They had a tiny infestation in their head, as did Marissa.
― the late great, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Please get an army to there"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
don't know if this has been posted but awesome trans of 1970 huey newton speech addressing issues of black and gay liberation movts...fucking great
http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/looking-back-at-huey-newtons-thoughts-on-gay-rights-in-the-wake-of-obamas-endorsement/
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
aw.
love Huey
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Sully posts this memo from an important GOP pollster: we gotta change our tune re gay marriage or we're doomed.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 11, 2012 3:59 PM (Yesterday)
dope
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Saturday, 12 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
shakey, do you have a bio or other book on huey/the black panthers you'd especially recommend?
Greenwald on Sullivan's presidential daddy complex (also epidemic among da gayz the last few days):
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/andrew_sullivans_father_figure/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
BREAKING:
Rhode Island's governor on Monday declared that the state will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual ones when it comes to health insurance and a slew of other benefits.The order signed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee in a Statehouse ceremony directs state agencies to recognize marriages performed out of state as legal and treat same-sex married couples the same as heterosexual ones.
The order signed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee in a Statehouse ceremony directs state agencies to recognize marriages performed out of state as legal and treat same-sex married couples the same as heterosexual ones.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
one of the great things about the Panthers is that the key guys wrote - a LOT. I've never read any 2nd-hand bios, so can't speak to that. I've read pretty much everything Newton and Seale wrote. Even when they're being deliberately self-serving and obfuscatory they are very illuminating. I think all the following are great, just as historical documents.
Huey Newton: To Die For the People - Huey's collected writings, compiled by Toni Morrison
Huey Newton: Revolutionary Suicide - Huey's autiobio, focuses a lot on his court cases iirc, especially his cop-murder trial. (Newton's defense is completely unconvincing imo but there's no way he was going to get away with a justifiable homicide defense against the OPD)
Bobby Seale: Seize the Time, the Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton - Seale's writing is more conversational but also covers some ground/chronology that Huey's writing don't, what with his imprisonment. (Seale also goes in-depth into his role in the Chicago 8 trial, in all its ludicrous detail).
and then of course there's Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul on Ice", which is not about the Panthers and is only tangentially connected but still of historical interest. Cleaver was kinda an asshole and threw a bit of a monkeywrench into the works by affiliating with the Panthers, which all parties involved came to regret, I think.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost Oh, this is going to be a fun life.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
You've only just begun?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
I've found one place where there's room to grow.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wait, that's not what I meant.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
thanks shakes
― k3vin k., Monday, 14 May 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYt4emUdzZs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
We Were Here finally available on Netflix.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
no marriages there
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
A Dem prez almost as evolved as Dick Cheney; who could ask for anything less?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
That joke was pretty fresh a few days ago
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
wonder what James Buchanan would've said
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
he'd have been pissed about king county, washington
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
don't worry poly, I'm sure Bam will be fresh enough to croon the entire Atlantic soul catalog before the campaign is o'er.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
holding out for stax/volt tbh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Hoping for "Tighten Up" myself, except he'd be using it to explain why he's caving to GOP budget cutters.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
Mr Big Stuff would be a winner imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html
not sure where to put this
― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
btw, i now search for this thread by querying "gay alfred"
funny -- that's how tricks search for me
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
don't they usually get the Batcave?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Stonewall Was a Wedding?
http://jacobinmag.com/blog/2012/05/stonewall-was-a-wedding/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
in a city where 40% of homeless youth are LGBT.
You know, every time I read things like this, I flash back on how happy those gay youth seemed to me in Paris is Burning. They were up at midnight, drinking orange Crush, just hanging out, summertime. Awesome.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
And then, of course, I think about how unhappy they must be now, all grown up and domesticated and hitched and bored and boring.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
don't be a player haterbeing domesticated is rad
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
Gay marriage proponents feed us two flavors of justification for their crusade. For the romantics they supply fantasy — the notion that legal inclusion brings social justice; for the cynics, they tout the thousand individual rights that a marriage certificate bestows.
And for the lunatics, a third flavor: You were never going to be normal anyway.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
hi! who wants to get married?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
I do!
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
So long as it can be loveless, sexless and sheerly totemistic.
/Gay marriage proponents feed us two flavors of justification for their crusade. For the romantics they supply fantasy — the notion that legal inclusion brings social justice; for the cynics, they tout the thousand individual rights that a marriage certificate bestows./
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
surely it's easier to not come up with any of that dumb shit and just let people get on with it
No, it's true. Marriage is going to make rich gay people start to want to buy stuff from Crate & Barrel and Room & Board and god knows what else. Better to keep them from marriage and force them to continue in their ascetic but charitable tradition.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
gay + marriage = rich gay
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
well if teh gays get all this money then the rich straight guys won't be able to get the buttsecks in subway bathrooms from poor rentboys. I mean, it's simple math really. it's so much more romantic when they stay poor and desperate.
FFS
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
Stonewall was to let the world know that gays are employable. Oh and human. AND THAT'S IT.
I get romanticising the struggle but this is really kinda ridiculous.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
never mind, there's a p healthy supply of closeted conservatives prepared to get their same-sex rocks off in cubicles xp
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol
I can't paste it from my iPad but commenter "Tarzie" does a pretty good job of telling her to STFU
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
Look no further than Argentina for real leadership in queer politics. While we were busy patting ourselves on the back, the Argentine legislature passed the Gender Identity Law, arguably the most gender-affirming bill in any country, to date. Argentineans can now change their legal genders without having to demonstrate any medical treatment, and the public and private healthcare systems in the country are banned from charging extra for gender-related therapies or procedures. These changes may not have the comforting ring of wedding bells, but they address administrative inequalities that present huge obstacles to trans people in accessing basic services.
Argentina managed to make both the Gender Identity Law AND gay marriage realities.
xp - VG OTM re "Tarzie"( + others)
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Monday, 28 May 2012 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
on the other side of the coin
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3sj5yPIiJ1qace89o1_1280.png
― The Reverend, Monday, 28 May 2012 06:38 (twelve years ago) link
Gay marriage doesn't "infuriate" most ppl who raise questions about current 'progressive' attitudes toward it. They are mostly saying it's not the end of the rainbow.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
"Raise questions" is an awfully rainbow-tinted way of putting it.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link