So I hit middle age and the experience left me feeling no less queer and no less passionate about queer rights. Human rights.

I think more about society, perhaps because I understand it better these days – or perhaps simply because I give less of a damn about being accepted by it. Ever idealistic, I wish everyone on the fringes of society would actually stand together and form another one. Not a replacement society, just a cooler, more alternative, less gold digging and cr...

It's very freaking disheartening that people seem so incapable of changing their minds at times.  I was watching The Ellen Show - an episode which was made before the USA elections (it must have travelled Africa overland) and the gorgeous Ellen Degeneres was talking to John McCain about gay marriage being overturned in California.  In his usual smooth way, he referred, more than once, to their "respectful disagreement" about gay marriage, because "I believe marriage to be a unique institution...