Pride & Opinions

Today is an “Adri’s brain is mush” day (still getting over being sick, and some days are worse than others) so today’s post will be neither deep (ha, like I’m capable of that), insightful, nor amusingly snarktastic. I have a request for you first (other than please pass the tissues and medicate this cold to death), and then just a little informational look at the world of gay-related headlines for the morning, with a few tired attempts at sardonic commentary. So! Here we go!

Transgender Tales: Call for Submissions
After so many transgendered individuals spoke up on this post about dating transgenders, I was thinking about instituting something called Transgender Tales: a post, once a week, featuring a story or testimonial from a transgendered person. There are many assumptions made about transgenders, many incorrect, many unintentionally cruel, and sometimes the only way to educate people is to tell your stories and to make sure they’re seen. So MtF, FtM, questioning somewhere in between…what’s your story? What made you decide to transition, or what was the most memorable moment of your transitioned life? What do you have to say to the world at large?

Please write to me at adrien-luc.sanders@451press.net or use the contact form on the site. If you prefer to use a false name for privacy, that’s no problem. Just make sure, if e-mailing me from an address that uses your first and last name in the sender field, to remind me to use another name.

Daily News Roundup

First, in local news (local for me, anyway): M/M romance writer Laura Baumbach talks about her treatment at the Romantic Times convention at the Houston Hyatt. Apparently her promotional materials were taken down and replaced with het material that was more racy than hers, and yet the content was still named as a reason for the removal by a rather dismissive and insulting hotel employee.

Gay troop proponent serves America honorably: Gay servicemen and servicewomen are rallying at all levels of the military, from in-the-trenches grunt to high-ranking admirals, to prove that gays in the military do exist and serve their country just as well as their straight counterparts. Hell, if you ask me, I’d rather have another queer guarding my butt; he’s much more likely to protect it if he wants to do naughty things to it later.

Former Gay Governor McGreevey to Enter Priesthood: This isn’t really new news as it’s been going around for days, but I couldn’t resist commenting anyway. Am I the only one hoping this isn’t going to give rise to another slew of jokes about gay Catholic priests by people attempting to be clever (and failing)?

Gay nuptial activists in overdrive: Setting aside the fact that for some reason the use of “in” instead of “on” in the article’s title twerks my nerves even though it’s not incorrect, I found the tactics mentioned in this article to be at once amusing and charming. Ice cream socials? Why don’t I get invited to ice cream socials when someone wants to convince me of something? Even when we’re working our bums off to win lawmakers over and block a proposed Massachusetts gay marriage ban, we have to do it in fabulous style, don’t we?

Study shows gay moms make good parents: No, really? You mean those scary lesbian-things aren’t psychotic animals who abandon and/or abuse their young at the first chance? Lesbian parents are just as or more caring and nurturing than straight parents? I’d never have imagined that in all my wildest dreams!

Snark aside, I’m glad to see this kind of news making the media. To me it’s just common sense that gay and lesbian parents are going to love and care for their children - biological or adopted - just as much as straight parents would, but then with me it’s preaching to the choir and I don’t have this strange notion that gay parents are somehow lacking and/or abnormal.

And that’s it from me today. Dayquil. Tea. Tissue. Bed. G’bye.

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