It's always sad news when someone who has contributed to the soundtrack of your life passes on. A little piece of you hurts and you know every time from now on that you hear one of their songs you will recall good times (or maybe bad ones), but… Read full post »

It was doubtful from the get-go that the passage of the hateful Amendment One in North Carolina was going to make headlines for a whole day. Amendment One, for those of you who missed Tuesday, is the one that had bigots so twisted in knots about denying gays and lesbians the… Read full post »

A small item in the news this week reveals that the sub-agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that polices our borders and ports-of-entry is making plans to recognize same-sex couples so that more families can file a single Customs Declaration form when returning from travel abroad. If… Read full post »

The woebegone tale of radical right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh has hung around long enough to coincide with International Women's Day. That's more than serendipitous to some, considering Limbaugh has successfully fanned the flames over the past week on what is shaping up to be an all-out… Read full post »

Happy Leap Day (if you're into that sort of thing). This once-every-four-years phenomenon, an extra day, has been generating its fair share of online buzz since 1996, which is the first Leap Day I can recall that started with a morning log in via my Netscape browser.… Read full post »

Last month I indulged in one of my guilty pleasures and bought a bunch of CDs at my local music store, which also happens to be the best music store in the world – Amoeba Music , the one on San Francisco’s Haight Street. For $28 (plus tax) you can get… Read full post »

In many ways it’s hard to believe 2011 was just one measly year. It seems like several years, in fact, an entire decade flew by in less than the last 12 months. This is most likely attributed to our constantly evolving online culture and the general malaise accompanying it that goes… Read full post »

I’ve always been a bit of a trailblazer, a leader because I hate sitting around waiting for someone else to do something, a firstborn. That’s why I knew, from the first days of 1961 that I was of a different generation, not the one into which I was just born, but… Read full post »

It took Facebook awhile, but this week the behemoth of social networking sites tiptoed into the legal minefield of restrictions, bans and government-imposed definitions that gay and lesbian couples have been assigned to describe our relationships and added “Civil Unions” and &ldquo/…

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Did I just hear that?

We are driving in the Australian Outback on a summer’s day, when the temperature is nearing 40 (that’s Celsius) and even though the air-con is on, the van windows offer no protection from the sun that has burnt the skin of… Read full post »

What if we gave a big gay party and nobody came? What if gay pride parades around the country were canceled in 2011? What if we – the LGBT people of America and our supporters – took all our boa bluster and motorcycle muster and aimed ourselves toward Washington… Read full post »

 

In the old days, before iPhones and Facebook, Google maps and email, people used to give parties. Especially around Christmas and, occasionally, Fourth of July. You got an invitation in the mail. Or, if it was your party, you sent one. You bought boxes of invitations at this place…

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