That's just sweet. =)

Here is a big surprise to all you dumbass, unimaginative youngsters: elderly people still have sex! You, in fact, may still want sex when you are "elderly". I don't think it depends on the liberalness of the city you live in...there is not some magic cut off date where desire ends. This includes being ggg, fetish activity, whatever. So, you know how you feel now when you want to fuck?
Same idea, older body.

I hate to mention it, but today at noon is the Founders' Day Luncheon for Gamma Gamma Gamma in Madison...
http://www.madisonques.com/

@2 - maybe your dumbass, unimaginative self can't imagine that the reason for the surprise at them being elderly is that Savage Loves readership and listenership skews almost exclusively to those under, say, 65. I think with the constant bombardment of ED ads on TV, no one is surprised about elderly people having sex anymore.

I'd like to think otherwise, but I think gus has probably unveiled the truth...

....and whenever I see the colour burgundy now, I think of Kinky Boots: "Good Lord, please tell me I have NOT inspired something in *burgundy*..."

My 87 year old mother reads savage love, but she lives in Seattle so maybe it is geographic. Dan is everyone's favorite son here. Oh, and there is no way she is having sex. Ick.
Parent's don't have sex. Ever.

Let's not go crazy. Madison is NOT a "liberal haven." I've been living here for 6 years and I've seen more hate crimes here than in Chicago, more intolerance here, more hatred for the "black ghettos." Madison has its nice stores and great restaurants, but most of its residents made like miserable for anyone different. Just because it has a few co-ops and a large lesbian population does not make it a "liberal haven."

I was walking in the parking lot of the 24 hour fitness club on Kent East Hill when I saw a Kentucky license plate that said "Christian". I was almost going to snap a pic and send it off to SLOG -- thinking that KY now had religious flavored plates and wondering what you would make of it (well, not wondering exactly).

However, I guess what I saw was this style plate:

http://www.15q.net/us2/ky08.jpg

So the label is the county of the owner. And Kentucky has a county called "Christian" !

http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/kentuck…

@5, holy shit, Canuck - I YouTubed your reference and realized to my horror I'd never even HEARD of that movie! Early Chiwetel Ejiafor and Nick Frost in the East Midlands? Wow. Queuing it on Netflix this moment.
Your moment is right at the 1:00 mark here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83DXny5IQ…

I'm with @1.

Ah gus, you are in for a rare treat! Saw it in the theatre with my daughter, who was an early teen at the time, and as we left she said wistfully, "I wish *I* had a best friend like that"...(she highly approved of the glamour, glitter and 4" heels). It's a really lovely movie, and so much better than that voice-over on the preview would lead you to believe...enjoy!

madison is definitely but "relatively" a liberal haven if you were to compare it to the countryside and suburbs that surround it. but that's just relative.
if you were to compare it to the liberal haven that is san francisco, or seattle, or new york, then it doesn't quite match up.
sure it could be savage's brand of GGG in madison, but also highly likely it means something else.

@9, Gloomygus, you've not seen Kinky Boots??? It's mandatory viewing for Sloggers!!

I am thinking they are Masons. I mean, can't get much more freakier cult like then them.

@15 Hell, I think "Kinky Boots" should be mandatory viewing for people who enjoy laughing so hard they wind up suffering severe lung injuries.

One day, a historian will write a book called The Dan Savage Effect, detailing all the many well-established customs that came from this source.

Harvey and Cyndi are work-shopping the musical version of "Kinky Boots"

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140…

Ummmm, Dan. Honey? GGG also means Great Great Grandma! GG, GGG, GGGG are all used regularly in genealogy.

I love and I think you are great, but I'm thinkin' this is a proud gramma several times over and it's entirely possible that she's never heard of Dan, The Stranger or GGG! Just sayin'.

the handle "gigi" instead of nanna, grandma, etc. derived from GGGrandma, I think.

The Gamma Gamma Gamma (Madison) chapter of Omega Psi Phi (historically African-American fraternity) is only 26 years old, so its founders wouldn't be "elderly" ... though they might appear so to a passing youngerly photog.

Whatever - no reason all these things might not coincide - indeed, "in its early years, the chapter sponsored a workshop ... on “Teenage Human Sexuality” for African-American males. "

What the hell does GGG mean ?

@24
try google: "acronym GGG"

ta da!

"I am Grandma's Grocery Getter"

yeeeah we all love savage but guys lets don' let him get too full of himself or he'll start sucking like elderly rock stars

oh wait but that's what he has a teenager for nevermind

GGG also means German Goo Girls, as I learned from Craigslist. You never know, this could be a bukkake fetishist.

Unrelated: this is nice (not the circumstances of course, but the kid standing up for his teacher): Graeme Taylor, 14, Is Sticking Up For Mi…

Fucker: McCain Moves The Goal Posts Again On DAD…

WOW, BEG!! Awesome video clip of 14 year old Graeme Taylor...what a cool kid. He sounds like he's about 35.

Want to do a transcript? :) Haven't found one yet, but I love how composed he looks in the video.

BEG:
"My father is Kurt Taylor, he's a teacher here, and he tells me about things that go on at Heartland [?], and in this area, it seems like a nice community. I myself am gay, and I'm a young person, and that can cause lots of trouble. When you hear things like Dr. King's speech, that one day he wanted his grandchildren and his posterity to not be judged on the colour of their skin, but on the content of their character. I hope that one day, we too can be judged for the content of our character and not who we love. Howell is the headquarters for the KKK. Does that really sound great on your racism record? The fact they they chose this city to come into? And you probably want to get rid of that. How would you like more headlines of "Howell denies gays, Howell doesn't protect them?" This teacher, whom I fully support, finally stood up and said something. I've been in classrooms where children have said the worst kind of things. The kind of things that helped drive me to a suicide attempt when I was 9 years old. These are the things that hurt a lot. There's a silent holocaust out there, in which an estimated 6 million gays a year kill themselves. Is this really environment we want for our school? Do we really want this on our record? Now, I'm saying the best thing you can do right now is just give him his pay for that day, and just reverse the disciplinary action. He did an amazing thing. He did something that's inspired a lot of people. And whenever a teacher stands up for me like that, they change in my eyes. I support Jay McDowell, and I hope you do too."
(loud applause.)

BEG, my son happens to be a tech savvy youth, much like Dan's, and he says there's an iPhone app that is called "Dragon Dictation" (or something), and if you hold your phone up, it will transcribe the speech for you--just thought you might want to know!

Hey, thanks!

Yes, I use google voice and it's really hit or miss. It seems to depend on a lot of factors: the speaker's accent, degree of mumbling, background noise and so on. Google uses the same technology for auto captioning videos -- you can go to YouTube and play around with it. You will see sometimes it works well and sometimes it makes the speaker look like he's on LSD :) The technology has a long way to go.

Gays in the military.

Survey of military personnel shows 70% see little risk in repealing DADT.

Of course McCain will ignore this as he has ignored other goals that he insisted needed to be met first (and have been).

The weird disassociation, the extreme obsession...does McCain remind you of an older Andrew Shirvell, BEG? If dems were this batshit crazy, they'd be crucified.

They all sound alike, don't they? Must be some boot camp in common they go through.

I just don't get why the media holds him up as the only person to interview in all this. Where's the interviews of Collins, Snowe, and Brown? Where's the interviews with military commanders? The legal defense lawyers? Why do they abandon their "two sides" when it's not about gay teen suicide?

Man, I'm *so* glad this doddering old fossil didn't get elected.

Anyway, shorter McCain: Those homos will treat men like I treat women!

Total projection, I say.

Now this is class: Barclays Offers Tax Offset to Gay Worker…

One of Britain's largest banks announced Friday that it will reimburse its U.S. employees for the federal taxes they pay on health benefits for their domestic partners.

When I tell people I'm from Madison the first thing they usually ask is if I read the Onion (which got its start there). They also often ask about Dan Savage too. We think of Dan as a native son, even though he's not, I think just because his column was everywhere (in every coffee shop and restaurant) in the late 80's. And also at the time there was so much sex and so many drugs that a columnist who was talking about such things was a sort of hero.

Also, Dan, didn't you live in Madison for a few years?

When did public schools stop teaching basic reading comprehension anyway?

My first thought was also that it was likely to be "great great grandma/pa," but regardless, the pic and thought are cute.