Big-ass battle is just beginning

“There’s something deeply wrong with putting the rights of a minority up to a majority vote. If this were being done to almost any other minority, people would see how un-American this is.”
 – Evan Wolfson, gay-rights lawyer and head of Freedom to Marry
While racial minorities here in California and throughout the nation — hell, even throughout [...]

Blacks don’t have my back

Reuters and Associated Press photos
Lest you think I’m picking only on California’s blacks, above are Asian and Latino Californians who supported the hateful, discriminatory anti-gay Proposition 8, even though in California’s history Asians and Latinos have been discriminated against. The Latino family in East Los Angeles pictured above even made the hatred of another historically oppressed minority group [...]

Mixed results

sacbee.com photo
With the sound passage of Proposition 2 and the apparent passage of Proposition 8, Californians seem to care more about chickens’ rights than gay men and lesbians’ rights. Maybe if I stuff some eggs up my ass and start laying them I can get some fucking rights around here…
Well, the most important contest yesterday was [...]