What if every fag stopped...

...giving their lunch money to the bully?
Seriously, what would happen if every single gay, lesbian and transgendered person in this fucked up country stopped paying taxes until we are recognized as EQUAL citizens with EQUAL rights?

Uncle Sam HATES your faggot ass - but LOVES your $$$

"By not paying taxes, this is a deliberate act of civil disobedience towards a President that wants to make an amendment to the Constitution to only allow marriage between a man and woman, rather than two people who love each other, and that discriminates against us as full citizens of the United States."

LOOK what this old, gay couple is doing with their millions. Stick it to 'em, gays... I mean guys.

Where is Thomas?

Sanibel Island, Florida, with my boyfriend.
Too relaxed to type................

T.C. Chiu

The final solution - extermination of gay culture

The Christian hyenas are actively seeking prey

Who are they after? Me. You. Us.

They say:

"So let me ask you bluntly, if I might: What is so "American" about things like anal sex between two men?

In an interview I had with Liberty Counsel's President and Chief Counselor, Mat Staver, recently, he said:

"[Homosexuality] harms children and families and has a destabilizing effect on our culture" and "[I]f the American public really knew what [homosexuals] do, they'd act. They would never vote for homosexual marriage."

NBC proudly states that "Will & Grace" has won eight GLAAD Media Awards. Okay, so what does that prove? Nothing at all. You see, Hollywood, including NBC, is trying extremely hard to separate the image of homosexuality from the harsh and brutal reality of the homosexual lifestyle, by depicting homosexuals as somewhat normal, if only a bit quirky.

But there's nothing normal about male-to-male, or female-to-female, "sex." It wars against nature and it wars against you and me. It goes against the grain of traditional American values.

God got it right the first time[his reference is to the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah - Ed.], and anything that willfully chooses otherwise is unwise, at best. Actually, it's self-centered and incredibly foolish. I know that I will be called a "bigot" or "intolerant" by some, but why tolerate an agenda that threatens the very future of America as we know it? There is no good and justifiable reason not to oppose it.

Everything hangs in the balance

Passage of homosexual "rights" and related hate-speech laws threatens to effectively silence the Church itself (as I'll talk more about later in this article). But you can change that. Call and write your legislators and let them know that you adamantly oppose the "gay agenda." When you call, ask the operator to "register" your opinion. And by the way, if you lost your copy of the "gay agenda," send me a note and I'll send you mine. It is decidedly anti-American and anti-Christian.

No vote

Homosexuality has no validity, nor does it have God's blessing. It does not have the blessings of the American people either, otherwise these issues would be put to a vote instead of back-channeled through the courts and a few hidden legislative procedures. Wherever the homosexual agenda has been put to the vote, it has been overwhelmingly defeated."

Hey, all you wonderful fags and dykes out there - Wake the fuck up! These hate-filled Christians are on a mission to seek and destroy any gay voice in America. Total annihilation is their mission. They wish to completely erase anything gay in America. They are mounting the final solution - the extinction and total eradication of gay culture.
READ for yourselves.

Featured blogmate 18+: Coffeehouse Migraine

David of Coffeehouse Migraine

You'd think he is a sensitive Cancer, but he's right smack dab in the middle of Aries. This 23 year old blogger is full of lofty ideas and bright insights, yet seems innocent and almost injured... until you see all the cock photos. He loves to post pics of young, amateur guys around his age showing their twig and berries. He hasn't posted in several days, but I think he's busy with school.
He says:

i guess i'm a hardcore transhumanist and a backyard socialist. i live in boca raton but i have wanted to be anywhere but here. at times my head spins out control due to the lack of human intelligence and excess social stupidity. i hate cottton candy and republicans. i love the gravitron and picking my nose. funnel cakes are the best and so are hamsters. i like the smell of thunder storms and the sound of horses galloping.

ps - I think he was in the Army.

The more you know...

It sometimes worries me how we as a gay culture and tribe can so easily and happily forget the horrors of the world around us and settle into our fabulous gayness - and gay IS fabulous. As the religious hyenas sniff us out, and slowly skulk towards our warm campfire, they are exponentially growing in numbers and bravado.
The horror of it all is that "they" are our parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, coworkers, neighbors, and ultimately, human family. But as history shows us ad nauseam, that means nothing.
For some reason, the good people of America are buying into this frantic howl of the Christian right. The #1 rally cry is "the children," as if we were so many Vlad Dracula's foaming at the mouth, seeking fresh blood. What these ignorant townspeople don't realize, as they sharpen their pitchforks and sickles, is that their children are born like us and eventually seek more like themselves, becoming "us."
The second battle cry is religion. No matter how many times we say, "I'm gay and it's okay," it will never be okay with them and they have their skewed view of religion to prove it. "If God is with us, who can be against us," validates anything they concoct. I know these people. I came from these people. We will never persuade these people that being gay is okay. I have heard the argument/analogy innumerable times that, like gays, pedophiles (their 1st go-to analogy), no matter how much they say what they feel is natural, will never be okay. So then, in case you don't know, the inevitable next step after allowing civil rights to gays - according to the Christian right in their reasoning - is accepting pedophilia and any other sexual behavior as normal. What does that tell you? Obviously that they view homosexuality and pedophilia in the same vein. No? Really? When I came out to my father, he sent me articles on pedophilia.
I can tell you from observing my sister and brother-in-law with my niece, to a new parent, the world exclusively becomes the child and anything, no matter how small, that threatens the environment of the child as they believe it should be, becomes enemy #1 (think mama bear and cubs - deadly). This is why the Christian right makes "Save our Children" their rallying cry.
Check out the following links to see for yourselves how they view us as an eminent danger and urgent threat. After all, the lives of their children are at stake, and ultimately, the future of America.

Parent's Rights USA.

Article 8 Alliance.

And here is what ultimately became, in their view, a declaration of war. This is the bloody flag of their jihad.

The Gay Agenda.

Morning cup o' uomo

Say Goodnight Gracie

After 8 seasons, NBC cancels Will & Grace. The Christian Right kills gay babies in celebration and sacrificial thanks.
I'm not joking (about NBC). READ it.

Staying off the wieners

On VH1's Celebrity Fit Club 3, gay comedian host ANT said tonight,

"I see you have a hard time staying off the wieners. I can relate."

Don't we all, doll. Don't we all.
I like Chastity Bono more than ever on this show.

Viado:Deer:Gay

American deer

I don't know why definitively, but in Brazil, gays are often referred to as viado, or deer, among other pejorative terms. I've asked Brazilians before, and the best answer I got was that gays are weak and sissy, like Bambi.
Ooooookay.
Well, not in America. Check this deer out. And besides, Brazilian gays aren't any more effeminate than other gays.
But wait, could the fact that our most manly men go deer hunting each year be an insidious metaphor for their homophobia gone postal?
After all, nothing proves one's strength, courage and masculinity like hiding, disguised in the bushes, and blowing away unsuspecting, unarmed animals gently eating tender grass.
Ed. note: I don't have anything against people who actually hunt. I know some really cool hunters. I am simply using it as an example of hypermasculine stereotypes that have nothing to do with masculinity.

Breathe

Some days I listen to myself and the world, and the cacophany is too much. I just need to stop and breathe. I am usually driven by a sense of urgency that everything is fucked up and then, like in some movie, if someone (maybe me?) screams loud enough, "The christians have nothing to do with Christ," or "The Emporer has no clothes," or "Paris Hilton is hideous," or any other obvious statement that everyone seems to be missing, then the chaos will stop. I just have to remember that "this too shall pass." Breathe.

Craigslist ad of the week - Int'l

This one hails from Cape Town, South Africa:

Live In American Houseboy Available
I am an American freelance writer and wish to relocate. I am willing to serve an African indivual/couple as live in houseboy in exchange for room/board/time to write. Cook, clean, laundry, errands, massage and exotic dancing too. I am white, submissive and obedient and wish to serve Black employer(s). Will dress as told and be the perfect servant. Thank you in advance.

image not from ad. trixie

Interesting note about last week's craigslist ad: It turns out that the guy here in NYC copied the ad word for word from a sex worker's site in London.

The face of American Religouslation

America's Holy War

OPERATION "NO-NO HOMO"

Proposed VA constitutional amendment:

"That only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this Commonwealth and its political subdivisions.
"This Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage. Nor shall this Commonwealth or its political subdivisions create or recognize another union, partnership, or other legal status to which is assigned the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities, or effects of marriage."

The first sentence would suffice if they simply wanted to "protect" marriage for the privileged heterosexual class of society. The subsequent two sentences show just how far they want to go to strip gays of any rights of civil union. READ more.

This just proves what I learned as a child in the conservative, fundamental christian, southern "Bible Belt" - christians can be some of the most vicious, hate-filled, cruel people out there. As Pat Boone once said, they are "the only army that kills its wounded."
Al-Qaeda - Christian Fundamentalists? I don't see too much difference in philosophy.

Featured blogmate: OhLaLaParis

Steph & Alek of OhLaLaParis

These boys are doing it all - ManChic, 429News, OhLaLaGuys. They are THE go-to gay man's webzine - hot photos and pop culture galore.
They say:

"It started as a personal site in 2002, but communication from our readers has brought Ohlala to what it is today:
A colorful, metro-sexual, fashionable journey through our lives, travels, fantasy and imagination, written from Paris & around the world."

Steph is French and Alek is Yugoslav and together they are the Wonder Twins of gay blogging. They have helped me along in the blogging world as well as many others. Their style is distinct and has inspired several spin-offs. If you didn't know about OhLaLa, now you do.

Read the label - It's good for you

SPUNK

Average volume of ejaculate: 0.5 to 1 teaspoon
Chief ingredient: Fructose sugar
Caloric content: 5 calories per teaspoon
Protein content: 6 milligrams per teaspoon
Average number of ejaculatory spurts: 3 to 10
Average interval of ejaculatory contractions: 0.8 seconds
Farthest medically recorded ejaculation: 11.7 feet
via Seb

Seminal fluid... is composed of dozens of chemical components. The base of seminal fluid is primarily fructose (sugar) and proteins, with many other trace minerals and substances. Here's a listing of some of semen's ingredients:

Sugars: Fructose, sorbitol, inositol
Proteins and amino acids: glutathione, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), creatine
Minerals: Phosphorus, zinc, magnesium, calcium, potassium
Vitamins: Ascorbic acid (vitamin C), vitamin B12, choline
Hormones: Testosterone, prostaglandins
Body byproducts: Lactic acid, urea, uric acid, nitrogen...

Semen is a source of highly concentrated, high-quality protein. In dietary terms, it's comparable to egg whites or gelatin. Besides protein, semen contains high concentrations of some minerals, such as zinc, and trace amounts of other important nutrients, like calcium and magnesium.
via google

According to the Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids (Paul Spinard, 1994), the average man produces about 3.5 mL of semen per ejaculation whose nutritional value is:

• less than 1 calorie
• 150 mg. protien
• 11 mg. carbohydrates
• 6 mg. fat.
• 3 mg. cholesterol
• 7% US RDA potassium
• 3% US RDA copper
• 3% US RDA zinc
• 300 million spermatoza

It looks healthy enough per serving size, but when compared to breast milk (which has about 170 calories per cup), semen has about 40% more calories (about 230 calories per cup). High levels of fructose (fruit sugar) is normal in the semen and this sugar comes almost entirely from the seminal vesicles.

• Average number of times a man will ejaculate in his lifetime: 7,200 (Obviously, an average straight male.)
• Average total amount of lifetime ejaculate: 18 quarts (Again, straight.)
• Average speed of ejaculation: 28 miles per hour
• Its muscle drives nature's only known rotary-joint. The tail SCREWS, not whips. (Of course it does, doll.)
• Average duration of orgasm: 4 seconds
• Average number of sperm cells in the ejaculate of a healthy man: 200 to 600 million

via Abby

Uh-oh. Me in trouble.

via bigbaby

Well, I got a little sassy, and uncle and auntie got mad. See the COMMENTS from my post on Baby Boomers. One anonymous, gay, Boomer reader made a valid rebuttal to the post, although he seemed to lump gay rights struggles in with Boomer behavior at large, and I don't see them connected. Another reader from Australia let me have it:

"...the only thing we Boomers can be blamed for is creating a lazy, selfish, apathetic generation of children who have never had to put themselves out for anything."

This comment seems to fall right in line with typical Boomer group-think because, as demographic studies show, Boomer judgement is becoming harsher and harsher and will continue to do so. I stand by the research because as unpleasant as demographic reports from social scientists may be, the fact remains that Baby Boomers are a huge population that are creating a massive impact on, not only US society, but also global society.
Another Boomer wrote in response to the economic impact of Boomers on America's future:

Yes, baby boomers are going to bankrupt the country. Baby boomers are and have been this country's worst nightmare. Baby boomers will be the first generation to live to an average age of 90. Not only are they the wealthiest generation (inheritance and IRAs) they will be the ones that demand the most entitlements such as free health care.
The worst hit will be in Social Security and health insurance.
The baby boomers are the spoiled brat generation.
I am speaking from experience. I am a baby boomer.

One of the things that should have been done was Social Security Reform that the President was going to do. The Baby Boomers are such a large voting block that they quickly killed that.

One thing the baby boomers got right is to say "Don't trust anyone over 30"

Again, I suggest reading this informative online encyclopedia REPORT.
A BBC report header says:

"With a good chunk of the nation's wealth in their grasp and more political clout than any other group, pensioners (Boomers) are a force to be reckoned with. The rest of us, it seems, are going to be hearing a lot more from them."

I must make a clear declaration so as not to piss off anyone else on this matter.

I KNOW THAT GENERALIZATIONS AND DEMOGRAPHIC REPORTS DO NOT APPLY TO EVERYONE.

I also like to think that my older gay brethren probably espouse most of the good of their generation and less of the bad. I tend to think gay people, in general, are better at life than straights. Not always, but often.
For those who know my blog well, you know I am against agism - especially in the gay world - and support inclusivity for all; however, I don't support stupidity, even from my elders.

One thing is for certain, when we think we have the monopoly on what is right, we are probably wrong.

And on that note, I'm signing off and am going to do Yoga.

N.B. - Quoted or linked opinions expressed by other readers and sources are not necessarily reflective of my views. They are used to demonstrate varying thoughts on a given topic.

And another thing, Virginia legislators...

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Attack of the Killer Baby Boomers

I don't know why it happened when it did, but during the holidays at my family's encampment in NC, I had an epiphany as we all drove around looking for a "Baby's First Christmas" tree ornament for my new niece. It suddenly dawned on me why the world feels upside down, why it feels as if I've taken crazy pills and things don't make sense anymore. Things like our g-damned president and how the f-k did he get voted into office... TWICE. Things like the reversal of gay friendliness in the US and crusading fundamentalists leading a popular jihad, and the passing of discriminatory laws voted in with overwhelming support. You know, things like these.
I suddenly realized the one thing that all these people have in common and I don't.

THEY ARE BABY BOOMERS!!

Just like my parents, whom I have written off intellectually because of their blind religious allegiance to Bush and a reactionary view of the world, this demographic is coming into its most powerful epoch and will reign supreme for at least another 15 years.

"Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial and academic leadership class in the United States. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, born within sixty days of each other in mid-1946, are the first and second Baby Boomer presidents, and their careers in office illustrate the wide, often diverging spectrum of values and attitudes espoused by this largest American generational group to date.
Boomers have played a strong (and surely unforeseen) role in attempts to make America more overtly religious. Many have turned to fundamentalist Christianity as a solution to what they see as social rot. Many prefer religion over science wherever any doctrinal conflict appears; thus one finds a rise in creationist dogma and the promotion of prayer in public schools to an extent not known since the time of the Scopes Trial."

Please, READ more to fully understand.

As comforting as it is to know that there is a rational explanation for all the insanity and chaos this generation is creating, it doesn't make the prospect of having to deal with them and their view of reality any easier. It might be a comfort to know that, just like everyone, they will eventually die off, but medical advances continually move the finishing line of longevity and the end of their tyranny.

And then it's scary to think of the backlash of revolt that might happen once they're outta the way. Some moderation would be nice.

US Census Report on Boomers

Read some opinions from Gen-Xers:
Why Gen X Hates the Baby Boomers, Example #472
10 Reasons Why Baby Boomer Don't Deserve Social Security

Just to make you smile

Maybe, just maybe, Andrew isn't so far off and this could be a possibility in America. Maybe it'll be something we can take out of Pamland (Ma Vie en Rose) and actually do, but honestly, I like living in my own little gay world. I don't mind visiting other neighborhoods and I don't mind having friendly visitors, but I like my block, y'know what I mean? It sometimes feels like Pamland. [Martha] "And that's a good thing."

Virginia is for Lovers...

Just not gay ones. That's right folks, Virgina joins the crusading hetero-galere preserving American human rights for those couples who have a vagina AND a penis, respectively. PEVA (Penis in Vagina) Advocates can now rest assured that the only love celebrated in Virginia will be Penis-in-Vagina love.

Hey, gay brothers and sisters! Listen up! Here's an idea: DO NOT go to states that have discriminatory legislation. If a bus boycott by a small percentage of a population can cripple a racist southern law, then surely a tourism boycott can send a message. After all, we know that gays travel more and spend more than straights.

Gay and lesbian travelers represent a valued, lucrative market for travel and leisure companies. They are seven times more likely than the average consumer to take six or more flights in one year and are twice as likely to spend more than $5,000 on one trip. - Orbitz

Let's spend it where we're fully American. To my gay tribe in Virginia, I'm sorry. I wish you love and protection.

“...The intent is clearly to go after gays and lesbians.”

READ more.

I know, the groom looks like a bull-dyke. - Ed.

With bated breath, I wait

I am anxiously awaiting a reply from Andrew Sullivan - a writer for whom I have the utmost respect. I am a bit nervous he will find me petulant. At any rate, I sent him the following e-mail, which, coincidentally, presents the questions I had about his essay I assigned you all to read.

Hi Andrew,
My name is Thomas and I'm a gay blogger in New York. I read and then blogged a little about your article, "The End of Gay Culture and The Future of Gay Life." I directed my readers to read the article because I think it is a thoughtful essay and needs to be read and discussed. However, I have some conflicts with the idea that gays will become unrecognizable through assimilation, although I believe your supporting arguments are clear, correct and concise. In a short, unpolished follow-up blurb I wrote:

"I've been in my head the last two days. I've really been thinking about Andrew's article that I gave you for homework a couple days ago. I'll try and formulate something once it gels. I'm not sure if I agree totally with his idea. I hate to be pessimistic, but human nature and historical behavior dictate a pattern that I think is fairly predictable. People may get used to seeing us gays around, but that doesn't mean they're gonna be sweet about it. Whatever gains we make, they'll be given grudgingly, at best, by the right. And regardless, we'll always be a minority in a hetero world. Ask the other minorities in this world how kosher things are for them on a regular basis - socially accepted or not. It's always an uphill battle. Hell, ask a woman what it's like in this straight man's world; or a fatty in Barbieland, USA; or a friggin' Jew in the midwest. I'm afraid that the more things change, the more they stay the same."

Andrew, the reason I am writing you is to simply get your response to my thoughts before I finalize any sort of official opinion on your article. I think that, in short, the changes in gay culture you have spoken of are internal morphoses within the gay community, and although delightful to hope for, are not globally true in the world at large. With all due respect, I noticed in your examples that the world with which you seem to be most currently familiar and of which you reference is a world of higher incomes, educations and ideals. The social circles of writers, artists, pundits and the academia has always been populated by, and ultimately protective of, homosexuals. I couldn't help but think of numerous recent, personal examples contrary to each of your observations. Although I know your examples are indeed true, I just find them insular.
I don't intend to offend you or simply be contrary, but I believe that we as gay people must be educated, united and empowered because it still remains a dangerous world for us and the trend is heading south. If things do indeed reach the wonderful, sophisticated level which you seem to already see, I believe they will get worse before they get better.

Do you have any thoughts on this?
Thank you for your time.
With kind regards,
Thomas

art: Hannah Broadway

Play it again, Sam.

From my June 2005 archive. Just because it needs to be said constantly.

Photo: David LaChapelle

DR. OMED’S EARLY SUNDAY SERMON: OUTLAW LOVE

Those who oppose gay marriage say that legal and sacerdotal recognition of the abiding love between a man and a man or a woman and a woman somehow degrades marriage between a man and a woman, and even threatens the social order. I think love is outside and above the social order. If there is a higher law, love is that law.

I think denying gay people the sacrament of marriage degrades heterosexual marriage. I think that the refusal and the legal legitimization of the refusal to recognize the union between two people of the same sex degrades any claim we have to being a free society, and threatens the institutions that protect all our freedoms. There’s nothing civil about it.

Banning gay marriage makes a mockery of God’s love, and a mockery of the idea that we are all God’s children. It is an attempt to outlaw love. It is an attack on families that protect and nurture love in a dangerous world. To echo something Lincoln said, those who deny family to others do not deserve it for themselves. Denying marriage and family rights to some is no defense of the freedoms we so proudly, and loudly, proclaim. People who propose such a ban should be ashamed. You cannot outlaw love. As St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13, "love never fails." Love is greater than faith and outlasts hope. Love abides, as Paul says, when tongues and prophesies fail. Love will prevail.

I WANT MY GAY TV!

I get LOGO with cable, but I have to order HERE as a premium. You know what? I'll do it. I am in love with gay TV. If you don't have it, you just don't realize what a positive comfort and feeling of inclusion your own people can give you. Here (no pun) is a hot little item from The Hollywood Reporter that I'm excited about.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Here!, the network that targets gay viewers, said Thursday it is developing a cartoon series for adults centered around Scott Thompson's "Kids in the Hall" character Buddy Cole.
The title character in "Buddy's" owns a gay bar and comes under the scrutiny of a bullying "family values" city councilman. He also suddenly becomes a parent when his orphaned niece shows up on his doorstep.
- Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

• "Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase."
• "Ma Cheri...oh, she'll hate that. She hates when I write in French. I usually correspond in fag, but it's incredible how often they're the same thing, n'est-ce pas?"
• "And while you're at it, do something about your hair. It's threatening to become more interesting than you."
• "...this reminds me of the time that Coco Chanel and I had this HUGE disagreement over what to wear to DeGaulle's funeral. And I said, 'I'm not even going.'..."

MORE on Buddy Cole.

And finally...

Scott Thompson, the host of My Fabulous Gay Wedding. Photo Brooke Palmer. Courtesy Global TV.

Scott Thompson is the host of my favorite show, First Comes Love. I mean, damn, I love that show. Airing first in Canada as My Fabulous Gay Wedding, it is, obviously, a show about gay couples getting married with all the wedding planners, pampering, jitters, gifts, friends and family in tow led by Auntie Scott. I bawled my eyes out tonight - out of pure joy - over the story of Dan and Mischa.
Anyone who can't see the social justness and goodness of gay marriage after this show has a soured, mean soul.

Craigslist ad of the week

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this is in a massage room. 100/hr

I'll pass, thank you, but I WILL try this on my boyfriend. I had my prostate probed by a doctor once when I was 22 and I pee'd on his floor.

Salty Dog

I had to go in for a regular intensive physical exam today. I worked with the Red Cross at Ground Zero after 9/11 for several months and anyone who was there for an extended period has to do these extensive physicals every 18 months for many years.
Well, my old carcass isn't what it used to be. I found out that I have hypertension and high cholesterol and triglycerides. Everything bad. The doc said it's urgent I get treated or I could be in serious trouble. I'm only 36 and quit smoking a year ago, but that doesn't matter. It's diet and excercise that are doing me in. The doctor told me no more alcohol and no more salt. So sad.

Goodbye or die sweet Maggie

I'll be buried by chips. Sod off, you.

In my head

I've been in my head the last two days. I've really been thinking about Andrew's article that I gave you for homework a couple days ago. I'll try and formulate something once it gels. I'm not sure if I agree totally with his idea. I hate to be pessimistic, but human nature and historical behavior dictate a pattern that I think is fairly predictable. People may get used to seeing us gays around, but that doesn't mean they're gonna be sweet about it. Whatever gains we make, they'll be given grudgingly at best by the right. And regardless, we'll always be a minority in a hetero world. Ask the other minorities in this world how kosher things are for them on a regular basis - socially accepted or not. It's always an uphill battle. Hell, ask a woman what it's like in this straight man's world; or a fatty in Barbieland, USA; or a friggin' Jew in the midwest. I'm afraid that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
At least I am able to comfort myself with LOGO TV. I love that channel.

Commuters

This permanent exhibit is in NYC's Port Authority on 42nd St. and 8th Ave. I was really taken with the statues the other day and got right beside them and studied all the details. They are casts of actual people from 1980 - a mystical time in my mind for NYC. It was a very strange experience. I felt like I was looking at people truly frozen in time. For some reason, I thought of World Trade Center. I don't know why exactly, but "frozen in time" has something to do with it.

How we fall in love

Women fall in love with their ears

photo: yahoo

Men fall in love with their eyes

model Eric Furhman

I think Diane Weist said it best in "Bullets over Broadway" when she said:

"Don't speak… no… don't speak…"

After all, I am a man.

Future 429 Endgame

via Galluccio

"For the better part of two decades, I have spent much of every summer in the small resort of Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. It has long attracted artists, writers, the offbeat, and the bohemian; and, for many years now, it has been to gay America what Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard is to black America: a place where a separate identity essentially defines a separate place. No one bats an eye if two men walk down the street holding hands, or if a lesbian couple pecks each other on the cheek, or if a drag queen dressed as Cher careens down the main strip on a motor scooter. It's a place, in that respect, that is sui generis. Except that it isn't anymore. As gay America has changed, so, too, has Provincetown. In a microcosm of what is happening across this country, its culture is changing."

Gay homework:

READ Andrew Sullivan's excogitative essay, "The End of Gay Culture - The Future of Gay Life."

Discuss.

Siccus Testis - Ego rideo

via electroplankton

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Georgie shows his ass... AND AMERICA LOVES HIM!!!!

image: OKcitykid

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

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George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.
George W. Bush doesn't care about gay people.
George W. Bush doesn't care about poor people.
George W. Bush doesn't care about the US Constitution.

AND AMERICA LOVES HIM!!!

I'm just saying, y'all. He's an asshole, if you ask me.

A "fact of life"

There are people who in this world get shoved around and there are people who do the shoving! - Jo Polniaczek

Christian jihad

Conditional Love

If they knew this child would be gay, would they have aborted?

Lack of an appropriate father or mother figure is often blamed for our homosexuality. In fact, many voodoo christian doctors seem to think that any childhood that is not like the 1950's perfect family "Father Knows Best" ideal is fertile ground for homosexuality.
My question is, if our nation continues to make homosexuality an issue of law rather than an individual's personal and civic one, will they not then implicate themselves as accessories to a crime? Are they not only guilty by association, but also as the actual creators of the crime?

I know this is outlandish, but it doesn't seem so when you listen to what the others say about us.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Make it your civic duty as a homosexual to know what the others are saying and doing about us, because they are saying and doing many bad things against us. There is no place for us at the table in their world.

Don't let fashion, drugs, sex, music and cocktails lull you into complacency.
Trust me.
They won't stop.
This is their jihad.

God is watching us

WTC subway station mosaic eye.
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How will they explain hate crimes and homophobia?

One nation

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Do less. Think more.

Do more. Think less.

Sundance at BAM

Yeah! Bob Redford is bringing the kids to Brooklyn. The Sundance Institute is teaming up with the Brooklyn Acadamy of Music for a new collaboration called Creative Latitude. The title references creative vision, but also the fact that Park City, Utah shares the same latitude, 40.6, with Brooklyn. BAM is the oldest continually operating performing arts center in America, having presented its first performance in 1861.

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The Phallus will see you now

My apologies if I offend anyone, but nothing for nothing, this has to be one of the most amusing, yet interesting things I've seen all week. It is disturbing, highly fascinating, and still, enticingly and naughtily hedonistic. A group in Yahoo groups entitled "I worship COCK as my GOD" has the following introduction:

"I WORSHIP you oh HUGE COCK, as my one and only GOD. God COCK-- huge penis, phallus and power! YOU, holy COCK, are the ONLY GOD before me! The HOLY alter of MAN-THIGHS delivers you to me oh HUGE COCK! I hunger to pray to you, to worship you, to hornor your strength and POWER. ALL I AM is devoted to YOU, oh COCK!
I thirst for your Holy Semen, long to be your slave-- to surrender to you and your huge BALLS. To suck your veins and cockhead oh GOD COCK-- to worship you.

We live "normal" lives in the real world, our Discipleship seldom known to others-- and thank this group for a place to worship you! I am "Normal" appearing to the outside world, oh Holy God COCK, but know DEEP in my SOUL, YOU, oh COCK, OH holy PENIS, oh holy big Phallus, are my GOD-- I thirst for your holy Semen, the holy BLASTING of your SPERM, for the holy groans of exctsay from deep in the bellies of the men who deliver to me your holy Load. I pray to you oh Holy COCK, and promise to deliver pics of YOU to this group OFTEN. We are predominately gay and bisexual-- Str8s are welcome to join in our worship!

Posts of pics must be of 8 inch COCK-Gods or larger-- SUPER thick GOD-COCK is welcome. Stories of true COCKworship is encouraged. Submit YOUR own self pics as a tribute and offering to your Holy God-- COCK, for all to see."

And here is their logo image:

One thing for sure, cock worship is nothing new. I've just never seen a creed or charter for the church before.

Featured blogmate 18+: Tom in Paris

Tom in Paris

His interests sum up his blog: muscles, gay, bodybuilding, men. Plain and simple. Nothing but hot sex videos. And we share the same name. That's cool.
Take a peek, but take your vitamins first. And drink plenty of liquids. Your fluids will need replenishing.

Top 10 GLBT news stories from 2005

10) Mayor James West (Spokane, WA) - sex scandal
9) Katrina - taking care of our own
8) Zack Stark - a teen faces ex-gay
7) WNBA basketball star, Sheryl Swoops
6) Matthew Limon
5) Brokeback Mountain
4) Super-Virus patient zero - AIDS
3) Crystal Meth
2) Church bans gays from Priesthood
1) Gay marriage

As seen on LOGO TV.

10 Ways To Support Gay Rights

How To Help Fight For Gay Equality

Here's how you can join the fight for gay equal rights:

1) Register To Vote!
The best way to tell our government how you feel is to vote! Be sure to update your address if you are registered to vote or sign up if you are not.

2) Sign a Petition for Same-Sex Marriage
Your single signature may at first seem irrelevant, but among millions change happens. One good example is the recall vote in California.

3) Write Your State Senator or Representative
Your State Senators and Representatives were elected by you and act on your behalf. Let them know how you feel.

4) Contact the White House
The Bush Administration opposes equal gay rights. Send letters supporting gay equality directly to our leader. Let's keep the upper hand by expressing our opinions in a manner of respect and professionalism.

5) Support Gay Schools
Help the Hetrick-Martin Institute alleviate queer youth from the perils of harassment and violence by contacting the New York City Department of Education or by providing funding to The Harvey Milk School.

6) Write the Church
A simple email to gay-friendly churches can go a long way towards the confirmation of gay clergymen.

7) Support the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund
The SLDF needs your support as the leading advocate for gays in the military. Not only do they educate servicemembers on the current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policies, but they provide free legal advice.

8) Watch Gay Television Shows
Despite what your parents said, watching television is good for you- especially if you're gay! By watching gay-theme television shows you increase their ratings. Increased ratings make the high-power networks and advertisers very happy. Hopefully, happy enough that they can't afford not to have gay programming. Also, this may be a stretch but showing Americans gay life on television may lessen the fear of gay equality.

9) Volunteer for a Gay Rights Organization
There are several organizations that help promote gay rights and safety. Find the one that best suits your lifestyle.

10) Lobby for Gay Adoption
The American Bar Association had recently agreed to endorse and lobby states for equal adoption rights for same-sex couples. Join the fight!

- From Ramon Johnson via Gay Life

Top 10 Gay New Year's Resolutions

1) Journal/Blog
2) No More Drama
3) Help a Needy Heterosexual
4) Fight for Gay Rights
5) Get Tested
6) Come Out to Yourself
7) Shed Bad Influences
8) Actually Workout at the Gym
9) Volunteer
10) Stop Smoking

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Craigslist ad of the week

Hot Muscular Couple ISO SUCCESSFUL WEALTHY VGL GUY FOR LTR - 30

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Date: 2006-01-02, 1:52PM EST

We are a very nice educated professional couple exploring the idea of having a 3rd guy involved in our relationship. NOT LOOKING FOR A FUCK BUDDY. We are looking for someone to be our equal and be in a 3-person loving caring relationship. We are very good looking and in great shape. We are both professionals. We are looking for a gentleman who is successful wealthy and good looking to become part of our "team". Those interested should e-mail us back with what you are looking for, who you are, what you are about, and what you expect from life and in general. Hope to hear from sincere guys.

p.s. We do not "hook-up" on a 1st date (maybe not even a 2nd) so if you are looking for just sex you are looking int he wrong place.

• this is in or around Manhattan
  
• no -- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Last night was a blast!

We started the night with a bottle of Moët before heading out.

We rang in the New Year at LIPS. I'll do it again next year. You just can't go wrong with a bunch of drag queens. When's the last time you had a bad time with a drag queen (Not counting bitch fights at K-Mart's White Sale)?

We had

Appetizer:
Lobster Bisque
Goat Cheese Ravioli w/ Porcini Mushroom Sauce

Salad:
Apple, Endive and Stilton Cheese
Ceasar Salad

Entree:
Pepper Crusted Filet Mignon with demi glace,
crisp potato cakes and string bean bundles

Stuffed breast of Chicken filled with four cheeses
and black trumpet mushrooms served over a
creamy ginger lobster sauce with
steamed asparagus.

Dessert:
Flourless Chocolate Cake,
Tiramisu

We drank Cab and Champagne

Then we went to Joe's Pub.

It was, bar none, the best, funest New Year's Eve I've ever spent. Save for all the talent at Joe's Pub eating all the breakfast at the buffet before anyone else could get to it, it was an incredibible way to ring in the new year. If you don't remember John Cameron Mitchell, he wrote and starred in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," the musical and film. He invited a bunch of his creative friends and together they put on a great show for us. We sat right at the foot of the stage and saw it all - sometimes too much.

Scotty the Blue Bunny

Hula Girl

Amanda Lepore

Taylor Mac & Murray Hill