Queeks and Challenging Hetero/Homosexism in the UK

Two items sent in by an anonymous alert reader have caught my interest this morning. First is the profile of a queer gaming festival in (the queer/vegan promised land of) Portland, Oregon, this coming weekend. The event will be a safe and fun space to introduce people to pen-and-paper roleplaying (think Dungeons and Dragons). Called Fantasy Quest, the event is a three-day spectacular designed to appeal to two historically marginalized categories of people – queers and geeks. Some of us are both – what does that makes us, queeks?

Check the article for photos of total babes Forsorcerers, who will be playing the second night of the event. I would love to attend this. It’s right up my alley.

The second article is a BBC story about a hetero couple seeking a civil union in the UK. They’ve been denied a license for a civil union – not only are gays not allowed to get married, but straights aren’t allowed to have civil unions either. The institutions are designed to widen the gap between “normal” and “wrong”, and Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle have decided to challenge that.

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