http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/ No government has the right to tell its citizens whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. — Rita Mae Brown en-US Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:25:42 -0400 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification CitizenCrainhttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/fKAK6b2wz38/our-new-straight-hero-on-dadt.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/our-new-straight-hero-on-dadt.html Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Congressman Patrick Murphy, a straight Congressman from PA, is taking the lead on repealing DADT. The above clip from the Rachel Maddow Show clearly demonstrates Murphy's passion and... Military Andoni Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:25:42 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/our-new-straight-hero-on-dadt.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/htUzqj_n_v8/gm-goes-beefcake-gay.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/gm-goes-beefcake-gay.html UPDATE AT END GM developed an ad aimed at gay buyers with two hunky guys in briefs washing a Camaro (read the original story here) then without explanation while I was writing this post, pulled it from YouTube (read the... Current Affairs Andoni Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:54:35 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/gm-goes-beefcake-gay.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/7CwUlP-69xA/steve-hildebrand-on-obama.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/steve-hildebrand-on-obama.html Steve Hildebrand may be the closest gay person to Barack Obama. He was deputy national campaign director for Obama's presidential campaign last year. In a remarkable interview with Hildebrand, Rex Wockner gets to the bottom of some of the issues... Obama Andoni Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:54:54 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/steve-hildebrand-on-obama.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/7LYjqtC09NU/president-palin-not-an-obituary.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/president-palin-not-an-obituary.html I'm a little nervous that a lot of the liberal chattering class is proclaiming the death of Sarah Palin's political career. I'm old enough to remember a similar situation with Richard Nixon in 1962 after he told the press that... Palin Andoni Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:03:14 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/president-palin-not-an-obituary.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/JVSFXfo5mSc/special-rights-result-when-gays-are-forbidden-to-marry.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/special-rights-result-when-gays-are-forbidden-to-marry.html We are all familiar with the right wing mantra that gays are asking for "special rights" when in reality we are only asking for equality. Well, here's an example that turns the "special rights" argument on its head. In some... Marriage Andoni Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:22:05 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/07/special-rights-result-when-gays-are-forbidden-to-marry.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/RiUUeYv8NF0/white-house-hosts-gay-reception-today.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/white-house-hosts-gay-reception-today.html UPDATE: Watch a video of the speech here. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, President Obama has invited 250 LGBT leaders from across the country to the White House for a cocktail reception today. Brian Bond, Deputy Director of... Current Affairs Andoni Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:01:18 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/white-house-hosts-gay-reception-today.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/CkgMjrIdJY8/credit-card-scams-again.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/credit-card-scams-again.html I've reported before on the various shady ways credit card companies and currency exchangers (posing as ATM machines) are using to bilk customers and earn questionable extra profits. Well, last night at a restaurant at the Bangkok Airport, I encountered... Current Affairs Andoni Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:52:07 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/credit-card-scams-again.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/Sob1fpv3q54/sanfords-crime-against-morality.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/sanfords-crime-against-morality.html Following the admission by Republican Gov. Mark Sanford that he had disappeared to Argentina as part of an extramarital affair, some have been minimizing the legal dimension of his offense. Unlike Republican Sen. David Vitter (La.), who admitted to having... Funny-HaHa Chris Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:22:50 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/sanfords-crime-against-morality.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/ZTTRdfdDz4w/lgbt-goes-missing.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/lgbt-goes-missing.html Update at the end of this post: Tongues are wagging about the apparent delisting of Planet Out, Inc. -- which trades under the symbol LGBT -- from the Nasdaq stock exchange. A post today on Queerty speculates that Planet Out's... Media PlanetOut Chris Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:02:34 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/lgbt-goes-missing.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/rX4-ZALQJGw/obamas-major-speech-on-lgbt-rights.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/obamas-major-speech-on-lgbt-rights.html Before you get too excited, this hasn't happened yet. When I was sitting on the island of Symi, Greece I was getting despondent over the inaction in Congress on LGBT rights. Remembering the president's promises during the campaign, I thought... Obama Andoni Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:12:21 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/obamas-major-speech-on-lgbt-rights.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/E8CdV6oPoMQ/defending-obamas-indefensible-defense.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/defending-obamas-indefensible-defense.html ... of the Defense of Marriage Act. OK not really. But at the risk of being labeled (once again) as an Obama apologist, I want to add a bit more context to the excellent analysis done by Andoni and others... HRC Marriage Obama Chris Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:59:00 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/defending-obamas-indefensible-defense.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/exTF4kQV7do/the-doma-fck-up.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/the-doma-fck-up.html ADDENDUM AT END: (THE NEW YORK TIMES AGREES) As you can read here and here, the Obama Justice Department filed a brief defending DOMA. This was no ordinary brief. It was way over the top with arguments that could have... Marriage Andoni Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:47:39 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/the-doma-fck-up.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/cEL0i0K-Rk4/defending-doma.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/defending-doma.html ADDENDUM AT END In case you haven't heard, the Obama Justice Department has decided to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. You can read the brief in Smelt v The United States of America here (at the... Marriage Andoni Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:32:51 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/defending-doma.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/K1mfC9jb4SY/they-said-it-2.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-it-2.html I am not at all persuaded that so-called homosexuals are homosexuals because of biological problems. There may be a very few, but there are so many that have been made homosexuals because of a coach or a guidance counselor or... Religion Chris Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:46:00 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-it-2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/al5F6RTdCy4/they-said-i.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-i.html "He's the one guy that I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife." Adam Lambert, "American Idol" runner-up, revealing his crush on season champ... Music Television Chris Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:39:00 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-i.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/A1HhpzydN3M/marriage-in-jeopardy-in-ny-senate-switch.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/marriage-in-jeopardy-in-ny-senate-switch.html Two New York City Democrats defected to the other side in a Senate leadership vote that appears to have swung control of the body over to Republicans. At stake in the switch is a vote on gay marriage legislation which... Marriage Chris Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:57:14 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/marriage-in-jeopardy-in-ny-senate-switch.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/XIyQ4GfvT8o/they-said-it-1.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-it-1.html I understand that you should put the question, but frankly, do you think people are just waiting to see us hand-in-hand sitting here looking into one another’s eyes? Of course not. French President Nicholas Sarkozy, at a joint press avail... Funny-HaHa Obama Chris Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:29:00 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-it-1.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/ZU8er3nRj8s/glad-to-be-back-michael.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/glad-to-be-back-michael.html I had to smile when I read a post welcoming me back to blogging from a somewhat unlikely source: Michael Petrelis. It was something of an understatement for Michael, a longtime gay, AIDS and human rights activist, to write that... Blogging HIV/AIDS HRC Media Chris Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:35:42 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/glad-to-be-back-michael.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/sVFvl-SAWIc/they-said-it.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-it.html Oprah routinely grabs viewers with the sort of tales of the strange and absurd that might be found a few clicks over on Maury Povich or Jerry Springer: women who leave their husbands for other women. Newsweek Magazine ("Why Health... Media Chris Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:19:00 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/they-said-it.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenCrain/~3/L8c7r3cIGRw/dont-ask-do-deal-outright-lie.html http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/dont-ask-do-deal-outright-lie.html Me thinks they doth protest too much, our friends at the Human Rights Campaign. Trevor Thomas has fired off an angry response by Blackberry to Jason Bellini's Daily Beast report alleging HRC cut a deal to delay pressing for the... HRC Media Military Obama Chris Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:27:51 -0400 http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2009/06/dont-ask-do-deal-outright-lie.html