Via the Awl comes this graph which charts the age range of “socially acceptable” dating partners. According to this, I won’t be shunned if I date a 32 year-old, nor would an 86 year-old be mocked for dating me. It’s nice to know that I have a 54 year range to work with. I guess.
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HAWAII: Gov. Linda Lingle (R) Indicates She May Veto Civil Unions Bill
Saying that it appears to be a defacto legalization of same-sex marriage, Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has indicated she may veto the state’s pending civil unions bill. Her description is identical to complaints from religious conservatives who oppose civil unions and to a resolution approved yesterday by state Republicans who want her to veto the bill. “It does appear to …
Read More »Obama’s Coming For Yer Guns!
Attendees at this week’s NRA convention are convinced that the president is going to make gun ownership illegal. Because Fox News told them so!
Read More »PhoboQuotable – Jonathan I. Katz
“What of those cursed with unnatural sexual desires? Must they forever suppress these desires? Yes, but this is hardly a unique fate. Almost everyone has desires which must be suppressed. Most men and women think adulterous thoughts fairly often, and find themselves attracted to members of the opposite sex to whom they are not married. Morality requires them to suppress …
Read More »Six Years Of Marriage For Massachusetts
Today is the sixth anniversary of the day that Massachusetts because the first American state to legalize same-sex marriage. And somehow, the world kept revolving. Congrats, Bay Staters!
Read More »Fired Geico Announcer Hits Back At FreedomWorks And Teabaggers
Voiceover artist D.C. Douglas, who lost his gig with Geico after FreedomWorks publicized an angry voicemail he left for them, fires back with this hilarious bit. “Tweaking the nipple of hypocrites in power can be dangerous and lead to blacklisting. Please, don’t drunk dial FreedomWorks!”
Read More »International Day Against Homophobia
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia. Around the world, unions, employers, activist groups, and others are campaigning to end discrimination against LGBT people. Have you taken part in any of today’s observations? Tell us about it. And watch this wonderful clip of this weekend’s Great Global Kiss-In.
Read More »Today In Teabaggery
Andrew Sullivan tips us to this almost hilarious campaign ad by Alabama agricultural commissioner candidate Dale Peterson. Guns! Horses! Illegal immigrants!
Read More »MALAWI: Gay Couple Faces 14 Years In Prison For Engagement Ceremony
The Malawi gay couple whose engagement ceremony became international news now faces 14 years of hard labor in prison. Steven Monjenza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, conducted a traditional engagement ceremony in late December in Chirimba, near Blantyre. After news reports surfaced of the same-sex engagement, they were rounded up by Malawi’s police and charged under colonial-era sodomy laws. Their …
Read More »Tomorrow: Mike Diamond On Logo
Tomorrow NYC nightlife jokester Mike Diamond launches online magazine Fierth.com in a segment of Logo’s PopLab in which he interviews Cazwell, Mark Nelson, Amanda Lapore, and lots of go-go boys. Here’s the promo clip, the show airs at 7PM.
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