October 18, 2007
Oops:
The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation.
When informed Tuesday by USA TODAY that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking website for gay professionals, recruiters expressed surprise and said they […]
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August 3, 2007
Just pilfering stuff all damn day:
Quentin’s Monologue from ‘Sleep With Me’
Originally written by Roger Avary
What’s a film about, what’s it really about? What genre does it take?[Duane: What, like the spine? Like one sentence?]No, I don’t, fucking boy meets girl, I don’t give a shit about that. Fuck boy meets girl, fuck motorcycle movie. No, […]
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June 23, 2007
Two great ads have appeared in recent weeks pointing out the harm caused to our country and our fellow citizens by continuing to follow the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and the failure of our government to yet provide hate-crimes protection to the GLBT community, respectively.
[Hotel Tango: Sam Smoot]
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June 13, 2007
In a Wall Street Journal column (sub. req’d., of course) today, former Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Barr came out (no pun intended) in support of allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the U.S. military. In fact, he writes that supporting “opening” the services to homosexuals is a conservative act.
As a conservative Republican member […]
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War Is Boring reports that with the fall of the Taliban, who — surprise! — executed gays, in Afghanistan, the gay community has exploded (if not in numbers then at least in visibility). In fact, the Afghani equivalent of gay marriage is also occurring.
. . . [N]ow the Taliban are gone and the Afghan gays […]
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