Equality

I hear a lot of arguments with regard to whether homosexuality is a choice or not.  To date, nobody has been able to prove with any real certainty whether it is or not.  I wonder, though, if they’re looking at it the right way.  Have researchers just studied groups of individuals who identify as...
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In the federal Prop 8 trial (Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which the equality side just won!), “marriage defense” attorney Chuck Cooper argued that: “he central purpose of marriage in virtually all societies and at all times has been to channel potentially procreative sexual relationships into enduring stable unions to increase the likelihood that any offspring will...
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Well, Sugartoes, sometimes when I go sleep late at night Momma has nightmares. In these, I’m wearing a long white dress with a train, and I’m not even in a remake of Carrie. Now, if Momma is dressed up and yet frightened of the prospect, there must be something wrong. The only time I’ve been...
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A friend of my partner Kelly told him he was recently at a relative’s wedding reception and not in the best of moods. But his already-stretched tolerance for the festivities was strained even further when he considered that he was celebrating an institution that was denied to him, at least in our state. How...
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A woman stops on the sidewalk in front of an upscale residence in Stockton, California, to glance at her clipboard and memorize the name of the homeowner. On her way to the porch, she admires the well appointed ground cover lining the path and is looking back, smiling broadly at the greenery...
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Hi. My name is Elena Kelly and I am a fundamentalist. I have been evangelism-free for twenty-four years. Hi Elena! I was “saved” for the umpteenth time at a small Baptist church in northern California in 1979. I’d turned my back on Christianity years before, but having run afoul of the drug laws, and coming...
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Today, July 23, I turned 55 years old.  As I’ve gotten older, I’ve taken time to reflect on my life on each of my birthdays since the 40th.  I think about what I might still need to reconcile, or what regrets I may have.  And, on this birthday, I find I can only reflect...
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Real dykes know how to make an entrance, preferring to be fashionably 20 minutes late for everything. It might surprise you to learn that although real dykes tend to wear rather large watches, this is more for show. We don’t pay much attention to them on a daily basis, preferring instead to consider them...
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I once had a boss who was younger than I who had been married longer than either of my hetero marriages would last. She described marriage as “relentlesss.” In the years since then, I have thought often of her remark. Webster’s defines relentless as “showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength...
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The other day I analyzed Doe v. Reed, the Supreme Court case rejecting a group’s claim that revealing the names of anti-gay referendum signers violated the First Amendment. Relatedly, if you remember, anti-same-sex marriage groups successfully convinced the US Supreme Court to disallow cameras in the Prop 8 trial on the grounds that...
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