by itabix | Aug 25, 2015 | Movies, Stonewall Riots
The web has been full of comment in the last week or ten days about the trailer for the new movie from Roland Emmerich called Stonewall. People are pointing out that the principal character of the new movie is a young white dude—maybe even a straight one—instead of a...
by itabix | Aug 18, 2015 | Coming out, Compulsion of time
This afternoon, on Towleroad, I read about an English rugby player who has just come out. He’s a nice-looking guy, but it wasn’t anything I needed to read about—I’ve read about athletes coming out before—and I was about to move on, when I stopped for some inexplicable...
by itabix | Jul 27, 2015 | Reviews
My husband and I spent the weekend with his father and stepmother on the Connecticut coast. While we were there, C helped his father construct a model of a sculpture that, when built, is going to be very large and will occupy one of the public spaces in their town on...
by itabix | Jul 15, 2015 | Law of Desire
I wrote this and published it on this blog under the title Love is never a joke in October 24, 2011. Tonight I watched the movie again, and I was so moved by it that I thought I would write another post on it, but when I searched and found the earlier post, I realized...
by itabix | Jul 8, 2015 | Alan Turing, Barack Obama, Coming to terms with the past, DOMA & DADT, Life and death, Teenage Suicides, Walking wounded
When the state, or society, or the culture commits a wrong against a gay citizen, there are a number of ways that wrong can be corrected—a new law, a court judgment, a social movement, among others. What usually can’t be corrected are the effects of that wrong on the...
by itabix | Jun 26, 2015 | Barack Obama, Celebration, SCOTUS
I began to realize yesterday that the SCOTUS decision on marriage would probably come down today, and I already knew that Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s funeral was going to be today, with the President giving the eulogy, and it occasionally crossed my mind that they might...
by itabix | Jun 1, 2015 | books, Books, Bookstores, Daniel D'Addario, eBooks, Freedom, Publishing, Writing
The issues introduced by the digital revolution are not going away. We were having brunch when one of the men at the table—I forget what led up to this—said that he didn’t read ebooks because he didn’t enjoy the experience of holding the tablet computer in his hands....
by itabix | May 25, 2015 | Marriage
Well, it’s happened, and it puts the lie to all the right-wing nuts who wanted this issue submitted to “the people,” content that the people would never approve marriage equality. Now they have, resoundingly, and the world cheers. It is unclear, however, that the...
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 | Apr 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
President Obama leaving Jamaica. Photograph by Pete Souza, White House photographer. At last, we get a photograph of the metaphysical truth of our times.
