Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
I hate to be the one to tell you all this, but time to initiate Plan Z, which is to shred all documents and hide in the closet in wait of further instructions. Our agenda has been compromised and revealed! Repeat the gay agenda has been compromised and revealed and we have only 90 minutes before Fox News and the religious right invade our headquarters.
Editor's note - Just in case you are wondering, the above video is a scene from Run, Ronnie, Run starring David Cross and openly gay actor Scott Thompson. Doesn't it make following video, which was meant to be taken seriously, look absolutely stupid:
Instead of hearing all of the junk, the lies, the distorted studies, and the cherry-picked studies about children in same-sex households, let's hear what these children have to say when it comes their families for a change.
It's about time, too. I would rather listen to them than Tony Perkins, Maggie Gallagher, and the rest of that bunch.
Via the folks from Right Wing Watch (who will probably send me a bill for the citations), comes Rep. Louie Gohmert with a snippet of a speech earlier month which indicates just why the lgbt community has been successful lately in our fight for equality. I mean how in the heck can anyone defend anything with this mind-boggling train of thought.
"Ex-Gay" Pride Month Is Canceled - Well that event died quickly. Now the creators of this mess is claiming that they are being threatened, but come on. Since when is uproarious, uncontrollable laughter and incessant, but much deserved, mocking by members of the lgbt community considered as threats?
John Arthur and Jim Obergefell have been together for more than 20 years. When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Defense of Marriage Act last month, they decided that they wanted to marry.
But there were two major problems: the couple lives in Ohio -- which has a constitutional marriage discrimination amendment that makes same-sex marriages illegal -- and John is bedridden with a debilitating terminal disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which progressively robs its victims of voluntary muscle function.
John receives care from Crossroads Hospice, which gives its patients the gift of a "perfect day." . . . all John wanted was to finally be able to marry Jim, the man he loves.
As soon as the Supreme Court gave the green light to federal
recognition for legal same-sex marriages, the couple began researching
where they might be able to marry. Because John is immobile, they had to
find a state that would allow Jim to obtain the marriage license by
himself, then return with John for the wedding after the requisite
waiting period.
They settled on Maryland, which allows just one partner to obtain the marriage license.
But the cost of such a trip was an additional barrier. While
Crossroads Hospice was able to cover some costs, including the ambulance
ride to and from the airport, the journey required the use of a special
medical transport plane wide enough to fit John's stretcher. Chartering
this kind of plane costs $12,700.
So Jim reached out to their family, friends, and social networks,
asking if anyone "had any connections." But instead of responding with
connections, people responded with cash: donations poured in, and the
couple collected enough to cover the cost of the plane.
And all of that led to the scene above where the two were married on a Lear Jet, by Arthur’s
aunt, Paulette Roberts, who’d been ordained to perform weddings. She performed theirs.
It's a scene and something to remember the next time one hears the mumbo-jumbo pushed about by the National Organization for Marriage and its supporters regarding the true meaning of marriage.
I don't think anything I say can do the video proper justice. Just watch.
For today's post of Know Your LGBT History, I am featuring an item which is not necessarily something in our historical past but something that I predict that will be remembered as noteworthy in the future.
I first read about Hit & Miss on Netflix, which features the first season.
It is a British television series which stars Oscar nominee Chloe Sevigny. According to Wikipedia:
Mia, a preoperative transsexual woman, works as a contract killer. She discovers that she fathered a son, Ryan, with her ex-girlfriend Wendy, who recently has died from cancer. Mia is named by the mother as guardian of the boy and his three half-siblings, who live in a rural farmhouse in Yorkshire. While continuing to work as an assassin, Mia learns to cope with being in a parental role.
In reading the plot, one feels that this show can dangerously cross the line as an insulting attack on the transgender community. But in viewing it, I beg to differ. It's not a comedy, but a rather complex and very good drama. If you have Netflix, I suggest you take a look at it:
