Went to Thistledown Farms and got some seasonal produce. Then we went down to the riverbank out by Jasper State Park to pick stone for the rock garden. Came home and were putting the rocks out in the triangular bed by the sidewalk when I heard a horn toot. I didn't look up right away, because as Kevin says, my friends are not the type who honk ( Read more... )

Here is a link to a YouTube video of a speech (3:40, sfw, turn it up) given by Michelle Obama to the Democratic queer caucus. (Okay it's actually yclept LGBT Caucus, which I render as GBLT because you can pronounce it "giblet," but I digress ( Read more... )

Today I heard a radio commercial in the kitchen for an upcoming concert at the nearby casino. The artist? Donna Summer. Well I went OFF in the kitchen about that name, much to the surprise of my crew. I told them, "That woman made MILLIONS of dollars from my brothers back in the awful disco era, then she repudiated her gay fans, saying we are an ( Read more... )

It isn't about being proud. Nearly forty years later, it isn't about a parade, a fabulous outfit, a husband or a hot trick. It's about being pissed off enough to fight back.

So Germany has put up a monument to honor the pink triangles, the gay men who were classified and worked to death at the bottom of the concentration-camp pecking order ( Read more... )

Based on an entry that quirkypandacub made about his sister ( Read more... )

Lurch died. Met him a few times, notably chez that_dang_otter; he hit on me relentlessly. though I never took him up on it.

Upon him peace. He was loved by many.

Why did the government rush to reopen the bars in the French Quarter?

So the 82nd Airborne would have a place to get drunk and pick up whores -- otherwise the guys would start fucking each OTHER or something, and God (tm) knows we can't have THAT!

According to some Brit twits at http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/G/gayometer/gayometer.html, I am 60% gay, i.e. "a happy and well-adjusted homo guy."

San Francisco Pride yesterday, and "Gay Shame" got arrested. They dragged a bunch of sofas into the street and sat down to block the parade, in order to protest the companies that market to us and come to Pride to sell us things but don't care about us. (Since WHEN is that a gay issue ( Read more... )