What President Obama can do at this speech is to model how a genuine straight ally can do his or her part to help end discrimination against gay people. Yes, he's the President, and so he ought to do much more. But until he does, he should be sharing our stories with the world, to help make it clear why equal rights matter--to gays and non-gays alike. Show the world, Mr. President, how we are just like you, and perhaps more important, how you are just like us: In what ways are we pretty normal, and in what ways are you kinda Queer?
How are you like us, Mr. President? Your love for your family is just as important to you and just as prone to fragility; you've worked hard and paid your taxes and, like us, wanted to believe your government wouldn't slap a surcharge on your life just because of whom you love; and, despite what you've achieved, you've suffered discrimination and denigration because you're seen as different. Like it or not, you're Queer like us!
On a completely unrelated matter:
Tom Cruise, fashion police !:
Katie Holmes surely has a hot critique of her dressing style—hubby Tom Cruise. Talking in the November issue of Elle, the actress, 30, has said that Cruise, 47, often critiques her clothes.
"He usually likes everything, but sometimes I'll walk out and he'll say, ''I think that dress might be wearing you. You don't need that,"
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