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• Mrs. And Mrs. DeGeneres, and a male perspective on the name game

  You won't have Portia De Rossi to kick around anymore – well, you will (although why you would want to kick her, I have no idea), but she'll have a new name. According to the Daily News, Portia will take DeGeneres' last name when they officially tie the knot. (I guess that clears up any question about who the "man" in that relationship is, right?) Interestingly, many women in heterosexual marriages don't change their names, at least judging from the reactions to... Read More... Posted Jul 03 2008, 11:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, celebrity, marriage, gay, homosexual, Portia De Rossi, Ellen Degeneres, names, gay marriage, relationships, decisions, heterosexual, wedding, Brett Singer, celebrity news, celebrity couples, name changing, name change, celebrity weddings, Portia DeGeneres

• Man dresses up as a woman to marry a man

  So two people get married. A man and a woman. Or so the clerk thought. Turns out "Justine" was really "Justin." Specifically Justin L. McCain, an 18-year-old who wanted to marry Antonio E. Blount, his 31-year-old boyfriend. One reason they were able to pull it off was because of a "design quirk" in the Virginia driver's licenses – the "M" or "F" in the "gender" area is obscured by the state seal. One wonders why no one seemed to notice that the name on the license was "Justin" rather than "Justine". Newport News Court clerk Rex Davis said that, "When things are rolling along and you don't have any reason to suspect that somebody is not being completely forthright with you, you might not take the time to check." Gee, and I thought New York City was a busy place. Davis issued the happy couple a marriage license... Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: news, law, gender, marriage, Virginia, gay, transgender, homosexual, gay marriage, heterosexual, court, wedding, Brett Singer, male, birth certificate, aerosmith, Transgender Law and Policy Institute, Lambda, justice of the peace, Paisley Currah, Rex Davis, Antonio E. Blount, gender reassignment surgery, newport news, Cole Thaler, richmond, clerk, Justin L. McCain, Lambda Legal, dude looks like a lady, female, Penelopsky Aaryonna Goldberry, Justine McCain, Justin McCain, driver's license

• And Now - The Gay Brain

  First it was the gay gene (and it wasn't Bugle Boy! Apologies to Bill Maher whom I stole that joke from.) Now the powers that be have decided that there is a gay brain. Scientists studied the sizes of the left and right brains of 90 people, and found that, "Gay men and heterosexual women had halves of a similar size, while the right side was bigger in lesbian women and heterosexual men." So gay men have brain halves like straight women, and gay women have brain halves like straight men. Got that? This will be on the test. This isn't the first attempt to "prove" that gayness is born... Read More... Posted Jun 17 2008, 02:10 PM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: news, lesbian, gay, homosexual, genetics, science, BBC, breeders, bill maher, heterosexual, left brain, Brett Singer, gay men, straight women, hypothalamus, straight men, brain halves, gay brain, cortex, gay gene, womb, gay women, right brain

• Feminists Do It Better

  Now here's a study I like: Two researchers found that feminists and their partners reported greater levels of relationship satisfaction, and that feminism may improve the quality of hetero relationships. Including "sexual satisfaction," heh heh. The study aimed to examine the stereotype that feminism and romance are in conflict with each other. Oh yeah, and they also demonstrated that "unflattering feminist stereotypes, that tend to stigmatize feminists as unattractive and sexually unappealing, are unsupported." That's right baby, we are hot hot hot! Just don't, um, objectify us. Now, could this information be used to good advantage?    Read More... Posted Oct 16 2007, 04:32 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: research study, marriage, feminism, satisfaction, heterosexual