by itabix | Oct 16, 2019 | Anger, Being gay, Channing Smith, Coming to terms with the past, Courage, Earthrise, Freeing yourself of it, gay community, Gay kid, Marriage cases, Queer, Reparations, Sexuality, suicide, Teenage Suicides, Words and their meanings, Writing
I wrote this a week ago: It is a truth that LGBTQ+IA persons do not have a literature that reflects us. We have a literature that reflects some of us, and we have a literature that reflects many of us partially. We don’t have a literature that reflects how varied the...
by itabix | Sep 7, 2015 | Fighting Back, Marriage, Marriage cases, SCOTUS, Sexuality, the South
I was in the Back Bay Thursday, on the second floor of the Library, when I saw the headline, US Clerk jailed for gay marriage defiance; dispute goes on. I was on the subway coming back to Somerville, ruminating on the headline. It made people think of the sixties. I...
by itabix | May 5, 2015 | Fighting Back, Marriage, Marriage cases
Five days have passed since the Court hearing on Obergefell v. Hodges. Things got off to the wrong foot when Justice Kennedy, to whom most people are looking to make the majority, expressed how disturbed he is by the proposal to change an institution that has been...
by itabix | Apr 28, 2015 | Marriage cases, SCOTUS
First, the name of the case is Obergefell v. Hodges. The link to one of the online pronunciation sites is here. Lyle Denniston, of SCOTUSblog, has put up a post “Same-Sex Marriage: The Decisive Questions.” This is fairly technical, but, like anything from Denniston on...
by itabix | Apr 27, 2015 | Marriage cases
The two articles published by SCOTUSblog written by Michael Klarman, which I linked to in the post on April 17, are all we are going to get from Klarman. That’s a shame, because he’s knowledgeable and writes well, and I thought he was going to give us a longer series...
by itabix | Apr 20, 2015 | Marriage cases, SCOTUS
I was in the Institute for Contemporary Art yesterday, at an exhibition entitled When Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South. I left South Carolina temporarily in 1957 and permanently in 1963. While I’ve not always been interested in what was going on...
by itabix | Apr 17, 2015 | 10th Circuit, Marriage cases, SCOTUS
SCOTUSBLOG.COM has introduced a seriously good series by Michael Klarman. They say, “As part of our expanded coverage of this month’s oral arguments in the challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage, we are pleased to present this post by Michael Klarman on the...
by itabix | Apr 15, 2015 | 10th Circuit, Marriage cases, SCOTUS
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate proposes that the gay marriage cases will be the most important gay rights cases ever. I think everybody agrees. These cases will be argued on April 28, 2015, in two weeks, with a decision in late June. Between now and then, it behooves us to...
by itabix | Jan 16, 2015 | Marriage cases, SCOTUS
So, they took ‘em! This puts us in a different place entirely. Now the Supreme Court has granted the petitions from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Having accepted that a split in the Circuit Courts is a bad thing, they pretty much had to, to resolve the...
by itabix | Jan 1, 2015 | Marriage cases, The future
So, this is the end of it.The best year ever for gay people (except for 1969 the year they rioted at the Stonewall, or 1996 the year they discovered protease inhibitors and HIV cocktails, and some others, like 1912 the year Marcel Proust first submitted In Search of...
by itabix | May 24, 2014 | Marriage cases
Tuesday was Pennsylvania’s, Monday was Oregon’s. I understand that Wisconsin and Florida and other states are in the near future. I went to a sandwich shop when I left the Y on Tuesday, and I found a copy of the decision from Judge John E. Jones III declaring...
by itabix | Apr 11, 2014 | 10th Circuit, Marriage cases
OK, the marriage cases are beginning to reach the appeals courts. In the most important case since the Supreme Court decided United States v. Windsor last summer, the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit was the scene yesterday for a hearing of Kitchens v....
by itabix | Feb 8, 2012 | Marriage cases
Two good places to go for commentary on the Ninth Circuit panel’s decision in the Perry v. Brown Proposition 8 case are Adam B on Daily Kos and Ari Ezra Waldman on Towleroad. I don’t know what Proposition 8 supporters are thinking right now—I don’t read that kind of...
