Thaddeus Jakowski
Probably the most important material on the internet. Maybe.
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But we just talk about the people we’ve met in the last 5 years.
And will remember them in ten more?
Steadier Footing - Death Cab for CutiePhoto Credit: Caroline Higgins
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"A man is in the process of seducing a woman. He pushes his hand up her thigh. She realizes what he’s up to and does nothing to stop him; she pretends that nothing is happening. In other words, although she’s choosing to be seduced, she denies the choice by acting as if nothing is happening. That denial, says Sartre, is false consciousness…So, we would add, is the surrender to an absolute which is the core of every fanaticism…Although this self-deception can work very well, there will always be the memory, however much repressed, that in fact this “truth” was chosen."
— In Praise of Doubt -
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I would say this will end my LGBTQ posting spree, but it probably won’t.
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Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty.
“A Single Man”
Watch it. Now.
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The Governor keeps calling for a referendum, which everyone knows will never happen in New Jersey. To borrow the Governor’s words, it’s time for him to stop engaging in political theater. Our lives are not La Cage Aux Folles: LGBT people fall in love, raise families, often children whom the rest of society shuns, and pay taxes in what is still one of the most heavily taxed states in the country.
Our Governor knows our contributions to society. He won’t veto the bill because he’s anti-gay. He’ll veto the bill because the 2016 South Carolina Republican Presidential primary electorate is anti-gay. …
"— Steven Goldstein, Garden State Equality -
