Liberal Democrats for gay marriage; LGBT charity AGAINST gay marriage

The British party The Liberal Democrats, one half of the ruling coalition, today adopted same-sex marriage at its party conference in Liverpool, so hopefully gay people will be able to tie the knot in a few years, unless the Tory right refuses.

In a strange twist, the biggest LGBT-charity in the UK, Stonewall, seems to have come out against same-sex marriage. A report at PinkNews say that the chairman of the Equality-division views same-sex marriage as too expensive, and puts the tab at £5bn.

People are naturally outraged by this, and everyone I’ve spoken to about it directs quite a bit of ire against the organisation. I have yet to find one that shares Stonewall’s strange view on equality under the laws.

A Queer Paradise of Invisible Gays

When you talk about queer rights in places like certain parts of the United States, there’s a chance that Sweden – among some other European nations – will be held up as an ideal to emulate.

In Sweden the gays have it good. Right?

The fight is largely won, which has brought the country into the sights of Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, who operate the site God Hates Sweden.

Gaga gags on gay ban; US military nurse wants job back; the world will end; homosexuality will be legal; and B&Bs won’t let you

Lady Gaga not only offers the opportunity to be creative with headlines, but she is also out there to fight for our equal rights. Earlier she announced she would become a priest in order to marry gays on stage. Now she has rallied against the US ban on gays in the military.

If she does gag, then former Major Margaret Witt might be able to help. She’s a lesbian who lost her job in the US military when they found out that she was indeed gay. Now she wants her job back, and she’s gone to court to get it.

But if she does, get it back I mean, the world will descend into anarchy and chaos, and little children will possibly cry. That’s what the religious right in the US is asserting. As if that was new.

Thought if the world is ending because of teh gays, they might want to have a little chat with republican state senator John Brueggeman in Montana who wants to bring Montana into the 21st century by removing language from the Montana laws that forbids homosexuality.

And if jobs in the US military, or the romp in Montana, is too much of an effort and you want to get away to, say, a B&B in the UK you should know that 13 percent of Bed & Breakfasts in the country won’t let you sleep in the same bed as your partner.