Don't be terribly alarmed if one morning you awake to epiphanies like, "Lady Gaga is mediocrity packaged in fancy wrapping paper!" and "A scarf is a too-easy way to make a dramatic exit across a windswept room!" Sometimes advanced age (in my case, the wrong side of 25!) forces us to take a long, hard look at our failures triumphs and adjust our expectations accordingly. This week, we adjust our expectations and make peace with the fact that LGBT progress can sometimes be tantamount to passing a kidney stone: Slow, painful, and ultimately without any real reward.
• An elf has confused European geography. Oh my. [YouTube]
• Oakland--better known as San Francisco's hirsute, pock-marked ugly stepsister--has finally decided to do away with a 130 year-old law that criminalized public cross-dressing. [MercuryNews]
• Further proof re the counterintuitive American legal system: Despite legalizing it in March, D.C. is going to listen to some more arguments against gay marriage. [WaPo]
• Everyone is just shocked--mortified!--that some lady they have never heard of likes to wear Birkenstocks and drink Natty Light in the back of a U-Haul truck somewhere. [Billboard]
• This Tennessee tornado looks like male genitalia. [YouTube]
• GAY RIGHTS In Denmark, gay and lesbian couples may now jointly purchase children and face the same contempt marrieds do by their much more free-spirited, single friends. [Pink News]
• GAY WRONGS One of those old closet cases who is straight around members of the same sex--the way a vegetarian might only eat steaks on even-numbered days of the year--has been caught red-handed with a callboy. [HuffPo]
• Gay-haters are up in arms about being deprived their free speech right to hate gays in the UK. [The Telegraph]
• Have a slice of turtle cake. [BuzzFeed]
Mister Rohin Guha has written for Gawker, Blackbook, Paper, New York, and in many other locales. Once a week he'll be checking in on civilization and giving us a progress report.
