Queer · and · Loathing · in · America

I have big plans for today, Constant Reader. Let's hope I can stay focused and en pointe so that I can get it all done. Whee! Wouldn't that be nice? There are some things I need to write, and then I am going to revise a Secret Project before tossing it into the mail. I am also determined to get this stupid c.v. I've been slaving away at for months finished. I also need to do some touch-up cleaning on the house. (I don't know if I am going to get to these thoroughly disgusting windows, but pray to God I will at least this weekend.) There's also a Big Game this weekend in the SEC--but I can't remember who it is between. LSU has a bye this weekend, so it ain't them. Auburn? Georgia? Florida? Alabama? Looks like I'll be going to the SEC website later, but I think it is Auburn-Florida. Big game for both, as they have each already lost once in the conference (Auburn to LSU--GEAUX TIGERS--and Florida to Ole Miss) and Florida, at least, still has to play LSU. (Both still have to play Georgia as well.)

I slept relatively well, even though I woke up a couple of times. I didn't get home until almost one last night, which sucked as it always does, and I was worn out and very tired. At least on Friday it's an early evening shift, and I am working at the CAN office for four hours during the day on Saturday.

Yesterday I saw that Senator McCain gave an interview to The Washington Blade, and all over the Internet the Log Cabin Republicans were shooting loads into their pants over it. To be fair, I will say that this IS progress of a sort for the Grotesque Old Party; imagine the anti-President ever giving an interview to a queer media outlet--but the rapturous and almost orgasmic tone of the queer right wing bloggers all over the place about this was stomach-turning, to say the least. Just because McCain has some gay friends and agreed to talk to the Blade doesn't mean he deserves a single vote from any queer. He is against hate crimes legislation and is against gay marriage. So, Senator McCain can be as cordial as he wants to the queer media and it's not going to make ME vote for him. And la Palindrome told Katie Couric she believes being queer is a choice, and we all know how she feels about CHOICE.

And even if McCain was for queers enjoying all of the rights and privileges granted to us by the US Constitution, I still wouldn't vote for him. He is wrong about the economy, he is wrong about the war, he is pretty much wrong about everything. And no, Logs, that doesn't mean I am a Democrat before I am a queer; it means I am an American first. Just because I don't cheer for my oppressors and wave a sign that says COUNTRY FIRST at rallies for a presidential ticket that wants to continue to oppress me, women and every other minority in this country; that wants to take our tax dollars and bail out Wall Street because their mindless greed and stupidity wrecked the WORLD economy; that wants to stay in Iraq for at least a hundred years fighting a war we should have never been involved in and cannot afford; that wants to continue to give tax breaks to people who don't need them while not relieving the burden on the middle class; and lies every time they open their mouths does not make me a Democrat first. You can sneer at me all you like--because frankly the opinions of people who vote for their wallets at the expense of the rest of the country don't matter to me in the least. You can say I am a Democrat before I am gay all you want--because the truth is you care more about your money than you do the rest of the country.

That, to me, is unpatriotic. When you put your wallet before your country, don't fucking stick a yellow ribbon magnet on your SUV and wave your flag in MY face.

But I will say this about Senator McCain's interview with the Blade: that's the most 'maverick' move he has made since 2004. It certainly isn't going to play well with the Religious Right, and it did show some balls. So, Senator McCain, I commend you. I am still not voting for you, but I admire you for doing this.

And maybe it will signal a sea-change in the Republican party in regards to queer rights.

After all, California now permits gay marriage and look! Heterosexual marriage didn't crumble.