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Entries Tagged as 'Queer'

The Annunciation of the Not so Blessed Mary Cheney

December 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships, Uncategorized

Lesbian to have baby.  Not just any lesbian but the daughter of Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States. This annunciation has the left and right of US politics all over the place. Is Mary really putting it up to her Dad on his refusal to suport same sex marriage? The Evangelicals are of […]

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Mitherings and congratulations

November 21st, 2006 · 7 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, LGBT, linkiness, Queer

Fair Play to Twenty A man in modern Ireland striving to make a difference, struggling against the machinations of a divided society. Divided into those who have the vision and those, like Stevie Wonder and Bertie Ahern, who don’t. From the acceptance speech that Tom Raftery sadly never got to make on behalf of Twenty Major […]

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Outing, Republicans and internalised homophobia

November 9th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer

I wasn’t going to write this post so soon but as I mentioned yesterday there seems to be a ‘problem’ with lots of closeted gay people at the upper echelons of the Republican Party. I say ‘problem’ because several groupings see it as a problem. Firstly we have the evangelicals who are reeling at the […]

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Election Round up

November 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, LGBT, Queer

Wrap up of the US Midterm elections So CNN got a load of bloggers in a cafe, from the left and the right and broadcast snippets from there during it’s election night coverage. I think the jury is out on whether the bloggers enjoyed it or indeed got any blogging done, and you know the […]

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Wednesday’s Links are full of….

November 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Social Media

Councillor Dominic Hannigan is now adding video blogging to his blog. Oh the trendsetter!! Robert and Maryam Scoble from Podtech presented at the Blog Business Summit about 10 ways to a better blog. Pdf of the slides can be found here – complete with cartoons by Hugh. (there are 15 ways according to the Scobles […]

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