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Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on November 16th, 2011

I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” He was right; and that vigilance can be taxing. Similarly, social progress requires persistence, and most of us tire of activism in the long run. “Cause fatigue” is human–but not helpful. I’m beginning to see that fatigue in Indiana’s gay [...]

civil rights, Holiday party, Indiana Equality

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Mississippi, Arizona, Ohio, Indiana

Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on November 11th, 2011

Another election day has come and gone, and while I’ve grown leery of predicting anything in an era when crazy is the most prominent characteristic of our political environment, the results may justify a cautious optimism. Despite the constant references to the “gay agenda,” anyone sentient has long recognized that the group having the real [...]

collective bargaining, extremism, gay candidates, immigration, personhood

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The Bully Pulpit

Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on November 6th, 2011

Many years ago, when Chicago’s Second City was the source of then-scandalous satire, I attended a performance. This was during the Cold War (I’m old), and I still recall one skit titled “Kill a Commie for Christ”–a take-off on a widespread attitude of the times. The more things change….Well, you know the rest of that [...]

"moral conviction", bullying, gay children, Michigan

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Priscilla–15 Years Later

Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights, Random Blogging on October 14th, 2011

We are in New York for a long weekend, and last night, my husband, son and I went to see the Broadway musical version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. We’d loved the movie when it came out in the early 90s…a poignant, funny depiction of life from the perspective of three Australian drag queens. [...]

Broadway, cultural change, Gay Rights, Priscilla Queen of the Desert

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Supporting (some of) the Troops

Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on October 11th, 2011

As most readers of this blog probably already know, a gay soldier asked a question about gay service members at a recent GOP Presidential candidate debate, and was roundly booed by the audience. The Tea Party members who were present in large numbers in that audience—and the candidates who remained silent then and afterward—evidently saw [...]

Gay Rights, GOP, soldiers

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Gay Rights

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