Fun/Ephemera

Post-Holiday Haiku

I’ll start the year on a light note, with a bit of post-season haiku: Spouse is back to work Son is still awash in toys Legos underfoot And reflecting on some of the year-end political news: Oregon waylaid New Hampshire civilized now Trip to Uruguay? Feel free to leave your own contributions in the comments.

Butch-Femme Holiday Gift Question

OK, my ever-insightful readers: Which of the following items best represents an amalgam of butch-femme, a perfect gift for the keep-’em-guessing lesbian: The Swiss Army Knife in a pink floral pattern or the KitchenAid Mixer with the flame detailing? Other suggestions welcome.

Is that Penguin Insured?

A Florida college is offering employees pet insurance after denying them insurance for same-sex partners. This of course begs the question of whether the pet insurance would cover gay penguins.

The Decline of LGBT Culture?

Famous LGBT enclaves like the Castro District in San Francisco, Key West, Florida, and West Hollywood “struggle to maintain cultural relevance in the face of gentrification,” claims the New York Times. “In the Castro, the influx of baby strollers—some being pushed by straight parents, some by gay parents—is perhaps the most blatant sign of change,”

Lesbian Worms

When scientists at the University of Utah flipped a certain genetic switch in the brains of female worms, it caused them to be attracted to other female worms, further proof that sexual orientation is genetic. Now the nematodes are forming a softball team and planning a music festival. (What does a lesbian worm bring on

Non-Bio Mom of the Week

A golden retriever in Virginia has stepped in to mother a stray kitten, and even began producing milk for the tiny feline when she refused the bottles her human rescuers offered. Love makes a family indeed. Virginia. The state where alternative animal families make the news, but where “courts have routinely discriminated against gays and

Will Massachusetts Legalize Robot-Human Marriage?

As we all know, it’s a slippery slope. If you legalize marriage for same-sex couples, then marriage between humans and robots is soon to follow. Well, not exactly. Human-robot love is inevitable, however, and could first become legal in Massachusetts, according to Dr. David Levy of the University of Maastricht. In his Ph.D thesis, as

How Wide Was the Stance on that Peacock?

First penguins, then swans and flamingos—now peacocks. A headline-making British baronet, Sir Benjamin Slade, claims his pet peacock is gay, causing the bird to claw a visitor’s Lexus in a fit of passion: “It started when he fell in love with this Lexus, which was in a very distinct peacock blue and looked like another

First Gay Man to Have a Heavenly Body

Now there’s a headline I never thought I’d be writing on this site. I wanted to note, however, that George Takei, aka Star Trek’s Hikaru Sulu, now has an asteroid named after him. This makes him perhaps the first out gay man (or out LGBT person, for that matter) to be given such an honor

Hillary and Mary, Separated at Birth?

Is it just me, or have Hillary Clinton and Mary Cheney been sporting some rather similar hairdos over the years? What could it all mean? Do they share some strange bond? Does this explain Hillary’s initial hawkishness on the war? Or Mary’s support for marriage equality in the face of her party’s opposition? Dorothy Snarker

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