I loved seeing this clip this morning. ABC News (I think?) staged a situation in a Linden, NJ, sports bar, putting an openly gay couple, and openly straight (and affectionate) couple, and a planted homophobe together to see how patrons would react. What happens might surprise you.



It's a new day, isn't it? I mean, it wasn't perfect, but the two men, who were doing nothing inappropriate, fared decently. Patrons stood up against the verbal abuse, and kicked out the abuser. Might this happen differently in another bar? Sure. But I'll take this as a sign of progress. Hey, you gotta celebrate the good stuff.
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Just four more days in 2012... Hard to believe how quickly --

Who the hell am I kidding?

This was the slowest year in the history of man. I don't mean that in a bad way. It just went slowly. To me, last December seems like years ago.

It was a great, slow year:

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Tomorrow is the first day of NaNoWriMo, also known as National Novel Writing Month. Every November, all sorts of writers take on the challenge of trying to write a draft of a novel in a month.
I'll tell you what, people who plan to vote for Mitt Romney:

I disagree with you, and not just a little. Your support of the Romney/Ryan ticket feels like a kick to the stomach, because as a gay man, this stuff is personal to me.

But you know what? Don't de-friend me.
What would happen at an all-boys boarding school in Massachusetts if an athlete came out as gay?

This is NOT the subject of my upcoming novel, Openly Straight. In fact, it is the setting for that novel, but it is the plot of my first novel, Out of the Pocket.
Today I've decided to be one of those helpful authors and let you know what happens when you attempt to use copywritten song lyrics in your novel.
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