Pullout Jun 25, 2009 at 4:00 am

The Other Night I Did the Wildest Thing: I Made Peanut-Butter Cookies for My Family

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Je suis d'accord, Dan. La vie gaie est superieure!

Etienne
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Now I want peanut butter cookies.
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Dan, I'm from Oklahoma and embarrassed by Sally Kern and everyone that lives here who supports her!

And I can tell you right now, even though I've NEVER met you, that you are FAR superior to Sally Kern or anyone who thinks and spews the hate that she does.

I'm straight and I will ALWAYS support you and the homosexual lifestyle because this country was "supposed" to be founded on the concept of freedom, not religious bigotry and hatred.

Sean M.
leftofsean.com
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Dude! your sick and twisted. Peanut butter cookies,chocolatchip is the best!What were you thinking?
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Peanut butter! You sick bastard.Dude! chocolat chip all the way!

French Cook
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Um. I think you did post the picture of those cookies actually. Not that it diminishes your point that straight folk are often rightly jealous of homos more adventurous sex-lives, and often they subsume that jealousy into bigotry.
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@6: As I recall by the time he got home only two cookies were left - thus he was unable to post a picture of the full plate of cookies that he'd baked, but he was able to post a photo of the two lone cookies that the boyfriend and the kid (and the kid's friends) left for him.
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Si vives honesto tu vives un vivir bueno, Sr. Savage.

Sorry for the missing accent on "tu".
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Can someone please translate that ASAP
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Dan, one of the many things that I admire about you is your respect for privacy for your loved ones.

I also admire that time and again you prove to be a fine example that a life lived openly and honestly can have long-lasting loving effects.

Glad to hear that the longer you two are together the stronger and better your relationship gets. You're obviously doing something (or more likely several somethings) right.

All the best.
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My french got me through everything but the last sentence. Something about a shadowy street corner, three leather restraints, and something (shocking) that you had to count.
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Rough translation: Dan isn't at liberty to speak about his current sex life. He is able to speak about his exes, however. In Berlin, 1990, him, his boyfriend, a German friend, and a French-Canadian, plus a shadowy street corner, leather restraints...and the thing I can't translate but that had to be counted.

Someone who speaks better french can give you a direct blow-by-blow.
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Sie sind ein echter Hodensack, Herr Savage!
14
No, arts & letters, it was him, his German boyfriend, a French-Canadian tourist, 16 beers, 3 leather belts, a shadowy corner, and 20 blues.
15
Someone needs to write The Protocols of the Elders of West Hollywood so I can read it.
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I love reading your stuff Dan! Keep it up!

In a way though, you make an argument that homosexuals should continue to be persecuted, because then it's still scary to come out, which in turn makes it easier to be kinky. If gays and lesbians are ever treated as equals, and their lifestyles are considered "normal" like the rest of us (i.e., normal = boring), then will they become more sexually repressed too?

Food for thought.
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"No joke, I can't talk about the details of sex life with my boyfriend. I'm sorry to have made you turn the newspaper upside down and translate it into English - all that for nothing. But I can't write about my sex life with my boyfriend without taking the risk that he'll ask for a divorce and . . . . Ehhh, wait. It won't do to write about my sex life with my actual boyfriend, but I can write about exes. Okay: Berlin, 1990, Knast, me my German boyfriend, a French-Canadian tourist, 16 beers, a dark street corner, three leather belts, twenty bruises (we counted). Ahhh, memories!
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There is so much real 'depravity' in the world: domestic abuse, human trafficking, anti-immigrant violence, environmental destruction, genocide... Why doesn't Kern inform herself about one of these and take them on?
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And if turn about is fair play, the Mrs. Kerns of the world need to fess up as well. I bake a mean chocolate peanut butter cookie, am straight as they come, and love having depraved sex with my live-in boyfriend. The more we ALL claim wholesome and kink, the better!
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@17 Thank you. I was going on French skills that are 10 years old, and rather rusty.
21
I'm fluent in French, and Rox beat me to it. it's spot-on.

love your stuff, dan, as always, and i always appreciate a little francais thrown in for good measure!
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Dan, I would just like to say, that I can some times get mad as hell at some of your posts and articles, not because I disagree with the underlying goals, but how you go about achieving those goals, but, it's posts like this that really make me a big fan, the the courage to be both open and considerate of your partner is very admirable.
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I relate this to Dan's post yesterday about monogamy. In both cases it comes down to wanting to place social controls on private behavior. They want to control the human libido. IMHO the less we allow society to control our libidos the better. It is called freedom.
As I watch the Today Show this morning the story about the Governor of South Carolina is being featured complete with a "Why do men cheat" discussion by so called experts.
I would bet that a big majority of "cheaters" (female and male) never get caught and therefore there are no consequences. Besides it is myth that all actions have consequences,
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"Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam — which I think is a big threat, okay? Cause what's happening now is they are going after, in schools, two-year olds...And this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading, and it will destroy our young people, it will destroy this nation."
-Sally Kern

Apparently studies don't show ancient Greece. Once we deal with those dirty homosexuals, though, I'm sure we can do something about all those silly Muslims who seem to have snuck into our country while we weren't looking.
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all this is objectively true: it is ok to be gay and/or sexually uninhibited. i just hope you're not advocating this as a strategy for equality. by asserting both as a way to push for legal and social equality, we'd putting ourselves in a position where we're fighting a war on two fronts--the gay and the kinky. we shouldn't be ashamed of what we do in bed, but: a. there are situations in which is better not to talk about sex, and b. it's more effective to position ourselves as "not different" (regardless of whether we individually think that about ourselves specifically).
26
well said!
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well said!
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well said!
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I've been wondering what Dan's position is on Michael Warner and his 1999 book "The trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life." In many ways Dan appears to agree with him, emphasizing the importance of changing the sexual mores of society to accept variety in sex, but, on the other hand, Dan is in favor of gay marriage, which Michael Warner bitterly complains about. I've been thinking maybe I should read Dan's "The Commitment", but this issue appears to be a vehement celebration of Michael Warner's central thesis that queer folks should queer society instead of trying to normalize homosexuality. Dan wants it both ways. Go Dan!
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Well, aside from the spelling errors.......this is what he wrote to the best of my translating ability: No joke, I cannot tell the details of my sexual life with my partner. I am sorry to have to put this in backwards and upside down, and not in English. But I cannot write on my sexual life with my partner without risking a divorce… but wait! I can’t write on my sexual life with my current partner, but I have the right to write about my exes! Okay: Berlin, 1990, Knast, me, my German partner, a French-Canadian tourist, 16 beers, a dark street corner, three leather belts, and a constable—the blue one. Ah, the souveniers!

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sounds uber FUN!!! Sorry I missed it!
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Wow! I mixed up the word vingtaine... with vigtaine.... funny! But then, I haven't spoken French since I was about 4 years old....lol!
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Merci Dan, tres interessant et ca fait plaisir qu'un americain puisse ecrire le francais aussi bien.

Thank you Dan, very interesting, it is a pleasure to see that an american can write such good french .
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i am (somewhat) amazed at how interested she is in our sex lives!

sheesh, i wonder what exactly she's reading...

and whether or not she can tell me what it is so i can get some tips for my boyfriend
34
Une histoire de coquinerie en francais, c'est d'autant plus pervers! Merci, Dan. (Et excuse le manque d'accents.)
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C'est vrai, mon amour n'aime pas quand j'ecris de lui aussi.
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Dan,
I fuckin love you. Thank you for reminding me that just because I want to live on a farm with my boyfriend, and some kids and grow vegetables doesn't make me 'normal.' Further, it doesn't mean I should apologize for those parts of me that frighten sexually repressed folks (both gay and straight).

You make an excellent point about how coming into one's homosexuality makes other aspects of sex significantly less foreboding. Thus, I've been more willing to try new things, and surprise, surprise, a lot of those other (kinky) things were AWESOME. My depraved gay sex life has opened my mind, expanded my consciousness of my body, my emotions, and my limits.

This expanded awareness makes me better in those normal components of my life. It makes me satisfied, gives me focus, as I'm not thinking of all the other things I wish I could do. It makes these 'boring' parts of my life more interesting, because my eyes are more open to them, and to how they contrast to those depraved-as-defined-by-Sally-Kern (because, really, I'm pretty vanilla).

While us non-heteros want our rights, want to be recognized as equals by our country, we do ourselves a disservice by not representing who we really are. This doesn't mean showing up to give testimony in favor of homoesxual marriage wearing assless chaps. It does mean never apologizing for what we do (or don't do), because these choices, and expriences are what make us different, and allow us to bring something unique to the table.

You rule,
TK
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Juicing the Fruits

by James Nimmo

(OKLAHOMA CITY) I'm sure the sham of appearing at the Capitol and giving the impression this is a legislative procedure is exactly what was intended when GOPer Sally Kern and Krew planned their morality proclamation ceremony on July 2 in Oklahoma City.

If she were interested in promoting only morality and not instead, introducing her personal religious restrictions, why isn't she using her own church, Olivett Baptist, as her backdrop?

As always with the mentally unbalanced words and actions are morphed into absurd definitions and shapes. Lies to support other lies are always invented, regardless of how holy the intent of the lies is supposed to be.

She speaks of divorce as contributing to national decline. How short her memory is for anything except bible verses.

Kern's patron saint, Ronald Reagan, was divorced, as is Newt Gingrich and Rumbaugh twice each. Sen. Vitter of LA likes diaper sex with paid escorts and Gov. Sandford of SC abandons his family and state duties to amorize in Argentina. Gov. Palin of AK can't teach her eldest daughter to say simple words like, "No".

When you don't set yourself up on a high soap box in the first place and then mistake it for a psychiatrist's office you don't have to fall so inevitably far when you come up short in your own life.

Kern should spend more time looking at the fruit falling close to her family tree ( http://tinyurl.com/krahr9 ) before she tries to juice the private lives of others.

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Here is a portion of Oklahoma Bigot Sally Kern's press conference in regard to her Morality Proclamation

As many of you know GOPer Rep. Sally Kern has issued a "Morality Proclamation" that blames America's economic recession and social problems on "sexual debauchery" including gay/lesbian citizenship.

Funny how she spouts off figures from polls indicating 80-90% belief in the christian god, yet she claims there's still not enough religion in America. Kern and her fundie Krew want the whole American pie, crust and crumbs included.

You can get up to speed on Kern's activities here http://tinyurl.com/ltttyy and here http://tinyurl.com/yr63qo

This recording was made in the hallway of the Capitol by an Oklahoma City resident. The press room was too small to hold all those media wanting access and this YouTube posting is just a portion of Kern's ignorant, hateful remarks and does not represent the rally held earlier.

Does anyone know the identity of the man with facial hair in the red shirt with white stripes standing behind Kern during the recording?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psaah-s2f… 5Fvideos% 5Fedit&feature=player_embedded

or http://tinyurl.com/mf5pl6

More about Sally Kern is available here: http://okstonewall.org/forums/index.php? board=56.0

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No joke, I cannot tell the details of my sexual life with my boyfriend. I'm sorry to have forced you to hold the newspaper upside down and put it in front of a mirror in the re-translated English...all that for nothing. But I cannot write on my sexual life with my boyfriend without taking the risk he will demand a divorce and...uuhhh, wait. It does not do to write on my sexual life with my current boyfriend, but I have the right to write about my exes. Okay, Berlin, 1990, Knast, me, my German boyfriend, a French-Canadian tourist, 16 beers, a dark street corner, 20 bruises (that we counted). Ah, memories!

Much love from Montreal, Dan! Adore reading your column. It's so nice to know that despite all the bullshit from the Republicans and religious conservatives that makes your country seem crazy sometimes, there are people in the US like you that can see right through their bigoted rhetoric and completely dismantle them.
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Hi,
I'm 14 and I love this...blog? Sorry, I was searching stuff on Google (Don't ask) and this showed up, so I have no idea what I am on.
Anyway, I'm 14, British and have no idea who Kern is but she sounds like a chit. I reiterate, I'm 14, and I am less of a bigot than she is. And i'm a teenager! Well done on writing this, because your right. Personally, I have no idea why people are so embarressed about there sex lives. I mean, everyones done it a little bit, haven't they? I also agree with you about how homosexuals have a more fufilling sex life. I see no problems with being kinky, or fufilled. Kern seems like an ingnorant women who needs to see past that little box she lives in. Ignorance leads to fear and fear leads to hate and hate leads to unnessecary pain. She needs to grow up and open her eyes. It's the 21st century, not the dark ages.

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