Fab.U.Lous: “Too often in the media, currency is given to the theory that everyone should be allowed to marry regardless of gender, outlook and whether the two people are creating a suitable family environment in which to bring up children.
Well, it is time to ask some hard questions about this attitude. The only way we will save marriage is to reclaim the institution for the mainstream. Marriage is for normal people who want to raise children in a healthy and secure environment. This is why we should ban religious fundamentalists from marrying.” SMH

I can’t remember how I ended up there but I’ve just read You Don’t Belong. Margaret Cho took a transgendered friend she describes as ‘female bodied but masculine’ to a fund-raiser, and when they went to the toilet they were hassled by other women there. I guess it’s timely because I’ve just been reading Stone Butch Blues but as heart-breaking as that is, you’d hope that the world had moved on since then.
I thought this point was really interesting: “If it was really a man in there, I doubt they would have caused such a commotion, but since Ian was female bodied, these women felt they could punish, to lash out, because it was one of their own. They had somehow given themselves this permission to gang up, to shame, to rudely question, to unfairly and unduly punish. And for what? For the crime of being true to one’s self? For not adhering to the strict rules of gender?”
His account is in a second blog post, Gotta Go, Gotta Go Right Now.

Apparently everyone who saw this on the recent trip to Berlin thought of me.
For the record, I won’t fsck your girlfriend unless you both ask me very nicely. Your mother, on the other hand…

“The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world’s first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.

“Homosexuality has been observed for more than 1,500 animal species, and is well documented for 500 of them.”” Reuters