What with all the changes lately, sometimes I'm not sure where my right to marry whomever I want to has been ensured.
Can I Marry Gay? is a handy reference with state by state information, and keeps me up to date. Worried about recent state Supreme Court decisions forcing you to join teh gay?
Must I Marry Gay? is for you. [via
mefi projects]
posted by ocherdraco
on May 20, 2009 -
48 comments
"You take the gatekeeper and you confuse his mind. You threaten him and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture going downhill. What keeps a village together is a handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers." The
Dagara people of Burkina Faso.
[more inside]
posted by pinothefrog
on Feb 10, 2009 -
49 comments
People with a History is "an online guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans history." Ranging from
the first stirrings of civilization to the modern day, People with a History gathers together original sources and academic articles dealing with queerness throughout history. To give you a feel for the wealth of material on the site, here are a few pages that caught my interest:
The Vikings and Homosexuality,
Coptic Spell: Spell for a Man to Obtain a Male Lover,
an acount of a gay marriage ceremony described by Michel de Montaigne,
But Among Our Own Selves (an 18th Century gay ballad),
a chapter from The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon, a 7th Century Byzantine monk and bishop, which mentions
adelphopoiesis, or the
rite of brothermaking,
Wu Tsao, 19th Century Chinese lesbian poet, and finally
Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men.
posted by Kattullus
on Feb 2, 2008 -
15 comments
Gay? Looking for a place to Live?
The Advocate has just published their first-ever list of "
Best Places to Live for Gays and Lesbians.”
Columbus, OH;
Dallas, TX;
Ferndale, MI;
Ithaca, NY;
Lexington, KY;
Missoula, MT;
Portland, OR;
San Diego, CA;
Santa Fe, NM; and
Tuscon, AZ. Pack your bags!
posted by ikahime
on Mar 26, 2007 -
35 comments
Billy Tipton (1914-1989) was a moderately popular jazz musician who happened to have been born a girl and lived as a man. In retrospect, some see Billy as a woman pragmatically trying to make it in a male dominated field, others see Billy as clearly transexual. If you like jazz of the 30's and 40's, forget Billy's gender for a moment and take a
listen to Billy's playing! For more backstory,
biographer Diane Middlebrook has posted a
timeline of Tipton's life. More recently, Tipton has inspired jazz ensemble
The Tiptons launches sound, a
novel,
a few plays and butch/punk/queer director Silas Howard is
working on a film.
Oh, and here's
WP.
posted by serazin
on Mar 19, 2007 -
22 comments
