Right here in PA, baby. The Pennsyltucky part, of course.
Put that on your road signs: Welcome to Pennsylvania! We allow gays to exist!

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Kelly McGillis, who famously did the Amish nude thing in “Witness,” comes out as gay. Which some female co-workers mentioned they long suspected. Me: No idea

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Bingo:
Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?
Why is it, do you think, that some of the most vocal opponents of “Teh Gay” often turn out themselves to harbor the tendencies? If you desperately do not want to feel that way but do feel that way - and can’t do anything to lessen the physical attraction - […]

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Via John Aravosis, this one comes from the Saddleback Church web site - Rick Warren’s church:
“Because membership in a church is an outgrowth of accepting the Lordship and leadership of Jesus in one’s life, someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at a member at Saddleback Church.”
“Repent of their homosexual […]

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You know, I’m trying to stay out of this Rick Warren business a bit because I understand and even sympathize with the need to bridge the gap between evil lib’rulz and conservative evangelicals, find some common ground, etc. But then I see krep like this and it just p*sses me off:
Today, NBC’s Ann Curry aired […]

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And geez, where’s Paul Revere when you need him?
Notes Sullivan:
Is it my imagination or has the far right, salivating over their three anti-gay victories in the last election, decided that fear and loathing of homosexuals is now the fundamental tenet of American conservatism?
It’s all they got left.
Update: John Cole with the best/most insightful snark of […]

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What I like most about Steve Cornell’s column in our paper last weekend on Teh Dreaded Gay is one single line:
We will be under the tyranny of tolerance and no exception will be tolerated!
The tyranny of tolerance!
My goodness. How despotic to ask that all people, regardless of whom they might be sleeping with, have […]

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And here I thought Republicans opposed homosexuality.

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Via Sullivan, William Saletan at Slate.com peruses a new study on “sexually antagonistic selection in human male homosexuality,” which concludes, bascially, that it’s inborn - and for a reason, too.
Saletan:
It starts with four curious patterns. First, male homosexuality occurs at a low but stable frequency in a wide range of societies. Second, the female relatives […]

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Ruh-roh.
So you might have seen the study out earlier this week, in which scientists showed a difference in the brain patterns of gays and straights. William Saletan runs it down in Slate:
The sample consisted of 25 straight men, 25 straight women, 20 gay men, and 20 lesbians. In overall symmetry and amygdala activity, the brains […]

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I’m not quite sure why I can’t find this online anywhere, but if you have a chance check out Peter DeCoursey’s column on the editorial page of today’s Intell, where he writes about how state Sen. Vince Fumo used a little legislative ju-jitsu to defeat Sen. Mike Brubaker’s “Hate The Gay” bill:
There were at least nine Senate […]

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So, I’ve held off commenting on this, state Sen. Mike Brubaker’s withdrawal of his Keep The Gay Down bill, because I’m coming to hate these threads - they always devolve into exactly the same thing.
But, the more I think about this - the more I begin to think that Brubaker, and maybe the state GOP […]

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Hey, maybe when Sen. Mike Brubaker’s done making sure Teh Dreaded Queers don’t get hitched he can line up a few one-way cruises.

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Now I understand completely…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFxk7glmMbo

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My ears were burning, and now I see why.
Joe Hainthaler has a piece over at his place suggesting a compromise on gay marriage - though, re-reading his post several times, I’m not sure exactly what his proposed compromise consists of. Letting the public vote on it? Isn’t that exactly what Brubaker wants to do?
There’s a […]

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Why must the wingnuttery always, always, always emanate from Lancaster County?
Because you look at the state of the commonwealth, you see economic issues, you see the plight of our cities, you see questions about gaming revenues and tax issues. So clearly, we can understand why state Sen. Mike Brubaker should make a priority out of: […]

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And now to our latest chapter in the ongoing saga of Falafel Bill O’Reilly, in which everyone’s favorite right-wing buffoon is all bent out of shape because Dumbledore is gay:
O’REILLY: Here’s — you can talk about this on your radio show tomorrow. There are millions of Americans who feel that the media and the educational […]

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Sullivan posts an e-mail from an evangelical reader who recently had a friend “come out” to him. The writer straddles the line, or tries to, in saying that he believes homosexuality is wrong, a sin, but that this won’t make him abandon his friend; and indeed, when the writer’s “Christianist” sister demanded to know if […]

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This is interesting. Since the Larry Craig incident there’s been an uptick in interest in one Laud Humphreys, whose 1970 work “The Tearoom Trade” was one of the first attempts to study, and explain, what happens anonymously in those men’s room stalls.
Humphreys noted that a great many of the men who got their jollies in […]

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Pericles thinks I’m milking this. Which I am. Because it’s hilarious. Which brings us to Dennis Perrin’s “Savior of the Men’s Room,” a rather inspiring - or something - tale of “Straight Man” Tucker Carlson’s bathroom heroics:
STRAIGHT MAN: Say there, fellas! Why the waterworks?
BOY 1: There’s a weird guy in there, Straight Man! He looked at me […]

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