Gay Culture Category Archive
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Gay married on your bike to work day
Thursday, May 15, 2008 1 comment (by Perry Hoffman)
Today was Bike to Work Day in San Francisco and I met Alex at 6:45 this morning to start giving out coffee in front of Six Apart Global Command. Beau has been cheerleading all week at the office to get people to ride and offered $10 to our AIDS/LifeCycle fundraising for everyone who rode their bike. 16 might not sound like a lot, but I think we've got less than 100 people working in the office.
A few hours later, Mike and I were having breakfast when I got a text message from Alex...
I read it out loud, "sfgate.com - breakin' news happening," and I don't remember either of us saying anything before we turned to our mobile browsers to look up the California Supreme Court Ruling on same-sex marriage.
Reading we'd won made me hope there would already be a line forming at City Hall. Since Mike wasn't here four years ago for the weddings and I got teary talking about how exciting it was to be in the City at that time.
And it's getting excited again.
Living in a Bubble
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Post comment
I've never seen any of the film at the annual gay and lesbian film festival Frameline before. No one has ever invited me until now and you can't tell if its worth taking an afternoon off to see a film from when all you have is a paragraph long description.
This year though, Michael invited me to come along and with them and looking through the program guide I found a frame of reference for the first time. So last night we went to see The bubble from Yossi and Jagger director Eytan Fox.
Having seen Yossi and Jagger and reading the description of this as a modern Romeo and Juliet set in Tel Aviv I wasn't expecting a happy ending, but neither was I expecting something which would be haunting me today the way it did. There is probably a lot lost in translation about Israeli life and culture, but it was still hilarious at times and in the end left me in tears and left me in awe.
It was brilliant. Tomorrow it's Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, a film I picked because the picture was cute and I hope it will leave me with more joy than sorrow.
Gay Rights and Republicans
Monday, October 2, 2006 4 comments (latest by Bryce)
This latest scandal is just sad, but I just had to write a sarcastic post about it.
Last weeks revelation Florida Republican Representative Mark Foley's is a pedophile, comes just a year after Spokane's Republican mayor Jim West was recalled for the same crime.
Is the reason, to some degree, the Republican Party is so against gay rights is because they don't see there is a difference between us and the pedophiles in their own party?