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Aww thanks Tiger! LOL.

My sister took me to see Michael Jackson in the 1980s, we saw the Victory tour, I didn't appreciate it at the time because I was so young but I'm glad she took me. There are few songs of his you can't dance to. My sister and I had the biggest crush on him back in the day.

New York's situation is beyond insane. So Gov. Patterson became governor after Spitzer admitted shopping for hookers, this left no Lt. Governor. Then two democrats (only one opposed to marriage equality but both are opportunities and well, crooks. One guy is about to face trial for slashing his girlfriend and the other has a problem keeping track of his campaign cash) flipped to the Republicans. But one guy lost his nerve and went back and now the senate is evenly divided 31-31. But since there is no lt. governor to break the tie, no one is in control in Albany, sadly, that's an apt metaphor for my home state's most dysfunctional legislature. On the plus side Gov. Patterson and every significant state official (even the former Republican head of the state senate) support marriage equality. So really it's not a matter of if, but when.

It was a great series but I'm beginning to think Hossa is actually a bad luck charm when it comes to the Cup.

Oh I totally forgot to post in here but I'm celebrating graduating last school, I graduated three weeks ago. Now I just have to take the bar. So fun.

I don't even know if I have IE on my computer that's how rarely I use it. I use Safari 4, but I have to edit "top sites" because I don't want people to know some of the "top" sites I visit. In a pinch I'll use Firefox because I like it too. I find it very funny Frenchcanadian uses IE at work .

I agree with rainy, the LGBT group at my grad school, well we have some great parties and are a little infamous on campus, LOL.

Happy Birthday Drewbie!

Happy Birthday Jason! I hope you had a great day and find another winning lottery ticket.

Awww..... Thanks so much Tim. I'm eating birthday cake as we speak.

The word comes from the latin term mule, which is the result of the breeding of a donkey and a horse, so when you use that term, you're calling someone a mule. Slave owners were the ones who made up the phrase. People stopped using that word in 1930, if it was too offensive to use in 1930 and that was 35 years before the civil rights acts, then it's really outdated today.

Good luck on your first day of work!!! I know it'll be great. And congrats on the great day with jason and your friend.

I think Celine would be appropriate to celebrate Quebec's 400th anniversary, heh. Or you could just go as William Shatner.

Happy Canada Day! Are ya going to dress up as John MacDonald? .

I have some Canadian friends who will actually be celebrating Canada Day in New York next week. For the 4th, I'll be watching the fireworks from a friend's house. Macy's always puts a big fireworks show over the East River in Manhattan.

Being a native New Yorker, if you have the event in NYC, I should be able to make it.

I would suggest you contact Lambda Legal's helpline at 1-866-542-8336, they should be able to refer you to attorneys in the area who may be able to help.

Unfortunately in Florida, state law can ban gay men and women from adopting a child or prevent them from being foster parents. The law isn't always evenly applied, but it hangs over everything. .

I'd probably adopt, I mean if the circumstances were right and it was feasible, maybe I'd have a "genetically" similar to me child, but as Friendly said, it's not high on my list of proirities when it comes to having a child. I'm not worried about my family name "dying" with me though, I have the second most common last name in the United States, it's not like anyone would notice if there was one less of us.

I've been in this situation and all I can say is run the other way, don't talk to him for a while because he'll use the emotional edge he has over you to lure you back into bed. You just need to stay away, for as long as it takes, until the feelings subside. Even so, I really don't talk to my ex at all, except for brief emails. It brings back too much bad history. Good luck though!

Things you can do in Jersey you can't do in Pennsylvania. 1.) Get a civil union. 2.) Not get fired for being gay (statewide. Pa. only protects public employees statewide). I'd prefer that over a good cheesesteak. P.S. you can get a good cheesesteak in Jersey.

I think I can say this simply. There are friends who mean the world to me I have that I never would have met had we not been gay, nor would we have grown as close. It's not just one person, but a whole community of people, that have made my life more meaningful, made me more adventurous, helped me see the world differently, given me comfort, made me laugh. It's all quite accidental how it all happened and these friends aren't necessarily people I've slept with (although a few I have, admittedly), but they have all shown me something I didn't know before and well maybe hopefully I've done the same for them.

The truth of the matter is, the St. Patrick's Day parade doesn't do much to improve the reputation of the Irish as anything but drunks (and heck they even ban gay Irish groups from marching in that parade, how's that for tolerance!), sexual harassment is fairly rampant at the Puerto Rican and West Indian day parades (which doesn't help the reputation of either group). I've marched in the New York City pride parade (and I wore perfectly reasonable clothes, t-shirt and shorts). There's not much like having one million people cheering you as you march and having every important politician in New York a couple of hundred of feet in front of you (including Hillary). While there are some outlandish parts of the parade with dancing boys and Dykes on Bikes, most of it was pretty boring, like politicians, activists and social groups (like the gay rugby team). I really think the parades do show the breadth and depth of the gay community in New York City (from the crazy to the staid) and in other cities and it's an excuse to sit out in the sun and just have fun. I'll likely be marching again this year, handing out pamphlets to everyone I see trying to remind them of all the important work still to be done. If it weren't for the nerdy boys and girls who started the first gay rights groups in the 50s and the outrageous drag queens and flamboyant boys who taunted and jeered the cops at the Stonewall Inn in 1969, we might not even have progressed as far as we have today. I think we need them both. The flaymboyant boys get people's attention, the nerdy ones are willing to do the grunt work to achieve equality.

It's really great news, a lot of people I know have been working really hard on this case for a very long time. It all started back in 2004 when SF Mayor Gavin Newsome decided to protest President Bush's promotion of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by throwing open the doors of city hall (in defiance of the law) to gay and lesbian couples. History has proven that he broke no law and in fact did the right thing. And congrats DK!!! We expect pictures.

I agree with sat8997, I have a lot of veggie friends and they span the gamut from gay to straight. Everytime a group of us go out to lunch, there's always at least one veggie in the group. I am not a veggie, but I have nothing against them.