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Prop 8 Trial closes–now the waiting begins « Feast of Fun : "Yesterday the trial known as Perry V. Schwarzenegger closed in the San Francisco Federal Court after closing arguments were heard by Judge Vaughn Walker. The trial, which began in January, was something of a circus in the queer community who were watching it. When the American Foundation For Equal Rights–the ad hoc foundation formed in the wake of Prop 8 to challenge the discriminatory law in court–hired George W. Bush’s former Solicitor General, Theodore Olson and David Boies, Al Gore’s former lawyer during the Bush V. Gore Supreme Court case, the collective eyebrow raised across gay America. Olson and Boies, adversaries in 2000, put together one of the most rock-solid cases never to be broadcast on YouTube (because the Supreme Court said no!). Not only did Olson and Boies set up a strong case for the recognition of marriage equality in California and a striking down of the misguided voter referendum, Prop 8; Olson and ...

Locker rooms are going to be crude, but do they have to be bigoted too? Blackhawks caught flaunting their homophobia « Feast of Fun : "Like I’ve said before, politics is my sports. But if I was going to pick a sport to be my sport I’d choose hockey. I grew up in Hockeytown, USA (Detroit, Michigan) and when you grow up in Detroit, you’re steeped in hockey every step of the way. You can’t help but love it. However, hockey players do get hit in the head a lot, and some might say that that starts to affect their judgement. Take, for example, the World Champion Blackhawks. Just last week they were hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup up in celebration, but when snapped doing so, one camera caught something on a marker board that should not have been there. “Pronger is gay” was added by one of the team members to a locker-room white board that appears to have the Philly line-up parsed out..." Read the rest at Feast of Fun.com

Tijuana is about to get PROUD! « Feast of Fun : "Tijuana, Mexico–a stone’s throw from San Diego California where the Republican mayor fights hard for his lesbian daughter’s right to marry–is marching this coming Saturday to launch their first ever Pride festival. According to San Diego resident, and renowned gay journalist, Rex Wockner; the fifteen year old march in Mexico’s hottest party town is about to make history with a two-day festival downtown." Read more at my latest at FeastOfFun.com!

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Where’s my Jesus: LGBT hero worship syndrome « Feast of Fun : "Are you waiting for that great gay savior? Well look no more he’s here! Here in the LGBT community we have a political hero-worship/demonization problem. Rather than look at humans as humans, we expect all of our leaders to be perfect. When a new one comes along, we gush over them like they’re Neo in the Matrix. The old ones, on the other hand get called “evil,” and “coward,” and all sorts of other words that your mother used to wash your mouth out with soap if she heard you using them. In fact, its actually somewhere in between–which makes Robin McGehee more like Joe Solmonese than many younginz would like to admit. Its all in my newest Bilerico.com post “On agendas, loyalties, cult of personality and an end of the old dichotomy in the LGBT community...”" Read the rest over at Feast of Fun!

One of my best posts in a long time, I put a lot of time, thought and energy into this post, and I really hope you check it out. On agendas, loyalties, cult of personality and an end of the old dichotomy in the LGBT community | The Bilerico Project : "In the LGBT community we have an addiction. An addiction to boxes. Who am I? I'm a spiritual progressive HIV- white middle-class educated bisexual non-poly cis-gender queer male blogger and LGBT rights organizer & activist. What does that mean? That means you have some ideas about what I'm like before you even meet me. And I have a few ideas about you before I even meet you. If you are radical, you'd think we won't have much in common. Same with either the fiscally or socially conservative. However, folks who put themselves into the same political box that I am in also may think I likely agree (or at least ought to agree) with them on almost everything. If you fervently belong or had belonged to any particular Chr...