Why lots of gay people don't like the word "homosexual"

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Tuesday September 14, 2010 · 11:16 AM PDT

2010/09/14 · 11:16

Cenk Uyger and the Young Turks had a discussion on using the word "homosexual" versus using the word "gay" to talk about people attracted exclusively to other members of the same sex. The discussion itself has caused a stir as Cenk has been called "privileged" and "arrogant" (I'd definitely agree with the latter, but I doubt he'd disagree either). Take a look:

It's more complicated than what Ana Kasparian described. Yes, there's the negative connotation and the polling (that I hardly think is as conclusive as she described it, but that's another diary for another day). But there's more.

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Sunday June 27, 2010 · 12:09 PM PDT

2010/06/27 · 12:09

Gay Pride in Paris yesterday was long. Four miles of marching in the heat, with a parade that was two to three hours long if you stood in one point and watched it go by. The crowd is estimated by AFP to be in the tens of thousands.

Lots of great diversity and extravagant costumes, but also a lot of people who just jumped in and marched. The high-light was the lack of corporate floats, with just two at the end.

Photos and video after the jump.

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Friday May 21, 2010 · 5:12 PM PDT

2010/05/21 · 17:12

It seems like every time I checked the rec list this week, there have been at least two diaries talking about Rand Paul's idiotic pseudo-philosophy on the government's role in preventing discrimination. It's funny, right? How could anyone in today's society think that the federal government doesn't have the right to stop discrimination? That's, like, so four decades ago.

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Saturday May 15, 2010 · 4:49 PM PDT

2010/05/15 · 16:49

A couple of years ago I decided to take a new attitude for when people offend me. Instead of getting mad, instead of getting upset and wanting people to shut up, I thank them. I thank them for teaching me lessons that I'd never learn otherwise: that people, in general, or people, specifically, or people, that one person, don't agree with me when it comes to a specific topic.

Evan Bayh, my Senator, thinks AIDS is funny. You see, he's supported our "alternative lifestyles" before, so Mr. "Look at my wife and twins and my super-cool dad and give me a goddam job running the country or Indiana" decided that, on his way out of the Senate, it's time to make light of all the faggots he was forced to pretend to respect.

Thank you, Evan Bayh, for explaining why the Senate is lagging behind on LGBT legislation. And thank you for helping me not be even 1% sorry you're leaving the Senate.

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Sunday April 18, 2010 · 2:29 AM PDT

2010/04/18 · 02:29

I'm mostly lurking on Daily Kos now that I have two part time jobs and a full time job, but I wanted to pass along this outrageous story that shows why LGBT people are still fighting. "Post-gay" my ass.

Kate Kendell, the XD at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and an attorney herself, wrote at Bilerico about an elderly gay couple that thought they did everything right and went an extra mile beyond what heterosexual couples are required to do (advance medical directives, wills, powers of attorney), only to find out that no one would respect those documents when needed.

The couple, Harold and Clay, were fine until Harold fell down and Clay wasn't consulted or allowed to see Harold. Sonoma County CA, where they lived, went to court to get to make medical decisions on Harold's behalf, but were denied. Then:

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Thursday March 18, 2010 · 8:23 AM PDT

2010/03/18 · 08:23

mcjoan talked a bit about Jerome Mitchell's case against Fortis/Assurant, an insurance company, on the front page the other day. I've been posting about this case for a while, and I was surprised as anyone by the court documents that got released this week.

Jerome Mitchell was 17 when he applied for insurance with Assurance in South Carolina. In 2002, at age 18, he was diagnosed with HIV. His coverage was then rescinded, citing the fact that a nurse miswrote the date on a paper sent to the insurance company. He thought it was just a mistake so he tried to get back on.

HIV is an expensive disease that requires thousands of thousands of dollars of medication a year, and if he didn't find someone to pay for that, he had two years to live.

Well, he wasn't let back on his insurance, he sued, and he won a $15 million settlement that was later reduced to $10 million in appeals.

Lots of people have posted about the real death panels here at Daily Kos, and buried in this article is a paragraph that talks about the real death panels. This stuff's real.

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 1:25 PM PDT

2009/10/09 · 13:25

I think it's time we had a national debate on that question. Do sex offenders (any kind, dudes who cruise in parks, rapists, guys who collect child porn, exhibitionists...) deserve to live? Should we automatically give them the death penalty after being found guilty?

The debate can't end up much worse than the status quo. Sure, we seem to agree we can't just give everyone caught with kiddy porn pics on their computer lethal injection, but it doesn't seem we want them to live anywhere at all.

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 3:55 PM PDT

2009/10/07 · 15:55

Leave your terrorist fist bump at home, because it'll spread the dreaded swine flu (I heard somewhere that's why the terrorists made it up and Obama tried to popularize it). NPR has a funny article up of alternatives to touching people in everyday situations. This Larry Craig-inspired gesture I like:

Because of certain lifestyle choices, I'm at a fairly high risk for getting the swine flu. I just started another year as an paraprofessional educator at three elementary schools teaching English to several hundred little kids a week. If that wasn't enough risk, these kids are mostly French, meaning that hygiene isn't really a part of their culture.*

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 7:58 AM PDT

2009/10/01 · 07:58

Obama fired Van Jones, and now the wingnuts (does anyone else think the plural of "wingnut" should officially become "angry mob"?) smell blood. Who should be their next target? It's looking like Kevin Jennings is fresh to receive some false outrage. Why the hell not, it's not like Fox News and the Washington Times have anything better to discuss.

I posted about Kevin Jennings earlier this year - he was the man picked for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, an office he's particularly qualified for because of his work with and founding of GLSEN, the LGBT org behind gay-straight alliances, the National Day of Silence, and a few valuable studies on the safety of LGBT students in public schools. The FRC (a homophobic, Religious Right organization) ran a full-page ad pretty much accusing him of being a pedophile (of course he is, he's gay) in the Washington Examiner. GoodAsYou and TPM did some research and found out that most of the claims were either exaggerated or false.

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 4:01 PM PDT

2009/07/22 · 16:01

There's an interesting article up now at Pink News about Bryce Faulkner's parents threatening to sue Bryce's boyfriend for gathering media attention to the fact that Bryce disappeared to an ex-gay camp and no one even knows if he's OK since he's been forced to cut contact with the outside world. (My friend Waymon Hudson posted about Bryce's situation a few weeks ago. He's been doing a great job leading the way on this, and if you follow the link you can read more background on this case of a gay pre-med student who was sent by his parents off to a 14-month ex-gay camp, which requires him to have no contact with his friends.) Here's the boyfriend:

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 2:21 AM PDT

2009/07/21 · 02:21

Tom Duane, an HIV-positive NY state senator, gave a late night speech last week in favor of a bill to cap the amount HIV-positive recipients of state aid would have to pay for housing at 30%, instead of the current $330/month ($11/day) above their rent they're allowed to keep. It's 22 minutes long. You should watch it. He got a standing ovation at the end.

It's about more than just his bill - it's about how Americans turned their back on people with HIV. No, that's too generous; we never really gave a fuck about them from the beginning and people only started to care when they organized and made themselves impossible to ignore.

But Duane discusses a few ways in which people just want them to die or disappear. This is 2009 and we're still not over these things. So watch the video and get yourself some education.

So complicated it'll make you want to treat brain cancer at home with spit, raw garlic, and a prayer

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Wednesday July 15, 2009 · 6:00 PM PDT

2009/07/15 · 18:00

I was pretty excited to get to reading the House's plan for health care this morning, as well as various liberal thinkers' responses to it. I got so wrapped up in thinking about the serious policy discussion, I forgot about Republicans. (Surprising as it may be to Americans, Republicans haven't gone extinct. I've heard if you listen closely enough at night, you can still hear the eerie screech of Lindsay Graham as he moralizes, and, more rarely, the sound of John McCain being crushed by the weight of the massive ennui he carries on his shoulders.)

But I reminded of them with this in my inbox telling me to embed it in my blog, saying it was from "Areg Bagdasarian, Business Development Team, Docstoc.com." Well, if you click on it, it takes you right to... John Boehner's Congressional site.

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Why lots of gay people don't like the word "homosexual"

Pride in Paris [with lots of PHOTOS]

ENDA's not happening this session

Thank you, Evan Bayh, or: Bye Bayh, don't let the door hit you on the way out

Elderly gay couple kept apart at the end of one's life

The real death panels

Do sex offenders deserve to live?

The "Larry Craig" catches on

Homophobic hissy fits start in Gay-sachusetts

Why isn't Bryce Faulkner speaking for himself?

We need more Democrats like Tom Duane

So complicated it'll make you want to treat brain cancer at home with spit, raw garlic, and a prayer