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October 30, 2015
On Loving (And Hating) My New Mac
So last week AJ finally persuaded my to buy a Macbook. My HP Windows laptop was a couple of years old, slowing down and getting temperamental (although that was probably my fault for never cleaning out the fan…), and after it gave me two shocks in quick succession, I decided it was probably time to […]
October 29, 2015
The History of Homosexuality: Beyond the Pale
The early queer rights movement was flawed for many reasons. Not only did it marginalise the most visible members of the community — who had historically born the biggest brunt of discrimination and persecution — they also opted for a soft approach to addressing civil injustices which rankles with hindsight. Most of the early arguments […]
October 27, 2015
What A Day
So, AJ Rose and I are officially Mrs & Mrs. Because I entered the US on a fiancee visa, we had a deadline by which time we had to get married, which meant less planning a big event and more rushing to the courthouse. The US government doesn’t do romance. My family and a […]
October 26, 2015
Goin’ to the Chapel
It’s finally here!! Three years after we first spoke, two years after we first met, a year after we started the fiancee visa application, today AJ Roseand I make honest women of each other.We’re going to the chapel courthouse and we’re going to get married! Woohoo!
October 25, 2015
The History of Homosexuality: Radicalisation vs Assimilation
For hundreds of years when being queer was criminal in western society, the public face of queerfolk was the most visible members of the community, those who were unable to hide by passing as heterosexual and consequently, those most often brought before the law. Trans* individuals, cross-dressers, and those who eschewed the gender binary were […]
October 24, 2015
The History of Homosexuality: The Pride Flag
The original Pride flag was flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on 25th June, 1978. It had been designed by Gilbert Baker, an artist and designer who made silk banners for gay rights and anti-war protest marches. The flag was inspired in part by Judy Garland’s “Over the Rainbow” (Garland had died […]
October 23, 2015
The History of Homosexuality: The Rainbow Spectrum
Through the 1960s as homophile organisations started to form in defence of queerfolk, the community which was only just forming began to fracture. Societies like the Mattachine wanted to present an assimilationist approach to queer emancipation, representing the white, middle class, straight-passing men who politicians and lawmakers would relate to and find most sympathetic. It […]
October 22, 2015
The History of Homosexuality: Gay Pride
The hundred-year period leading up to 1970 was a hugely significant one for queerfolk. From a series of small, disparate socio-sexual communities with no real sense of wider identity or framework for understanding their orientation, to an established subculture with a naming convention, identity, and political presence. In response to a repressive legal atmosphere in […]
October 21, 2015
People in History: Harry Hay
Born to an upper middle class Americanfamily living in England in 1912, Hay was raised in Chile, the son of a wealthy mining engineer and his Catholic wife. While an infant, Hay contracted bronchial pneumonia which left him with permanent scarring on his lungs. Shortly afterwards, his father lost a leg in an industrial accident, […]
October 20, 2015
Life, Interrupted
For the best of reasons Today AJ and I got our marriage license. Within a week, we should be Mrs and Mrs! Also, I finally caved and got a Mac. Transferring everything from my old HP is taking ~fooooreeeeever~ but tomorrow I’ll be continuing the blog series on my shiny new preshus.
