Powered by Max Banner Ads AIDS? What AIDS? Mickey Weems It’s easy to forget about nasty things. Just look at American politics. Climate change, overpopulation, pollution; all three are huge threats to humanity, and all three are getting progressively worse. One party pretends they don’t exist, while the other one has proven grossly negligent when power was in its hands. We have evidence... 

Hate My President? Find Another Country by Mickey Weems I know reasonable conservatives exist in the LGBT community, but I cannot find them, perhaps because irrational ones who hate Obama drown them out, 5 to 1. Not just dislike Obama. Not just disagree with Obama. Hate. Loathe. Wish him dead. See absolutely no value in the man, his administration, his presidency. I’d love an honest discussion whether... 

Shoot Zee Cum in Zee Face: Herman Cain, Torture and Leathersex by Mickey Weems Like almost every other Republican presidential candidate with a chance of winning their party’s nomination, Herman Cain is nein-nein-nein when it comes to homosexuality. “I think it’s a sin because of my Biblical beliefs,” he said, “and, although people don’t agree with me, I happen to think that... 

Just Because They Volunteer Doesn’t Mean It’s not Torture Mickey Weems What would you do to save your eternal soul? That is an issue faced every day by LGBT young people of faith whose denominations tell them that homosexuality is a choice, gender identity is biologically determined, biological sex must be either male or female and bucking the norm means God will send them to Hell. But saving... 

Dr Jekyll and Hyde Park by Mickey Weems It’s been a Columbus tradition since 2008. Every Friday, a group of LGBT businesspeople get together at Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse at 569 North High Street in the Short North for happy hour. The staff is friendly, the crowd jovial; it’s just the thing after a long week. There is even a Facebook page. “Friday Night at Hyde Park on the Cap” (www.facebook.com/groups/FridayNightatHydeParkontheCap/)... 

Let Me Get This Straight by Mickey Weems There is no community so famously aesthetic as the LGBT community. Our superpowers in this area, however, do not protect us from hatred. Some of those who use our services discriminate against us, not only in artistic fields but in other areas as well. Oh, the contradictions when they do. When Straight people get married, they put their trust in wedding planners... 

Hermaphroditus by Mickey Weems During the nineteenth century CE, a magnificent spiritual being and holy symbol of universal humanity was officially turned into a monster by science. Fear of all things not heteronormative led doctors to describe what they thought were sexual deformities in human body-minds. Although scientific in form, the language was influenced by Medieval Christian thinking that... 

Pride 2011: Fails, Wins and One Epic Win by Mickey Weems In a year filled with natural disasters and human-generated catastrophes, the Gay community is steadily making progress. Here is a list of the fails and wins for us, our adversaries, and the American people. Fails The end of the world came and went for Reverend Harold Camping (gotta love the last name!) and his conned-gregation: No Rapture on... 

Watching Columbus Mature by Mickey Weems I’ve been teaching students at Columbus State Community College for about ten years now, and the newest bunch is different from the ones with which I started. The people of our city are changing, and for the better. I teach Western Civilization, which covers the rise and fall of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval (Byzantine,... 

Idiots by Mickey Weems One thing that has become clear in the last couple of years is that Congress moves at a snail’s pace, regardless of who is in power. And unless there is a dire emergency, that’s the way it should be. This was not so true a few years ago, when George Bush Junior’s administration successfully engineered sweeping changes in the system by scaring the shit out of the average...