December 10, 2008

It's December 10th. Did you call in Gay today?
posted by Capt. Renault 15 years ago
  • Honey, I call in gay every day.
  • I called in gay, and luckily I didnt fire myself. seriously, this is cool and really awesome to know that people in other states are doing this to protest proph8te
  • BUT I CAN'T CALL IN AT WORK ON 12/10 OR I'LL GET FIRED! If you live in one of the 30 states where individuals can still be fired simply for being gay or lesbian, there are still plenty of ways that you can lend a hand and a voice in our fight for gay equality--without missing work. I think it's absolutely wonderful that they've thought of ways to participate for people who can't call in, but the wording is a bit funny and vaguely strawmannish, isn't it? I mean, I don't think the people who can't call in are worried about being fired for being gay, but for citing it as a reason to miss work. Except in the case of the closeted, if they were going to be fired for simply being gay, they wouldn't have jobs to call in to in the first place, would they? Doesn't it seem more likely that people would be fired because they don't have discretionary/personal time coming, they can't afford to lose a day's wages, or they have a deadline? I get that it's sort of a sickout/blue flu thing, but in those cases people actually call in sick, even though everyone knows they're not.
  • I thought about it, but frankly, my clients are all pretty gay friendly- my biggest client right now is the company who produced Prop 8 the musical, and just about everything I do is a fairly visible gay action... Since I am self-employed, my boss is this really hot gay dude anyway, so he and I are planning to come to a personal understanding in the shower in a few minutes. I'm busy working on other ways to advance our cause, anyway, like DO NOT USE GOOGLE PRODUCTS- THEY ARE EVIL two-faced backstabbing bigot-loving money-grubbers!!!! Go here to read why and then find alternative services to use like ask.com for search or bloglines for RSS reading or AdBlockPlus to filter out all google ads from gmail... I think that'll do for my version of calling in gay today.
  • See, this is an odd protest to me. I assume it is based on Day Without a Mexican of a couple years back. The point of which, of course, was to show that without hispanics our economy just wouldn't work. What was calling in gay supposed to demonstrate?
  • how utterly fabulous we are, silly.
  • I didn't call in gay ('cuz I'm not), but I did go see "Milk", the new biopic about Harvey Milk. The film started strong, very engrossing, then lurched a bit into tear-jerk territory, IMHO. Still, very good overall, well worth going to.
  • I called in with a Semi Thinking About Michelle Obama and Condi Rice Lip-Locking in the Situation Room.
  • *gets the rolled-up newspaper and the genital cuff*
  • *gets popcorn* What's that? Oh.
  • Has anyone seen my geintal cuff? I left it around here somewhere...
  • Is that the cuff that Ed Gein used?
  • I didn't bother to call in gay; I figured it would be much more useful to show up to my place of work and promote queer marriage rights by being extra gay. The feather boa and repeated cries of "YOU GO, GIRL!" caused some looks, but what eventually got me sent home was the blowjob I gave to the UPS deliveryman in the bathroom.