Been a while since I ranted about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal. Not that things have been quiet - on the contrary, loads of stuff has been happening, but it’s been covered well elsewhere by people far closer to the issues and the detail than I.
But in the wake of the White House actively working [...]
I’ve been reading with some bemusement the coverage of a new book by Alan Chambers, the president of an organisation called Exodus International. This is one of those ‘ex-gay’ groups which helps people ‘leave homosexuality’. Bemusement not, strictly, at the coverage, but at some of the content cited. Chambers apparently doesn’t think that he’s ex-gay [...]
Strictly speaking, though I tend to count our time in SF from the point when The Mrs joined me in late September, I’ll have officially have been a permanent resident of San Francisco for a year next week. But I have to confess that I don’t really feel as though I’m ‘of’ San Francisco.
Fair enough, [...]
Further to yesterday, the Senate just voted to remove the fighter plane funding from the Defense Bill, removing the excuse for a Presidential veto.
The roundabout continues on to other amendments. You never know, the Matthew Shepherd Amendment may yet make it into law.
Sorry - quiet week last week; much going on in various directions, including work and a rather unpleasant “falling out among friends” which got The Mrs (and me to a slightly lesser extent) quite upset. I may revisit the latter at some point soon.
Anyway, picking up briefly on some recent topics:
The Hate Crimes bill passed [...]
After a long and convoluted journey, which has actually seen it passed by the Senate three times, The Matthew Shephard Hate Crimes Prevention Act will be offered as an amendment to an upcoming National Defense Bill (don’t ask), in the far more confident hope that it will pass (again) and actually be signed if it [...]
…. when by a very long measure the best television you’ve seen all year is Torchwood. But even allowing for the fact that I haven’t seen much TV this year anyway, let alone much quality stuff, nevertheless, the first two years of the series, while entertaining in places, were also terrible in others and generally [...]
Micheal Guest is the former US Ambassador to Romania, and was the first openly gay US Ambassador confirmed by the Senate. He resigned, after years of service to the country, in 2007, and on his departure delivered a scathing indictment of the State Department and specifically the then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for their lack [...]
…. and sailors, and Air Force types (why is there not a simple one worder for people in the Air Forces of the world?).
One of my relatively recent blog discoveries is Joe.My.God, and I’m loving Joe’s post on the subject of out servicemembers joining London’s Pride march.
Accompanying this photo, he simply comments
Openly gay members of [...]
Just a quick beg: Sunday 19th July I’ll be taking part in San Francisco’s AIDS Walk. All in a good cause, please think about sponsoring me here. (Apologies that the site’s so grim).
Minimum for online donations is $25 I’m afraid, but let me know if you’d like to give less and we can work out [...]
