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• Men like casual sex more than women

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• 'The Irish Times' goes free online
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Jay Brannan: I want to be a housewife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNxzFPTA1y4

Links for 2008-06-24 [del.icio.us]

• General Scheme of Civil Partnership Bill

Links for 2008-06-23 [del.icio.us]

• The Zombie Media’s Hunger for Gay Brains

Review: Becoming Drusilla

Writer Richard Beard had a friend, Dru, with whom he used to go hill-walking and camping every year: an engineer on a ferry, a motorbiker, a real ale drinker. They did ‘manly’, outdoorsy things together, away from their wives and girlfriends and children. One day in 2001, Dru, then 43 years old, turned up wearing [...]

Links for 2008-06-07 [del.icio.us]

• Ireland: perverse argument

Yazoo in Dublin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_kzhvYZtQc Well I’m getting my eyesight back slowly so I’m emerging blinking into the light. Had a complete blast last night at the Olympia Theatre watching Alf and Vince singing together and going through all their Yazoo tracks. Upstairs at Eric’s came out when I was 18 - need I say more? I overplayed it and loved [...]

California legalises gay marriage

California gay couples can marry, according the the State Supreme Court, which is great news. There is a threat of a referendum in November to ban it, however, but I imagine the lived experience of married couples will count for something by then. Society will not have crumpled, more people will be talking [...]

Eye, eye

I’ve been laying low and not in the mood to see anything in the Gay Theatre Festival because I’ve a problem with my left eye, I’ve about 50% vision in it now. It’s been an interesting journey of subjectivity versus objectivity. Back in January, for the entire month, I had a weird visual effect in [...]

Bootboy: De Facto Families

“There was nothing in Irish law to suggest that a family of two women and a child had ‘any lesser right to be recognised as a de facto family than a family composed of a man and woman unmarried to each other and a child’”. So says Mr Justice Hedigan in a recent High Court [...]

Links for 2008-04-29 [del.icio.us]

• Ó Searcaigh film-makers had dispute with RTÉ
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Future Intense

Written for Hot Press 24th July 1997 There was a documentary on Arthur C. Clarke recently. He’s the author, internet guru and visionary, the guy who first thought of satellite communications, who wrote 2001 a Space Oddity, lives in Sri Lanka, you’ve heard of him. They were discussing the future as seen by him in [...]

Every sperm is sacred?

John Waters’ column in The Irish Times regarding the recent High Court decision to recognise a lesbian couple as a “de facto” family makes for fascinating reading. “Drunk with liberal hubris,” he writes, “have we reinvented the wheel of life, deciding that two lesbians playing House can trump the claims of the forces that create [...]

Links for 2008-04-17 [del.icio.us]

• Lesbian couple with child 'a de facto family'

Bootboy: No Romance

Brian Finnegan, editor of Gay Community News, in his March editorial, blasts journalist Dónal Lynch of the Sunday Independent for an article he wrote about gay men who are single. I’ve had my problems with Lynch and the Sindo in the past, but I found myself impressed with his piece, for it was naming [...]