The Republic of T.

I haven’t said much about the Isaiah Washington debacle at Grey’s Anatomy, which ended with his being fired. To be honest, I’ve never watched the show. (Being married to a doctor, I don’t watch many medical shows — at least not while he’s awake — because they either remind him too much of work or drive him crazy with the details they get wrong.) But I’ve followed the controversy over his outburst, his rehab, his firing, and the petition to get him rehired.

I didn’t feel the need to say anything until I read this.

Washington, who has traveled to various parts of Africa multiple times for charity work, explained his passion for the continent. “Once you get awareness of who you are and how you’re here, then I believe there’s a responsibility that you have,” he said. “And seeing that I can afford to take part in that, I have to be responsible.”

Asked if there were any misconceptions about him, he said: “I don’t know. Maybe for 50 years and the history of media and television I represent something that’s supposed to not exist. … This happened to Malcolm X, this happened to Paul Robeson – this misconception can happen to any man of power that loves himself and wants to spread that love and that humanity throughout the world.”

Now, I’m not knocking his charity work. In fact, he deserves to praised for it. But if he’s drawing a connection between that and his termination from Grey’s Anatomy (and identifying himself with Malcolm X and Paul Robeson in the process), and suggesting that one has something to do with the other, he may have lost his mind or gone into deep denial.

It’s just as likely that he was fired because he has a problem with his temper, and that this outburst was just the first one to make the news in a big way.

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Got a dollar? Well on June 30th that’s all you’ll need to get married in Lewsiville, Texas. And you’ll even get change.

In Lewisville, TX, on June 30, 2007, the “99 Cents Only” store will be hosting a licensed minister to perform marriage ceremonies in the store.

I tried to speak to a manager about the event, but she was busy working a checkout with lots of busy bargain hunters.

The event will take place at 11 AM on Saturday, June 30th, at the 99 Cents Only store, on the Southeast corner of I-35 and Round Grove Road (3040)

So, run on down to the Denton County Courthouse and get your marriage certificates quick! You won’t find a cheaper place to get hitched in June!

Proceeds benefit Operation Kindness Animal Shelter

This item, when I saw it over at Mombian, nearly made me bang my head into my keyboard, for a number of reasons. Especially after writing about the prices our families pay for not having marriage equality.

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I suppose it was inevitable. I thought as much when I was writing the previous post as well as the open letter to Ebony magazine. I expected someone to “go there,” but to my surprise no one did. (At least not that I heard.) Then the National Black Justice Coalition was kind enough to republish my Father’s Day Post and include it in their email newsletter along with the EDGE article on Father’s day for which I was interviewed.

I wasn’t surprised when I got an email (which I won’t quote directly here, since I didn’t ask the author’s permission) basically saying “I was with you right up until I saw that your partner is white,” and going on to lament that there were so many black gay men like me who found love outside of our race instead with another black man.

The irony that just last week we celebrated the Loving v. Virginia decision, in light of the resonance with marriage equality, wasn’t lost on me. But I guess some people only begrudgingly “celebrated” a case that decriminalized something they’d like to discourage anyway. And the reality that another interracial couple was at the heart of the Supreme Court decision that overturned state sodomy laws probably causes a few of the same people to grind their teeth a bit. After all, if you’re gay and you’ve got a problem with interracial relationships, it’s got to be at least a little bothersome that interracial couples originated the Supreme Court decisions that have made it possible to even discuss marriage equality.

Like I said, I don’t usually “go there,” because it’s a familiar, rocky road that doesn’t lead anywhere. It’s a mindset that’s so “West Side Story” to me (think of Anita’s song, “One of your own kind, stick to your own kind”), but the truth is we haven’t left it behind.

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I’ll admit it. It was the combination of Mitt Romney and porn that got my attention and caused me to stop and read Chris Kelly’s HuffPo takedown of Romney’s appearance at the National Right to Life convention. (His politics make skin crawl, but even I have to admit that he’s pretty easy on the eyes.) What came to mind, as I Read Romney’s rather odd rant about a children’s book was something I’d been meaning to write about for a while, but never quite got around to it.

“And parents of a child in second grade were told that their son is required to listen to the reading of a book called The King and the King (sic) about a prince who marries another prince. The school’s rationale was since same sex marriage was legal, the education system should advance the idea… I immediately drafted and introduced legislation to grant religious liberty protection, but the legislature wouldn’t even take it up.”

This is, of course, not the first time a children’s book (the mere presence of one, let alone an actually reading) has given some religious conservative parents fits. Heather Has Two Mommies, Daddy’s Roommate, and And Tango Makes Three have also had that honor. And while I understand the concerns parents may have about what they’re kids are exposed to at school, there’s an underlying reality they’re missing as they get overwrought about fiction & fairy tales.

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I wrote in the previous post that our families are not served by silence. I know it’s true because stories like this one continue to happen to our families. a commenter at Booman brought this to my attention.

Four months ago, Lacey resident Janice Langbehn, her partner Lisa Pond and their children Katie, David and Danielle, ages 10 to 13, were set for a relaxing cruise from Miami to the Bahamas.

But Pond, Langbehn’s partner for nearly 18 years, was stricken in Miami with a brain aneurysm and died. The family says the way they were treated by hospital staff compounded their shock and grief.

Langbehn, a social worker, said officials at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital did not recognize her or their jointly adopted children as part of Pond’s family. They were not allowed to be with her in the emergency room, and Langbehn’s authority to make decisions for Pond was not recognized.

“We never set out to change the world or change how others accept gay families,” Langbehn told the crowd at the Capital City Pride on Sunday. “We just wanted to be allowed to live equally and raise our children by giving them all the same opportunities their peers have.”

While Washington is one of a half-dozen states to recognize same-sex partnerships in some fashion, Florida is not.

Unfortunately, this is an all too familiar story.

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A few weeks ago, I was standing in line at the grocery store with my family when I saw the cover of Ebony magazine, which had been a constant presence in our home when I was growing up. (I’m pretty sure that my mom still subscribes today.) It was the cover story, “The New Black Father” that caught my attention. I wondered, perhaps even hoped, that maybe the article would include or at least mention black gay men who are fathers. Since I couldn’t read the article and keep our four-year-old son reasonably quiet while we waited in line, I grabbed a copy and tossed it on the belt, with the intention of reading it when I got home.

I hoped I wouldn’t be disappointed. But, as I pretty much expected, I was. I wrote an open letter to Ebony, emailed it to them, and posted it on my blog. To date, I’ve heard nothing from Ebony except the all-to-familiar silence that seems to accompany any discussion of gay issues in African American communities and institutions. I wasn’t surprised. I didn’t expect a response, and many of the people to whom I mentioned my open letter counseled me not to expect much. But what was most disappointing in Ebony’s non-response was the confirmation that most of the time that familiar silence is still the best black LGBTs can expect in our communities.

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I missed this earlier, as I was busy keeping Parker entertained, but apparently there was a huge marriage victory in Massachusetts today.

By a 151-to-45 vote, the Massachusetts Legislature today defeated a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Inc., invested significant staff and other resources (totaling $460,000) to protect marriage equality in Massachusetts. Moreover, the Task Force played an essential role in today’s victory: Task Force organizers led the effort that convinced two conservative legislators — Sen. Gale Candaras and Rep. Angelo Puppolo — to listen to their constituents and switch their votes to support equality. Candaras has repeatedly voted against marriage equality, while legislative newcomer Puppolo initially ran a pro-amendment campaign. These switches provided two of the eight votes needed to win the margin of victory.

You can get an idea of how important this was from NGLTF Executive Director Matt Foreman’s statement.

“Today’s vote averts a divisive, defamatory and hugely expensive campaign that our national community would have had to wage between now and 2008 to preserve the freedom to marry in the one state where we have it. The repercussions — in terms of saved energy and millions of dollars that can now be devoted to other pressing priorities — cannot be overstated.

“I am extremely proud that the hardcore grassroots work of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force organizers delivered two of the critical eight votes needed to win today. Once again, our organizers — this time Becca Ahuja, Jason Cooper and Zaheer Mustafa — were asked to do the seemingly impossible in Massachusetts and we delivered.

“We salute the leadership of MassEquality, especially Marc Solomon and his predecessor Marty Rouse. For three and a half years, our friends and colleagues in the Bay State mounted the country’s most extensive and hard-driving field campaign to win a decisive victory and to drive a stake through the heart of a mean-spirited and cruel proposed amendment to the world’s oldest constitution. We are proud to be their partners in this historic fight and share their inexpressible relief and joy.”

Congratulations to NGLTF and all the couples married in Massachusetts.

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I think I’ve mentioned before that right after 9/11 I stopped watching television news. In fact, it was right around then that I turned to the web as an alternative means of getting news I felt I could trust more than what I was seeing on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. That became even more true as the drumbeat for war in Iraq started up, and the media seemed to support going to war almost without question or challenge. So I guess you could say I agree with Michael Moore on media complicity in Iraq.

“Had ABC News, NBC News, CBS News been more aggressive in confronting the government with what they were telling us back in 2003 about Iraq, you might have prevented this war,” Moore said. “3500 soldiers that are dead today may not have had to die had our news media done its job. … The media didn’t ask the questions. The media got embedded and went on board for a little thrill ride.”

“It’s not a thrill ride,” objected host Chris Cuomo. “Those men and women put themselves in danger. … To say the media is complicit in the death of soldiers –”

“This media is complicit,” insisted Moore. “The media didn’t ask the questions that should have been asked.”

Think he’s wrong? Remember Ashleigh Banfield?

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I wonder what Michael Savage would make of a parent who leaves her kid tied up in the car outside of a restaurant while she has dinner with her boyfriend inside.•

Police in northwest Georgia have rescued a boy from a hot car where his mother’s companion is accused of tying him up.

Ringgold, Georgia, police say a Cracker Barrel restaurant employee called police after seeing Raymond Minchew take the 6-year-old out of the restaurant and return without him — then finished eating his meal. Ringgold is 13 miles southeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Police found the bound boy sitting in the car, crying.

Sgt. John Gass says the child was soaked with sweat and had a rope tied to one of his ankles. Gass says the temperature was in the 80s Saturday in Ringgold.

The 61-year-old Minchew and the boy’s mother — 35-year-old Rachel Gilchrist — were arrested and charged with cruelty to children and concealing a weapon. There was a handgun in the car.

Investigators believe the boy was in the hot car for about a half hour.

Gass says the couple contended the boy had misbehaved, although witnesses at the restaurant disagreed.

The boy has been placed in protective custody.

Does this count as abuse? Sure. But these parents (or parent, since it’s mom and her boyfriend) are presumably heterosexual, so that automatically makes them better candidates for parenthood than the hubby and me, according to Savage and his audience. Our every day parenting is the equivalent of tying a kid up in a hot car.

I ask because I’m at home with Parker today. This morning I took him out for a ride on his bike, and later this afternoon we’ll go for a walk and have lunch at a nearby bagel shop. When we come home I’ll probably read him a couple of the books we checked out from the library, since we have to return them this weekend (and check out more). Later, so can have an hour or so to get some work done, I’ll probably put in one of Parker’s favorite movies. (Though he’ll insist I watch at least part of it with him, and I’ll acquiesce.)

Now, if I were a heterosexual dad doing all of the above, it wouldn’t warrant much notice except maybe for a few comments about how great it is that I’m spending time with my son (something parents are supposed to do anyway). But because I’m a gay dad, and a partnered one at that, my day with Parker — biking, bagels, books and all — is abuse. It’s in the same category as the people above, though we’ve never come anywhere near doing anything like that to our son.

Yes, we’ve eaten out with Parker, and when he was younger if he was making too much of a fuss in the restaurant, we’d leave as a family. Usually one of us would get the kid out of the restaurant and the other would take care of the bill and getting our meal packaged to go if we hadn’t finished. And we’d never leave him in the car alone. I’ve gone out to the car with him sometimes, when he couldn’t behave in, say, the grocery store, and we’d sit with the windows down or with the AC running depending on the weather. Call me crazy. Maybe that’s “abuse” but I call it responsible parenting.

I guess being heterosexual doesn’t automatically make you a good parent, but in Savage’s world being gay automatically makes you a bad — even abusive — parent.

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Yesterday, our family went to a press conference in the morning and I attended a reception in the evening, both celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia ruling, which struck down state laws prohibiting — even criminalizing — marriage between people of different races. People like the ones in this video, produced by Faith in America and the National Black Justice Coalition.

I went because I live in a state where forty years ago I could not marry the person I love, because he is white and I am black. I went because today I live in a state where, forty years later I still cannot marry the person I love because we are two men.

I went because as a human being I believe — I know — in the marrow of my bones that it is my basic human right to dare to dream, and as an American it is my basic civil right to pursue those dreams, so long as I don’t violate anyone else’s basic human and civil rights.

I went to protect a dream that once upon a time I didn’t dare to dream.

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Per the parts one and two, I’m reminded that addiction is usually a family disease. As mentioned before in the case of George W. Bush, the family may ignore certain excesses so long as appearances are kept up. They may clean-up the mess caused either by the addiction, or by the addict’s addiction-related character traits. And chances are they will do so uncomplainingly, going out of their way never to blame the one who made the mess, because to do so would be to not only acknowledge the problem but to also their own complicity; to acknowledge that its their problem too.

In a Newsweek article titled “Beyond Bush: What the world needs is an open, confident America,” Fareed Zakaria at once brings to mind the same capacity to enable and aver that often seen in the family of an active or untreated addict, when just three paragraphs into his essay he paints what now has to be a familiar picture where George W. Bush is concerned: Dubya ambles off into the sunset while others are left to cope with the consequences of his actions and choices, and to clean up after them, while Dubya goes on to live the charmed (and largely unexamined) life of one who “sleeps better than most would think,” having wreaked havoc on so many lives.

In any event, it is time to stop bashing George W. Bush. We must begin to think about life after Bush—a cheering prospect for his foes, a dismaying one for his fans (however few there may be at the moment). In 19 months he will be a private citizen, giving speeches to insurance executives. America, however, will have to move on and restore its place in the world. To do this we must first tackle the consequences of our foreign policy of fear. Having spooked ourselves into believing that we have no option but to act fast, alone, unilaterally and pre-emptively, we have managed in six years to destroy decades of international good will, alienate allies, embolden enemies and yet solve few of the major international problems we face.

So, Bush will go on to give speeches, collect fees, and perhaps land in yet another position that will allow him to cash in on his family name rather than any particular skill or ability of his own. And we are not to blame (“bash” is the term Zakaria chooses, as though holding someone accountable must include some degree of hostility) him, but to set about cleaning up the mess left behind by his “foreign policy of fear.” We must not look too closely, because, like the family of the addict, if we look too closely at his illness we will see our own.

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The Bush recovery is a myth. It’s safe to say this precisely because of Bush’s self-declared decades of active alcoholism, and because he’s never entered recovery or honestly admitted to an addiction.

Republican candidate for president George W. Bush, like most who decide to quit drinking, did so on his own without help, press reports following the revelation of his 1976 DUI arrest reveal. An estimated 70 percent of people who decide to quit drinking do so without any outside help, professional counseling, or support group meetings, and Bush is apparently among that majority.

“Well, I don’t think I had an addiction,” Bush told the Washington Post for a July 1999 profile. “You know it’s hard for me to say. I’ve had friends who were, you know, very addicted. . .and they required hitting bottom [to start] going to AA. I don’t think that was my case.”

Speculation in the national press, which went into a media frenzy over the report that Bush was arrested 24 years ago for drunk driving, ranged from the suggestion that if he never went to A.A. he is not really recovered, to the opinion that if he quit on his own, it was not a big problem in the first place.

The truth probably lies somewhere in between. Alcohol abuse can be a very serious problem in itself, but if it progresses into alcohol dependence, the solution can become much more complicated.

However complicated it may have been, Bush described it rather simply.

It appears from all reports, that candidate Bush did abuse alcohol for a long period of his life, but in 1986 decided to quit, because it began to “compete for his energy.”

“I am a person who enjoys life, and for years, I enjoyed having a few drinks. But gradually, drinking began to compete with my energy,” Bush wrote in his autobiography. “I’d be a step slower getting up. My daily runs seemed harder after a few too many drinks the night before.”

Apparently, it was anything but simple.

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I wasn’t going to say anything about this, because I’ve said it before. I’ve heard the stories that president Bush is drinking again and I’ve seen the pictures. Whether he is or not isn’t my concern here (though it is a very important question). I feel there’s something that must be made clear. George W. Bush, according to what I’ve read, was a heavy drinker from 15 years old until he turned 40, at which point he stopped drinking. But he has not “fallen off the wagon” because he was never on the wagon to begin. George W. is not a recovering alcoholic.

He is a drunk who just stopped drinking, and that’s something different.

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It looks like it’s Koufax time again. I’m always kind of surprised when I find out that someone’s nominated this blog in one category or another. This time it’s a new category — the Best Human Equality Blog.

New to 2006, this category is for blogs by women and minorities that focus on issues of gender, sexual identity, racial injustice, and the related economic inequalities.

Looking at the list of nominees, it looks like I’m in good company regardless of the outcome. There’s Andrew Sullivan, Baghdad Burning, Blac(k)ademic, Feministe, Orcinus, Pam’s House Blend, Pandagon, Prometheus6, Women of Color Blog, and the Unapologetic Mexican, just to name a few.

So, to whomever nominated this blog, I thank you. Now, go check out the rest of the nominees and vote!

After posting about rsspect.org and the Afrosphere, I came across Chris Crain’s announcement about his new venture.

After leaving the Washington Blade and Window Media last fall, I spent a good deal of time thinking about what’s next step for media generally, and of course gay media in particular. I decided there was a real need for “one stop” that tailors news and views to each person.

The idea is by no means original to me, of course. If you want to know what stories have a “buzz” in the MSM, you go to Drudge Report. If you want to know what general-interest stories have a groundswell of interest on the Net, you go to Digg. But where’s a poor homosexual to head? You guessed it. Gay News Watch.

I went right over, checked it out, registered and started voting on stories. It’s kind of like Digg except gay-oriented, and very cool. I can see making this a regular stop for gay-related news. I wandered around, set up my profile and preferences, and spent some time exploring.

I did all this before I looked over at the sidebar and saw that Chris had been so kind as to include this blog on his blogroll. I’ve returned the favor, and added Gay News Watch, rsspect.org, and Afrosphere to the blogroll.

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If you’ve read my review of his book Tempting Faith, you know I tend to disagree with David Kuo on matters of faith. So, when Kuo and I actually agree on something related to religion, it’s worth noting. And this bit from his advice to Democrats on faith issues leapt out at me.

1. Abortion and homosexuality – deal with them. Pro-choice Democrats aren’t ever going to win over single issue pro-lifers. Fine. But there are scores of millions of evangelical voters who care about abortion and homosexuality but aren’t single issue voters. The Democrats need to give them a reason to take a second look. One way of doing that is by being morally and politically honest about abortion. If you are pro-choice say that but say just as clearly how you want to reduce the number of teen pregnancies and unwanted pregnancies in general. Talk about gay marriage in blunt terms. Make your case one way or another but don’t try to skirt around the issues by being cute. Don’t do the “I’m morally opposed but…” thing. It makes you look dishonest. Actually it IS dishonest.

To that I can only add a rare (for me) “Amen.” The problem Democrats are having right now is that they’re trying to have it both ways on these issues, because they think it’s the way to win votes in the short run, but they risk alienating core constituencies in the long run. Like I pointed out in a previous post (and others before it), the Democrats risk not only risk alienating their long-time constituencies, but also alienating the constituents they believe they have to deny, downplay or disguise their values in order to win over.

What’s worse they risk losing their own identity as a party. Well, not so much losing is giving it away.

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It shouldn’t be a surprise, really. I mean, we know based on the example of Harvey Fierstein in the previous post and the queens who fought at Stonewall that often times a guy can have bigger cajones than the most obstreperous, chest-pounding male loudly demonstrating or defending his masculinity at any and every opportunity. So why should anyone be shocked that the Democratic Congress, and its “Macho” “Alpha Dems” have already rolled over for Bush administration and the Republican Party.

Not once, but twice now. Once on Iraq. And now again on abstinence-only “education,” of all things. I ask you, why doesn’t the DNC just write a check to the RNC and have done with it? (Or perhaps it’s a matter of the RNC leaving a $20 on the dresser?). At least then, my tax dollars would be left out of it because I don’t have to give money to the Democrats, after all.

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Via QueerSighted, I learned that Harvey Fierstein turned 53 yesterday, and since Harvey had about as much influence on my coming out as, say, Marlon Riggs, I can’t let the opportunity to say “Happy Birthday!” and “Many Happy Returns!”

I remember growing up a skinny, effeminate, non-athletic, black gay boy in Georgia, during the Reagan era, and keeping my eyes open for any positive representation of homosexuality, much in the same way a man stranded at sea constantly scans the horizon for even a speck of land or the way one lost in a desert looks for the tiniest puddle of water. I must have been watching the Tony Awards, when Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy earned him two Tony Awards. Sometime after that, I got my hands on a copy of the play and read it in one sitting. What it meant to me, I can’t say any better than than Kenneth put it

Without Harvey, we’d have never had ‘Torch Song Trilogy’ — and we’d be a poorer gay culture without it. I first read the play in 1982 when I was 20 years old. I bought it at a gay bookstore in San Francisco and it instantly became one of those works that changed my life.

I was already out, but Harvey’s messages of living your own life, of being OK with being different, of loving yourself enough not to need anyone’s approval but giving yourself permission to want it anyway, all helped make me the gay man I grew up to be.

Harvey Fierstein gave me — and no doubt legions of other gay people — just a little bit more courage to be true to myself. I still have that script, it’s tattered and dog-eared, full of scribbles and check marks, a memory book now of what the book meant to me then.

Like I said, water in the desert. That Harvey’s protagonist was a gay man who didn’t cleave to the “clone” brand of masculinity embraced by many gay men after Stonewall, dared to be a “flaming queen, and still managed to create a life for himself (“in six inch heels, no less” to borrow a line from the play) gave one skinny, black, southern sissy a little bit of hope. I wasn’t the only one, either. I was in college by the time Torch Song Trilogy when the play came out, and every gay man I knew at the time went to see it. Some of us more than once.

And Harvey is still giving us hope. In support, I submit the following items:

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Not much blogginess going on here today. Too much too do, but after the previous post I realized that I’m about a day or two late in posting about a great new site called rsspect.org that (aside from having a great name) is the product of the Young Black Professional Guide.

the concept of rsspect.org is very simple. it is a neat little web application that acts as a headline feed reader for a variety of blogs surrounding the african-american experience. it’s aim is to not only gain visibility to these blogs, but also empower our readers to enjoy our network of opinions.

It’s not the only one, either. I recently came across the Afrosphere, which is set up on Pageflakes, and also aggregates African American blogs as well as related news.

For obvious reasons, I’m thrilled to see something like this happening. I’ve been writing about “Blogging While Brown” (a phrase which, to clarify, I did not originate), the politics of linking, whether blogrolls are hurting us, the presidential luncheon with no brown bags or brown bloggers, diversity in the blogosphere, blogroll purges, and the dearth (or diaspora) of black political blogging for a while now. Somewhere in all of that, I offered a proposal.

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Well, as soon as I dove into my blog reading this morning I discovered that several of my favorite lesbian bloggers made About.Com’s top 10 lesbian blogs list. So, here’s a shout-out to my bloggin’ sapphic sistahs!

Pam’s House Blend – One of my regular reads, and also one of my “home-away-from-home” blogs now. If you haven’t checked out “the Blend” I recommend you stop by today.

Mombian – Dana is a regular at “the Blend” but her own blog, Mombian, is one of my daily reads. I’ll also have the pleasure of co-presenting a blogging seminar with Dana on the R Families cruise next month.

Jasmyne Cannick – Jasmyne’s an award winning journalist whose work has been seen in more publications than I can name, and when she’s not busy being a media maven she’s a powerhouse blogger. Just ask Shirley Q. Liquor. ‘Nuff said.

Rosie – What can I say? When it comes to being a voice, face, and advocate for gay parents and our families, Rosie was and is a trailblazer.

Queercents – Like the editor at About.Com, I couldn’t have imagined I’d ever be reading a finance blog every day, but we all deal with money issues and Queercents consistently offers great insights on the economic issues faced by same-sex couples, as well as advice on how to deal with the financial consequences of inequality.l

I’d make at least one addition to that list. If you haven’t checked out Peter’s Cross Station, it’s another regular read of mine that I highly recommend. I’m sure there are ton’s more out there….

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