http://www.sfgate.com/cgi_bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/BADV1ANFSR.DTL

From the San Francisco Chronicle:
(11-19) 17:14 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The chief federal appeals court judge in San Francisco bluntly ordered the Obama administration Thursday to stop resisting his finding that the wife of a lesbian court employee was entitled to government insurance coverage.

(you might have to search for DOMA on the SFGate page)  The column is under "Judge to feds: She's our employee, stay out of it"

Judge Alex Kozinski, chief federal appeals court judge in San Francisco, has e tered the battle for equality for same gender partners and married couples.  And, you may note in the article, he was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan in 1985.  I'm not as sure of his standing in the power hierarchy as His Honour is, but I sure like the way the man thinks.  Of course, I'm twice as queer as three coats of pink paint on a three dollar bill so the judge is aces in my book.

If you follow down to the "Comments" section, there are a number of interesting quotes attributed to Thomas Jefferson from papers, speeches and his autobigraphy.  Those are going to be fun to validate.

Here's a poem about living gay in 1987.

The Other Men

Lady, you came to talk to me
'Cause you know that I'm his friend
And you can't understand why he'll
Only see you for dinner every now and then.
Well, last night he told me
Your friend I've been seeing
Talked the same way 'bout me to him.

Yes, we know you want us for lovers.
We can't tell you you're only our covers --
Because we're not with other women:
We're each others' Other Men.

It's not fair to use you this way,
But with our jobs we're not free
to live our lives with truth each day.
If we let our lives be known -- we'd be fired -- you'd see,
So we're telling you two
Believing you'll help out --
Having dates to support your friends.

You think there are laws to protect us,
But voters and employers reject us
Because we weren't born to love women --
We're each others' Other Men.