Even in the grave it seems you’re still unequal.

Did you watch A Single Man, Tom Ford’s film starring Colin Firth about a gay professor widowed when his lover is killed in a car carsh?  He’s barred from the funeral by the homophobic family of his dead lover. 48 years after the film is set it’s still happening.

Anyways, the Governor Tim Pawlenty (Republican presidential candidate)  is screwing over gay couples again.  This time it is by rejecting the right of gays to claim dead domestic parnters’ bodies as proposed in a “Final Wishes” bill 

Yeah – cos indentifiying and collecting my dead domestic partner hurts your marriage? WTF!?

Says Pawlenty: it’s a “non-existent problem” (except when you get turned away from the morgue in the middle of your grief) and  “I oppose efforts to treat domestic relationships as the equivalent of traditional marriage. Accordingly, I am opposed to this bill.” (yeah, right on moron)

While this might be good news for lawyers and bigots, it’s a genuine travesty in the same US state where the first gay marraige happened 40 years ago this week (later overturned) and incidentally where the original book version of A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood is published by University of Minnesota Press.