The Gay Thread

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Hockey games are played in three 20-minute periods. NHL teams get 15 minutes between periods where they can go to their locker rooms and make out with each other.

Is that where they got the term "Tonsil Hockey?"

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Yes, yes it is.

[SacTown Chronic]

Sean Avery is in the business of drawing attention to Sean Avery. He's the Barry Zito of hockey.




Barry Zito is as gay as Easter, btw.

[BarTopDancer]

Sean Avery deserves to be flattened into a pancake on the ice. I am so thrilled that the officials seem to finally have his number.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

A sign seen at the march yesterday

[Morrigoon]

I've found that if you spray down your equipment with Lysol after every game, and air it out for at least a day, you can keep the stink factor WAY down.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

I've found that if you spray down your equipment with Lysol after every game, and air it out for at least a day, you can keep the stink factor WAY down.

I don't know what kind of games we're talking about, but I will NOT be spraying my equipment with Lysol.

Airing it out sounds pleasant, though of questionable legality.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

All that passing they wear absorbs sweat and then it ferments.

BAH!
I meant "padding", just in case it wasn't obvious.
<slaps forehead>

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Sorry, but in my book - - if you like sports, you're faux gay.

Originally Posted by JWBear

What about lesbians?

I love sports- at least hockey and football, anyway. Never quite got basketball or baseball.

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Of some curious interest, Sean Avery, the most hated--and, supposedly, crudely, rudely straight--player in the NHL, is studying to be a fashion designer.

Fascinating.

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Avery is a douchebag. ...snip... And there has been speculation for years that he is gay.

Really? Huh. You're right that he's a douchebag.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

It seems a ripe topic of discussion to consider gay stereotypes and whether to embrace them, acknowledge them with dignity and humor, or work against them.

Hmm.... I have arguments for both sides....

[innerSpaceman]

Judge Walker hands a cool hand rebuke to the lawyers for Prop 8 in the now famous Olson/Bois-helmed federal case headed for the U.S. Supreme Court some day.

The Judge wants the case on a fast track to public trial in January, and has ordered the Prop 8ers to produce their inner campaign documents, to see if Prop 8 was motivated by animus toward homosexuals. While the Prop 8ers appeal that order, they made another delaying tactic by moving that the matter be decided without a trial. Huh? The hearing on that motion was today, and Judge Walker handed them the smackdown.

As reported by Legal Pad:

Originally Posted by Legal Pad

"We can't put very much stock in that case, can we?" Walker asked Cooper. The ruling in Baker v. Nelson had not been a considered opinion, Walker said, but rather issued without comment. Plus it was old, he said, and the facts weren't the same.

Same-sex-marriage attorney Theodore Olson of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher was quick to reinforce Walker's doubts.

"The points you made in your questions are points I would make," Olson said.

Beyond outright dismissal, Walker is also about [to] make the consequential decision about which standard of review will apply during the January trial. And while he didn't give a clear indication of his leanings this morning, he did a good job of demonstrating the stakes.

Prop 8 defenders think a rational basis should prevail, while same sex marriage advocates argue for stricter level of scrutiny. Cooper rested much of his argument on the notion that the state has a rational basis to promote opposite sex marriages, in order to further procreation.

At one point, though, Walker posited a hypothetical: assuming he agrees with Cooper on that point, how does permitting same sex couples to marry adversely affect that interest?

After some back and forth, Cooper eventually conceded: "The answer is, I don't know. I don't know."

"Does that mean if it's not rational basis review, you lose?" Walker asked.

"No."

"You just haven't figured out how to win on that level," the chief judge surmised.

Nailed. Tee and Hee.