So Time Magazine picked ‘us’ as their person of the year. The Advocate which is the USA’s leading lesbian and gay magazine has profiled gay bloggers in their current issue. These are people who are gay who blog about politics and culture generally and not solely on lgbt related issues. The piece of course forgets [...]
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For those who’s Xmas is rather too straight…. Coming Out on Christmas Day – Sydney’s Lesbian and Gay Choir Home for Christmas – Over Christmas dinner Annie tells her family that she’s a lesbian. I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus – Ru Paul
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A Waitrose spokseperson says: “For too long prunes have been the least glamorous ingredient in our larder but we are expecting a real run on them. An unfortunate turn of phrase to describe this weeks Nigella effect on sales of certain goods in UK supermarkets. Last week it was goose fat, this week it’s prunes.
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Excuse me whilst I have a tuppence inspired paper round moment! The Irish Independent tells us today that Fine Gael’s Jim O’Leary is breaking new ground in webcasting his message for the under 35 age group and he’s paying some company money for it too! Should have gone to the Blogging the Election Conference Jim [...]
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Having sorted out this issue (quite nicely thank you, still pinching myself) I am now on the trail of a new abode. It being at least 11 years since I went flat hunting, the property rental market in Dublin has changed considerably. In fact Morgan I can’t remember how we got that former massage parlour [...]
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Ten years after the party passed a motion onthe matter (proposed by yours truly) at a party conference in Limerick, today the Labour Party have published a Civil Union Bill to be debated in the Dáil during private members time. I could say about time but really it’s a bit late into the ‘game’ really [...]
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Hardly surprising really but Katherine Zappone and Anne Louise Gilligan have lost their High Court Challenge to have their Canadian Marriage recognised in Ireland. They’ll be off to appeal this to the Supreme Court no doubt. Later today there will be further developments outside the legal arena towards recognising same sex partnerships. More on Maman [...]
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Bernie Goldbach was looking for someone – probably me – to bite in his latest edition of podcasting.ie. Goddess forbid that any of the students who made the podcast that I wrote about here would actually talk about or respond to the issues made in the post or comments. And of course actually talking to [...]
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There is an interesting viewer generated media experiement taking place on Newsnight on BBC2 at the moment. An Invitation for videos was issued by Jeremy Paxman and a shortlist of 13 videos are now on the Newsnight blog for the public to view, vote on and five videos will be shown in January. Somewhat related [...]
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Lesbian to have baby. Not just any lesbian but the daughter of Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States. This annunciation has the left and right of US politics all over the place. Is Mary really putting it up to her Dad on his refusal to suport same sex marriage? The Evangelicals are of [...]
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