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Weekend update – 6/13/2015 (ironic bigotry edition)
But the best reaction has been this: Straight couple told their gay marriage ‘protest divorce’ is actually illegal. Australian family law requires that a couple prove their marriage is irretrievably broken before granting a divorce. They must live completely apart for a full year before the divorce is granted, and must both swear that they do not intend to cohabitate in the future. Which is what they have also sworn they will do.
Of course, I actually prefer this headline: Same Sex Couple Threaten Not To Give A Shit If Other Couple Divorces.
While this argument makes no logical sense, it’s hardly the first time the bigots have made this kind of argument. Rachel Maddow, following up on the story of Rev. Franklin Graham publicly moving his ministry’s money from one bank that advocates for equal rights to gays to another bank that advocates for equal rights for gays. Rachel explains why the fuzzy logic isn’t just a laughing matter: Anti-gay laws lose argument, win votes anyway.
The logic isn’t just fuzzy, it’s completely bonkers. The reason it’s bonkers is because it all boils down to obstinate emotional distaste. Emotional reactions are inherently non-rational. And In these cases the obstinancy is as much a product of both the type of emotion (“ewwww, icky!”) as it is about how deeply ingrained the notion is to their sense of self. It’s like the woman a year-and-a-half ago who wrote the op-ed claiming that gay marriage ruined her marriage. Except the story she told was how she and her husband had married young, then her very closeted husband had come out of the closet, they separated, and finally divorced.
There were lots of big logical flaws in her story. Their marriage was doomed before they started, but not because of gay marriage. Their marriage was doomed because of the insidious and relentless societal homophobia that had driven her husband from the time he was a young boy to hide who he truly was and pretend to be straight. Gay marriage had not come to her state when he came out. In fact, her state had passed (by an incredibly wide margin) a ban on gay marriage about the time that it happened. Here belief that he had confirmed to her definition of a good, upstanding “christian” man when they married until he was transformed by the acceptance of gays by society was complete hogwash. Closeted people put forward a desperate façade that is doubly-tragic because for most of the time the closeted person is deceiving themselves at least as profoundly as they are deceiving other people.
Her story also, it turned out, contained a lot of factual lies. She claimed that her husband and his boyfriend had sole custody of their two small children, and that all of her rights had been trumped in court by the judge insisting that the gay couple’s civil rights overrode her religious beliefs. When the paper that published the op-ed got around the fact-checking it (but only after other people, including the ex-husband, wrote in to complain) it was found that she had primary custody of the children, and her ex had regular visiting rights. Records indicated that she had refused to let the father see the children after he started living with his boyfriend, and that the court had told her she couldn’t deny him visitation rights.
Frankly, it was a surprise that the court allowed him to keep the visitation rights under those circumstances, because usually judges in such conservative states go the other way—insisting that the gay parent only visit the children without their new partner, and are only allowed to have the children stay with them if the new partner is not present. Which is why that part of the editorial was transparently false to most everyone who read it.
Did she exaggerate because she thought it would make her case more sympathetic? Perhaps. I think it’s more of a bit of self-deception. In order to cling to her non-rational notions of how the world in general and her life in particular should be, she has to perceive any recognition of her ex as anything other than an evil monstrous sinful being as a complete defeat of her rights.
That’s part of what’s happening with the couple in Australia. They are so squicked out by the very notion that gay people exist, let alone that people might actually treat their loving relationships as socially acceptable, that it feels like an attack on them. Even though letting people you don’t know marry has absolutely no effect on you and your relationship. Evangelical nutcases like Franklin Graham are so squicked out by the idea that a business would think that two women adopting an orphan might be something to celebrate, that it must somehow taint his money and therefore him to be associated with it. Never mind that the bank he moved to is at least as gay friendly as the one he left. Never mind that he announced his plan first on Facebook, which is one of the large corporations that joined the amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to rule in favor of marriage equality. And so on, and so on…
They’re too busy being disgusted and outraged to think at all, let alone (you should pardon the expression) think straight.
Friday Links (baby small-clawed otters edition)
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Link of the Week
Alyssa Wong: “No, Short Fiction Isn’t Too Short to Include Diversity.”
Science!
The Surprising Reason Why Some People Smile More.
Endangered otters make comeback in Sweden.
Five Weeks to Pluto: The Strange Discovery of Planet X and a World Like No Other (Part 2).
Mystery on Mercury: Strange Pattern of Huge Cliffs Defy Explanation.
Supernova prized by astronomers begins to fade from view.
Monstrous Galaxy Spotted Near The Edge of the Universe.
Quantum Phenomenon That Existed in the Early Universe –“Evidence Observed”.
Alaska researchers may use drones to study otters.
Political/culture war news:
Dennis Hastert Apparently Had Sex With Male Students. Does That Make Him Gay?
Pope Creates Tribunal To Judge Bishop Child Sex Abuse Cases.
When the Therapist Is a Quack. Bad headline: any therapist offering gay cures is a quack. Period. Every single medical and psychiatric association has said so.
GOP Calls for ‘All Hell Breaking Loose’ Over Gay Marriage, Because ‘God’.
Hillary shocker: Who needs Elizabeth Warren? Clinton unleashes inner liberal, media freaks out.
Michael Slager, Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott In South Carolina, Indicted For Murder.
5 reasons George W. Bush is still one of the worst presidents ever.
Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ law is already hilariously backfiring.
Liberals Make Big Comeback in 2015, Poll Analysis Finds.
How to Tell the Difference Between an Open-Carry Patriot and a Deranged Killer.
Rand Paul Caught Trying to Use Fake Quote from Founding Father to Justify His Ignorance.
Michigan Senate OKs bills allowing adoption agencies to deny LGBT parents.
Ben Carson: Gay Rights Aren’t Civil Rights Because Gay People Don’t Have Separate Water Fountains.
Libertarianism is for white men: The ugly truth about the right’s favorite movement. Wait, you’re just now figuring this out?
This Week in Racism
On Fox News: A White Sexual Abuser Was “Curious” But A Black Victim Of Police Abuse “Was No Saint.”
What determines if a murder case gets solved? Race.
This Week in Sexism
#Distractinglysexy Twitter campaign mocks Tim Hunt’s sexist comments.
Abortion rights leader’s pregnancy surprises opponents: ‘Is that real?’
Woman Charged With Murder For Taking The Abortion Pill [UPDATED].
News for queers and our allies:
Conservative British MP Comes Out, Announces Wedding to Secret Partner of 29 Years.
Why we still need our gay bars.
How The Nonreligious ‘Nones’ Are Driving LGBT Equality in the U.S.
Straight talk on gay marriage: Even if gay marriage becomes legal, it will not be compulsory.
Evangelical Christian Leaders Are Taking Baby Steps Toward LGBT Acceptance.
Tony Campolo Calls for Full Inclusion of Gay & Lesbian Christians.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO SAY ABOUT MARRIAGE.
16-YEAR-OLD ADAM KIZER’S DEATH DRAWS ATTENTION TO BULLYING, SUICIDE EPIDEMIC AMONG BISEXUAL TEENS.
Archivists Recover ‘Lost’ 1961 TV Documentary on Homosexuality.
Why the military depends on gay and lesbian troops.
Murders of LGBT and HIV-positive people in the US rise 11% in 2014.
An Updated Graphic Guide to LGBTQ YA Literature for Pride Month.
“Midnighter” Is The Gay Comic Book You’ve Been Waiting For.
New Study Sheds Light on Problems Facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Homeless Youth.
Dear Bigoted Couple Who Want To Divorce To Protest Gay Marriage….
The obligatory Sad Puppies/Hugo Awards update:
co-signed, strong letter to follow. Dara comments on the Irene Gallo situation and rounds up several other links that shed more light.
Tom Doherty Statement on Tor.com [fixed]. What Tor’s publisher should have said.
Puppies in Their Own Words. I disagree with one of Jim’s conclusions… but my disagreement deserves a blot post of its own.
The Revolution of Self-Righteous Dickery will Not Be Moderated.
How Tor failed Social Media 101.
Farewells:
Hermann Zapf, the font designer behind Palatino and Zapf Dingbats, has died at 96.
Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93.
Ron Moody, Who Delighted Audiences As Fagin In ‘Oliver!’ Dies.
Ornette Coleman, Composer and Saxophonist Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz, Dies at 85.
Gilbert Lewis, the Original King of Cartoons on ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,’ Dies at 79.
Godzilla Actor Hiroshi Koizumi Dies at 88.
And other news:
Woman Asks Psychics to Connect With a Dead Sister Who Never Existed… and (Surprise!) They All Do.
Why Don’t Christian Writers Know Why People Really Leave Church?
Happy News!
3 Asian Small-Clawed Otters Born At Denver Zoo.
New mom Asha nurtures her baby otters at Denver Zoo.
Watch: John Waters gave the 2015 commencement address at RISD and CRUSHED IT.
http://www.alternet.org/media/collapse-rush-limbaughs-radio-empire.
Spy Beats Entourage at Box Office Because Women Don’t Hate Themselves .
2015 Gale/LJ Library of the Year: Ferguson Municipal Public Library, MO, Courage in Crisis.
Things I wrote:
Two very different coming out stories, and a reflection on mine.
Putting the genie back in the bottle.
Hugo Ballot Reviews: Novelette.
The Moon Harshed My Mellow: more of why I love sf/f.
Videos!
冬至 Tooji –The Father Project:
“Tooji is a Norwegian artist. As a one year old boy, he came to Norway together with his mother, who fled from the authoritarian regime in Iran. Tooji became known in Norway when he won the national Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and represented Norway in the international final of ESC in Azerbaijan with the song “Stay”. In the autumn 2013 Tooji cut all ties to the Norwegian music industry and moved to Stockholm, Sweden. Toojis new song “Father” is Oslo Pride’s official pride anthem for 2015.”
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Three Otter Pups Born at Denver Zoo:
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Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres:
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Rachel Maddow – Franklin Graham’s anti-gay banking protest backfires:
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Alan Colmes vs. Todd Starnes: Are Christians persecuted in US?:
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Prides – Messiah (2015):
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Aston Merrygold – Get Stupid (Official Video):
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The Moon Harshed My Mellow: more of why I love sf/f
Last week I mentioned that Heinlein’s later writing, when compared to his earlier writing, was like a completely different man. That was both true, and misleading. Heinlein’s writing career spanned from the 1940s into the 1990s, and society underwent more than a few changes as to what was allowed in mainstream publications during that time. Through most of the 40s and 50s, for instance, anything remotely sexual was almost completely taboo in fiction, while racial topics could usually only be broached in metaphor. Then there was the legendary John W. Campbell, who edited the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (now known as Analog) from 1937 until his death in 1971. Campbell allowed absolutely no sex in stories he published. Campbell also insisted that humans always be superior to any aliens they met. Campbell seems to have been slightly more racist than the average white american during the 30s—which did not change at all even though he lived through the civil rights movements of the 60s. Continue reading The Moon Harshed My Mellow: more of why I love sf/f
Hugo Ballot Reviews: Novelette
I don’t want to give anything away, but one reason it’s been a few weeks since I posted any more reviews was because the next categories were at least as difficult to slough through…
Continue reading Hugo Ballot Reviews: Novelette
Putting the genie back in the bottle
Just a year ago, many conservative pundits were pointing out that the number of states that had adopted marriage equality, and where a majority of the citizens of said states supported it, meant that there weren’t enough states left to ratify a constitutional amendment. Then we have polls released just this week that not only show that a majority of americans support marriage equality, but that a whopping 63% believe that marriage equality is a constitutional right and that the court should rule it so!
I have to point out that back in 1971, four years after a unanimous Supreme Court had struck down bans on interracial marriage, that a majority of americans disagreed with that decision. But no one even tried to pass a federal constitutional amendment to allow states to begin banning interracial marriage again. I don’t believe that anyone could make a credible run at an amendment to ban gay marriage now when a majority of americans support gay marriage.
I should point out, that while 63 percent said they thought the constitution protects the right, a “mere” 57% said they fully support it. Which means that about 6% are personally opposed to queers marrying each other, but also believe it should be legal. That isn’t a contradiction. Lots of us disapprove of things that we also don’t think should be illegal for other people to do if they really want.
The most interesting statistic on that, as always, is the demographic number. We’re used to, in these polls, seeing that young people are more supportive of gay rights than older people. So it is no surprise that roughly 73% of those under the age of 50 are in favor of marriage equality. But the surprise is that just over 52% of people aged 50 and older are also in favor. It’s almost evenly split, but for a long time it was a clear majority of older people who disapproved. Of course, some of that shift has been a simple matter of aging. People who were in their late 40s when polls were taken a few years ago, and were therefore at least slight more likely to be in favor of marriage equality, are now in the older cohort, and they’re brought their beliefs with them. But aging alone doesn’t account for the change. So in the last few years, some of those older people who previously opposed it or answered that they weren’t sure have changed their minds.
It’s that last piece, I know, that some of the haters hang onto. They remain convinced that somehow, if they just keep screaming about how horrible and icky gay people are, that they can start getting people to change their minds the other way.
I don’t think so. I continue to believe that our two best weapon are visibility and familiarity. The more people who know actual gay people—and specifically, the more they see their own relatives and the relatives of their friends not just be out, but stand in line for marriage licenses and have their weddings and so forth without the world coming crashing down—the more supportive they become.
The cliché is that you can’t put the genie back in the bottle. I agree that the marriage equality genie is out and isn’t going back. More importantly, none of us queers are going to allow ourselves to be chased back into the closet.
Two very different coming out stories, and a reflection on mine
Tragic Coming Out Story:
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Coming Out to Grandma:
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No one’s coming out goes exactly the same as any other. The fear that the guy talks about in the first video (and the anxiety you can see on the young woman’s face in the first part of the second) is very real. Even in 2015, 40% of homeless teen-agers are homeless because they have been kicked out of their homes by parents because they are gay.
I tried to come out to my best friend—a guy I loved like a brother—dozens or more times. Because we were both attending fundamentalist evangelical churches, I tried to ease us into the conversation. But every single time that even a hint of the topic of non-heterosexuality came up, he would instantly go into “Gross! Sinful! All homos go to hell!” mode with such vehemence, it’s amazing I wasn’t physically hurled from the room by the strength of his condemnation.
Ironically, when I finally did come out years later, he insisted that the reason he was ending our friendship was not because I was “an unrepentant homosexual” (his words), but rather because I told someone else before I told him. He was also one of the people who insisted emphatically that he had never, ever, ever suspected at all that I was gay before I came out.
I don’t believe that statement, either.
Several relatives and close friends from back then made equally insistent denials of ever suspecting. Of course, one of those people was my Mom. And when one of my aunts found out Mom was claiming she had never suspected, that’s when the aunt informed me that beginning when I was about 14 years old, she and my mom and several ladies from church had begun meeting once a week to pray my gay away. I also was informed by one of the former board members of the evangelical touring teen choir I had been involved with as a teen-ager that it had been explicitly known that one reason I wasn’t given solos or put into one of the small ensembles for the first many years I was active in the group was because the leadership was certain I was “struggling with the sin of homosexuality.”
They were correct in that I was struggling mightily to stop feeling attracted to other guys. But unlike a lot of the guys who they did put into leadership positions and gave solos to, I wasn’t acting on my feelings. I wrote about one of those cases, but he wasn’t the only queer boy in the group fooling around with other guys back then.
I’m glad that more people are getting reactions like the second video: “I always knew. Were you afraid to tell me?” But far too many queer people have plenty of reasons to fear rejection (and worse) from their own families and friends if they admit who they are. And that’s just wrong.
Weekend Update – 6/6/2015
And the scandal surrounding former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert paying millions in extortion money is beginning to turn up names: Exclusive: Alleged Dennis Hastert Sex Abuse Victim Is Named By Family. This is not the victim Hastert was paying off because this victim died of complication of AIDS many years ago, but if the allegations of the family are true, it confirms our worst fears: when Hastert was a High School wrestling coach he was having sexual relationships with his students. Again, I ask is there any reason that we don’t just all assume that whenever a politician, pastor, or other sort of public figure is rabidly anti-gay that they are also a deeply twisted closet cases?
And all sorts of interesting things are bubbling around since Vanity Fair put Caitlyn Jenner on the cover: For Social Conservatives, Acceptance of Caitlyn Jenner Is the Apocalypse. Though the writing has been on the wall regarding societal acceptance of marriage equality for some time (NOM has a plan; and some snowballs plan to summer in hell, too), the wingnuts have been pivoting to trans issues as a means to drum up fear and much-needed donations to their think tanks, et al. The way that Caitlyn’s transition has been embraced by a significant fraction of the population is making their heads explode (Their rhetoric has turned macabre and concerning). I think a lot of them really do believe the insane hyperbole they are spewing, but many of them know it is not the end of the world, and are much more worried about preserving their cash flow. Otherwise they might have to actual work for a living, right? Then there’s things like this: Man learns amazing lesson in irony after mocking Caitlyn Jenner’s ‘bravery’ in viral Facebook post.
And here’s a nice follow-up on a story I posted a link to earlier: Larry Wilmore Lets Gay Student Give Banned Valedictorian Speech On-Air (VIDEO). Watch the clip for context and a fun intro. They only show part of the speech on the show, but the entire speech is available on the web: EVAN YOUNG’S COMPLETE GRADUATION SPEECH.
Friday Links (run-away pig edition)
It’s Friday! The first Friday in June. Happy Queer Pride Month! I’m still limping around a lot thanks to some torn ligaments in my ankle and foot. But I’ve been steadily improving (elevation and ice are my new best friends)!
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Link of the Week
Minnesota Cordially Invites You To Come Gay It Up With Your Hot Dish Husband.
Science!
New Images of Pluto from New Horizons Gradually Reveal More Detail.
ORIGAMI ROBOT FOLDS UP, SWIMS, DIGS, THEN DISSOLVES.
Ultraviolet study reveals surprises in comet coma.
Australian experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness.
Pluto and Its Moons Are Weirder Than We Thought.
Solved: The Riddle of the Nova of 1670.
What Will New Horizons See — and When?
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
MIND MELD: Genre Awards: What are They Good for Anyway?
‘Star Trek’ actress Nichelle Nichols suffers stroke.
“Just this one teensy, tiny little change…”.
Madeline Ashby: Fiction Writer and Futurist.
Nichelle Nichols Recovering From Stroke.
Political/culture war news:
SUPREME COURT REJECTS ARIZONA’S REQUEST TO REVIVE ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW.
Thoughts on The Kipnis Clown Show and the Drama of University Life. “In other words, Kipnis wrote a sharp-tongued, one-dimensional caricature of university sexual assault and trigger warning activists at Northwestern. And they turned around and proved her one-dimensional caricature 100% right.”
America’s grand historical deception: Why it pretends White Supremacy no longer exists.
Minnesota Woman Terrorizes Muslim Couple.
The Daily Show Blasts Media’s Dismissive Coverage Of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Campaign.
Garbage collectors are more likely to die on the job than police patrol officers.
When “Religion” Is Just Bigotry.
Once Again, Mike Huckabee Proves That Republicans Don’t Know Anything About the Constitution.
The Real America. “Younger and/or foreign readers may not recall how big a role the alleged moral superiority of small-town America used to play in conservative politics (and still does, to some extent)…”
Imagine If Muslims Surrounded A Christian Church In The US With Assault Rifles During Prayer Time.
Pastor Tells Graduating High School Seniors They Will Go To Hell If They’re Gay.
Yes, Bush helped create ISIS — and set up the Middle East for a generation of chaos.
Black family faces jail time for cheering teen at a Mississippi high school graduation.
Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change.
School kitchen manager: I was fired for giving lunches to hungry students.
You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History.
Duggar Endorsements Disappear From Huckabee’s Campaign Site. Imagine that…
This Week in Sexism
These 25 Examples of Male Privilege from a Trans Guy’s Perspective Really Prove the Point.
mad max – what is okay and what is not. “The single biggest thing I walked away with, though, was that the realisation that its philosophical assumption that women shouldn’t be sex slaves is what really caused the the misogynist/”manosphere”/return-of-kings crowd to explode.”
The “Fake Geek” is Not The Problem When It Comes to “Fake Geek Girls” by Chris Brecheen. I think I linked to this last year, but it came across my screen again, and it’s worth re-reading from time to time.
I Have Been Sitting on Manspreaders For the Last Month and I Have Never Felt More Free.
News for queers and our allies:
North Carolina governor vetoes bill on religious objection to gay marriage.
And while the state senate moved quickly to vote to override the veto: Gay marriage override vote in NC House pushed back again. They’ve rescheduled several times because they’ve lost some votes. Couldn’t possibly be because national media has pointed out that the anti-gay marriage measure could also be an anti-interracial marriage result, among other things…
Va. Family Drops Charges Against Trans Woman Arrested for Aiding Their Suicidal Trans Son. “I never imagined helping teens or others would come to something like this,” said Julianna Fialkoswki, who alleges mistreatment from Lynchburg police.
Catholics are way more supportive of marriage equality than people think.
Covering a parade is not covering a community: 5 things to keep in mind this Pride Month.
Why Do Comic Books Mean So Much to Some Queer People? – Queers and Comics Meet at Flame Con.
‘Therapists’ Called Clients ‘Fags,’ Made Them Strip in Gay Conversion Therapy.
Pastor Warns Gays Are Becoming Too Powerful, Turning Entire Generations Bisexual.
IN Guv Issues Pride Welcome, Forgets LGBT People.
“God” Purchases Two “God Loves Gays” Billboards in Utah For Pride Month.
‘Intolerant Jackass Act’ Proponents Can Begin Collecting Signatures. While the status of a “Sodomite Suppression Act” proposed state ballot initiative remains in limbo, proponents of a rival “Intolerant Jackass Act” initiative were cleared by state Secretary of State Alex Padilla to begin collecting signatures Wednesday. The rival initiative would force the filer of the Sodomite Suppression Act or any similar initiative to attend sensitivity training and donate $5,000 to a pro-gay or pro-lesbian organization. When Huntington Beach attorney Matt McLaughlin filed the Sodomite Suppression Act earlier this year, which would make homosexuality punishable by death, it set off a nationwide backlash for its evident hatred and dubious constitutionality. Attorney General Kamala Harris sought a court injunction rescinding her obligation to prepare a title and summary for the initiative, a necessary step before proponents can begin gathering the 365,880 signatures necessary to get it on the ballot.
The obligatory Sad Puppies/Hugo Awards update:
This JUST In. There is a game children play—or more often, try to play at—when they are caught doing something they know they shouldn’t. It’s called “I WAS JUST”.
And other news:
US airport screeners missed 95% of weapons, explosives in undercover tests.
Web Decay Graph. “I’ve been writing this blog since 2003 and in that time have laid down, along with way over a million words, 12,373 hyperlinks. I’ve noticed that when something leads me back to an old piece, the links are broken disappointingly often. So I made a little graph of their decay over the last 144 months.”
Wayward pig gets ride in police car, poses for epic photo.
Things I wrote:
Achieve my goals with this one weird trick.
Colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky, also on the faces of people passing by.
Citizen of the (two-fisted) Galaxy: more of why I love sf/f.
Videos!
Funny or Die – The Duggars Respond To Sexual Abuse Scandal:
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MIKA – Good Guys:
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Will Young – Love Revolution:
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Rachel Lark :: Gay Man on the West Coast :: Live @ Bawdy Storytelling (NSFW, but funny as heck!) “I wanna be normal for having orgies, and radical for having kids…”:
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NYC Pride Month 2015 Ad:
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Neon Trees – Songs I Can’t Listen To:
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Jennifer Hudson – I Still Love You (a wedding music video that made me cry):
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Citizen of the (two-fisted) Galaxy: more of why I love sf/f
I can’t remember the first Robert Heinlein science fiction book I ever read. My mom (who had been teased as a child because of the way she spoke) was determined that I would learn to speak correctly, and decided the best way to teach me proper grammar was to read to me from her favorite authors. So before I could talk, she would read aloud from her Agatha Christie murder mysteries and her Robert Heinlein science fiction books. Later, when I could talk, she would make me repeat back whole sentences as she read. Besides turning me into a lifelong fan of mysteries and sci fi, this project also accidentally taught me how to read long before I got to school.
While I don’t remember the first, I do remember several that I read during elementary school and into middle school… Continue reading Citizen of the (two-fisted) Galaxy: more of why I love sf/f
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