Saturday, October 11th, is National Coming Out Day. National Coming Out Day has been celebrated every October 11 since 1988, as a way commemorate the first March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, which was in October of 1987.The primary goal of National Coming Out Day is to gain visibility of GLBT people in the communities we live in, and to promote awareness of GLBT issues. Cities across the country are holding events to celebrate the day.

Back in March, I wrote about how Betty Please and I were making a plan and working to accomplish a few goals so we could start trying to build a family in the near future. Probably in the fall. I'm not sure where the time went, but the near future, is here. Holy cow!

September 23, was the Ninth Annual Celebrate Bisexuality Day, and I missed it. Actually, I was not aware of its existence until I caught up on reading through my bloglines earlier today. The odd coincidence is that I had already planned on writing a post on bisexuality today. So what is Celebrate Bisexuality Day anyway, you ask. It's a day to celebrate and increase bisexual visibility, of course.Sue Hyde wrote a nice piece, posted at The Bilerico Project, saluting bisexual leaders.

So I don't know if you happened to run across this little news item, today, in the midst of our economy collapsing and the various political scandals going on, but Clay Aiken has finally announced that he's gay. Prompting people everywhere to respond: Duh. His story is that now that he's a father, he "cannot raise a child to lie or hide things." Because only the childless should lie and hide things. Oh, sorry. Did I say that in my out-loud voice?

I use to be a child. Some say a curious child. No, that is understatement. I was a damn Class A question box. Most children pass through that intensive questioning stage of development. I was not one of them. That sucker attached itself to me and will not let me go without “the answer.”  It has been a blessing, a curse and a guaranteed path to adventure.

In every part of the blogosphere, new voices arrive, and old voices go. Sometimes, they are the same people moving to new blogs(and new identities), other times they are new bloggers who command a wider audience as if they’ve suddenly found their voice, or their topic (and sometimes they have).

Are GLBT schools are good idea?

Over the weekend we rented the movie Itty Bitty Titty Committee (watch trailer). We'd been waiting for it to come out on DVD for a long time, so we were pretty excited, and somewhat surprised, to find it in stock at the video store on Saturday night. Maybe we're the only lesbians in town who aren't Netflix people, or maybe everyone else ran out and bought it right away.

Early last week, Lapriss Gilbert was forced to leave a federal building by a security guard who thought her t-shirt was offensive. The "offensive" t-shirt simply read lesbian.com across the front. The guard, who works for a private company contracted by the Department of Homeland Security, cited The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property document as his reason for removing Gilbert from the building.

A few days after my dad suggested that I write about "why gays are so unhappy," he asked me if I had read about the local GLBTI group in the paper that morning. My first thought was, "here we go again, he just can't resist pushing my buttons." My next thought was, "GLBT - I"? When did it become GLBTI?

I was shocked and saddened when I heard the news on the radio late this afternoon that lesbian activist, Del Martin, had died this morning, August 27, 2008. Her wife, partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon was by her side when she died. After hearing the news, I immediately went my computer to make sure it was true. I couldn't quite believe it. It was confirmed by a story on CNN.com.

Over the last few weeks, the Internet has been abuzz with sci-fi fan reaction to writer Orson Scott Card's most recent posts for the Mormon Times (Science on gays falls short and State job is not to redefine marriage) about homosexuality and gay marriage. Though he has been outspoken on the issue of homosexuality as far back as 1990, it has only recently attracted great attention.