Warning - this is a highly simplified and probably simplistic view - which sadly is part of the point. It’s also meant to be for the enlightenment of those non-US people still listening to my witterings more than the US folks, who clearly know more about this stuff than I do or ever will. It’s [...]
Pretty much since Proposition 8 passed here in California back in November, there’s been a drive to get a repeal motion in front of California’s voters. The various voices of the LGBT community is the state (and beyond) have, over the last nine months, been tying themselves in knots setting up discussions/meetings/polls to try and [...]
There’s a lot of stuff going on here at the moment, not all of it good, and some of it categorically bad, so occasionally doing that “getting the most out of being in SF” thing I blogged about last week feels increasingly important. Of course, finding the time in amongst all this stuff is the [...]
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 [...]
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