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Posts Tagged ‘queerin’ it up

A bad week for inalienable rights

Posted by: meaplet on: March 9, 2009

Last week was not so good for inalienable rights, was it? The week started out with Rush Limbaugh at CPAC claiming that “We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, Liberty, Freedom. And the pursuit of […]

Frustration in the CA trenches

Posted by: meaplet on: October 30, 2008

The Yes on 8 folks just won’t stop. Not satisfied with blackmailing major No on 8 donors last week, last night they launched a DoS attack on NoOnProp8.com . The site is still down as we speak. Classy, Yes on 8, classy. You were supposed to be the ones on the side of “morality,” right?

It is the post I will be writing, all my life

Posted by: meaplet on: July 21, 2008

I got back yesterday from 10 days in Miami, FL, at the GALA (Gay and Lesbian Association of) Choruses Festival 2008. GALA involved eight days of, well, choral music. And gay people. And fun. The title of this post is based on “It is the Song,” a piece commissioned for the Festival Mixed Chorus, of […]

With all the preparations for Pride this year, it’s already a breathless season. Increasing the fervor of the season, of course, was the beginning of gay marriage in California yesterday at 5 pm. I watched coverage from some of the first gay weddings last night, live on the local news. It’s exciting to live in […]

Marriage!

Posted by: meaplet on: May 15, 2008

Quick update to be thrilled as can be about the end to the ban on gay marriage in California. Supreme Court, I give you the thumbs up. Now, to find a nice girl to marry… — On a linguistic note, I’ve been mildly irked all day by the one-man-one-woman quotation that everybody in the universe […]