If you haven’t seen this yet, well, you should. It never ceases to amaze me how children just “get it,” unless they’re taught otherwise. On the day we got married, Parker had a half-day at school. Before he left, he said, he told his classmates that his parents were getting married. His classmates have met both the hubby and me, so they know what that means, and it doesn’t seem to be a big deal to them. From the mouths of babes… ...

Give Senegal's Prime Minister Souleymane Ndiaye some credit. The usual pattern we see in "blame the homo" is to explain some natural disasters or social decline -- or the threatened destruction of human civilization -- by pointing the finger at... ...

"We tried the carrot. Now it's time for the stick." That's the message from Cynthia Nixon, Miranda of "Sex and the City" fame, in a simple yet powerful new PSA for the fledgling group Fight Back NY, which exists for... ...

• Looking forward to: The hubby and I will be part of a 1pm online chat @ marriage equality c/o WaPo. Come join in! ( http://bit.ly/byX0XH ) #

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• Looking forward to: The hubby and I will be part of a 1pm online chat @ marriage equality c/o WaPo. Come join in! ( http://bit.ly/byX0XH ) #

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• First gay marriages in District performed – washingtonpost.com (tags: marriage dc marriage-equality)
• ''My Rock, My Life, My Love'': Marriage equality arrives with a string of same-sex weddings, the first to be performed in and legally recognized by D.C.: News section: Metro Weekly magazine, Washington, DC newspaper (tags: dc marriage equality)
• Same-Sex Weddings Begin in D.C. | NBC Washington (tags: marriage washington dc marriage-equality)
• "Love Won Out" | NBC Washington
• Gay weddings come to US capital (tags: marriage dc marriage-equality)
• Gay marriage in America: Tying the knot | The Economist

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The hubby and I are participating in a Washington Post online chat about marriage in D.C. Come join in! With the issuing of the first marriage licenses to same-sex couples Tuesday, the District follows five states — from Iowa to Massachusetts — in allowing gay couples to marry. Same-sex couples were first able to apply for licenses in the District last Wednesday but, like all couples, had to follow the city’s three-day waiting period before getting hitched. Rick Imirowicz and Terrance Heath, who were married Tuesday, will be online Wednesday, March 10, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss the new ...

We did it. The broom has been jumped. We are married. ...

The good news is the effects of the Cialis have worn off. The above cartoon is the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #231. Let me know if you come up with any captions too. Click on the link above to enter. ...

Last week was one for the history books in the movement for gay civil rights worldwide. As of last week, same-sex couples are marrying in the capitals of four of the five most populous countries in the Americas, and each... ...

OK. Technically, I’m getting married in the evening. But I couldn’t resist. The next time you see a blog post from me, I should be a legally married man. ...

Conservatives who squawk about the deficit — and Democrats who should know better, but squawk anyway — tend to do so selectively. That is, they tend to focus only on spending. But spending is only half of any deficit equation. After all, a deficit is “the amount by which expenditures or liabilities exceed income or assets.” When it comes to the government “income” really means “revenue,” and that means if we’re going to have an honest discussion about the deficit we have to talk about about taxes. That half of the deficit equation — income or revenue — rarely ...

This is another update on my progress doing a virtual run from my home in DC to the home we're attempting to buy in Punta Gorda, Fl. It is a distance of about 1,003 miles. Last week, I didn't do the usual update. I just announced that I finally entered North Carolina. This update covers the last 2 weeks of running. The best news is that it was warm enough here yesterday to run outside. I ran from our house, down to the National Mall, said hi to Abe Lincoln sitting at his memorial and back home. It actually was a little ...

Brace yourself. Many of us were already disgusted that Catholic Charities of Washington, D.C., chose to axe health coverage for all spouses rather than include same-sex spouses, who as of this week can enter into civil marriage in the nation's... ...

Here are the five biggest stories from Gay News Watch over the last week: Day One dawns on gay marriage in U.S. capital: QUICK LOOK: D.C. Superior Court officials are expecting scores of same-sex couples to pack the courthouse Wednesday... ...

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2/25/942/26/94 Grateful Dead @ Oakland Coliseum - Oakland, CA2/27/94Worst. Mail order. Tickets. EVER.I'm not sure why I skipped Oakland in '93. You'd think I would have been anxious, having not seen Jerry post-coma yet, but I skipped it that year. Anyway...I made it back in '94. The band had been really hit or miss in '93. I decided if I was going to stay on the bus, I was going to make '94 special - focusing on "destination shows" rather than just seeing as many as possible. The most obvious starting point was to kick off ...

I launched this blog way back in October 2006, just weeks after leaving the Washington Blade and moving to Brazil, as the Mark Foley scandal was breaking. Having overseen years of coverage about Foley, a longtime GOP closet case, I... ...

This is an idea from State of the Nation UK -- taking five random photos on the fifth of the month and share them with the world.  The theme this time around was People, and so I thought I would go with photos of important people in my life.   That didn't work out, so I then thought I would rather show different shots of Pumpkin Island Lighthouse, which is our view when we stay at Moose and Squirrel, a house in Little Deer Isle, Maine.  Obviously, I didn't take these today, but so what. We sit out on the ...