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Looks like Pope Benedict XVI is preparing to exclude gays, who he considers “intrinsically disordered,” from the Catholic priesthood.

Some interesting articles that have been accumulating in tabs on my browser over the last day or two:

Seed of extinct date palm sprouts after 2,000 years (San Francisco Chronicle)
The New Blacklist (AlterNet), a fascinating overview of the systematic and effective boycotts conservative Christian religious groups are running targeting just about any company willingly associated with […]

(Sadly, though, no polyamory-related election news)

Here are some more musings on multiple relationships from Naked Loft Party, aptly titled, The Coalition of the Willing.

Oh, and don’t vote, masturbate.

Also, while you’re at it, check out the website of a candidate for President who I heard speaking on “The Folk Show” on New Hampshire Public Radio while […]

Well, with this post I’ve successfully procrastinated myself into putting off my remaining work until tomorrow. But first: Just One Bite is the blog of a 30-something businesswoman who is into kinky sex, and is often a good read. A recent post on some of the more off-topic keywords people search for that lead them […]

Here’s an interesting post on polyamory from Naked Loft Party, a sometimes-interesting sex blog. Also, here’s an article on polyamory by Mistress Matisse.

Pride was pretty fun yesterday. There were a bunch of people there, maybe 5-10 thousand. There were gigantic floats on flatbed trucks blaring dance music with topless men dancing poorly. One of these floats featured Greg Louganis, the Olympic gold metal diver holding a small dog. There were tons of other floats, many marriage themed, […]

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The Massachusetts legislature just voted to approve the ammendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. They’ll still have to pass it again next year, and only then will it go on the ballot, and marriage will still happen in May, but this is a really unfortunate development.

Anne just sent me a link to a really interesting article from the New York Times about heterosexual cross-dressers. I think the article does a good job displaying the variety of motivations that people have for cross-dressing. I’ve been really impressed with the Times’ coverage of trans issues recently. I wonder what’s up.

Anyhow, here’s the […]

By the way, here is Holy Matrimony! a wonderful article by Lisa Duggan offering a progressive perspective on the same-sex marriage issue.