Edward Carpenter was the Victorian Morrissey, the English Walt Whitman – and the original vegetarian, sandal-wearing socialist. So why is this gloriously eccentric figure almost forgotten today?We could hazard the hypothesis that it is because he was gay and that gay lives have a habit of getting swept back into the closet but Mark Simpson, in the following article in the Independent marking the release of a new biography of Carpenter, seems to have another theory.Read the full article here: The lost Utopian: Why have so few of us heard of Victorian poet and renowned socialist Edward Carpenter?The ...

Speaking about the myriad of companies that have rightfully come out against the cruel, discriminatory, intellectually bankrupt, un-American measure known as Proposition 8, California anti-gay activist Randy Thomasson has the following advice for his fellow biased peeps: "Boycott and remove themselves as customers from Levi's, from Pacific Gas & Electric if possible, from AT&T which is surely possible," ..."I don't even want to see Steven Spielberg movies anymore because that man donated $100,000 for defeat of marriage between a man and a woman." ... "The attack of the darkness should get the people who know what is true and ...