Parade

Pride week endstomorrow with a gay prideparade. Big party in Gvt Center,where the parade route ends.


SOEXCITED.

Not all traditions are worth keeping.

Thanks to Tracie for showing me this. It just goes to show that people arguing against homosexuality "because the Bible says it's wrong" and that keeping gays and lesbians from marrying "protects the sanctity of marriage" should stop and think about what they're saying. The divorce rate in this country keeps growing, people get married out of wedlock and because they're forced to--how is that protecting the "sanctity" of marriage? And, like the video pointed out, premarital sex is not only accepted, but expected; a large majority of people don't wait to have sex until they're married, but churches don't freak out about that detail.

I really just don't understand how you can deny someone his or her happiness. So gay marriages are nontraditional. So what? A wedding with a seven-months-pregnant woman isn't traditional, either. And don't try to argue that a civil union is the same thing as a marriage; the government doesn't value them equally, and there are 1,138 rights denied gays and lesbians who can't marry. How is denying happiness okay?

Lipstick has a way of leaving more than just a mark on my sheets.

1. I get all of my information from Facebook. When Prop 8 was upheld, I wasn't informed via newspaper or television; I went on Facebook and saw everyone's "Fuck California" statuses and then checked CNN.com. I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good thing, but we're in an age where Facebook and Twitter are being used for more than just keeping in touch with people (even the Cutler Majestic Theatre has a Twitter/FBook for advertising purposes). I guess as long as I'm getting news, the way I'm getting it doesn't matter. Right?

2. Molly's lending me her "Practicing to Take the GRE General Test" book and I started reading it. I'm still not 100% sure if I want to go to grad school, but I should be prepared, just in case. I need to talk to more people about it; the ASB advisor has been giving me advice and has been a lot of help, and I need to make a final decision. I'm probably going to freak out about this like I did with the SATs, and like I do with just about everything else. I kind of liked taking the SATs. I don't know why. And yes, I know how weird that makes me.

3. Even though I have a huge stack of books to read (which just doubled because I went to the library and checked out books to use for thesis research), I'm buying Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, and The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible, by A.J. Jacobs. We had to read one of Mary Roach's books in the Death Class I took in the fall (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers) and I loved Roach's writing style; informative and witty, always interesting. And something (Jessa, I think) told me about someone who tried living exactly how the Bible dictates, just to prove how ridiculous it is to try to do so, so I'm excited for that one. I was raised Catholic, but one of the biggest problems I have with the Catholic church is how much people pick and choose what to take from the bible. Specifically in terms of condemning homosexuality.

4. I took a bunch of online quizzes and found that I: am Piggy from Lord of the Flies, am a Pomeranian, am Elmo, should live in Paris, should have majored in computer science (ew), am Carrie Bradshaw, am a mix of Monica Geller and Rachel Green, and a bunch of other things I can't remember right now. Great use of time.

5. Forty days until the Hey Monday concert and Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/Panic at the Disco a little less than 2 months after that (tickets haven't gone on sale yet, but we're going, I think).

6. I've taken a break from Game Show Network to watch the first season of MTM.

I ordered a free sticker and it told me to say this.

Dear friend,

After a lot of years of devastating setbacks in the fight for marriage equality, it seems like we're finally moving in the right direction. With marriage legal in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Maine, and the fights going strong in New Hampshire, New York and California, this movement is gaining more momentum every day, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

To that end, I wanted to let you know that CREDO Action is giving away some awesome stickers about supporting gay marriage - I think you'd really like them. I just got mine - if you have a minute, click this link to check out the stickers and get one of your own (for free!).

https://act.credoaction.com/stickers/?r_by=-2050076-.S01cHx&rc=fb.connect

Thanks!


Really, though. Free sticker, free shipping, and purchasing additional stickers will help support gay marriage. It's going to be a long, tough fight for equality, and all the little things add up.

La la, gays, la la

I think everyone should be queer. I want to go around painting rainbows on things.


The paper I'm writing is basically saying that Sex and the City is okay, but The L Word kicks its ass. I don't think that was originally what I was going for, but I'm okay with it. "Lesbians do everything better." So true, Sarah Shahi. So true.

Amazon removing sales rankings from queer books.

Sales rankings are being removed from gay and lesbian books on Amazon.com because they're considered "adult" books and thus don't appear in some searches or have sales rankings attached to them. Right. That makes sense. Put vibrators on the website and let people rank those, but heaven forbid Brokeback Mountain appear in some searches.

Source


Every time I think we're making progress, we get thrown one step back.

Queer

One of Allison's friends has started using the term "Gays and Friends" instead of "the LGBT(Q) community" because it's easier to remember and easier to say (three syllables as opposed to nine). I'm writing my paper proposal for Queer Film and Video and I had to stop myself from writing "gays and friends" because it almost slipped out.

Also, we watched Survivor in TV class yesterday and when I came home, I told Molly that there should be an all queer cast one season, and she started talking about how you could separate the people, that transgenders could be in the middle, and then started talking about how all the people should be black (keep in mind that Molly is pale with freckles and red hair...and she somehow slipped into a weird Southern accent while talking) and that it'd be an island full of different sexualities and religions. "We could call it" (big sweeping hand gesture) "AFRICA!"


"They like both sides!"
"What? That's what a bisexual is, Molly. Not a transgender."
"No, that's not what I meant! They understand both sides. So they could be in the middle."

"You'd have the African American Africans and then the Native American Africans and then the Muslims...and the Native Africans. Hm. What could we call them?"
"Africans?"

"And they'd all be black!"
"Molly, go back into your room and shut the door and let me finish watching I Love Money 2."