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Queercents Weekly Roundup: One Week ‘Til Pride Week
Pride week isn’t even here and already I got to celebrate two of my friends coming out with the fantastic movie But I’m A Cheerleader. And Iowa and Vermont have legalized same-sex marriage. Who’s looking forward to pride week? I’m looking forward to pride week. But before we get there, the roundup. Doing some spring…
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Wedding on a Budget: Documents Same Sex Couples Must File to Protect Their Relationships
This is week 9 of our Wedding on a Budget series. We’ve talked about all the fun and romantic parts of getting married. But the one topic we haven’t discussed is probably the least romantic aspect of planning your marriage – filing the documents you need to protect yourself in the absence of legal recognition…
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Vlog: Student Loans, Part Dos
Good afternoon, Queercents readers. Part two of my three-part series exploring student loan debt is now available. In this episode, I discuss consolidating federal and private student loans. It’s not quite time to make payments, but it is time to get your loans all in order to start paying them off. Come learn about a…
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Annie Leibovitz Pays Price for Anti-Gay Tax Laws
As an avid photographer I am a big fan of one of the world’s most famous photographers Annie Leibovitz. I hadn’t known much about her beyond her famous work until I went to a show of her work at the Brooklyn Art Museum a year or two ago. Besides the breathtaking experience of…
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HRC to Host National “Tax Chat” on LGBT Financial Issues
April 15th is always a good reminder that gays and lesbians pay equal taxes but are denied equal rights. Isn’t it time that we receive the same benefits for our tax dollars as straight people? So in advance of ‘œTax Day’ the Human Rights Campaign has scheduled a national web chat on a variety of…
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Passive Income Report for March 2009
OK, so it’s not quite as easy as this.—————————-> In the last year, earning money through passive income has become a hobby of mine. A huge contributor has been my blog, but other sources of income include selling used books, investing in CDs and the stock market, and trying to find the best credit…
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Give and Take in Household Renovation Priorities
This spring our attic has been insulated. We’re also getting new exterior doors for the front and side of our house. A new furnace and air conditioner, too. We started making our house more energy efficient in October before the economy really went sour. We don’t actually have the cash for all…
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How Immigration Issues Effect Same Sex Couples
There’s been a lot of talk in the past two weeks about same sex marriage. Iowa and Vermont have joined the short list of states that support full marriage equality, with Washington, DC jumping on the bandwagon as well. And with Tax Day right around the corner, several Queercents contributors have talked about the unfairness…
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Using A Timer To Break Up Work
We live in an age of distraction. If you watch TV, you’re interrupted every 8-10 minutes by three minutes of commercials. Radio stations will play five or six song sets before they too are forced to allow various companies to interject. If you’re trying to work, there’s always the constant influx of emails, phone…
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Adjust Your Cell Phone Minutes by the Month to Save Money
I found out something interesting recently. About a year or two ago, any change to my cell phone plan would require a new contract. Even something as simple as going from 100 text messages to 250, or adding the capability of sending picture texts, would require another year added to my contract. …
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