South Africa: First Gay Wedding!

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 11:21 AM PST

2006/12/01 · 11:21

More on the new South African marriage laws: the first gay couple were married in South Africa today, a day after the law was signed by the Deputy President of South Africa. The couple were Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls, who own a guest lodge in Riversdale, a rather conservative town in the South West Cape of South Africa. (This is, by the way, a spectacularly beautiful area of South Africa- well worth a visit if you are down there).

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Thursday November 30, 2006 · 10:05 AM PST

2006/11/30 · 10:05

Today I am very proud to be a South African. The bill authorizing same sex marriage in South Africa has just been signed into law by the Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (there is no significance to this: President Thabo Mbeki is away in Nigeria and she is acting President in his absence). The full article from the Mail & Guardiannewspaper is below the fold.

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Why do Republicans hate democracy? Now a bumper sticker

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Monday August 21, 2006 · 3:29 PM PDT

2006/08/21 · 15:29

Following rusty47's diary the other day calling us all to use A CERTAIN BRILLIANT SLOGAN for the upcoming elections, I went and designed the following.

I have ordered a whole bunch from Cafepress (http://www.cafepress.com)

but please feel free to download and do your own, or modify as you wish.

I look forward to its appearance on many bumpers.

This is what domestic partnership gets you.

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Monday July 17, 2006 · 4:02 PM PDT

2006/07/17 · 16:02

Our friend Eric Rofes died two weeks ago, and his memorial was held here in San Francisco on Saturday. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 52, completely unexpectedly. He was a leading gay activist and scholar and his memorial was shattering- terribly, terribly sad, with a palpable sense of bereavement felt not only by his friends, but by an entire community. It was most heartbreaking to see and hear the agonized grief and bravery of his partner of 16 years, Crispin Hollins. Read More

Eric Rofes passes away

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 12:23 PM PDT

2006/06/27 · 12:23

I am sure that many people, particularly in the Queer community of the Bay Area, know Eric Rofes, who has been a prolific author and commentator on Queer Politics and Sex & Politics issues for many years. He was a professor at Humboldt State University, but lived in the Castro.

You will be shocked to learn that Eric died suddenly yesterday in Provincetown where he was spending time writing. He apparently had a heart attack. His partner Crispin Hollins is on his way there now, and all of us who are friends of theirs and have known Eric and his work are deeply shocked and saddened at his passing- he had just had his 50th birthday. Thanks to those who sent links here (Thanks Little) and and here (Thanks Cambridgemac). I hurriedly put this up - my partner had just called me with the news, and we are both in shock so I didn't take time to find links- I am grateful to those who did.

Bolton on the Beeb: "Brown- Bugger Off!"

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Friday June 09, 2006 · 3:22 PM PDT

2006/06/09 · 15:22

I diaried yesterday (pimp, pimp) about the current row at the UN between the US and Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary General.

Today,in an interview on the BBC, John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN, responded at some length to Malloch's charges that the US has abrogated its responsibilities to the UN, undermining it domestically and blackmailing it by threatening to withhold funding if UN bureaucratic reforms are not to US liking.
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UN speaks up against US

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 1:01 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 13:01

Ever since John (Mad Dog) Bolton became US ambassador to the UN, I have waited with bated breath for the outbreak of overt hostilities between him and UN officials. For some time, they seem to have enjoyed something of a honeymoon, or at least, whatever spats there were were discreet and behind closed doors. I was lulled into thinking that the tempestuous confirmation hearings, where Bolton was roundly excoriated for his abrasive and dictatorial style, had cowed him to a more diplomatic stance. Hmmm....seems not. The marriage of US and UN, strained at best of times, seems to be unraveling as fast as the US reputation in New York and Geneva. The gloves are off, crockery is being thrown, the neighbors are talking, and concerned friends may soon have to be gathered to intervene to save this rocky relationship, which even the Deputy Secretary-General has come to describe as a "troubled marriage".
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Rape of the Earth: Thanks, Bush Senior!

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Friday June 02, 2006 · 3:23 PM PDT

2006/06/02 · 15:23

In the Valle de San Felix region of the Andean Cordillera, the purest water in Chile runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers. Indigenous people of the area depend on this water for subsistence and farming. Pascua-Lama is a cross-border property located in the highly prospective Frontera District, which straddles Chile's Region III and Argentina's San Juan Province. It is approximately 150 kilometers southeast of the city of Vallenar, Chile and 300 kilometers northwest of the city of San Juan, Argentina. In 2000, Chile and Argentina completed ratification of a Mining Treaty between their two countries and in third quarter 2004 it was officially signed into law by the two governments. Read More

Afghanistan as Cloud-Cuckoo land

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Thursday June 01, 2006 · 3:03 PM PDT

2006/06/01 · 15:03

In a truly bizarre interview on NPR, the Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neuman, made the claim today that deadly riots sparked by a U.S. military truck crash this week are not a sign of anti-Americanism in Afghanistan..

"I do not see any groundswell of anti-Americanism or of any desire that we leave". Neumann said.

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Wednesday May 31, 2006 · 3:35 PM PDT

2006/05/31 · 15:35

George Bush says he is troubled by reports of the massacre in Haditha. Read More

Where is the music?

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Wednesday May 24, 2006 · 4:20 PM PDT

2006/05/24 · 16:20

Where's the music?

When I remember the sixties and seventies (yes, I am that old) every event is accompanied by a sound track in my head. They sound corny and dated now, all those old folkies, but they expressed what we felt and their songs were anthemic and totemic. Read More

AT&T suit: behind the door of 641A.

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Tuesday May 23, 2006 · 2:58 PM PDT

2006/05/23 · 14:58

Do you have, as I do, the feeling that no matter how scandalized we are by what is revealed, what is not revealed is far, far worse? All the way through the NSA "numbers only" scandal (Was that only last week? Is it already over?) I kept thinking "I bet they're getting full conversations- I bet they're listening in".

Bingo.
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Why do Republicans hate democracy? Now a bumper sticker

This is what domestic partnership gets you.

Eric Rofes passes away

Bolton on the Beeb: "Brown- Bugger Off!"

UN speaks up against US

Rape of the Earth: Thanks, Bush Senior!

Afghanistan as Cloud-Cuckoo land

george is troubled

Where is the music?

AT&T suit: behind the door of 641A.