According to Guardian Unlimited, members of Britain’s Liberal Jewish community are the first of mainstream religious organizations to create a gay marriage service to tie in with UK’s civil partnership law which goes into effect in December.

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W. Meredith Bacon, previously Wally M. Bacon, a professor of political science, returned to her position at the University of Nebraska at Omaha this fall as a woman. She and her wife, Lynne, spoke to ABC about her gender identity, transition, and their relationship.

“I feel as if this huge burden has been lifted off of my shoulders, that instead of darkness I see mostly light. And I’m happy,” Bacon said. “Making a transition has empowered me to be a better teacher, to be a better researcher, to be a better spouse.”

Meredith Bacon said she knew by age four that “something wasn’t right.” But, she said she still chose to live a traditional life, with a traditional marriage “basically because that was custom.”

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Me: If I became a man, would you have sex with me?

Her: What?

Me: If I woke up tomorrow and I was a man, would you have sex with me?

Her: I don’t know.

Me: Seriously. What if I woke up one morning with a dick and had no idea how long it would last. You wouldn’t have sex with me? I wouldn’t know how to get a woman to sleep with me as a man - and wouldn’t want to waste time figuring it out. I guess I could have sex with a prostitute. I don’t see why you wouldn’t have sex with me. It would still be me.

Her: I didn’t say I wouldn’t have sex with you.

Me: We should come up with a code word - in case it ever happens. I can’t just show up at your door as some guy and say I’m me.

[insert discussion about “word” (which, after all this, I don’t remember!) here]

Me: Okay?

Her: Okay. Sure. I’m going to sleep.

Minutes later…

Me: What does “sex” include?

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Does anyone know? I’m not even sure it was ever completed.

The Sugar Daddy Diaries

Daniel A. Kusner, Life+Style Editor of the Dallas Voice, shares some queer-conscious gift ideas for the kids in your life:

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Monopoly Special Edition (I want this too!)


Madonna’s Children Book Collections


“And Tango Makes Three”

T-shirts featuring Family Guy’s Stewie

From HTTabloid.com:

A recent survey has poured cold water on what everyone believed till now was every man’s dreams, by finding that though one in ten men would agree to have a gay threesome, if they were paid a 100,000 pounds for it, a whopping 83 per cent of them would turn down an offer of sex with their wives and a sexy girl friend, even if the opportunity ever presented itself.

‘Transamerica’ transforms Felicity Hufffman

Excerpt:

Knowing I was scheduled to see something called “Transamerica” — and knowing nothing else about it — I found myself watching a poignant, funny, revealing comedy about a pre-operative transsexual who discovers, on the eve of her re-orientation surgery, that she has a son. The lead actor, if not an actual transsexual, had certainly presented an authentic, honest portrait of a man on the gender fence, full of pathos, pain and well-chosen French sarcasms (”Quel damage … “).

Only later did I realize the “actor” was Felicity Huffman.

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In seven hours I will have survived dinner.

Charlize Theron has announced that she and her boyfriend, Stuart Townsend, will get married the day that gays and lesbians are given the right to marry. Sweet. Really. But more of a “stop fucking asking me about when we are going to get married” thing if you ask me (which you obviously don’t have to do ;)).

Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences, new from Vanderbilt University sociology professor Laura M. Carpenter, examines the different meanings and experiences associated with virginity loss.

According to Carpenter, most people view virginity as either a gift (“gifters”), a stigma (“stigmatized”) or as just another part of the process of becoming an adult (“processers”) .

“Processers” seemed to have the most emotionally satisfying, healthy and safe experiences, whereas “gifters’” well-being depended on having partners who reciprocated loving, appreciative feelings. For the five women in the study for whom that did not happen, the result was not only disappointment – even devastation – but also a feeling of being deprived of sexual empowerment.

The “stigmatized” had mostly positive virginity loss experiences. On the downside, the intensity with which most members of this group wanted to hide their inexperience, along with circumstances and casual relationships in which many lost their virginity, resulted in the lowest rates of protected sex in the study.

Men who saw virginity as a stigma especially felt compelled to conceal their inexperience and felt particularly vulnerable to humiliation and disempowerment at the hands of female partners. Derided as virgins or sexual incompetents, three men in the study avoided sex long after losing their virginity.

I’d say I was a “processer.”