1000+ a head) for LGBT ‘Leaders’ in a swanky hotel in Washington DC. The Vice-President will be in attendance, and the event is being hosted by former DNC Chair Howard Dean and three openly lesbian or gay representatives.
Obviously the event has been planned [...]
The New York Times has joined what’s feeling like a steadily growing groundswell of opposition to the DoJ’s defence of DOMA with an Editorial today.
Arguing, as others have, that even if the DoJ felt compelled to fight the case it could have done so without also putting the boot in to gay rights generally, The [...]
The significant global event of the last few days is of course the Iranian election, and specifically its fallout.
The reports coming out of the country trigger a combination of stunned amazement at the apparent transparency of the fraud (have you seen that graph which shows the growth of Ahmadinejad’s lead being almost entirely consistent across [...]
You have to read the ‘anger’ in the context. The letter I’m about to link to is really quite mild, but who it’s from and to give it huge significance.
Joe Solomonese is the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the most politically influential LGBT campaigning organisation in the US. They do good work, but are [...]
Richard Socarides, an openly gay former Clinton aide, writes in Americablog today on the DoJ’s defence of DOMA.
And Pam’s House Blend, in linking and commenting on Socarides’ piece notes:
Who’s holding this administration hostage to PTSD fears of Clinton and DADT in 1993? It’s 2009, toadies. This administration, sitting atop high approval ratings with a minority party [...]
A while back I mentioned that in light of the passage of Proposition 8 here in California, and similar political debates around the US, I’d probably be keeping a political angle here for a while, then I went quiet and it didn’t really happen.
That changes today.
Today is the day the the Obama Adminstration, the Administration [...]
We do this thing in the office here where we take it in turns on Fridays to have an iPod Day. The person whose day it is creates a playlist from their iTunes library and plays it over the internal system, giving us all;
a) exposure to music we might not know about otherwise, and
b) a [...]
We went to see this new play at the rather lovely Berkeley Rep theatre last night, and while I think it’s fair to say all of our party enjoyed it, we did so with reservations. I think on the whole the performers rose above the quality of their material.
The play tells the story of Nero, [...]
This is my first Pride month as a San Francisco resident. Pride weekend itself is the last weekend of the month, with the Dyke March on the Saturday, the parade on the Sunday and a two-day celebration event at the Civic Center.
The theme for the event this year relates to that subject which is particularly [...]
Despite one or two comments from people who saw it at the weekend suggesting that I take tissues, I was in no way expecting UP to be one of the saddest films I’ve ever seen.
The story, while fantastic, is pretty straightforward. Old man (former balloon seller at the zoo) faced with being consigned to a [...]
