California Assembly Passes Same Sex Marriage Bill
September 6, 2005 10:39 PM   Subscribe

Will he or won't he? The Governator has until October 9 to sign or veto California's same sex marriage bill, which was passed Tuesday by the California Assembly after the state Senate did the same last week. If enacted, the bill would create the nation's first legislatively, rather than judicially, imposed marriage equality regime. Now, overshadowed by Katrina, Schwarzenegger can fly below the radar in choosing between his gay-friendly social libertarianism and his loyalty to the party that placed him in power. With a 36% approval rating, his hands may be tied - but in which direction?
posted by Saucy Intruder (16 comments total)

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ah, crap, beaten to it.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 10:40 PM on September 6, 2005


gg
posted by andendau at 10:44 PM on September 6, 2005


[buddy hackett]
TIMING!
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posted by swell at 10:46 PM on September 6, 2005


i don't get it - the previous one was at 10:22 PST... it took you 17 minutes to compose this FPP?
posted by jonson at 10:53 PM on September 6, 2005


They should all take that long to compose, jonson.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 10:54 PM on September 6, 2005


I generally prefer tying the hands to opposite bedposts.
posted by wakko at 11:17 PM on September 6, 2005


absolutely
posted by NinjaPirate at 1:00 AM on September 7, 2005


I reckon that, ideally, posts should be composed offline and not directly in the post window.
posted by sklero at 2:10 AM on September 7, 2005


Arnold Schwartzenegger supports gay porn, so why not gay families?

In Feb. 1977, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a series of nudes for a gay porn mag in New York called After Dark.

These pics were virtually unknown until Lacy H. Rich, Jr., a photographer amd printmaker for bodybuilders who was deeply connected to the southern California bodybuilding community during the late '60s / early '70s, released them to Spy Magazine (NSFW), who used them in their March '92 article.

Lacy Rich also claims to have sent Spy Magazine several photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger with gay millionaire (now deceased) Paco Arce, who reportedly paid Schwarzenegger $1000 for services rendered.

From Tom Minichiello's memoirs of the early days of professional bodybuilding, he says of Paco Arce "Paco was one of the wealthiest men in Spain. He was bald, heavy-set, and had a very pleasant personality. He was very friendly, and very gay. Whenever I had shows in New York, it was Paco who paid all the expenses for both the French and the Spanish teams. He really spent his money and enjoyed himself. He had an apartment in Monaco, a place in the Canary Islands, and a mansion in Madrid.

According to Wendy Leigh's 1990 unauthorized Schwarzenegger bio, in addition to Paco Arce, Schwarzenegger was also hired in 1966 by a "top British industrialist in his 40's, notorious for his generosity to bodybuilders", referred to only as "Mr. R". Evidence seems to suggest that this individual was John Dixey, best known for his involvement in designing and constructing the Hyde Park underpass in London.

Doubt it if you will, but I checked out several elements of Lacy Rich's voluminous posts to Usenet in the run-up to the California elections, and they checked out. Perhaps most damning, Lacy Rich also mentioned in '95 that Arnold had a relationship with a woman named Gigi. He did this four years before the first public allegations came out of Schwarzenegger's affair with Gigi Goyette, and a decade before the Washington Post discovered that Arnold paid her $20,000 for her silence in the run-up to his election. Infact, the media was looking all over for Gigi Goyette at that time, only to find out that she was vacationing somewhere unknown in Europe.
posted by insomnia_lj at 3:43 AM on September 7, 2005


In '77, was Arnold supporting gay porn, or was it supporting him?
posted by alumshubby at 5:15 AM on September 7, 2005


I'm enjoying this thread as much as the previous one. Please don't delete, admins!
posted by Rothko at 5:27 AM on September 7, 2005


In 1977 Pre-Soviet America, gay pornsupports YOU!
posted by jmccorm at 5:39 AM on September 7, 2005


So other than to slander Schwartzenegger, what's your point insomnia_lj?
posted by fet at 6:05 AM on September 7, 2005


So other than to slander Schwartzenegger, what's your point insomnia_lj?
posted by fet at 9:05 AM EST on September 7 [!]


Slander? You mean libel. Anyway, insomnia_lj's point is the very first sentence: "Arnold Schwartzenegger supports gay porn, so why not gay families?" If the facts are substantiated, and it looks like they are if Arnold didn't sue for libel on his own, makes sense to me.
posted by Rothko at 6:27 AM on September 7, 2005


So a marriage is merely a sex act now?
posted by fet at 8:39 AM on September 7, 2005


So we're putting forth the most ridiculous imaginable loaded questions now?
posted by sonofsamiam at 8:41 AM on September 7, 2005


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