Still going....

The poll is still up. Is there a chance that whoever's in charge of that over there is somehow unable to think about about anything besides the midterms and The L-Word? And why do they still have a column about World Pride up from June?

Breaking: Midterms happening in 2006

We occasionally take breaks from our usual silent dismay at Planetout.com's existence to make fun of issues in the page's design. We know that they have trouble updating the webpage (don't they still have that column about Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic comments up?), but this crosses some line of decency that even we wouldn't think of crossing. This screenshot was taken five minutes ago.

Or maybe the message is about 2010. In that case, our answer is "negative", it can only get worse when the Nebulan X-3000 party takes over, because the Democrats will have already passed a law requiring every Kindergartener to get gay-marriaged. Or something like that.

Gay replaced by anti-gay

Ken Mehlman's out as RNC chair, and Mel Martinez is in. The Advocate had this to say about him:

- He scored a 0 on the Human Rights Campaign 2006 scorecard measuring support for equality and fairness in the 109th Congress.
- He is an ardent supporter and cosponsor of the antigay Federal Marriage Amendment.
- Martinez has been on the record opposing Republican senator John McCain’s states' rights stance on the marriage issue, saying, “It isn't good enough to say, 'Leave it up to the states. If we leave it up to the states, we will see the erosion of marriage that we've seen by activist courts, which we otherwise will not see if we protect the institution of marriage at the federal level.”
- He attacked his 2004 Republican primary opponent for supporting hate-crimes legislation, accusing him of catering to the “radical homosexual lobby.”
- He ran a 2004 campaign that was so antigay and divisive that Florida governor Jeb Bush called on him to stop the attacks. As a result of his tactics, the St. Petersburg Times revoked its endorsement after Menendez sent a mailer against his opponent calling him “the new darling of the homosexual extremists.”

The pro-gay GOP days are over now that the gay godfather is out, and the Republicans can do what they do best: demonize the gays and do jack taco in Congress.

Well, I suppose since you asked twice...

Things that make you go Awwwwwwww

On the POGA:

[NGLTF exec. director] Foreman [...] pointed to the defeat of anti-abortion ballot measures and to a failed attempt to ban same-sex marriage in Arizona as signs of gay success at the polls. Seven other states voted to approve constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage: Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. Similar amendments have passed previously in all 20 states that considered them. But Foreman said there was still progress because the bans succeeded by narrower margins.

One thing we can't say about the gay activists is that they're spoiled. This movement's pluck, gumption, and other 1920's qualities are refreshing after looking at what that Christian rights movement has become.

BREAKING: SOMETHING NOT LIKE A PENIS AT ALL MAKES A GAY MAN THINK OF A PENIS

Or something like that.

I once went out with a guy who called his penis “Jackson.” Out of nowhere, he’d say, “Jackson likes this,” or “Jackson likes that,” as if the appendage were actually a separate entity. It didn’t take long for Jackson, his handler, and me to part company, and not just because I wasn’t interested in three-ways. Jackson was the only part of him that wasn’t ashamed to be gay. I thought of Jackson when evangelical leader Ted Haggard and his three-year relationship with a gay hooker made the headlines.

Actually, the column is a pretty good read. We whole-heartedly agree that Pastor Ted should be welcomed with more than open arms into the gay community.