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January 23, 2023

swimboy still swims

Because of a fire alarm earlier today at the Downtown YMCA, I got to stand on West Franklin Street dripping wet wearing only a speedo and a jacket a kind woman lent me.

November 17, 2022

Concerning the Respect for Marriage Act

If you consider yourself a LGBTQ ally, don’t dismiss our concerns about this flawed legislation. Members of a minority community often work for, are attuned to, and pick up on issues that you may miss. We’re invested. Don’t tell us we have it good enough. Don’t tell us our concerns are hyperbolic or imaginary. Listen. Empathize. Apply this to your ally status with other minority communities.

September 2, 2012

Documentation of what you've known all along

Paul Ryan was in Slytherin

May 17, 2012

Marshall says 'sodomy is not a civil right'

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia)

In a testy interview today with CNN's Brooke Baldwin on the Virginia legislature's recent refusal to appoint openly gay Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland to a judgeship, Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, declared that "sodomy is not a civil right."

Marshall, a U.S. Senate candidate and one of the General Assembly's most conservative members, denied that he had lobbied against Thorne-Begland because he is gay, but instead termed him an "activist."

Marshall rejected Baldwin's comparison of the issue to civil rights and women's suffrage, remarking: "Sodomy is not a civil right. It's not the same as the civil rights movement."

Read more: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/may/17/marshall-says-sodomy-is-not-a-civil-right-ar-1922377/

These are seriously troubling times in Virginia.

May 9, 2012

As soon as I'm finished weeping with joy

I'm breaking out the martini glasses and the shaker

and then me and the Mr. just might get up to some celebratin'

Thank you, President Obama.
Thank you, Michelle.
Thank you, Sasha.
Thanks you, Malia.

March 11, 2012

A lot of these issues strike me as umbilical.

It's the evangelicals own fault that their positions are regarded as specious and disingenuous.

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