Archive for 'LGBT Issues'

Friday Geek Out: Pride

Jeff - Jun 27th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Category: Geek Out, LGBT Issues | tagged gay, gay rights

This weekend New York City closes out 2008 Pride Week with the March down 5th Avenue into the Village. The 2008 theme–”Live Love Be”–is quite appropriate in this year where California has taken a huge step forward with same-sex marriage. And, honestly, what more could you ask out of life than to be able to [...]

Weddings Begin in California

Jeff - Jun 17th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Category: LGBT Issues | tagged gay marriage, gay rights

Towleroad has some of the first pictures and video from California’s first same-sex marriages, which happenend yesterday at 5:01pm pacific time. Congratulations to everyone who is taking advantage of this new legal right!

Good Job, Macy’s!

Jeff - May 29th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Category: Current Events, LGBT Issues | tagged gay marriage

Reading Towleroad during lunch, I came across this ad that Macy’s ran in the L.A. Times today.

It made me warm and fuzzy to see a huge retailer like Macy’s step up with this kind of ad (you can click on it to see a larger version that is a bit easier to read).
From what I’ve [...]

California Supreme Court Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Jeff - May 15th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Category: LGBT Issues | tagged gay marriage

Breaking news from Towleroad…
California’s Supreme Court has overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Here’s a bit of the court’s opinion that was posted on Towleroad: “Furthermore, in contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual’s capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to [...]

And I Used To Live Here…

Jeff - Apr 25th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Category: LGBT Issues | tagged lgbt rights

This headline on Towleroad this afternoon: “Birmingham Woman Calls 911 Over Two Guys Kissing in Public.” Since I used to live in Alabama—I lived in Tuscaloosa and visited Birmingham a lot because they are so close. I’m stunned anyone would call the police over such a mundane thing. It was a setup for a [...]

NYCGHA featured on CBS News on Logo

Jeff - Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Category: Hockey, LGBT Issues, TV | tagged lgbt rights, New York City Gay Hockey Association

As part of the coverage of the New York Times story on hate speech at Rangers games, Logo did a story and I got to become part of the background (I was interviewed, but my sound bites didn’t make the story). They filmed last Saturday after the Wizards/Hegemony game. I can’t embed the clip, but [...]

NYCGHA in The New York Times

Jeff - Mar 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Category: Hockey, LGBT Issues | tagged New York City Gay Hockey Association

The NYCGHA is in The New York Times today in an article that talks about homophobic beahvior at New York Rangers games. You can go to the NYT website to read “When Tradition and Taunts Collide: Gay Hockey Fans Criticize Garden” (you’ll have to be logged in to read it, but registration on the site [...]

This Writer’s Life - The B-Day Edition

Will - Nov 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Category: LGBT Issues, Life in General, Writing | tagged friends, NaNoWriMO

Thanks to everyone who sent Birthday wishes. The big day was relatively low-key, Jeff did surprise me though with some books from Oscar Wilde. He’s such a sweetie.
I just started reading Suzanne Brockman’s All Through the Night. I’ve never read any of her stuff before, but I picked up her recent Christmas novella because her [...]