Everyone, Stop Boycotting Mozilla!

I don't know how many times I've read of people
who've uninstalled this

STOP! Argh!

Sorry. I've just been really annoyed about this whole Mozilla CEO situation recently. Ever since Brendan Eich was chosen as CEO there's been this giant sh*tstorm around Mozilla for (in my opinion) nothing.

I'm gay, I'm as activist as they come, I founded this LGBT blog, and I'm STILL using Firefox. This site was even built using Firefox! "Shock!" "Horror!" No. I've been trying to avoid writing this post for over a week now, but earlier on today I found that now the anti-gay camp is boycotting Mozilla because they fired Eich from his position.

I'm really not amused by any of this. I've used Firefox from day one. Why? Because I don't want to feed all of my browsing history to data-hungry Google. Gmail scans your emails to give you "personalized" adverts (as if you care). And I don't support that.

A Quick Guide to NOM

The National Organization for Marriage (short name: NOM. Slogan: "We're so scared at all these things") has long been a large, legally untouchable thorn in the side of the QUILTBAG community’s search for marriage equality in the United States. A politically based not-for-profit monolith, it was established in 2007 for those select few who like their morning coffee with a healthy side of religious motifs, scare-mongering, and general complaining at the way society seems to be going.

They focus particularly on such society-destroying groups as same-sex couples, unmarried couples with children, divorced and/or remarried couples, and single mothers (there seems to be some real resentment against single mothers being cultivated there, for some reason).

SCOTUS Deals a Knockout Blow to Prop 8 and DOMA

Marriage equality supporters on Wednesday (S)

The Supreme Court of the United States (also known as SCOTUS) ruled on the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) as well as California’s Proposition 8 on the 26th June 2013. Both laws were deemed unconstitutional. However, it’s important to look at what this actually means, so without further ado I am here to explain what each of these laws were, how they came to be, how they were overturned, and what this changes for American same-sex married couples.

Exciting Times

The symbol which took over Social Networks this week (S) 

This week I was going to make a joke post for you all, but it’s well after midday here and I’m sure most of you are sick of April Fools by now anyway, so instead I am going to talk about how this week I learned way more about the US Supreme Court than I ever thought I would, my surprise at confrontations, and my joy at momentum.

Proposition 8 - Why it failed

Read the full case here.