This is my story.

Just commented to someone on my f-list with this, but I figured I'll put it here, too. Because I'm tired of hearing about it.

I'm really tired of Perez Hilton being a gay spokesperson, or trying to be one. His celeb name is taken from a vapid woman who got her celebrity because she's rich, and those kind of people is what he makes his celebrity on. He's annoying, kind of offensive, and a total opportunist. Trying to use the Miss USA or America or whatever pageant to try to actually be anything less than useless was a stupid attention grabbing attempt.

Perez, go away. We don't want you to represent us.

As for Miss California, I don't care. The current president of the United States once said he believes marriage is between a man and a woman. What did I hear from all his supporters who are probably currently frothing at the mouth at Miss California? "Oh, but those are his religious beliefs. He wouldn't use them to dictate his presidency." Sure, I agree that he wouldn't, but why are you so pissed off at a fucking Miss USA contestant for saying the same thing? Was it tactless? Sure. Do I care? No, I don't FUCKING care.

If I were a teenager right now and still in high school, I don't know if I'd have the guts to do the Day of Silence. Especially in Mascoutah. Good luck to anyone out there participating.

Today will be a busy day, and I'm kind of dreading it because I didn't get very good sleep last night. I've been having sinus issues the past couple days and have been too congested to use my bipap machine. Then last night I woke up about 4 a.m. with a major headache. So I took some Excedrin and moved out to the recliner where I finally fell asleep and managed to stay asleep until about 7:30.

But anyway, today:

-Go to court to get my license back. I got a speeding ticket last week, and the managers at the Hut have been kind of annoyed that I haven't been able to make deliveries to the Air Force base because I haven't had photo I.D.
-Go pick up Katie's prescriptions at Walgreens and Walmart.
-Go to Katie's old high school in St. Charles, MO so she can get her high school transcripts.
-Work at the Hut from 5:30 until midnight.

Hopefully I'll be able to get some good sleep tonight. All I have to do tomorrow is help do set work for CHARIS that involves sitting and cutting and pasting colored paper, and then I have awards for my bowling league at 7 p.m. Probably one of the least busy Saturdays I've had in a while. But first, I have today.

Apparently, some gay Republicans, upset with the Log Cabin Republicans, have formed a new 527 political organization for gay Republicans, called GOProud. They claim to be taking a more "Reaganite" approach to politics than the Log Cabin, but what that actually means remains to be seen.

This is from a recent locked post in gsa_lj. When I told Katie this she asked, "Reaganite? What does that even mean? They're going to be senile and eat jelly beans?"

I giggled.

Amazon Rank

Here's the explanation. Thanks to Milly for the Google Bomb heads up.

I don't buy the glitch explanation or the "adult content" explanation. Do I think Amazon is totally anti-LGBT? No. Do I think this was more than a glitch? Oh fuck yes, I do. Honestly, I think this is very possibly the result of anti-gay sources outside of Amazon getting their voices heard by some Amazon higher ups that didn't quite think through what they were doing. I have a feeling this will be remedied quickly. As fast as this fire has spread on the Internet, Amazon would be stupid to not revisit this and fix it.

Did Obama do anything today or within the past couple days that might upset a conservative? My sister and her husband are quite conservative. They were Dubya supporters 'til the end, and, god help 'em, they voted for Huckabee in the Republican primary. Her husband listens to Rush Limbaugh. O_O She's posted status messages on Facebook in the past that were anti-Obama, and the conservative "let's skew stats!" type e-mails haven't stopped just because Dubya's not in the White House anymore.

The reason I ask what Obama's been up to is because of her most recent status message on Facebook.

. . . can't handle much more of this. (And one of her friends commented, "I agree! Now what are we going to do about it?" Blah.)

As far as I know, there's nothing in her personal life that would warrant a comment like that. She seemed fine the other day when she asked me if I could do lunch this Saturday when they're back in Illinois for Easter.

The thing is, with Vermont and Iowa and Washington D.C., it makes me wonder what she's talking about. She's never been cryptic about her anti-Obama comments, but considering I came out to her at Christmas, I could see her making a cryptic comment in response to all the progress made in LGBT rights recently to spare my feelings. Problem is that her cryptic is just suspicious and not that cryptic at all. Or maybe I'm reading to much into it and it does have to do with Obama.

I've known for years that she's conservative and Republican. She and her husband had their soon-to-be teenage son spouting pro-Dubya crap when he was five. It just hurts my heart to think that she would really be this dismayed about giving LGBT folks equal rights. She's my sister and I love her. I don't even know if she realizes that not wanting same-sex marriage laws to pass means she doesn't want me to have equal rights to her. Her 20th wedding anniversary is coming up, and I wonder if she would attend my wedding, if I were to have one. (I probably won't considering the polyamory situation, which I'm fine with. But I still want the right to marry whether I do it or not.)

It's not all that surprising. Just disappointing and disheartening.