On the verge of the largest state so far to ratify gay marriage, we wish everyone a Happy Gay Pride. This year saw the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, too, a milestone.
Parades, parties, dances…we’ll be there in spirit, especially at the Dyke Dance in New York City Saturday night.
Reminder, too: One last week to take advantage of Fatale’s Gay Pride Special. Ten percent off and free shipping through June.
For members of the military who have, in essence, remained in the closet for the last decade plus, today is a new day. President Barack Obama signed the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal. No longer will openly gay men and lesbians be barred from serving in the U.S. military.
There will no separate showers or other facilities. As we listened to the news this morning, the notion of separate showers called up one image in particular, that of desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. There will be no benefits for partners of gays and lesbians–and gay marriages will not be acknowledged under this repeal. Still, it’s a start.
Kudos to the U.S. Congress and President Obama for moving the military forward into the 21st century.
We watched half-aghast, half-laughing earlier this week as Carl Paladino, the Upstate New York Republican nominee for governor, stumbled his way through bad-mouthing gays and lesbians in front of some Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.
Oh, where was Mel Brooks when we needed him? Or, for that matter, David Sedaris?
In case you missed it, here’s the YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKL9TRaePww
In case you missed it and don’t feel like watching a Carl Paladino YouTube clip, here’s one of the choicest lines:
–“I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option — it isn’t.”
Last we heard, and please correct us if we’re wrong, Paladino doesn’t believe queers should get married and raise a family. Hmm.
Last we heard, homosexuality wasn’t an “option.” You are or you’re not. Or maybe you’re somewhere in between, a bisexual, a pansexual or similar. But you don’t sit down and say, “Gee, I think I’ll be a homosexual.”
Hard because we’d just read about a Bronx gang’s torture of a drag queen and two teenagers for being gay.
Hard because Tyler Clementi had just jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge after his same-sex date night was broadcast over the Internet by his Rutgers roommate.
Just hard.
Then Paladino apologized. Public relations people will tell you that apologies, if not handled correctly, can actually be worse than the original sin.
One of Christi’s Upstate New York relatives wrote on Facebook, “Yeah, and when he says he’s going to look out for the well-being of all New Yorkers, how can he be believed if [to him] some of that population does not live a valid lifestyle.
“This guy [will] have the LGBT community sleeping with the fishes.”
Gurgle, gurgle.
Till next time, yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
September already, and the 9/11anniversary has passed, albeit with protests on the street regarding the Muslim mosque that is slated to go into the old Burlington Coat Factory two blocks from ground zero. Christi has been on the East Coast for a couple weeks, closer to the fray.
The Pope has reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage…so what else is new, right?
Watching all the Catholic school kids headed off to school in their uniforms after Labor Day, we were inspired to get out Afterschool Special, the knock-‘em-dead amateur porn flick by “Miss Hussy.” She gathered a posse of her college dyke friends and shot the whole thing.
What a party! Makes us long for school again, with all those delicious bodies ripe for the taking.
If you haven’t seen it lately, we highly recommend this lesbian classic.
Till next time, yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. See more about Afterschool Special and Turn Me Up Over and On.
This past two weeks we saw Proposition 8 stuck down, with U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, saying that the California proposition was “unconstitutional.”
Then just this past week, we saw the New York Times breaking news that California gay and lesbian couples who wanted to get married would have to wait—again, until Wednesday, August 18th.
We posted a comment on Fatale’s Facebook page, and now we wait with bated breath to see what happens next.
Till victory.
Yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
Marriage and Its Defenders
Thursday, May 5th, 2011We’d like to put our hat in the ring and say, “We too defend marriage.” For anybody. For everybody.
All this Defense of Marriage Act back-and-forth has reached, as the New York Times put it, “a tipping point.” Adam Lipak’s article last Sunday, “A Tipping Point for Gay Marriage,” pointed out that the legal community is often ahead of the curve when it comes to forward-thinking ideas and acceptance of those ideas in the general public.
Now we have international law firm King & Spalding, based in Atlanta, withdrawing from a case that would have put them in a position to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. Marriage should be between one man and one woman, that act says. The law firm doesn’t want to alienate its law-school recruits, among other things. Good. Let them withdraw.
If it takes the legal community to lead the way in legalizing gay marriage, so be it.
Till next time, yours in good love and sex,
Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com
P.S. Check out Shine Louise Houston’s new lesbian DVD The Crash Pad Series Volume 6. A keeper for sure!
P.P.S. Check out all Fatale’s DVDS.
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