The Right to Choose

Dan Savage's latest column (via) contains what I can only call a tantrum, a Rumplestiltskin-style stamping of his foot in a two-year-old's fury. Which is nothing new, of course, for Savage. But as I read his outburst, I began wondering just why he was so angry.The occasion of his tantrum was another antigay bigot saying that homosexuality is a "conscious choice." Savage challenged the bigot to

The Right to Choose

Dan Savage's latest column (via) contains what I can only call a tantrum, a Rumplestiltskin-style stamping of his foot in a two-year-old's fury. Which is nothing new, of course, for Savage. But as I read his outburst, I began wondering just why he was so angry.The occasion of his tantrum was another antigay bigot saying that homosexuality is a "conscious choice." Savage challenged the bigot to

Freedom of the Will

I reread Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge's joint essay, "War Machine, Time Machine," in Queer Universes, and found this reminiscence by Griffith. Her first novel, Ammonite, took place on a planet without men, so all the women there were lesbian. Her second novel, Slow River, takes place on a gritty, urban future Earth, and the protagonist is lesbian.Not long after I sent the Slow River

Freedom of the Will

I reread Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge's joint essay, "War Machine, Time Machine," in Queer Universes, and found this reminiscence by Griffith. Her first novel, Ammonite, took place on a planet without men, so all the women there were lesbian. Her second novel, Slow River, takes place on a gritty, urban future Earth, and the protagonist is lesbian.Not long after I sent the Slow River