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Thursday’s Watercooler: Glee gets gayer and
SCOTUS seems gay friendly
, 365gay blogger 04.29.2010
10:54am EDT
10:54am EDT
- Yesterday, we heard the arguments in the Supreme Court on
the release of names from a Washington petition calling for a rollback
of domestic partnership rights in the state. Although I think that free
speech trumps transparency in this case, the court seems to think that
the need for public verification of the names on any petition justifies
the release of petition names. This is good news for gay rights groups
as it seems pretty clear that fewer people will sign these petitions if
they know the names are public. (I still say this is bad news for free
speech, but who am I to argue with SCOTUS?).
- Amazing
to think the Supreme Court might rule in favor of the gays. Less
surprising is the developing lesbian relationship between the two newest Cheerio
full-time cast members on Glee (Brittany and Santana). Nothing
makes me happier than seeing some of my people on television and these
two cute girls have been flirting for a while. Still no word on whether
the relationship will get to the next level, but we’ll certainly be
seeing a lot more of the girls on the show!
- Gayness
might be spreading, but so is the oil spill off of Louisiana. It
is looking more and more like this will be one of the great oil rig disasters in world history. Cleaning
it up, yesterday thought of as a quick burn off situation, might be very
tricky and the damage to marine life and eventually shore wildlife will
be significant. This, just maybe, can be a warning to Obama about the
dangers of off-shore drilling. Perhaps all the environmentalists calling
for an end to drill-baby-drill have a point? Duh!
- But back
to good news for the LGBT community. This time in Canada. Canada has a publicly funded Catholic school system (it’s in our Constitution –
part of the original negotiations with the French) and, until now, the
fate of sex education in those schools has been up in the air. But
today, the government announced that Catholic schools will have to teach their students about
same-sex relationships in sex ed classes. The curriculum from
regular high schools will be imported into Catholic schools.
