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Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Interesting background to "lambda."

Looking over The Sodomy Cases again, the book is rather good, though it starts off with a bit too erudite sounding preface of sorts. Good material, but some might not like the style. I also still think that instead of spending two chapters on Griswold and Roe, that could have been one chapter, and one could have focused on pre-Bowers gay rights law. There was after all a chapter about the interim between the two sodomy cases.  Overall, the book is fairly down to earth and has some powerful insights that fits the issue into a universal context. 

As a political activist, a host here thought Game Change was a bit "didactic" and "basic," the other "cartoonist," though both thought Moore did a great job.   I went back and forth when first mentioning it, but again think the broader issue isn't to think as an activist.  And, as I noted, some activists actually LIKED it on that level.  Some truth all around.

Also, Logo is going the Bravo (used to be a PG rated IFC, just like AMC used to actually consistently show American Movie Classics, now the role of TMC) route: watering down its original purpose.  Will there have to be a "real" GLBTQ channel now?  here! can serve that function, perhaps, but it appears to be a pay channel (I get a lot of channels, but not that) of limited reach. Still, with so much niche programming, an opening is available for those who do not want a somewhat more gay Bravo channel.