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My boyfriend's jingle

Rig_Daddy — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:02:24 GMT

My boyfriend sent me this.

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Dad was cross-dressing, he was wearing a blouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that high-heels soon would be there;

The kids were canoodling, all snug in their bed,
Stroking each other and giving head
And mamma in her corset, and Dad in jockstrap,
Had just settled down into each other’s lap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breasts of the naked nymphs in the snow
Gave greater lust to the satyrs below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But eight studly men, wearing rubber gear,

With an old guy in leather, so lively and quick,
I saw in a moment he whipped out his dick.
One after the other they jerked off and came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
Push those lucky bastards up against the wall!
Then flog away! flog away! flog away all!"

Like a sex-crazed pervert, he opened his fly,
And tried to mount everything under the sky,
So up on the house-top the studs he did screw,
With a sleigh full of sex toys, and strap-ons too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The rutting and strutting and stomping of hoof.
As I drew in my head, before turning around,
He pounced on my ass with a single bound.

He was dressed all in leather, from his head to his foot,
With splashes of mancum still on his boot;
From a bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
He took out a paddle and gave me a smack.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, as he boinked up my cherry!
He puckered his mouth and gave me a blow,
Shot my load on his chin, it was white as the snow;

The tip of my dick he held tight in his teeth,
And his lips encircled the head like a wreath;
He licked off his face and patted his belly,
I was hoping he brought enough KY-jelly.

He was hard as a rock, a right horny old elf,
I got ready to take him, and spit on myself;
He sank in his dick and twisted the head,
I yelled, “Please fuck me hard! Deeper!” I said;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
Pissed in all the stockings; then turning to jerk,
He wrapped his five fingers around his huge hose,
And from his great member hot gushers arose;

He sprang to his sleigh, the hunks started to hustle,
And away they all flew showing plenty of muscle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, may you fuck all this night."

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"That's so gay!"

AlohaSteven — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:46:25 GMT

My friend Blakeyboi recently posted an immortal photo of two buff young wrestlers in Spandex on his blog (see it reposted in the A Queer Tribe photo gallery), saying: "That's so gay? No THIS is so gay! As most people that know me know, I hate the phrase 'that's so gay,' and I will call you on it every time if I catch you using it. But if it must be used, use it properly, as if to describe this image."

Indeed, there is nothing like Greco-Roman athletics for developing fine lads and these two certainly are fine.

In the absurd new movie "Land Of The Lost" a character says "That's so gay!" intending the comment as a deadly insult -but is negated completely when another character replies, with perfect dignity and aplomb, "Yes, it _is_ great." An excellent way to respond, I thought ...not in angry reaction, but by rather smoothly taking the high moral ground, making an elegant statement, and prompting critical self-reflection among everyone within hearing range all while keeping cool.

This would totally throw (in the Heideggerian sense) the person saying "That's so gay" as an intended insult, I would think. Probably they would first have a blank moment and then wonder if they had been misunderstood as saying "That's so great!" Might even more loudly repeat "That's so gay!" again with better enunciation and clarity of diction, to which one could reply with equal volume and excellent pronunciation "Yes, I heard you the first time, and yes, it _is_ GREAT."

This year in particular I have nearly been in fistfights (or worse) at the Alaska Club South locker room when shitheads say "That's so gay!" as an intended insult and I call them on the slur. I tend to become angry in such moments. Maybe it will be more effective to instead say, very loudly and clearly, "Yes, it IS great!" while staying coldly collected and focused instead of becoming hot and launching directly into an angry butt-chewing.

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Any gay hippies from Oklahoma City area?

Oklahoma — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:04:53 GMT

I'm just wondering if there are any gay hippies hanging out in or around this virtual tribe that live in the Oklahoma City area. If so, please join my tribe: Gay_Hippie.

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A Compassionate Eye: The Work of Victor Arimondi at The Hormel Center of the SF Public Library

ericsf7 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:30:41 GMT

A Compassionate Eye: The Work of Victor Arimondi
The Hormel Center at the San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor
FREE & Open to the Public
September 12 -- December 2, 2009

Famed fashion & art photographer Victor Arimondi was known for his unique eye and sensuous style. This is the first major retrospective of his work since his death from AIDS/HIV in 2001
www.victorarimondi.net

If a picture is worth a thousand words then the iconic images of photographer Victor Arimondi (www.victorarimondi.net) are an unfinished epic: a tone poem that blurs the boundaries of fashion and art, and delves into realms of the sensual, the celebratory and society’s disenfranchised. In the first major retrospective of the artist’s work since his death from AIDS/HIV in 2001, A Compassionate Eye: The Work of Victor Arimondi explores the incredible breadth of the internationally-acclaimed photographer often compared to – but lesser known than – such contemporaries as Mapplethorpe, and Bianci. The exhibit runs through December 2 at the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of San Francisco’s Main Public Library (100 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor). Entrance to the exhibit is free and open to the public.

Part of New York’s heady “pop art” era, Arimondi started as a fashion model before turning the lens on his former life often citing his admiration for the work of Avedon as one of his inspirations. Born in Italy in 1942, it was in Sweden that Arimondi was discovered while working as a laborer. Soon, his rough-hewn beauty made him one of Europe’s most popular regulars in print and on the runway, an experience which led him to his ultimate career. His varied palette and incredible output – with more than 3000 photos -- included male nudes, high fashion treatments, photo montages and later documenting the plight of the homeless and the onslaught of AIDS / HIV. When he died in his adopted home of San Francisco on July 24, 2001, his face and work had graced most of the world’s top fashion publications and several books, now collectors’ items.

“My approach to photography has never been causal,” Arimondi once said. “Since I posed in front of the camera so many years, my experience with talented photographers made me realize a way to express my inner world. My approach to beauty is dominated by my classical background and European style. I came to this country to further develop my style and spirit – I believe that I have been faithful to my ideal.”

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Queer Mommy/Boy Panel & Community Discussion on Wednesday 9/23 @ 8pm at Femina Potens

alix_iron — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:53:11 GMT

What: Queer Mommy/Boy Panel & Community Discussion
When: Wednesday September 23rd from 8pm – 10pm
Where: Femina Potens 2911 Market Street @ Sanchez in the Castro
Cost: $8 - $12 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Daddy/Girl and Daddy/Boy are two dynamics that are frequently discussed, widely understood, fairly accepted and commonly prevalent in the leather, kink, LGBT and BDSM communities.

This Queer Mommy/Boy panel is being presented by the Inverted Eye (www.InvertedEye.com) in order to shed some much needed light on this often invisible and misunderstood dynamic.

We are fortunate to have Ms. Cat, Alix Izen, Eve Minax, Neo, Jukie Sunshine and Krista Smith as the eloquent and fabulous panelists who will engage in a lively dialogue about such topics as:

Mommy/Boy and the continuum along the identity spectrum.
The physical and mental titillating aspects of Mommy/Boy play.
Gender and Mommy/Boy play. Can Mommy be Daddy too?
Taboo implications and the stigma of Mommy/Boy play.

and much much more!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A LIVELY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS RARELY DISCUSSED TOPIC!

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Where are the women-loving women? (raise your hands!)

gabby — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:11:55 GMT

Seems like this tribe is rather male-dominated. Are there women-loving women here?

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So if asked, how do you identify?

Rig_Daddy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:57:45 GMT

Mostly straight folk ask, trying to confirm I'm gay, which I'm not, and I hate havng to place myself into boxes for folk but...

My flippant answer is "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" (truth).

The simple answer is "queer" but most straights don't really have a good grasp of that.

The short answer is "bisexual" but the straights and some gays keep probing after that one.

The long answer is something like "bisexual gay man in a life long het marriage to a gender queer" but that's way too confusing even for most queer folk.

So what do you all say when something, straight or queer, asks "Are you gay"?

Hugs,

Rig Daddy

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Student seeking gay research participants for anonymous 20 minute online survey

AlohaSteven — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:29:10 GMT

[FWD:]

Hello,
My name is Marcie Wiseman and I am a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at the University of Florida. I am part of a group of LGBT affirming researchers and my own program of research has focused mostly on the LGBT community. I am currently collecting data for my dissertation which aims to better understand the experiences and needs of sexual minority men. I would be extremely grateful for your help by participating or in recruiting participants.

If you are eligible to participate please do so! You may also post, forward, or otherwise distribute the ad and link below to listserves, facebook pages, personal contacts, etc. Also included are links to my advisor's homepage and our research team, and to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Florida. This study has been approved by the IRB (Protocol #2009-U-0314). Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your time,
Marcie

Participate in LGB Research!

· What is this study about?

I am a graduate student who is part of a team of diverse LGBT affirming researchers. I am conducting a study to learn more about the experiences of men who identify as gay or bisexual or have sex with men. With this study, I hope to contribute to understanding the experiences and needs of diverse populations of men.

· What does participating involve?

You must be 18 years or older and identify as a gay or bisexual man, or a man who has sex with men. Participation in the study will involve completing an on-line survey that will take approximately 20-25 minutes. All responses will be anonymous.

· How do you participate?

By clicking on the link below you will be directed to the online survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fNtgckMGQ_2faKvUJJpm1wTw_3d_3d

For more information about our research team please visit
http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~moradi/team.html

For more information about the University of Florida’s Institutional Review Board please visit http://irb.ufl.edu/irb02/irbrev.html

This study has been approved by
University of Florida
Institutional Review Board 02
Protocol # 2009-U-0314
For Use Through 4/27/2010

--
Marcie Wiseman, M.S.
Counseling Psychology Doctoral Candidate
University of Florida
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 112250
Gainesville, FL 32611-2250

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Moderator going on vacation. Likely slow response to requests to join or other issues

Rig_Daddy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:07:03 GMT

Hi Folks,

In about 24 hours I'll leave for a week long cruise to the land where it doesn't get dark now, Alaska.

Though I may have internet access I don't think I'll hang out online much, LOL.

Please be patient with any requests.

Back Sunday, June 14th.

Hugs,

Rig Daddy

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"Day of Decision" Actions TONIGHT

PlayaDragonfly — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:03:37 GMT

Dear Friends, Family & Lovers,

Please join us TONIGHT as we GATHER to show our support for the hard efforts that have been fought for our equality. Groups will RALLY as early as 12:00 noon in East Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m. in Santa Monica and in Down Town Los Angeles and at 7:00 p.m. at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and San Vicente Blvd. in West Hollywood. Speeches will be made and our spirits will be focused in one direction and we will start a MARCH through the streets of West Hollywood and Hollywood making our way to the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave. by 9:30 pm. The LAPD will be there assisting us with the closure of the streets.

The Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have been asked to perform a ritual in the center of Hollywood Blvd in front of the Theaters by the organizers of "Day Of Decision" . Join us and take vows as we say I DO to our community and to each other in a commitment ceremony. Every one is encouraged to wear white and 'Tie the Knot' to create the largest white knot the world has seen.

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know your enemy

Sizzle — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:40:07 GMT

www.silencingchristians.com/

a friend told me, as a follow up to this, allegedly it was meant to be aired on a tv station in Wisconsin, the TV station has sinced passed the offer, because the AFA has been uncommunicative. Of course, AFA supporters have blamed the "homosexuals" for denying their freedom of speech.

these are their survey questions...

Do you believe the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin? Yes No Undecided

Can homosexuals change their sexual orientation? Yes No Undecided
Should homosexuals be allowed to adopt children? Yes No Undecided

Should homosexuals be given the same special rights extended to African-Americans and other minorities? Yes No Undecided

Should hate crimes legislation be passed that would call for more severe penalties for crimes against homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Do you believe that churches and religious organizations should be forced to hire homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Would you support a boycott of a major U.S. corporation that contributes money to support homosexual activist organizations? Yes No Undecided

Should judges be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court who support extending special rights to homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Should employers be forced to extend special consideration in the hiring of homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Is the secular media demonstrating a bias in favor of the homosexual agenda? Yes No Undecided

Do you support amending the U.S. Constitution to limit marriage to a union between one man and one woman? Yes No Undecided

Should children in public schools be taught homosexuality is normal, acceptable, and equal to the traditional marriage of a man and a woman? Yes No Undecided

Do you agree that Christians should be arrested for speaking against homosexuality in public places? Yes No Undecided

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we are starting a new Intersexed, trans, genderqueer, etc.. Support group in the SFBAY Area

blackmetal — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:18:31 GMT

We are starting an Intersexed and trans SUpport Group in the SF Bay Area (Specifically the East bay). It is for any Intersexed, Transgendered, Genderqueer, transexual, 3rd gender, Middlesex, Androgynous, MTF, FTM, transmasculine, etc...well you get the idea. Please help spread the word. It is the first and third Sunday of each month. Contact the moderator Brian for directions.

http://tribes.tribe.net/bayareaintersextransetcsupportgroup

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SFBayAreaIntersexTransSupportGroup/

http://groups.myspace.com/SfBAYAREAINTERSEXSUPPORTGROUP

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Moderator

Jamez — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:51:47 GMT

so... loathe as I am to admit it, I think the love affair is over. Due to real world demands on my time and interests, I'm giving serious thought to leaving tribe (and a few other 2.0 communities). Anyone out there interested in taking over moderation of a queer tribe and/or gay dj?

[It was harder for me to type this than you may realize ... I'm stalling with the "submit" button...]

*sigh*

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"I Hate Homo-normativity!"

Jamez — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:56:35 GMT

Discuss:

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The Seventh Sense

Jamez — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:06:25 GMT

Yes, they got that Stargate guy.

http://www.spike.com/video/seventh-sense/2404708

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The Final Edition of the ICP

Ron — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:53:34 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities:

It is with both joy and sadness that I am writing to announce the final edition of the ICP. After you receive this notice, I will delete the mailing list for the ICP from my files and you will no longer receive announcements about the project. I was placed on a new drug regimen about 2 months ago and have experienced a serious side effect to the new meds. I am no longer able to continue to maintain the project as a result.

Please know that it has been a joy to bring you the ICP for the past 2 years and that I wish I could continue the project into the future. However, my focus has to be on my own healing now. For those of you who have contributed or hosted the ICP, my heartfelt gratitude can hardly be expressed. For those who blog about HIV/AIDS and who fight to end the stigma of this disease, I urge you to continue your work. We are all in the fight of our lives.

Many, many thanks to Sokari at Blacklooks for hosting the final edition of the ICP at the following link:

http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/international_carnival_of_positives_-_final_edition.html

Please visit, read and leave your feedback for the host and the contributors in this, the last edition of the ICP.

I wish you all peace and health.

Much love.

Ron Hudson

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Cuba approves free sex-change operations

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:46:16 GMT

Cuba approves free sex-change operations

By WILL WEISSERT,
Associated Press Writer

HAVANA - Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens, an official said Friday. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba's National Center for Sex Education, which strongly backs the new policy.

Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer signed a resolution approving sex-change surgery, said an official at the center who spoke on condition of anonymity because the measure has not been formally published. The resolution will be posted on the Internet on Saturday, the official said.

The procedure would be available to Cubans for free as part of their country's health-care system.

The sex education center has said previously that 28 transsexual Cubans have asked to undergo the surgery and that Cuban doctors have trained with physicians from Belgium to prepare for the procedures.

According to the center, a clinic for transsexual health will be created to perform the procedures, but it was not clear when it will start operating.

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Cuban government backs calls to combat homophobia

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:39:55 GMT

Cuban government backs calls to combat homophobia
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, May 17, 2008

PDT HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --

Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness — and high-ranking political alliances — with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.

The meeting at a convention center in Havana's Vedado district may have been the largest gathering of openly gay activists ever on the communist-run island. President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela, who has promoted the rights of sexual minorities, presided.

"This is a very important moment for us, the men and women of Cuba, because for the first time we can gather in this way and speak profoundly and with scientific basis about these topics," said Castro, director of Cuba's Center for Sexual Education.

Mariela Castro joined government leaders and hundreds of activists at the one-day conference for the International Day Against Homophobia that featured shows, lectures, panel discussions and book presentations. A station also offered blood-tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

Cuban state television gave prime-time play Friday to the U.S. film "Brokeback Mountain," which tells the story of two cowboys who conceal their homosexual affair.

Prejudice against homosexuals remains deeply rooted in Cuban society, but the government has steadily moved away from the Puritanism of the 1960s and 1970s, when homosexuals hid their sexuality for fear of being ridiculed, fired from work or even imprisoned.

Now Cuba's parliament is studying proposals to legalize same-sex unions and give gay couples the benefits that people in traditional marriages enjoy.

Parliament head Ricardo Alarcon said the government needs to do more to promote gay rights, but said many Cubans still need to be convinced.

Things "are advancing, but must continue advancing, and I think we should do that in a coherent, appropriate and precise way because these are topics that have been taboo and continue to be for many," Alarcon told reporters.

Some at the conference spoke of streaming out into the streets for a spontaneous gay-pride parade, but others urged caution.

The gay rights movement should be careful not to "flood" Cuban society with a message that many are not ready to hear, physician and gay activist Alberto Roque cautioned.

And Mariela Castro said gay activists should opt for more subtle ways to chip away at deep-seated homophobic attitudes.

Defending equal rights for Cubans, of all sexual orientations, is a key principal of the Cuban revolution led by her uncle Fidel Castro, who overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, she said.

"The freedom of sexual choice and gender identity (are) exercises in equality and social justice," she said.

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California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:36:47 GMT

[This is a major victory! Thankfully, public pressure has made the California Supreme Court take the right stand. This decision that "domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage" is to the left of Obama and Clinton, both of whom oppose Gay/Lesbian marriage. -Steven Argue]

May 15, 2008

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:05 p.m. ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.

The justices released the 4-3 decision Thursday, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.

The cases were brought by the city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples, Equality California and another gay rights group in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's month-long same-sex wedding march that took place at Mayor Gavin Newsom's direction.

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"Glad To Be Gay" - TRB

Jamez — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:50:26 GMT

Hi Fags,

I stumbled across a cd recording of one of my sets at the first Pride Event I dj'd in San Francisco. The second song in the mix prompted me to google TRB. I thought I'd share the results with you all:

jmz

"Glad To Be Gay" was originally written by Tom Robinson for a London Gay Pride march in 1976. An out gay songwriter, he subsequently formed the TOM ROBINSON BAND with three (non-gay) musicians and - inspired by directness and confrontational style of The Sex Pistols - the band released a four-track EP called "Rising Free" on EMI Records in Feb 1978 which included the song.

The EP made the UK Top 20 - reaching 18 in the UK singles chart within a week of release. BBC Radio 1 refused to play "Glad To be Gay" choosing instead the less controversial opening track "Don't Take No For An Answer". However, listeners to rival station Capital Radio voted it No.1 on their Listeners' Hitline for six consecutive weeks.

The song was subsequently included on the North American release of TRB's "Power In The Darkness" album later in 1978. The song has been performed - with the lyrics occasionally updated - ever since.

click for MP3 of original 1978 version

SING IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAY (1978)
The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all
Lining the customers up by the wall
Picking out people and knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground
Searching their houses and calling them queer
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Pictures of naked young women are fun
In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun
There's no nudes in Gay News our last magazine
But they still find excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
The News of The World and the Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It's there in the paper, it must be the truth

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet
You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street
You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks
To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark
I had a friend who was gentle and short
Got lonely one evening and went for a walk
Queerbashers caught him and kicked in his teeth
He was only hospitalised for a week

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs
Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21
So only your friends and your brothers get done
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks
Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter
"The buggers are legal now,
what more are they after ?"

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way, hey
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way, hey

SING IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GAY (2004)

The LA police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
About pretty policemen in leather and jeans
Showing their leg through a slit in the seams
Seeking out superstars, leading them on
Then running them in when they start to respond
But back home in Britain, we're equal and free
Except when the case is a Labour MP

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

The Liars of Wapping are really the pits
Commissioned by bigots and written by shits
They plaster their pages with bingo & tits
Then add all the scandal and slander that fits
They rip into victims destroying their lives
From anglican bishops to footballers wives
From internet perverts to lesbian mums
If it's vicious and fiction it's... there in The Sun

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Now young Matthew Shepherd was killed in the States,
And left alone dying, and tied to a gate,
For being a pretty and gay 21
He was murdered by thugs who thought killing was fun
At his funeral Christian love showed its face
As the bigots all picketed, twisted with hate
But God doesn't hate fags you sickos, it's true
He even loves people as evil as you

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

For 29 years now I've fought for the right
For people to love just whoever they like
But the right-on and righteous are out for my blood
Now I live with my kids and a woman I love
Well if gay liberation means freedom for all
A label is no liberation at all
I'm here and I'm queer and I do what I do
And I'm not gonna wear... a "straight" jacket for you

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way, hey
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy this way

--
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Jamez L. Smith
Poet, DJ, Infinite Soul
763.656.9492

www.myspace.com/vibegenie

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"There is no weapon greater than a keen mind honed by fortune, exercising it's will by way of the imagination." - Cairn of The Weavers

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Sisters- Ostara Blessings

Sizzle — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:09:04 GMT

2008 Vernal Equinox begins 3/20 at 05:57 UT
(12:57 am EST, where i'm at)

Wishing you all an safe, abundant season,
enjoy this Beautiful Ostara egg i saved for you...
Hearts, Gratitude and Blessings
Kuggs and Hisses--- (its a fey thing)

www.youtube.com/watch

Siz'l

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ICP 2.9 now available at Creampuff Revolution

Ron — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:34:42 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

It is a tremendous pleasure to announce the publication of edition 2.9 of the ICP at the following link:

http://rosemaryrowe.typepad.com/creampuff_revolution/2008/03/creampuff-welco.html

Creampuff, a.k.a., Roro, who hails from Vancouver, is our first repeat host from Canada. I encourage you to bookmark this edition and visit it over time so that you can enjoy each of the contributions from the world of HIV/AIDS. I hope that you will also join me in thanking Roro for her work this month. We “met” about 2 years ago during the NHL Hockey Championship between Edmonton and the Carolina Hurricanes and have been fast friends since despite some rather competitive invocation of mojo to make our teams win the Stanley Cup. Roro’s sense of compassion combined with her sense of humor makes me quite happy to count her among my friends.

This 21st consecutive edition of the ICP features personal accounts, video, a special musical contribution from UK band Slovo, self-help information and the latest in news from the HIV/AIDS community. I hope that you will spend some time reading and that you will leave comments for the contributors. It is through your comments that we can hone our messages and learn how you feel about our work. Please feel free to leave your thoughts with each of the contributors and for our gracious host.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage to learn more about this project and how you can contribute here:

http://www.internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com .

We are now accepting submissions for edition 2.10 to be hosted here, at Mshairi:

http://www.mshairi.com/blog

This will be Mshairi’s first stint as host of the ICP although she has been a frequent contributor in the past. Mshairi’s edition will mark the first time that the ICP will have been hosted by an African host. If you like poetry, you should scroll through her blog. A selection of her poetry also appears at one of my favorite sites, The Other Voices Poetry International Project, an anthology of poetry from around the world that has been recognized by UNESCO, here:

http://www.othervoicespoetry.org

Mshairi's work appears under the title “Footprints” here:

http://othervoicespoetry.org/vol27/mshairi/index.html .

Contribute Your Work

Please join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please email me at ron.hudson@verizon.net with the subject listed as “Volunteering to Host the ICP” and I will make the process for you as fun and rewarding as possible. We urgently need new volunteer hosts for the ICP editions after April, 2008. I will work with you to make the process as painless as it can be whether you are a first-time or returning host.

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Peace to you and yours.

Safe Journeys!

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Final Nails in Ron Paul’s Racist-sexist-homophobic Campaign Coffin

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:12:19 GMT

Final Nails in Ron Paul’s Racist-sexist-homophobic Campaign Coffin

By STEVEN ARGUE

Since I wrote the article:

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/05/18470186.php

New information has surfaced regarding Ron Paul’s pro-fascist agenda.

That information is discussed in the following January 7, 2008 MSNBC interview conducted by Tucker Carlson with the New Republic’s Jamie Kirchick. In it he gives an inside look into his controversial piece on presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, due to hit newsstands on Friday.

http://antironpaul.com/

The following are newly released copies of Ron Paul’s extreme right newsletter to which Jamie Kirchick refers:

http://www.tnr.com/downloads/March1990.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/January91.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/October1990.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/June1990.pdf
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/August1990.pdf

In addition to these revelations, in New Hampshire Ron Paul also failed to repeat anything close to the 10% vote he achieved in Iowa.

Somewhat surprisingly, there are a large number of liberal minded anti-war people who have urged a vote for Ron Paul.

They are liberal "support the lesser viable evil" types that see Ron Paul as more viable than any anti-war Democrat (arguably Kucinich and Gravel).

Additional questions have always existed if Ron Paul really was viable, or if he really was a lesser evil. New Hampshire and the latest revelations ought to put both questions to rest.

But for me there are always more important questions than if a candidate is viable or a "lesser evil". I think that building a long-term movement for real change is much more important than backing a candidate of any degree of evil. For me that includes deflating illusions in the corporate politicians of the Democrat and Republican Parties, getting out information on candidates to the left of the Democrats (the real anti-war and anti-corporate candidates), and urging further actions such as protests, strikes etc.

Simply put, there is nobody worth supporting in the racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-worker, anti-poor, and capitalist Republican Party. Never has been, never will be. Get over it. In fact, there is nobody in the corporate Democrat and Republican Parties that are worth supporting. I discuss some of the candidates that may be worth supporting in the following article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States,
And the Struggle to Achieve It
By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

And just for fun, here's the Ron Paul Time Machine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7884Z6-FiMY

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ICP 2.8 now available

Ron — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:16:39 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

It is a tremendous pleasure to announce the publication of edition 2.8 of the ICP at

http://notperfectatall.blogspot.com/2008/02/icp-28.html

Dragonette is our first European host, working from The Netherlands I encourage you to bookmark this edition and visit it over time so that you can enjoy each of the contributions from the world of HIV/AIDS. I hope that you will also join me in thanking Dragonette for her work this month.

This 20th consecutive edition of the ICP features personal accounts, video, music, self-help information and the latest in news from the HIV/AIDS community. Among these posts, you will find news about HIV/AIDS from around the world, posts from long-term survivors, an Annie Lennox HIV-prevention video, news and personal accounts from Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. I hope that you will spend some time reading and that you will leave comments for the contributors.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage to learn more about this project and how you can contribute at the following link:

http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com

We are now accepting submissions for edition 2.9 to be hosted at Creampuff Revolution, located here:

http://rosemaryrowe.typepad.com/creampuff_revolution/

This will be Roro’s second stint as host of the ICP. Her writing style is beautiful, funny, clever and guaranteed to make your ICP experience a good one. Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, videos or music files for the next edition.

Contribute Your Work

Please join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please send an email to ron.hudson@verizon.net and I will make the process for you as painless as possible. We urgently need new volunteer hosts for the ICP editions after March, 2008. If any of you have previously hosted or if you are first-time host, I will work with you to make the process as fun as it can be. It would be especially cool to have a volunteer host for the April edition.

Please Share with Your Friends

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Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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Edition 2.7 of the International Carnival of Pozitivities Available

Ron — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:45:24 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

It is a tremendous pleasure to announce the publication of edition 2.7 of the ICP at

http://www.thespincycle.blogspot.com/2008/01/as-positive-as-you-wanna-be-icp-27.html

Matty the Damned at The Spin Cycle

(http://www.thespincycle.blogspot.com)

has graciously served as our host for this month...from Australia. Bless his heart, Matty has a way with words. I have to include a STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING for you to consider, but what is a little language when you are dealing with a terminal illness? I hope that you will read this article and overlook any part that might offend you to see through to the good in the messages that we share to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.

This 19th consecutive edition of the ICP features personal accounts, video, self-help information and the latest in news from the HIV/AIDS community. I hope that you will spend some time reading and that you will leave comments for the contributors.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage to learn more about this project and how you can contribute at the following link:

http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com

We are now accepting submissions for edition 2.8 to be hosted at NotPerfectAtAll, located here:

http://notperfectatall.blogspot.com/

Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, videos or music files for the next edition.

Please Share with Your Friends

Please share this notice with your friends and consider posting announcements of our link on your blogs and websites. Our continuing presence is bolstered by your participation and outreach. Please help spread the word.

Contribute Your Work

Please join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please send an email to ron.hudson@verizon.net and I will make the process as painless as possible. We have hosts inline through March, 2008, but if you would like to host in April, 2008, or beyond, please let me know. I hope that you will consider signing up to host a specific edition of the ICP.

To be Removed From or Added To the ICP mailing list:

Please send an email to ron.hudson@verizon.net with the word REMOVE or SUBSCRIBE in your subject line to have your name removed from or added to, respectively, the ICP mailing list. If you did not receive notice of the ICP from me via direct email, then I do not have your email address in the mailing list. Please note that I can not remove an email address that does not exist on the mailing list. Your privacy is absolutely critical and no email addresses will be shared, sold or given to any other source. I use blind-copy distribution technology to prevent your identity from being revealed.

Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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No To Homophobe Ron Paul, How We Can Really End the War

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:11:18 GMT

"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it." Socialist Anti-war Candidate Eugene Debs (who garnered nearly a million votes while he sat in prison for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War One).

"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action" wrote Ron Paul, who voted against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act in Congress, the act that gave Blacks the right to vote, quote from his “Ron Paul Newsletter”.

No to NYC Indymedia Censorship, How We Can Really End the War

By STEVEN ARGUE

Claiming that only an alliance with Ron Paul conservatives can end the war, New York City Indymedia volunteers have allowed blatant slander against Liberation News and have censored attempts to respond to those lies. Among the slanders posted were accusations that Liberation News is opposed to Ron Paul because we support Hillary Clinton and her healthcare program. I tried posting the following response, but it was censored on the site:

Ron Paul supporter: “it's pointed out that yes Ron Paul is a racist but Stevies candidate Hillary is even worse.”

Steven Argue: “I don’t support Hillary Clinton. Never have, but you don’t listen. This is pure slander.”

They then repeat their slander that I support Hillary Clinton for her healthcare plan saying, “It's pointed out that Stevie is willing to sacrifice liberty for a bogus health care plan”

Steven Argue: “Hillary Clinton opposes both socialized medicine and single payer healthcare. She supports insurance company healthcare, the kind that is killing untold millions in the United States. This is one of many reasons I oppose her.”

“And no, I don't see Clinton as a first step towards socialized medicine. Her promise to force people to buy insurance has nothing in common with socialized medicine, nor partially socialized medicine (i.e. single payer). I’m clear about this in my article:

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It, By STEVEN ARGUE
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php

“As for Ron Paul, he wants to privatize everything, including public education, Social Security, and Medicare, eliminate the Voting Rights Act and Roe V Wade in the name of "states rights", signed on to the "Marriage Protection Act", would eliminate every environmental and labor protection, etc. etc. etc. This is a prescription for the slavery of the majority to protect the “liberty” of a tiny handful of capitalists to exploit.

“I oppose both Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul. But I’ve already made that clear as being my position. These accusations are slanderous.”

Ron Paul supporter: “Then Stevie moves the goal posts again. Waaa. He's being censored.”

Steven Argue: “I repeatedly posted a response to the slander that I support Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan, and the response is censored every time. I have no motive to make that up. I mentioned it because I wanted people to see my response. Frankly, I’m quite surprised it is happening. Let’s see if this one goes up.”

That response, as I feared, was also censored. Revealing the reasons behind the Ron Paul censorship at the site, the Ron Paul backers posted the following:

“Get off your sectarianism.

“What you don’t get is that there are only two ways we're going to end the occupation of Iraq:

“1.) A recession, and a bad one.

“2.) Convincing the vast majority of conservative Americans it's wrong. Ron Paul reaches these people. The guy with the Free Mumia shirt selling the "Socialist Worker" doesn't.

“To get anything done in a democracy you're going to have to work with people you don't agree with and people you might not even like. People in grown up countries do this all the time. They're called "coalitions".

“The Labor Party in Israel, for example, makes alliances with the ultra orthodox. The Liberal Democrats have made common cause with the Tories in the UK. The left made common cause with Vicente Fox to get the PRI out of power in Mexico.

“It's only in the puritan USA where everybody thinks you have to like all your political allies and agree with them on everything.”

Besides the fact that the majority of Americans already oppose the war; and besides the fact that these points show a total lack of understanding of the bourgeois nature of the coalitions in the countries mentioned; and besides showing a total lack of understanding of what it will take to end the war (I discuss this at the end of the article); New York City Indymedia’s lack of confidence in the ability of people to change has caused them to build a coalition with a capitalist politician who is a racist, homophobic, anti-worker, anti-environmental, bible thumping, sexist, anti-labor, anti-poor, free-market privatization fanatic. On top of that, they censor the left in order to achieve that coalition.

While a Ron Paul presidency would likely end the war, at what price would this come?

Ron Paul uses the term liberty a lot, so let’s take a look at what he means by liberty.

The liberty Ron Paul demands is:

The liberty of the capitalists to exploit without labor laws and environmental protections;

The "state’s right” to prevent Blacks from voting without the interference of the Voting Rights Act (voted against its renewal in Congress);

The "states right" to ban abortions without the interference of Roe v Wade;

The freedom of the government to deny same-sex rights (was an original sponsor of the "Marriage Protection Act");

The freedom of children not to attend schools (would abolish public education);

The freedom of the elderly and disabled to starve (would abolish Social Security);

The freedom of the sick to die (would abolish Medicare);

The freedom of the U.S. to destroy the planet without even the most basic limits on carbon emissions (opposes signing on to Kyoto and all other carbon limitations);

This is, in short, the liberty of a wealthy minority to make their money from the exploitation of labor and the environment with zero interference from labor laws, environmental laws, and the IRS. While his program is liberty for a minority of rich white heterosexual males, it is slavery for the majority.

Simply put, Ron Paul’s promises to end the war are not enough when one looks at the fact that he would eliminate two centuries of hard fought social progress in the United States.

Some of the anti-war backers of Ron Paul argue that we don’t have to worry about these things because Ron Paul will never be elected. They think that backing his campaign is a way to win over his supporters. What is clear is that such arguments could only come from people who are utterly lost and rudderless, which leaves unclear the question of what they are winning Ron Paul supporters over to. They are supporting a candidate whose program is George Wallace on crack cocaine! Yet, the ultimate absurdity is the fact that they are backing a candidate whose most reassuring feature is that he won’t get elected! Is this point lost on these people? And is the chance that their support may help him get elected a chance they really want to take? Nobody thought that third party candidate Jesse (the body) Ventura would get elected in Minnesota either, but he was, and as soon as he was elected he discarded his libertarian values on drug legalization and prostitution and instead proceeded to carrying out attacks on labor and carrying out disastrous cuts in education and other social spending.

Others argue that if Ron Paul is elected, he will easily be able to pull the troops out of Iraq, but congress will block him on the other issues. There is no doubt that they would block parts of Ron Paul’s program in order to prevent the social unrest such measures would cause, but with the ruling class’s desire to step up the exploitation of labor and the environment through eliminating regulation and through privatization, there can be little doubt that if he is able to maintain his presidency without being shot, aspects of Ron Paul’s domestic program would be implemented.

Today, in the United States we have two rightwing capitalist parties that rule. The activists who run New York Indymedia are floating around utterly lost and rudderless. On the one hand, their anarchist philosophy prohibits them from putting forward their own leadership or supporting socialist candidates; and on the other hand, they are stuck in the “real politic” of supporting “lesser evil” capitalist politicians. It is these characteristics that made them susceptible to being swept up on the Ron Paul band wagon. Despite their “libertarian” values of “freedom”, they have now taken this to the point where they are even willing to censor critics of Ron Paul on their website.

While Ron Paul, the only Republican candidate opposed to the war, is not worth supporting, the front running Democrats are also very bad. Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, are all pro-war. Both Edwards and Clinton voted for the war. Obama supporters claim that Obama never supported the war. While Obama was not yet in the Senate at the time of the Iraq war vote, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton have all voted for war appropriations. This puts them all in the position of having supported the war. Over a million Iraqis are dead due to the U.S. invasion and occupation, and billions of dollars have been squandered. Obama, by helping pay for the war, has his hands in this mass murder just as Clinton and Edwards do.

Obama’s Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 supposedly would have begun troop withdrawal in May 2007. Yet, it didn't call for full nor immediate withdrawal. In addition, under the bill, the withdrawal could be halted if the Iraqi government met a number of criteria laid out by the Bush administration. These included a broad number of things such as changes in the use of oil revenue, government reforms, an end to sectarian violence, and other economic and reconstruction criteria. In Obama’s bill we have a crystal ball into the future. The excuses laid out in the bill will be heard once again as Obama, Clinton, or Edwards explain why they are keeping the troops in Iraq for their entire presidency; that is unless other actions are taken by the people to stop the war.

This brings us to the fundamental question of how to stop the war. If we are to listen to the Ron Paul censors / supporters at NYC Indymedia the only thing we can do to stop the war is support Ron Paul or hope for (pray for?) economic collapse. Yet, this ignores other less damaging possibilities. These include the troops refusing to fight, a general strike, strikes against the movement of war materials, or socialist revolution.

1. The troops refusing to fight. This worked in the struggle to end the U.S. aggression against Vietnam. It was the socialist movement who were the primary organizers of the anti-Vietnam War movement. That movement, immediately after the government’s murders at Kent State in May 1970 had 8 million students out on strike, and some Universities, such a Berkley, were taken over by students and faculty as anti-war universities. After May 1970, the majority of those drafted were already opposed to the war before they got to Vietnam. Refusal to fight was widespread, and the fragging of pro-war officers was common. Nixon could not continue to wage a war with soldiers who refused to fight. This, along with the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese, brought an end to the war in Vietnam.

Troops refusing to fight also helped bring an end to Russian involvement in the First World War, and helped bring down two pro-war governments in 1917.

2. A general strike or strikes against the movement of war materials. Strikes with such political demands have a long history of success. France has many good social programs because the workers there were willing to shut down their country to achieve them; and they are still willing to do the same to protect those hard fought gains.

3. Socialist revolution. The October Russian Revolution achieved an end to Russian involvement in the First World War. This was a good thing, despite the undemocratic nature of the revolution. Learning from those lessons, Liberation News opposes the dictatorial system of one party rule and raises the banner of revolutionary democratic socialism, while at the same time learning from many of the revolutionary strategies of Lenin and Trotsky.

Protests, pickets, information distribution, building a socialist movement, and answering pro-Ron Paul and pro-Obama-Clinton-Edwards propaganda all help towards building the momentum needed in achieving the kinds of actions that can end the war. Putting support behind Ron Paul only helps an extreme rightwing movement achieve the mantel of leadership for an anti-war sentiment that already represents majority public opinion. In addition, backing a guy like Ron Paul who just crossed a picket line to appear on Jay Lenno’s “Tonight Show” destroys the anti-war strategy of reaching out to the working class, as does backing a racist candidate like Ron Paul hurt the ability to reach out to the multi-racial working class.

No to the Democrats and Republicans!

U.S. Out of Iraq Now!

No to Insurance Company Healthcare, For Socialized Medicine!

Save the Planet, Curb Carbon Emissions Now!

Vote Socialist, Build the Labor Movement, Build the Anti-War Movement, Build the Socialist Movement.

[Note, small changes were made to the response that was censored at NYC Indymedia to make it more readable within the format of this article. Those wishing to see the original version will be given it upon request. Likewise, anyone wishing further sources will be provided them upon request]

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Announcing Edition 2.6 of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP)

Ron — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:34:32 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

It is a tremendous pleasure to announce the publication of edition 2.6 of the ICP at

http://www.dropdeadhappy.com/dropdeadhappy/ICP26.html

Mark Kokocki is our third host from Canada and our second from the Vancouver area after Roro at Creampuff Revolution. I encourage you to bookmark this edition and visit it over time so that you can enjoy each of the contributions from the world of HIV/AIDS. I hope that you will also join me in thanking Mark for his work this month and Giles of Slimconomy and Roro of Creampuff Revolution for the previous Canadian editions.

This 18th consecutive edition of the ICP features personal accounts, video, music, self-help information and the latest in news from the HIV/AIDS community. Among these posts,you will find news about HIV/AIDS in women and children, a good sampling of posts from long-term survivors, a Bollywood-like HIV prevention video from India, news and personal accounts from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, I hope that you will spend some time reading and that you will leave comments for the contributors.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage to learn more about this project and how you can contribute at the following link:

http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com

We are now accepting submissions for edition 2.7 to be hosted at The Spin Cycle, located here:

http://thespincycle.blogspot.com

This new edition marks the first time that the ICP will have been hosted outside of North America as we go to Australia for host Matty the Damned and the Spin Cycle team. It is notable that Matty and the Spin Cycle contributed the first post to the ICP’s first edition in June of 2006. Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, videos or music files for the next edition.

Please Share with Your Friends

Please share this notice with your friends and consider posting announcements of our link on your blogs and websites. Our continuing presence is bolstered by your participation and outreach. Please help spread the word.

Contribute Your Work

Please join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please send an email to ron.hudson@verizon.net and I will make the process for you as painless as possible. We have hosts inline through February, 2008, but if you would like to host in March, 2008, or beyond, please let me know. I hope that you will consider signing up to host a specific edition of the ICP.

To be Removed From or Added To the ICP mailing list:

Please send an email to ron.hudson@verizon.net with the word REMOVE or SUBSCRIBE in your subject line to have your name removed from or added to, respectively, the ICP mailing list. If you did not receive notice of the ICP from me via direct email, then I do not have your email address in the mailing list. Please note that I can not remove an email address that does not exist on the mailing list. Your privacy is absolutely critical and no email addresses will be shared, sold or given to any other source. I use blind-copy distribution technology to prevent your identity from being revealed.

Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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ICP 17 is now Available. I hope you are finding it helpful and interesting.

Ron — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:06:57 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

The 17th consecutive edition of the ICP is now available at the following link:

http://slimconomy.blogspot.com/2007/11/w-elcome-to-november-10-2007-edition-of.html

This edition is the second to have been hosted by a Canadian blogger and the second to be hosted internationally. Please join me in thanking Giles at Slimconomy for his participation as our host this month. As usual, this edition features personal accounts, video, self-help information and the latest in news from the HIV/AIDS community. I hope that you will spend some time reading and that you will leave comments for the contributors.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage at the following link to learn more about this project and how you can contribute:

http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com/

We are now accepting submissions for edition 18 to be hosted at Drop Dead Happy, located here:

http://www.dropdeadhappy.com

Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, videos or music files for the next edition.

Please Share with Your Friends

Please share this notice with your friends and consider posting announcements of our link on your blogs and websites. Our continuing presence is bolstered by your participation and outreach. Please help spread the word.

Contribute Your Work

I hope that you will join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please send me a message and I will make the process for you as painless as possible. Return hosts are welcome! We have hosts in line through December, 2007, but need to start recruiting new hosts for next year right now!! I hope that you will consider signing up to host a specific edition of the ICP.

To be Removed From or Added To the ICP mailing list:

Please send me a message with the word REMOVE or SUBSCRIBE in your subject line to have your name removed from or added to, respectively, the ICP mailing list. If you did not receive notice of the ICP from me via direct email, then I do not have your email address in the mailing list. Please note that I can not remove an email address that does not exist on the mailing list.

Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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ICP 16 is now available

Ron — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:19:35 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

The 16th edition of the ICP is now available at:

http://ogresview.mu.nu/archives/243135.php.

This edition represents an attempt to reach out to a conservative political community about HIV/AIDS. It is my hope that our messages might encourage those who normally do not come in contact with the issues of HIV/AIDS to think about how to help us fight the pandemic. We have poetry, video, personal accounts and news from around the world.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage to learn more about this project and how you can contribute at the following link:

http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com/

We are now accepting submissions for edition 17 to be hosted at Slimconomy at the link:

http://slimconomy.blogspot.com

Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, videos or music files for the next edition.

Please Share with Your Friends

As usual, I would like to ask you to post a permanent link to the ICP homepage (you can get a widget there as well) on your blogs or websites and to share the word of this edition with your readers and friends. The more people who know about the ICP, the more likely it will be that we will continue to receive excellent contributions. In fact, feel free to nominate your own HIV/AIDS related contributions from your favorite blogs or websites. The most powerful stories are those of personal nature, so I would encourage you to seek out or write personal accounts and to share them with the ICP. There are many more of you than of me, so join me in the search for quality blogs that share personal stories about HIV/AIDS from around the world. We have hardly begun to tap into the situation in Asia, so blogs from that region of the world are particularly welcome.

Contribute Your Work

I hope that you will join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please email me at ron.hudson@verizon.net and I will make the process for you as painless as possible. Return hosts are welcome! We have hosts in line through December, 2007, but need to start recruiting new hosts for next year. I hope that you will consider signing up to host a specific edition of the ICP.

To be Removed From or Added To the ICP mailing list:

Please email me with the word REMOVE or SUBSCRIBE in your subject line to have your name removed from or added to, respectively, the ICP mailing list. If you did not receive notice of the ICP from me via direct email, then I do not have your email address in the mailing list. Please note that I can not remove an email address that does not exist on the mailing list!!!!!

Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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new to the bay and to tribe

DANDYDIXON — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:12:53 GMT

hoping to meet up with like-minded folks for friendship, fucking and even good ol' fashioned dating. check out my profile and if you're at all interested write me back. take care

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ICP 15 is now available at Living Mindfully with HIV

Ron — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:03:51 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

The 15th edition of the ICP is now available at the following link:

http://hivhsnmindfulness.blogspot.com:80/2007/08/15th-edition-of-international-carnival.html

on the blog Living Mindfully with HIV. This edition includes a return of artwork from Colombian artist Farid de la Ossa, a video from Angelique Kidjo and Joss Stone for relief for Darfur, a special gift offer from me for your contribution to an AIDS Charity of your choice, HIV/AIDS news from around the world, more addiction recovery help, a very special introduction to "Big Love" or "Arohanui", and much more. Please take a few moments to read and leave comments, particularly for your host, James Wortz, who has done yet another great job despite a bout of bad health in the last few days.

Next Edition

Please visit the ICP homepage ( http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com ) to learn more about this project and how you can contribute. We are now accepting submissions for edition 16 to be hosted at Ogre's Politics and Views ( http://www.ogresview.mu.nu ). Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, videos or music files for the next edition. This next edition is very special. I have approached the host, Mr. Ogre, to participate as an outreach to a conservative political community that normally may not hear from people living with HIV/AIDS. Please consider this an opportunity to share your stories with a group of people who may not normally think of HIV/AIDS as often as we do and how you might make your case for teamwork with people who may not necessarily agree with you.

Please Share with Your Friends

As usual, I would like to ask you to post a permanent link to the ICP homepage (you can get a widget there as well) on your blogs or websites and to share the word of this edition with your readers and friends. The more people who know about the ICP, the more likely it will be that we will continue to receive excellent contributions. In fact, feel free to nominate your own HIV/AIDS related contributions from your favorite blogs or websites. The most powerful stories are those of personal nature, so I would encourage you to seek out or write personal accounts and to share them with the ICP. There are many more of you than of me, so join me in the search for quality blogs that share personal stories about HIV/AIDS from around the world. We have hardly begun to tap into the situation in Asia, so blogs from that region of the world are particularly welcome.

Contribute Your Work

I hope that you will join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please email me and I will make the process for you as painless as possible. Return hosts are welcome!

To be Removed From or Added To the ICP mailing list:

Please send me an email (ron.hudson@verizon.net) with the word REMOVE or SUBSCRIBE in your subject line to have your name removed or added to the ICP mailing list.

Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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ICP 14 is now available--Please share this news with your friends

Ron — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:51:19 GMT

Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP):

The 14th edition of the ICP is now available at the blog Straight, Not Narrow at the following link:

http://straightnotnarrow.blogspot.com/2004/08/welcome-to-14th-edition-of.html

This edition includes original artwork from HIV+ Colombian artist Farid de la Ossa, an original Spanish-language poem with translation by Mexican poet Jeannette Clariond, a video blog from the American comic ANT at his ANT Colony and a spoken-word video from my friend and 1 Giant Leap collaborator Rich Ferguson of Los Angeles, CA. Other posts address recognizing alcoholism within the HIV/AIDS community, as well as other thought-provoking articles about living with HIV/AIDS. We have a number of returning contributors as well as new participants. Please take a few minutes to visit and bookmark this edition so that you can enjoy it at your leisure over the next month.

Please visit the ICP homepage to learn more about this project and how you can contribute at the following link:

http://internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com/

We are now accepting submissions for edition 15 to be hosted at the blog Living Mindfully with HIV. Please consider contributing your original artwork, poetry, news, personal accounts, short stories, and video or music files for the next edition. The more of you who actively submit your articles, the more I will be able to identify and solicit new participants for this project.

I hope that you will join the growing community of contributors and hosts for this important international forum for genuine voices of AIDS and allies. Please note that we are still seeking hosts for our November, 2007, edition and for all editions beyond December, 2007. If you are interested in hosting the ICP, please email me at ron(dot)hudson(at)verizon(dot)net and I will make the process for you as painless as possible. Return hosts are welcome!

If you have a blog, please feel free to post a notice about the availability of this edition. Also, please share this note with your friends. We need to involve as many people as possible. I really appreciate all of the links that you have added for the ICP in your blog sidebars and would encourage any of you who have not yet done so to consider adding a permanent link to the ICP to your blog.

TO BE ADDED OR REMOVED FROM THE ICP MAILING LIST

If you would like to be added to or removed from the ICP mailing list, please email me with either the word REMOVE or SUBSCRIBE in the subject line of the email and I will ensure that your desires are followed. This email list is confidential and will not be shared with anyone. All correspondence is handled using blind copy so that your identity will be protected.

Peace to you and yours.

Ron Hudson

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The International Carnival of Pozitivities

Ron — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:41:36 GMT

Hi everyone.

As a gay blogger and a 22 year survivor of HIV/AIDS, I started a blog carnival for people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies. The homepage of the International Carnival of Pozitivities (ICP) can be found at:

www.internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com

This is a forum to share artwork, music, video, poetry, short stories and personal accounts about living with HIV/AIDS, the struggle to end the stigma of HIV/AIDS and how allies help the HIV/AIDS community.

Please check out the homepage at the link above and you will find links for the first 13 editions. Our next edition will be posted by 10 August at Straight, Not Narrow at:

www.straightnotnarrow.blogspot.com

We accept pertinent submissions for each edition until the 2nd of each month at midnight New York time and publish each month by the 10th at midnight.

Please have a look. If you like what you see, please share the link with your friends.

Peace to one and all.

Safe Journeys!

Ron Hudson

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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:18:36 GMT

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Newbie

CobaltBlue — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:07:55 GMT

Hi there guys! New to tribe.net and to this tribe...have enjoyed reading the posts so far and looking forward to contributing down the track. Greetings from down-under!

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penis obsession

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:43:44 GMT

Sometimes I'll get a friend invitation from dudes I haven't met yet so I'll go check out their profile and see whats up. Its starting to look like, more often than not, that the older some of these guys are the more preoccupied they are with their dicks. I mean pic after pic of various poses and angles of their butt, their balls, and of course their penis, and doing everything from jerking off to whatever. Well first, I think it's great that they have such pride in their equipment but I have to ask them........"you're under the impression I give a shit why?" All and all it's really boring , demeaning to them, and disappointing that there apparently isn't anything else of value in their lives to share. I'm not a prude either. I can appreciate nice looking dicks, butts, balls, tits, whatever, but for me there's a lot more to finding value in a person than just that especially in a friend invitation. fucking boring dudes. but whatever floats yer boat

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I just moved to Minneapolis

Jamez — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:56:47 GMT

Greet Me!

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New Member: Intro 2U: C my page/Send Add?

Merton — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:33:09 GMT

Hello Dear Tribe Members,

Just Wanted to Introduce Myself…
Hope you will want to see my page, send an add, and even write a testimonial:
http://people.tribe.net/d6aa2e9c-308c-4ab8-b937-d29e5f46af62

I am author, artist, illustrator, filmmaker, and photographer, Merton Parrish. I am a devotee of Priapian Spirituality (Priapus), and have a special devotion to my fellow gay, bi and str8 m4m men. I live in the midwest with my partner of eight years. I am 44 years young.

Because the M4M life and Priapian Spirituality has been such a joy to me, I am here to provide information on these things for my m4m brothers. I would like to share with you my blogs, writing, art, and the various pages I have created on the net. I hope to be of service to you, connect with you, and become friends with you here on Tribe.

I will enjoy knowing you visited my page. I would be so pleased if you would add me as a friend and write a testimonial, and hope that you will also bookmark my Tribe page, and bookmark the various pages I've listed in my links section (I think you will enjoy my regularly updated 360 and Blogger Blog in particular… http://mertonparrish.blogspot.com/ and http://360.yahoo.com/mertonparrish )

Finally, I'd be happy to chat/cam/IM/Em with you (for friendship, worship, or to answer any questions you might have about M4M life or Priapian Spirituality). Detailed contact info is below my signature…

Peace, guys!

Merton :)
*************************
Tribe page:
http://people.tribe.net/d6aa2e9c-308c-4ab8-b937-d29e5f46af62

Email:
Preferreddad@aol.com

My Y_hoo IMs:
Numeroushats2 (for camming with guys nationwide)
Numeroushats3 (for rt with Indianapolis guys/guys who visit Indianapolis)
MertonParrish (for questions re: m4m/Priapian Spirituality)

Note: If you send an add to my IM list for any of the above IMs, make sure your age, sex, and location is on your profile and 360. Ty! :)

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Lesbians sentenced for self-defense. FREE THEM NOW!

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:37:15 GMT

FREE THEM NOW!
Lesbians sentenced for self-defense
All-white jury convicts Black women

By Imani Henry
New York

Published Jun 21, 2007 2:58 AM
On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years in prison. None of them had previous criminal records. Two of them are parents of small children.

Their crime? Defending themselves from a physical attack by a man who held them down and choked them, ripped hair from their scalps, spat on them, and threatened to sexually assault them—all because they are lesbians.

The mere fact that any victim of a bigoted attack would be arrested, jailed and then convicted for self-defense is an outrage. But the length of prison time given further demonstrates the highly political nature of this case and just how racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-youth and anti-worker the so-called U.S. justice system truly is.

The description of the events, reported below, is based on written statements by a community organization (FIERCE) that has made a call to action to defend the four women, verbal accounts from court observers and evidence from a surveillance camera.

The attack

On Aug. 16, 2006, seven young, African-American, lesbian-identified friends were walking in the West Village. The Village is a historic center for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) communities, and is seen as a safe haven for working-class LGBT youth, especially youth of color.

As they passed the Independent Film Cinema, 29-year-old Dwayne Buckle, an African-American vendor selling DVDs, sexually propositioned one of the women. They rebuffed his advances and kept walking.

“I’ll f— you straight, sweetheart!” Buckle shouted. A video camera from a nearby store shows the women walking away. He followed them, all the while hurling anti-lesbian slurs, grabbing his genitals and making explicitly obscene remarks. The women finally stopped and confronted him. A heated argument ensued. Buckle spat in the face of one of the women and threw his lit cigarette at them, escalating the verbal attack into a physical one.

Buckle is seen on the video grabbing and pulling out large patches of hair from one of the young women. When Buckle ended up on top of one of the women, choking her, Johnson pulled a small steak knife out of her purse. She aimed for his arm to stop him from killing her friend.

The video captures two men finally running over to help the women and beating Buckle. At some point he was stabbed in the abdomen. The women were already walking away across the street by the time the police arrived.

Buckle was hospitalized for five days after surgery for a lacerated liver and stomach. When asked at the hospital, he responded at least twice that men had attacked him.

There was no evidence that Johnson’s kitchen knife was the weapon that penetrated his abdomen, nor was there any blood visible on it. In fact, there was never any forensics testing done on her knife. On the night they were arrested, the police told the women that there would be a search by the New York Police Department for the two men—which to date has not happened.

After almost a year of trial, four of the seven were convicted in April. Johnson was sentenced to 11 years on June 14.

Even with Buckle’s admission and the video footage proving that he instigated this anti-gay attack, the women were relentlessly demonized in the press, had trumped-up felony charges levied against them, and were subsequently given long sentences in order to send a clear resounding message—that self-defense is a crime and no one should dare to fight back.

Political backdrop of the case

Why were these young women used as an example? At stake are the billions of dollars in tourism and real estate development involved in the continued gentrification of the West Village. This particular incident happened near the Washington Square area—home of New York University, one of most expensive private colleges in the country and one of the biggest employers and landlords in New York City. The New York Times reported that Justice Edward J. McLaughlin used his sentencing speech to comment on “how New York welcomes tourists.” (June 17)

The Village is also the home of the Stonewall Rebellion, the three-day street battle against the NYPD that, along with the Compton Cafeteria “Riots” in California, helped launch the modern-day LGBT liberation movement in 1969. The Manhattan LGBT Pride march, one of the biggest demonstrations of LGBT peoples in the world, ends near the Christopher Street Piers in the Village, which have been the historical “hangout” and home for working-class trans and LGBT youth in New York City for decades.

Because of growing gentrification in recent years, young people of color, homeless and transgender communities, LGBT and straight, have faced curfews and brutality by police sanctioned by the West Village community board and politicians. On Oct. 31, 2006, police officers from the NYPD’s 6th Precinct indiscriminately beat and arrested several people of color in sweeps on Christopher Street after the Halloween parade.

Since the 1980s there has been a steady increase in anti-LGBT violence in the area, with bashers going there with that purpose in mind.

For trans people and LGBT youth of color, who statistically experience higher amounts of bigoted violence, the impact of the gentrification has been severe. As their once-safe haven is encroached on by real estate developers, the new white and majority heterosexual residents of the West Village then call in the state to brutalize them.

For the last six years the political LGBT youth group FIERCE has been at the forefront of mobilizing young people “to counter the displacement and criminalization of LGBTSTQ [lesbian, gay, bi, two spirit, trans, and queer] youth of color and homeless youth at the Christopher Street Pier and in Manhattan’s West Village.” (www.fiercenyc.org) FIERCE has also been the lead organization supporting the Jersey Seven and their families.

The trial and the media

Deemed a so-called “hate crime” against a straight man, every possible racist, anti-woman, anti-LGBT and anti-youth tactic was used by the entire state apparatus and media. Everything from the fact that they lived outside of New York, in the working-class majority Black city of Newark, N.J., to their gender expressions and body structures were twisted and dehumanized in the public eye and to the jury.

According to court observers, McLaughlin stated throughout the trial that he had no sympathy for these women. The jury, although they were all women, were all white. All witnesses for the district attorney were white men, except for one Black male who had several felony charges.

Court observers report that the defense attorneys had to put enormous effort into simply convincing the jury that they were “average women” who had planned to just hang out together that night. Some jurists asked why they were in the Village if they were from New Jersey. The DA brought up whether they could afford to hang out there—raising the issue of who has the right to be there in the first place.

The Daily News reporting was relentless in its racist anti-lesbian misogyny, portraying Buckle as a “filmmaker” and “sound engineer” preyed upon by a “lesbian wolf pack” (April 19) and a “gang of angry lesbians.” (April 13)

Everyone has been socialized by cultural archetypes of what it means to be a “man” or “masculine” and “woman” or “feminine.” Gender identity/expression is the way each indivdual chooses or not to express gender in their everyday lives, including how they dress, walk, talk, etc. Transgender people and other gender non-conforming people face oppression based on their gender expression/identity.

The only pictures shown in the Daily News were of the more masculine-appearing women. One of the most despiciable headlines in the Daily News, “‘I’m a man!’ lesbian growled during fight,” (April 13) was targeted against Renata Hill, who was taunted by Buckle because of her masculinity.

Ironically, Johnson, who was singled out by the judge as the “ringleader,” is the more feminine of the four. According to the New York Times, in his sentencing remarks, “Justice McLaughlin scoffed at the assertion made by ... Johnson, that she carried a knife because she was just 4-foot-11 and 95 pounds, worked nights and lived in a dangerous neighborhood.” He quoted the nursery rhyme, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” (June 15)

All of the seven women knew and went to school with Sakia Gunn, a 19-year-old butch lesbian who was stabbed to death in Newark, N.J., in May 2003. Paralleling the present case, Gunn was out with three of her friends when a man made sexual advances to one of the women. When she replied that she was a lesbian and not interested, he attacked them. Gunn fought back and was stabbed to death.

“You can’t help but wonder that if Sakia Gunn had a weapon, would she be in jail right now?” Bran Fenner, a founding member and co-executive director of FIERCE, told Workers World. “If we don’t have the right to self-defense, how are we supposed to survive?”

National call to action

While racist killer cops continue to go without indictment and anti-immigrant paramilitary groups like the Minutemen are on the rise in the U.S., The Jersey Four sit behind bars for simply defending themselves against a bigot who attacked them in the Village.

Capitalism at its very core is a racist, sexist, anti-LGBT system, sanctioning state violence through cops, courts and its so-called laws. The case of the Jersey Four gives more legal precedence for bigoted violence to go unchallenged. The ruling class saw this case as a political one; FIERCE and other groups believe the entire progressive movement should as well.

Fenner said, “We are organizing in the hope that this wakes up all oppressed people and sparks a huge, broad campaign to demand freedom for the Jersey Four.”

FIERCE is asking for assistance for these young women, including pro-bono legal support, media contacts and writers, pen pals, financial support, and diverse organizational support. For details, visit www.fiercenyc.org.

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Mikes on Bikes - SF LGBTQwhatever Pride - ride your bike!

myrmidude — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:23:08 GMT

Are any tribesters here looking for a fun, relaxing and showy alternative for marching in pride?

I'll be riding my bike (for about the 4th time). It's really fun, and near the front of the parade.

Sunday June 24. I think you have to be downtown on Spear or one of the side streets entering toward Market (ride down Mission to get there).

Call 905-8854. $5-$10 donation.

SF Bike Coalition has free bike parking behind the Asian Art Museum.

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NYC LGBT PRIDE EVENTS

SilverdenStarson — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:50:14 GMT

New York City’s Mayor’s Office and the Community Assistance Unity have denied Heritage of Pride a permit for the re-envisioned PRIDEfest, our annual street festival, however the other annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride events will proceed as planned.

Below is a list of events, including the date and times of each. Please visit our website, Hopinc.org, for more information.

THE RALLY
Bryant Park
42nd Street and 6th Avenue
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
2:00pm - 6:00pm

RAPTURE: A WOMEN’S DANCE
Pier 54 (13th Street @ the Hudson River)
In the Hudson River Park
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
6:00pm - 11:00pm

THE MARCH
5th Avenue and 52nd Street to Christopher Street and Greenwich Street
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
12:00pm - End
Moment of Silence: 2:00pm

DANCE 21: THE DANCE ON THE PIER
Pier 54 (13th Street @ the Hudson River)
In the Hudson River Park
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
4:00pm - 11:00pm

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it's ok to be gay

Sizzle — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:40:26 GMT

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/133463

absolutly fagulous music vid....

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John Burnside's 90th B-day video

esteban23 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:54:38 GMT

This was posted on the national faerie list today. A must see for all!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCZXRhlAlYQ

Esteban

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ANY GAY MALE RETREATS? SPIRITUAL/ARTS/WRITERS? Communes?

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:01:30 GMT

Actor,artist, healthy POZ writer here from Maine.I was commissioned by Portland Stage Company to write/create a piece on the poet Longfellow for the Bicentennial of his birth..It has already been workshopped once and is being worked on again this coming May with a production goal in the fall of 2007 here and in Harvard/Boston and Bowdoin.I really would like to escape for at least a week this month for some quiet editing/writing time and/or some peace of mind...either commune of gay men or nude retreat or writing retreat or just a quiet place...I have a committment to a play(acting) for Nov/Dec but after that I could do a month or a few weeks somewhere....I have been under a crazed schedule as of late and have not had more than 3 days off in a row in 15 years,,need a mini spiritual boost...my partner committed suicide 6 years ago and I am starting to get out into the spiritual world of brothers again...any one know any gay retreats? a cheap ,cheap rental or work exchange anywhere? America,elsewhere? I will help work if is a commune or what ever,,,I need a break and not much money here until my grants come in (NEA etc) Laid back ...but high energy respected and well liked peaceful soul here...thanks Daniel

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Christian Ex-Gay Movement - KQED.org radio - NPR Fresh Air - 10/09/06

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:10:09 GMT

Christian Ex-Gay Movement - KQED.org radio - NPR Fresh Air - 10/09/06

http://www.kqed.org/programs/program-landing.jsp?progID=RD20

http://www.kqed.org

Upcoming

Mon, October 9, 2006 -- 1:00pm Pacific (replay 7pm pacific)

The Christian Ex-Gay Movement -- The show looks at the movement to help gays and lesbians overcome their homosexuality. Terry talks with Tanya Erzen, author of the new book "Straight to Jesus"; Alan Chambers, president of Exodus, the largest Evangelical group devoted to converting homosexuals to heterosexuals; and Shawn O'Donnell, an ex-gay who left Exodus to live again as gay man and whose story was part of the documentary, "Fish Can't Fly."

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light a candle

Dominic — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:45:50 GMT

Body: Please light a candle!

Today, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical monolith that charges nearly $1,000 for a 30 day supply of one of its HIV/AIDS medications, is donating $1 to the National AIDS Fund for each person who simply visits their website and "virtually lights a candle." The tally is over 800,000 now.

Please, please take a minute to "light a candle":

www.lighttounite.org

This really will take just a second!! :) Please forward this on to other friends!

P.S. Please, take a few seconds to repost this so that the word can get out to as many people as possible. Thank You!

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Come join us in the World Orgasm Dec 22nd

Sunwolf_388 — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:12 GMT

I hope you don't mind me passing this along? SMILE

Iona Miller wrote:
Quote:
"In Magick, the so-called Masonic secret is sex magick - the thoght that occurs at the moment of orgasm HAPPENS.
Let's put it to the test Dec. 22 with what gets you off! ))) How HARD is that? !!!!!"

http://www.globalorgasm.org/demo.html

Sunwolf's respone:
Ok, so we are all suppose to jack off or make love and at the moment of orgasm think of world peace, and we are suppose to do this at the same time, more or less. I'm game. Now this could make sex magick history!!!

In the Dreamspell, this will be White Resonant Mirror, Kin 98, Rhythmic Lizard Moon day 10.

Peace,
Ron Adams
Sunwolf

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Herstory's History

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:38:52 GMT

Howdy folks!

I'm new to Tribe, and I gotta say, I'm deeply disturbed by much of what I see out here.

I'd like to post something today from my own personal blog, and I've actually decided to cross post it with several other tribes. You are all welcome to draw your own conclusions, and then flame me to your hearts content, if you like. My skin is thick, I am strong like bull. And I'm really pissed off.

I respectfully welcome any and all thoughtful discussion.

Any Thoughtless Diss Cussin will be ignored.

Ready? Here we go.

Every so often, as I’m channel surfing in front of the TV, I’ll stop on LOGO, the Gay TV channel.
I can be a bit of a rubber-necker that way. It's just such a wreck I can't help but watch it when I pass by.

Anyway, 'In the Life' was on. This show is kind of like a low-rent 20/20 news show/lifestyle advertisement. I think it first started being produced in the late eighties/early nineties on PBS here in the United States, and I can remember thinking how marvelous it was back then. It’s kind of like finding an old picture of your self with a really bad hairstyle. Only worse.

So I’m watching this bit, an old repeat, and they're talking about ONE Magazine from the fifties, and the Mattachine Society and all that stuff, claiming it to be the birth of Gay, and I’m listening to this earnest, gushing lesbian reporter go on and on about how deprived we are of our collective homo histories, and how wonderful their archive was. It looks huge. They built a building for it. This woman also talked about how due to fear and hate and shame, much of these histories/ documents/artifacts have been destroyed, burned, whatever. There are enourmous gaps in mainstream homo history.

As she prattles on, I’m getting angrier and angrier because I now know a big chunk of gay history that I never had a clue about until I stumbled across The Reverend Jack Malebranche and his work.

www.jackmalebranche.com/hub/index.php

A while ago, I was watching yet another, more recent bit on In The Life, and they were talking about Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and The Uraning Theory, and they now acknowledge this to be the initial birth of the “Gay Identity”. Once again, Adolf Brand was completely ignored, but several of the Uraning supporters were paid homage. And once again, the segment was being narrated by another earnest, gushing lesbian.

Now here’s the kicker:

For almost two years I attended the first All-Homo High School in the world - from 1986 through 1987 - The Harvey Milk School in NYC. We were immersed in Gay Gay Gay and Womyn Womyn Womyn up to our eyeballs and supposedly given ‘our’ history with gobs of pomp and circumstance. They told us about ONE Magazine and a few others, and all of the usual Renaissance guys and lots about The Stonewall Riots and what not.

“Our Bibles had been burned by the evil male oppressors!. Poor us!”

Please keep in mind, if you will, this little factoid: Some of the same people who initially helped get 'In The Life' up and running were also some of the same people who created The Harvey Milk School, and ran it while I was there.

Why is it that after my brief, bargain basement - though quite formal - Gay Education, I had never heard the name Adolf Brand?

I’ve got the creeps right now. I can’t help but wonder just how much of those precious, lost histories were burned by the people who claim to have made them. Or if they’re just locked up in a basement somewhere. Just like the Vatican. ‘In The Life’ seems like a classic propaganda machine to me. And they all followed it. It set the standard.

Be careful what you say, gentlemen. Big Sister is watching you.

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Queer Theory

Sunwolf_388 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:24:23 GMT

(Ok, this is my first impressions of Judith Butler's theories on Queer Culture...so I might be way off or close, so share what you feel or know, please)

http://www.queertheory.com/

Queer Theory

The theory of multiculturalism at work within every culture paradigm. When one is not part of the majority culture, say a queer for instance, we must hide our queerness in order to blend in.

This is until, as a subset of the whole culture, we reclaim our diversity to also shape and influence the greater culture, and reclaim a word like QUEER, as an empowerment to our identity. Its sort of a paradox, reclaiming QUEER so we can transcend labels. Queer is part of our identity, a label, not the whole-self.

This could be said of any group subset which is not the majority group: like Wiccans, American Indians, Thelemites, Feminists, Blacks, Women, etc.

Sunwolf
Ron Adams

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The Mark Foley scandal: Where is the crime?

djapollo2k — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:38:52 GMT

The Mark Foley scandal: Where is the crime? Down with this reactionary
crusade!

by Fred Bergen

A Republican congressman from Florida is under investigation by the FBI
and state authorities. He has resigned from Congress in disgrace.
Condemnations and accusations are raining down on him and congressional
Republican leadership, who are scrambling to distance themselves from
Foley as the November 7 election approaches. Political pundits believe
that the Democrats may finally have an "issue" that can win them control
of Congress. The Democrats are playing it for all it's worth. For six
years they tried to position themselves as better leaders for the "war
on terror", better enforcers of the racist immigration laws, defenders
of the honor and integrity of the CIA, but they couldn't get any
electoral momentum out of it. Now they look capable of sweeping into
control of Congress as righteous enemies of child molesters and sexual
predators.

What actually happened? In 2005, the St. Petersburg Times, along with
the Miami Herald and Fox News, were sent copies of five emails that Mark
Foley allegedly sent to a sixteen-year-old former page. These emails are
said to be "sexually suggestive". About the closest they get to that is
Foley's apparent repeated requests for a "pic[ture]" of the former page.
[1] None of these outlets published the story; the Times editors
concluded it was probably just "friendly chit-chat."

The emails were first published on a website dedicated to exposing
Foley's behavior. Following this, ABC News and the Washington Post
published, or claimed to be in the possession of, transcripts of
internet instant-message conversations between Foley and two former
Congressional pages under the age of eighteen, which occurred in the
year 2003. Some of these messages are more sexually explicit.

One anonymous former page alleged to the Los Angeles Times that he had
sex with Mark Foley in the fall of 2000. At the time this page was
twenty-one years old.

Not one page or former page has pressed charges of sexual harassment,
molestation, or anything else, against Foley. No one has claimed that
the alleged sex between Foley and the twenty-one year old former page
was anything but consensual. So why is this a political issue? And why
are socialists concerned with it?

We revolutionaries think that the state has no business interfering in
sexual relations. Does this mean that we defend or excuse rape,
harassment, or molestation. Absolutely not. Sexual relations must be
based on free and mutual consent; anything else is a serious crime. But
while poisonous innuendo abounds, there has not been one scintilla of
evidence that Foley forced himself on anyone. At most he may have sent
sexual proposals via instant-message to former pages. But no one has
accused him of forcing the pages to read his messages, or of continuing
his propositions if he was told that they were unwanted. If what he is
known to have done is a crime, we say the law is unjust, because we take
a stand on principle against punishing people for mere speech or
thoughts, no matter how unpopular they may be.

It is the capitalists and their parties who politicize sex. They claim
to be defending the innocent and vulnerable, but anyone who has seen the
pictures from Abu Ghraib prison knows that this government doesn't give
a damn about sexual torture and molestation. Their real intent is to
persecute anyone who strays outside the completely artificial bounds
prescribed by the patriarchal, heterosexual bourgeois family, and in the
process arrogate to themselves ever greater police powers. And so, as
revolutionaries we must defend the democratic rights of workers, youth,
and oppressed people whenever they are attacked under the banner of
bourgeois "morality," "family values," or protection against "sexual
predators." It makes no difference to us that Foley is a utter
hypocrite, who as chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited
Children, used the threat of child sexual abuse to campaign for laws
giving the state power to arrest and prosecute people for victimless
thought-crimes, and sponsored the legislation which became the "Adam
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act" of 2006, which required
monitoring and publication of the whereabouts of "sex criminals," even
after they have completed their sentences, and a minimum 25-year
sentence for kidnapping. That he has been ensnared by his own
reactionary crusade is no consolation to the millions of victims of
bourgeois sexual "morality."

The most common form of kidnapping by far is not the type of nightmarish
abduction by malicious stranger-molesters that is dramatized daily in
the corporate media, but involves parental disputes in cases of divorce
or estrangement. While such situations are certainly distressing and
harmful to the child and all involved, it's hard to imagine how the
intervention of the cops and a twenty-five year minimum prison term
could make anything better for anyone. Furthermore, it is within
families and among family members or sexual couples that the majority of
rape and child abuse cases occur. Many of these would be prevented if
women had the absolute right to divorce, abortion, free medical and
child care, and guaranteed housing and employment, as part of a program
to end the enslavement of women to their husbands and male partners. How
many of these cases would also be prevented if gays and lesbians were
not forced by social stigma and discriminatory laws into "family"
relationships that had nothing to do with their feelings or desires, and
punished for the relationships that they have or want?

The capitalist "nuclear" family celebrated by bourgeois moralists as a
one-size-fits-all "tradition" is a recent invention from the perspective
of human existence on earth, and has nothing to do with the biological
or psychological needs of the human organism. It has a social purpose:
to provide a mate for the male head of household, who by virtue of her
being the exclusive sexual property of the father, can provide
legitimate sons, uncontested heirs to the man's worldly posessions. And
since the vast majority of people in the world, workers, the unemployed,
and poor peasants, have little or nothing of value to pass on to their
"heirs", the 'till-death-do-us-part family is completely useless to
them. It is imposed on them by reactionary legislation and anti-gay,
anti-women, and anti-sex morality crusades.

It is the crusading "defenders of children" who push bankrupt and sexist
"family values", who make it harder to divorce and harder for women to
control their own reproduction, who force women into the arms of men
they don't want by cutting off welfare and child-care services, and who
preach sexual ignorance and abstinence as a prudish alternative to
education for the youth. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds, and their
victims, as always, are the workers and oppressed people, especially
women and gays, lesbians, bisexual and others with non-conforming sexual
identities, who, if they are not formally convicted of a crime, can
still be hounded out of their jobs and communities for their
transgressions against bourgeois "family values."

We oppose any state interference in personal and sexual relations that
are based on free, mutual consent. It is the capitalists and their
morality crusaders who break up family bonds that might otherwise be
healthy, either because they don't fit the heterosexual nuclear-family
cookie-cutter, or through the stress of overwork, poverty, and racist
police harassment.

Apologists for this bipartisan witch-hunt, pointing out the wide
disparity in ages between Foley and his contacts, will ask, doesn't the
obvious imbalance of power in these relationships (whatever their extent
may have been) mean that they can't be healthy or consensual? We ask: in
this society that is based on huge inequalities in wealth and power and
painfully distorted by racism and women's oppression, can there be any
truly "equal" sexual relationship? And how can the capitalist state, the
violent enforcer of these same inequalities, be trusted to enforce
standards of equality among sexual partners, with arbitrary age of
consent laws, or by any other means? These reformists are looking for an
excuse for police-state powers to punish private thoughts and consensual
sex (to the degree that truly free consent is possible in a society
torn apart by class antagonisms), under the banner of protecting the
helpless. Since when has the capitalist state, its police, its courts,
its laws, stood for the rights of the exploited and oppressed? Reformist
objections of this sort only prove that socialist revolution, and the
consequent abolition of social inequality, is necessary to liberate
sexuality from the chains of capitalist "morality", while at the same
time they demonstrate the reformists' fundamental loyalty to the
repressive capitalist state.

We will not conform to this bourgeois anti-gay morality crusade. Our
demands are: Stop this witch-hunt! Down with the reactionary,
hypocritical "family values" crusade! Cops and courts, out of the
bedroom! For women's and gay liberation through socialist revolution!

[1] The alleged year 2005 emails are available at
http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/FoleyEmailExchangeUpdated.pdf
. This is a Democratic party website dedicated to publicizing the Foley
scandal and persecuting the ex-congressman and other Republicans
involved in this scandal in the courts.

__._,_.___

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Anti-Gay Tribe Ads

khrysso — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:52:47 GMT

I just had a pop-up ad (on my Tribemail page) tell me that I could visit a site and get biblical tips for combatting homosexuality.

Somebody's marketing is fucked up, to say the least...

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Rourke: Calling somebody a "fag" is OK

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:36:55 GMT

WORD TOSSER

October 3, 2006 -- MICKEY Rourke says calling somebody a "fag" is OK in his book. Talking about our item last month on his near-fight with a drunken fan at Macelleria downtown, the tough guy actor tells this week's Time Out: "He was really, really out of control - some big [bleep]in' obnoxious fag. I don't mean fag in a derogatory way, just like the guy was a [bleep]-off. Look, I'm not afraid to say the word 'fag' . . . I've got plenty of gay friends. We toss the word around. If I wanna say, 'fag,' I'm gonna [bleep]in' say it. And if somebody has a problem with that, they can kiss my [bleep]in' a - - !"

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Gay Marriage: A question of Civil Rights

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:52:02 GMT

Gay Marriage: A question of Civil Rights

Statement of Peace and Freedom Party Senate Candidate Marsha Feinland:

In the United States, the institution of marriage controls our right to such matters as child custody, hospital visitation, and retirement income. It is also the most common and socially accepted form of a committed relationship between two adults. To deprive any couple of the right to marry is discrimination. We cannot allow discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, just as we no longer allow "miscegenation" laws to prohibit interracial marriage.

As the U.S. Senate takes up a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in time for preelection posturing by the right wing, we should study the poses assumed by the two senators from California. Both Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were opposed to gay marriages in San Francisco when they were briefly legalized. This time, we will probably see them pointing out that the proposed amendment is "unnecessary," "inappropriate," or "not the business of the federal government."

My position is that a constitutional amendment or any law banning gay marriage is unjust, discriminatory and absolutely wrong. As long as the institution exists, everyone has the right to marry.

Also see:

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/28/18302034.php

Marsha Feinland for United States Senate
http://feinlandforsenate.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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Fresh Meat

anakathesage — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:49:05 GMT

who wants to buy fresh meat? Jk Hi im new and you are?

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Intersexuality v. Disorders of Sex Development: Should LGBT Become LGBTI?

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:07:34 GMT

Some in the intersex movement have started to shift away from using the word "intersex" and are more often adopting the term "DSD"(Disorders of Sex Differentiation and Development). The shift is supported by a number of intersex activists who are motivated by a variety of factors. A few of the primary reasons include: enhancing relationships with the medical community to increase the likelihood of changing the dominant medical treatment protocol; using terminology to enhance parent understanding; and moving toward a disability model and away from the LGBT identity movement because of the potential stigma attached with the latter and not the former. Others in the intersex activist movement find this shift problematic and believe that the intersex movement should develop as an identity movement and join forces with LGBT organizations. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE COMMUNITY OR COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE CALLED?

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Call for Submissions

paradigmbrooklyn — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:49:19 GMT

Submit to be an artist or panelist/speaker at Peace Out East. Peace Out East (www.peaceouteast.com) is an annual LGBTQ and allies hip hop cultural festival in NYC, Oct 12-15, 2006. We are looking for music, visual, performance artists and panelists/speakers/scholars. Please see www.peaceouteast.com for details. Don't be scared off by HIP HOP, alternative music and performances considered. Include links to music/art or email for a mailing address. Deadline 9/1/06 NO EXCEPTIONS.

submit to: artists@ peaceouteast.com

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catching some rays...like totally

georgiebaby — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:05:25 GMT

Does anyone know of any fun spots around sf to sun bath besides Dolores or Baker?

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Run Away!

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:50:35 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZPsTM-4qgg&mode=related&search=Fred%20Phelps

This cracked me up so bad, I about pissed myself...

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Queers over 40 tribe

Ms. Fill in the Blank — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:45:52 GMT

Hey all , just wanted to put this out there.
I have a queers over 40 tribe. Its for men, women, trans etc.

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I Feel Lonely

Jamez — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:19:46 GMT

Please provide some content.

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Lesbian Writers...

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:38:06 GMT

LESBIAN WRITERS FUND
> Of the ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE
>
> DEADLINE: Received in Astraea’s offices by
Friday June 30, 2006
>
>
> ASTRAEA’S LESBIAN WRITERS FUND supports the
work of emerging lesbian
> writers, and acknowledges the contributions of
established lesbian
> writers to our movement and culture. Judging
is blind, so please
> remember to call the Astraea office for an ID#
for your application.
> First place awardees in each category receive
$10,000, and there are
> additional cash prizes for runners-up. This
year’s deadline for
> application is Friday, June 30, 2006. For
additional information on
> Astraea or to find listings of previous Lesbian
Writers Fund grantees
> and panelists, please check our website at
www.astraeafoundation.org
> <http://www.astraeafoundation.org/> .
>
> For a copy of guidelines and application for
the above grants, please
> contact us at:
>
> 212-529-8021, ext. 22 or via email at:
grants@astraeafoundation.org
> <mailto:grants@astraeafoundation.org> .
Guidelines and application
> forms are also available online at:

<http://www.astraeafoundation.org/PHP/Grants/DeadlinesAllGrants.php4>>

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Keep the internet free!!

TopDog — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:18:39 GMT

Howdy,

I don't know if any of you have heard about the plan by AT&T and several other telecommunications corporations to start charging for preferential treatment of websites on servers, etc. Please check it out at moveon.org and sign the petition for congress to keep Network Neutrality.

http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/

TD

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Beltaine Blissingz

Sinnerjee — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:46:07 GMT

wish i was dancin' round a maypole with y'all.

Here's part of my traditional Beltaine liturgy:

(Tune: "Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer")

Faunus the Roman Goat-God
Had a very eager prick
And if you ever saw it
You would want to be his trick

All of the other deities
Used to leer suggestively
They always wanted Faunus
To join them in their orgies

Then one balmy Beltaine eve
Bacchus made his move
"Faunus, with your rod so bold,
Won't you fill my maypole hole?"

Then all the others pouted
And they muttered jealously
"Faunus, the Roman goat-god
Better save a turn for me!"

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What the heck is that picture all about!?!?

Jamez — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:37:30 GMT

I was recently asked to explain the image currently up as the main photo for A Queer Tribe. The image was posted by "j.ru"... and was likely made the main photo before the strict controls were set in place (I certainly don't recall making it so).

My guess is that, by using stark contrast, the picture makes a statement about the priorities of "mainstream gay culture", as perpetuated by the Castro, West Hollywood, The Advocate, Queer As Folk, Logo, et al. The presence of the american flag underscores the facism inherent within said culture.

What say Ye?

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starting a CoDA group

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:50:50 GMT

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how one goes about starting a CoDA group for people to meet? There are no gay CoDA meetings where I live, and wanted to start one specifically for gay men and women.

Thanks.

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Day of Silence

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:28:49 GMT

Hey, this is my first post here, so I thought I'd put up something substantial.
As you may or may not know, 4/26/06 is the Day of Silence.
Basically, you say nothing all day. Anyone asks why, show them a card that says:
Please understand my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today.

Just thought I'd bring it up! ^_^

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Anyone into hot cyber fantasy roleplay?

Baylor — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:05:28 GMT

Hey! Looking for guy to guy fantasy roleplay action. Any scene. No limits.

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Human rights group challenges “homosexual conduct” army dismissal

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:09:27 GMT

19-Apr-2006
PinkNews.co.uk writer

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has challenged the dismissal of a flight nurse in the U.S. Air Force Reserves for engaging in “homosexual conduct.”

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, seeks to forbid Major Margaret Witt’s discharge.

“Major Margaret Witt has been an exemplary member of the military with a distinguished record of service. To discharge her simply because of her sexual orientation is unfair and does not make our military stronger,” said ACLU of Washington Executive Director Kathleen Taylor.

The lawsuit seeks to stop the Air Force from discharging Major Witt or from otherwise hampering her military career. The ACLU of Washington argues that her discharge would violate her right to engage in private activities without government interference.

The military has provided no evidence that her sexual orientation or conduct has caused a problem in the performance of her military duties. To the contrary, the ACLU of Washington is submitting declarations from military colleagues that her forced absence is harmful to her unit’s morale.

Major Witt has served in the Air Force for 18 years. She is a flight nurse and operating room nurse assigned to McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma, Washington. Major Witt served in the Persian Gulf and in 1993 was selected to be the “poster child” for the Air Force Nurse Corps recruitment flyer. In 2003, Major Witt was awarded an Air Force Commendation Medal for her action in saving the life of a Department of Defence employee who had collapsed aboard a government-chartered flight from Bahrain.

“I joined the Air Force because I wanted to serve my country. I have loved being in the military, my fellow airmen have been my family. I am proud of my career and want to continue doing my job,” said Major Witt. “Wounded people never asked me about my sexual orientation. They were just glad to see me there.”

From 1997 to 2003, Major Witt was in a committed relationship with a civilian woman. In the summer of 2004, according to ACLU legal papers, Major Witt was notified that the Air Force had begun an investigation into an allegation that she had engaged in “homosexual conduct.” In November 2004, Major Witt was placed on unpaid leave and told she could no longer participate in any military duties pending formal separation proceedings.

In March 2006, the Air Force informed Major Witt that she was being administratively discharged on grounds of “homosexual conduct.”
The Air Force Reserves currently have a critical shortage of flight nurses. As of April 4, 2006, the Air Force Reserves had 121 vacancies for flight nurses at the rank of

Major Witt graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma with a degree in Nursing in 1986 and joined the Air Force the next year. She was promoted to Major in 1999, and as of early 2004 was the Standards and Evaluations Flight Commander, a role giving her management responsibility for over 200 flight nurses and medical technicians. In that capacity, she was named "Officer of the Quarter" for Spring 2003. A

ACLU of Washington cooperating attorney James Lobsenz of Carney Badley Spellman is handling the case. In a previous ACLU case, Mr Lobsenz represented Army Sgt. Perry Watkins, who challenged his dismissal from the military for being gay. In 1989, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that, as a matter of fairness, the Army could not discharge Watkins.

© 2006 GayWired.com, All Rights Reserved

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Queer DJs

Jamez — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:55:01 GMT

I started a new tribe: Gay DJ (Won't Ya Play That Song/Keep Me Dancin'/All Night Long)

check it out: http://tribes.tribe.net/gaydj

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Help me ride a horse

Jesse — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:22:38 GMT

Hey there,

It's Jesse and I wanted to see if you would help me out.

I've just registered for The Saddle Up LA AIDS Benefit Horseback Trail Ride and would love it if you would join me in helping to raise much needed funds for The Life Group LA and the POZ Life Weekend Seminars while having a great time!

I didn't think I was going to be able to do the ride because of the registration fee that I had to come up with. But thanks to some amazing people who paid my registration fee I am able to participate in this ride.

The Life Group LA is an amazing organization and needs help. I have been volunteering with them from the start and have loved every moment of it. The services that they provide are life changing and I am not just saying that. I can say they are life changing because I have seen that change first hand. When participants finish a workshop there is something different about them. The magic of the weekend, the support they get, the information they get empowers them so much.

Please visit my website below or www.saddleupla.org for details on how to register! Also check out The Life Group L.A.'s website to learn more about the organization; www.thelifegroupla.org

Please forward this note to anyone you think might be interested in registering to ride, becoming a sponsor, purchasing a BBQ ticket, or sponsoring a rider!

The Life Group LA is a Fiscal Partner of Being Alive LA which is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible.

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support The Life Group LA

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U.S. study backs allowing gays to adopt

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:59:50 GMT

Larry Buhl, PlanetOut Network
Fri Mar 24, 7:17 PM ET

SUMMARY: Citing research on child development, an Adoption Institute study released Friday recommends that barriers to gay adoption be removed.

Children adopted by gays and lesbians fare no better or worse than those raised by heterosexual adults, and barriers preventing gay parents from adopting should be removed, said a report released Friday by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, entitled "Expanding Resources for Children."

"Based on both the available research and growing experience," the report concludes, "adoption by gays and lesbians holds promise as an avenue for achieving permanency for many of the waiting children in foster care." The report is part of an extensive yearlong project intended to provide a research-based context for the ongoing debate over adoption of children by gays and lesbians. Report findings include:

Children reared by gay and lesbian parents fare comparably to those raised by heterosexuals on a range of measures of social and psychological adjustment.

Tens of thousands of children in the foster care system are disadvantaged by laws that bar gays and lesbians from adopting them.

Even in states that don't bar gays and lesbians from adopting, individual agencies and workers sometimes discriminate against gay and lesbian applicants or don't realize that gay parenting is permitted.

"The bottom line is that adoption by gays and lesbians is a fine thing to do," Adam Pertman, executive director of the Adoption Institute, told the PlanetOut Network. "There is simply no credible research showing that children are harmed when they're adopted by gay and lesbian parents, but lots of evidence to indicate that they do well in those homes."

The study was released amid new efforts nationwide to prevent gays and lesbians from adopting. Gay adoptions are explicitly prohibited by law only in Florida, while Utah has a de facto ban on gay adoptions that allows only married couples to adopt. However, social conservatives in at least 16 other states are trying reopen the debate on whether gays and lesbians can be fit parents. And in recent weeks the Catholic Church pressured Catholic Charities in Boston and San Francisco to not serve gays and lesbians wishing to adopt.

Pertman hopes the study will move the policy debate away from demagoguery and open up the pool of potential parents and reduce the legal and policy restrictions. He also suggests that it's helpful when workers, supervisors, and agency leaders examine their attitudes and beliefs about gay and lesbian parenting.

"Sixty percent of all adoption agencies in the U.S. take applications from gays and lesbians," Pertman added. "The reality on the ground is moving ahead of the policy debate."

Less than half of the approximately 110,000 children available for adoption find homes every year, so it makes no sense to restrict the pool of eligible parents, according to Joe Kroll, executive director of North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) in St. Paul, Minn. On its Web site NACAC states that all prospective foster and adoptive parents, regardless of sexual orientation, should be given equal and fair consideration. NACAC also opposes rules and legislation restricting the consideration of parents based on their sexual orientation.

"People keep asking why can't kids get placed when there are so many parents who want to adopt," Kroll told the PlanetOut Network. "But most perspective parents want 2-year-olds. The kids waiting for homes are older or have problems and you have to recruit heavily for those kids. Whoever can parent these kids, as long as they're determined to be fit parents, should be allowed to adopt them."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20060325/co_po/usstudybacksallowinggaystoadopt

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Protest against "Battle Cry" Rally this Friday, SF City Hall 2:30

Bob 69 — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:04:26 GMT

Protest against "Battle Cry" Rally this Friday, SF City Hall 2:30

Yesterday, 12:55 PM
reposted from Cal. Progressives. Thanks, Janet!

EMERGENCY PROTEST
AGAINST RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN AGENDA

FRIDAY, MARCH 24
2:30 PM - 4:0O PM
SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL

Once again, out of town right wing extremist Chrisitans are coming to San Francisco. They are having a youth “battlecry” Friday and Saturday at SBC/AT&T Park, but as their “warm up” they are staging a rally on the steps of OUR City Hall.

Who are they? Check out http://www.battlecry.com/

They believe in ongoing wars against Muslim countries, recruiting our youth as “Christian soldiers.” They want to enact laws that are antiwoman, antichoice, antisex, and anti-gay.

STAND WITH US TO TELL THEM
TO GO AWAY—
WE DON’T WANT THEIR THEOCRACY!

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Travolta’s new role is a drag for Scientology

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:52:46 GMT

By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 11:33 a.m. ET March 9, 2006

John Travolta’s decision to play a woman in “Hairspray” has raised eyebrows among some Scientology watchers.

The actor will reportedly dress in drag to take on the role of middle-aged mom Edna Turnblad in the high-camp John Waters film — a part made famous by the notorious cross-dresser Divine. Edna was later played on Broadway by outspoken gay activist Harvey Fierstein.

A recent Rolling Stone article about Scientology reports that its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, felt that gays “should be taken from … society as rapidly as possible” because “no social order will survive which does not remove these people from its midst.”

“If Hubbard had historically had his way there would be no John Waters films in America and no gay actors to play the part of Edna Turnblad,” notes Rick Ross on Cultnews.com, “which would of course leave Mr. Travolta with no new character role. And it’s doubtful that Scientology’s savior would find anything appealing about Travolta dressed in drag as Edna Turnblad.”

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Cruise lower than Saddam in polls

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:50:44 GMT

The couch jumping continues
Tom Cruise has a bit of an image problem.

In a recent poll, more people said they’d rather spend the night with Saddam Hussein than the “Top Gun” star. Stuff magazine asked its readers who they would least like to share a camping tent with, and 41 percent chose the couch-jumping star.

Deposed dictator Hussein came in close behind, with 39 percent, 15 percent said Pat O’Brien, and 5 percent chose comedian Kathy Griffin.

Jeannette Walls Delivers the Scoop Mondays through Thursdays on MSNBC.com

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Cruise Bono Gay Connection

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:47:59 GMT

Speaking of Tom Cruise......... a wide-ranging profile of Chastity Bono in the London Mail reports that she was at Tom Cruise’s apartment when her mother learned that she was gay. Cher, “having discovered this fact over the phone, was furious and told her daughter to leave Tom Cruise’s New York apartment where she had been staying, then hung up,” according to the article. “Mum did not comfort me with kisses and cuddles because it was not the family way,” Bono explained. “Instead, she sent me to a therapist.” Cher eventually accepted her daughter’s sexuality.

Jeannette Walls Delivers the Scoop Mondays through Thursdays on MSNBC.com

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Gay Film Swap Tonite. NYC- FREE

Gio — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:19:50 GMT

MIX NYC presents THE GAY SWAP

Queer films for boys and girls

A free screening
at
Identity House
39 W. 14th St., ..205
NY NY

SATURDAY MARCH 11, 2006
7:30 PM -- FREE

http://www.mixnyc.org for details & hot pix!
and click on the link in the upper right hand
corner for details!

THE GAY SWAP includes:

Crash Skid Love
Christopher Chong, 3.5 min, Claymation, Canada, 1998
A claymation skater-boy love story that swings.

Friendly
Texas Tomboy, 3 min, Experimental, USA, 1995
Clip art & James Dean.

Double Your Pleasure
M.M. Serra , 3 min, 16mm, USA, 2002
Donuts & kisses, what more do you need.

Pop Tarts
Andre Hereford, 11 min, 16mm, USA, 1999
Traces the paths to other bedrooms that lead a
couple back to their own bed.

Rub
Gail Mentlik & Anne Borden, 1.5 min, s-8 to video,
USA, 2002
Exactly like it sounds.

Harigata
szu burgess, 9 min, s-8 to video USA, 2003
Alien dildos take over the world.

Indelible
Charles Lum, 8 min, video, USA, 2003
In case you thought "Carrie" couldn't get any
scarier.

And more

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Private tribe

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:44:39 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/gaysuitandtie

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Our First Gay President

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:24:24 GMT

I've heard this before, and it just came to my attention again. We never seem to acknowledge that we've had a Gay president.

James Buchanan, who was US president from 1857 to 1861, was definitely Gay. I've never heard an argument to the contrary. He was engaged once, but the woman, Anne Caroline Coleman, broke off their engagement rather abruptly, and after that, he vowed he would never marry. I doubt it was because of his broken heart.

Buchanan lived with Alabama Senator William Rufus King for sixteen years! President Andrew Jackson referred to King as "Miss Nancy". Actually, Buchanan himself referred to Senator King as "Aunt Nancy"!

I guess in those days he'd have been called a "confirmed bachelor", but we know that was only code for Gay. So I wonder if we'll ever see another Gay president. Probably not. Back then, it was wasn't discussed, so it wasn't an issue. Now, we have to know what brand of toilet paper the president uses. There are no secrets. The candidate's sex life is now a matter of public record, and he won't have a chance of getting elected if he's Gay.

More details on Buchanan available at: http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/buchanan_j.html

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Benefits for all

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:03:23 GMT

Even as the cost of benefits continues to soar, more employers are extending their benefits to gay and lesbian workers.
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 02/27/06
BY MICHAEL L. DIAMOND, BUSINESS WRITER

To Donna Harrison, a computer consultant from Asbury Park, her company's benefits program means much more than health insurance or a secure retirement: It tells her whether her employer truly embraces her. So when SunGard Data Systems bought her previous company three years ago and offered benefits to her and her partner, Kathy Ragauckas, a retired Monmouth County worker, it erased any hesitation she might have had in the corporate takeover.

"It makes all the difference knowing you're working for a company that respects your lifestyle, your orientation and the people at home that help you do the job you need to do," said Harrison, 44.

Ocean County freeholders recently engaged in an intense debate over offering domestic-partner benefits, and a growing number of private-sector companies are offering such benefits for their gay and lesbian employees.

Company officials say the decision to extend benefits beyond traditional married couples boils down to their desire to attract talented workers regardless of their private lives. But experts say gays and lesbians have yet to participate without hesitation. "Employees who are gay and lesbian are often reluctant to reveal that to their employers," said Stephen Hyland, an attorney who specializes in estates, trusts and domestic partnership issues for Hill Wallack in Princeton. "Therefore, they choose not to obtain these benefits because, basically, they don't want to come out."

The idea of offering benefits to domestic partners attracted the spotlight recently in Ocean County, where Laurel Hester, a law enforcement officer stricken with cancer, lobbied freeholders to allow her to leave her pension benefits to her domestic partner, just as heterosexual workers can leave their benefits to their spouses when they die. The freeholders at first resisted before changing their minds in the face of public pressure. Hester died shortly after.

The private sector more frequently is extending the benefits it offers married employees — such as health insurance — to gay employees who certify they are in a committed relationship. A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, an Alexandria, Va.-based trade group, found 32 percent of employers offered domestic partner benefits in 2005, up from just 16 percent in 2001. The sharp increase has come even though companies have tried to rein in the skyrocketing cost of benefits, ranging from health insurance to pensions.

"You're obviously going to be at a disadvantage if you are going to recruit workers that might not look at a company that doesn't offer benefits like that," said Jen Jorgensen, a spokeswoman for the human resources group.

Some New Jersey companies, such as Lucent Technologies Inc. have offered same-sex benefits for nearly a decade, while others expanded their benefits more recently. Newark-based Prudential Financial Inc. began offering domestic partner benefits in 2000 to help it stay competitive with other financial services companies and attract a diverse group of workers, said Ellen Borak, vice president of health and welfare benefits. She said gay and lesbian employees, like all employees, sign up for benefits online. They certify that they have lived with their partner for at least six months and are in a committed, serious relationship in which they are financially dependent on each other.

The benefit has increased the company's health insurance costs by 2 percent, Borak said. But she said it also has sent a message to workers and customers alike that Prudential is an inclusive company. "I think it goes a long way to show what kind of company Prudential is: very diverse and attune to the diverse needs of the diverse work force," Borak said. "I've never heard of any business segment coming back saying we lost an account because Prudential is offering domestic partner benefits, but I have heard that it helps."

Hyland said gay and lesbians still face hurdles, even when their employer offers same-sex benefits. For example, not all are comfortable disclosing their sexual orientation to their employers, so they don't participate. Additionally, employers can lawfully have a two-tiered system in which they pay the health-insurance premium of a spouse, but not a domestic partner.

There are also different tax consequences. A married employee doesn't pay taxes on the money his employer pays for his spouse's health insurance premium. But a gay employee has to pay taxes for his partner's health insurance because the Internal Revenue Service doesn't recognize domestic partnerships, Hyland said.

But more companies are finding the benefits outweigh the hurdles. Harrison's employer, SunGard Data Systems, an information-technology company based in Wayne, Pa., has offered domestic partner benefits since 2001, a company spokeswoman said.

Harrison said the company doesn't stop there. It rewards its top employees each year with a week-long trip to a sun-drenched resort and invites them to bring their spouse, guest or partner.

If Ragauckas was excluded? "It would really make me think twice whether that was an organization I wanted to work for," Harrison said. "Why would I give my talents, time and expertise to an organization that doesn't respect me and the support system I have in place at home?"

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Study: Gay Health Imperiled By Denial Of Marriage

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 07:56:41 GMT

by Mark Worrall, 365Gay.com San Francisco Bureau
February 28, 2006 - 3:00 pm ET

San Francisco, California) A new national study shows widespread psychological and social harm inflicted on same-sex couples because they are denied the right to marry.

The study, called “I Do, But I Can’t" was released at a San Francisco news conference Tuesday by the National Sexuality Resource Center and is the first first peer-reviewed study to analyze the impact of marriage denial on the mental health and well being of gay men and lesbians.

The co-authors are Gilbert Herdt, PhD, anthropologist, and director of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University, and Robert Kertzner, MD, practicing psychiatrist, and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University.

They found that on average, married individuals have better mental health, more emotional support, less psychological distress, and lower rates of psychiatric disorder than the unmarried.

Married individuals report more emotional support and are more likely to have a close confidant than the unmarried. Effects of emotional support seem to provide protection against the negative health consequences of stress the authors say.

"Marriage denial creates what experts call minority stress, the psychological effects of constant discrimination that bars individuals from the legitimate means of achieving goals that are valued by the society in which they live,” said Herdt.

"Lesbians and gay men work just as hard as heterosexuals do in creating and maintaining committed relationships, but they do not get the same tangible benefits."

The study also found that heterosexual networks are subtle but critical mechanisms that support marriage.

A case study of a town in rural Oregon revealed how heterosexuals routinely relied on churches, schools, and neighborhood visibility to secure or enhance jobs, access social support such as childcare, and form local political alliances. A same-sex couple residing in the same town was shut out of this structure of opportunities.

Minority group members were seen as disadvantaged in attaining monetary success because of exclusion from common social structures. For lesbians and gay men, marriage denial leads to a similar minority group disjunction between goals and opportunities the report says.

Herdt and Kertzner also found that the lack of legally recognized marriage contributes to common problems for gay and lesbian couples. Ccouples may not value their relationships as legitimate expressions of commitment and intimate sexual citizenship; lack of recognition of their relationships deprives them of social and family support that could help counteract stress and social isolation; invisibility can perpetuate stigma and shame and undermine a sense of life meaning, morale, and well being.

The report said that discrimination and fear of discovery can undermine relationships if the partners do not have internal ways of countering the social stigma of homosexuality.

At Tuesday's press a lesbian couple, Leah Crask and Teresa Weeks, said they feel they constantly have to prove to the world that they are a committed couple.

They said that they registered as domestic partners in San Francisco and were able to marry there on March 1, 2004 while that city briefly allowed gay and lesbian couples to wed.

The women said that they decided to start a family, only to have their marriage invalidated.

They currently are in the process of a second-parent adoption so Teresa can be a legal parent to their nine-month-old son, Caden.

“The stress we experience because we’re not married affects us and our child but also our extended family, including Caden’s grandparents, who worry about his future.”

A gay man, Stuart Gaffney, told reporters about himself and his long-time partner, Jonathan Lewis.

"When we were able to marry in San Francisco, the burden of shame was lifted away. We had a taste of all we had missed. Thirty days later our marriage was invalidated and we felt the shame placed back upon us,” Gaffney said.

"The stigma and harm caused by denying committed lesbian and gay couples the choice to marry fuels a vicious cycle,” added Herdt.

"Fictitious stereotypes attribute promiscuity to gay men and lesbians, fueling the false belief that they are immoral and reinforcing in the minds of critics the ineligibility of lesbians and gay men for marriage and parenthood. The new proliferation of this old prejudice through the denial of marriage by sexual orientation, like all injustice, is harmful to us all.”

The findings of the report come as no surprise to people engaged in mental health in the gay community.

Earlier this month 365Gay.com reported that a counseling center that provides psychotherapy services to Austin's LGBT community found that the constitutional amendment passed by Texas voters last November is taking a toll on the mental of health of gays and lesbians in the state. (story)

A British study released this month also found that legalized same-sex unions boosts both the mental and physical health of gays and lesbians.

©365Gay.com 2006

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W.Va. police chief denied gay man CPR

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:48:55 GMT

Chief calls allegation ‘a boldface lie’; 43-year-old died after heart attack

Updated: 6:40 a.m. ET March 3, 2006

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A small-town police chief was accused in a federal lawsuit Thursday of stopping a would-be rescuer from performing CPR on a gay heart attack victim because he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a health risk.

Claude Green, 43, died June 21 after being stricken yards from City Hall in Welch, a community of about 2,400. The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of his mother.

Police Chief Bobby Bowman called the allegations “a boldface lie.” He said that he called an ambulance and that Green was taken to the hospital in “no more than nine minutes.”
“No one refused him CPR as his sister and mom are saying. They can do what they want, but if they’re saying I refused him CPR, that is no way true,” Bowman said.

The lawsuit accuses Bowman of pulling off Green’s friend Billy Snead as Snead was performing chest compressions on the man. Snead was a passenger in Green’s pickup truck when Green collapsed; Snead had managed to pull over the vehicle. Snead said in an interview that he didn’t realize at first it was Bowman giving the order and continued working on his friend. Bowman repeated his command to get away, saying that Green was HIV positive, then grabbed Snead by the shoulders and told him to sit on the curb, Snead said.

“He was a police officer so I got out the way. I assumed he would help. I didn’t want to be a hindrance,” Snead said. “He also told the ambulance drivers that he was HIV positive and to be careful.” Green was pronounced dead at the hospital after about 30 minutes of attempts to revive him.

Rose Saxe, a lawyer with the ACLU’s AIDS Project, said Bowman’s alleged actions contributed to Green’s death and violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, equal protection laws and due process rights. Saxe said Green’s death was “tragically senseless” because he did not have the AIDS virus, but added that he should have received lifesaving care even if he was HIV-positive. “He was simply a gay man in Welch, West Virginia. And because of that we can only assume that Chief Bowman assumed he had HIV and it was unsafe to even touch him,” Saxe said.

When asked if he knew if Green was gay, Bowman would not answer and referred questions to McDowell County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Danny Barie, who also represents the City of Welch. Barie said Thursday he had received a copy of the complaint but could not comment because he had not reviewed it or discussed it with Bowman.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Venezuela’s sexual revolution within the revolution

djapollo2k — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:55:32 GMT

Venezuela’s sexual revolution within the revolution

At the January World Social Forum in Caracas, Green Left Weekly’s Rachel Evans and Maurice Farrell caught up with Ricardo Hung from the Alianza Lambda gay-rights organisation and Moises Rivera Lopez, the coordinator of the Sexual Riverside Network for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community.

Rivera Lopez is also employed by the mayor of metropolitan Caracas Juan Barreto to work on anti-homophobia campaigns. GLW also spoke to Marcel Quintana, the president of Consultants for Education and Health Venezuela (ASES), an HIV care group.

Hung explained that Lambda is part of a coalition of gay and lesbian groups that organises activities throughout the year. “In June we organise gay and lesbian rights forums, presentations and workshops, cinema screenings and other political meetings ending with a gay pride march.” Last August, on the international day of action against homophobia, Lambda “held a big protest in the Simon Bolivar plaza ... We took down the national flag and raised the rainbow flag.” In September, Lambda helps with a gay and lesbian film festival and with a December cultural festival.

According to Hung, “The new 1999 constitution includes no discrimination based on sexual orientation”, but there is a push to extend it to cover transgender discrimination as well.

“We are also campaigning for same-sex marriage rights”, Rivera Lopez said. “On December 28, Venezuela’s vice-president Vincent Rangel announced that a national referendum would be held to make same-sex marriage legal for the first time. Because referendums are expensive, he announced there will be other issues within it — abortion, for example. I think that the referendum will not go ahead this year because of the big push to win 10 million votes for Chavez for the December [presidential] elections. I think the referendum will be in 2007, named the 'Year of the battle of ideas’. This is a huge step forward for our rights.”

Hung believes “it will be a long road to get to same-sex marriage. In the state of Merida we currently have civil unions <93> Six months ago with six other non-government gay organisations we made a petition to the Supreme Court” to replicate this nationally.

Lambda is part of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Hung explained that in Venezuela, Lambda is the “only gay-rights association that is legally based and has community services, medical counselling, a doctor and a surgeon. Anyone can get involved in Lambda. We have straight supporters come to meetings and students doing research projects on the state of our human rights. We hold meetings every week where government representatives have also come along to ask us questions and hear about our issues.

“We produce educational programs with gays and lesbians for young teenagers. We have just begun a focus on education in the countryside, where we have established mini branches of Lambda ...

“Our main goal is to provide education to other people, so that people in the street will stop someone who is bashing a GLBT person ... We promote safer sex and we provide medical counselling about HIV. This government provides full free treatment for people with HIV that ask for it.”

Quintana works with HIV-infected children and adults, providing free counselling and drugs. “We work with 950 children who are infected with HIV. We work with another 550 street kids and single-mother families”, he said.

“There are 18,000 people registered with HIV in Venezuela. We don’t know how many of them are gay men. ASES distributes free HIV medicines, which would cost US$750 per month [per patient] if we did not receive cheaper generic drugs from India.

“Only three countries in Latin America provide free HIV drugs — Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. We fought to have HIV drugs distributed for free before [the 1998 election of Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez. It was a hard fight, but we won universal access a short time before Chavez was elected. When elected, Chavez advanced — rapidly — the program of universal access. There are five hospitals, broken up into every region in the country, that offer drugs. Alongside this drug distribution program the hospitals have infectious disease units. We have these five points of control because of the black market. Hospital Vargas has a one-year-old infectious disease unit, which is just great — the best in the country.”

There is also a battle against corruption. Quintana described a protest action he was involved in that invaded the health department “because people who worked there were stealing anti-retroviral drugs to sell on the market. Afterwards Chavez chucked the minister out and now we have a better relationship with the department.

“ASES provides housing and entertainment for children with HIV. We also teach computer and technical programs for people who work with the government’s free health-care program, Barrio Adentro.”

According to Hung, “The history of what we have been able to achieve in the movement is clearly linked with the Chavez government. The first Gay Pride march took place under the Chavez government six years ago. We have never, ever seen this kind of devotion, open-minded activities and behaviour in a government. The government has really promoted diversity and is based on the integration of all the alienated branches of society. Hugo Chavez is promoting this.

“Last year, the attorney-general’s office passed an act that created a division called the Department for Information to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community. Every person in Caracas can go to that office and receive counselling to see if their issues can be dealt with. This is a big step because now GLBT issues are part of the government [agenda].

“Our movement has grown with this support. Six years ago our first Gay Pride parade took place and was 100 people. Last year it was almost 20,000. Permission is very easily obtained. We have the support of the police during the parade, which has been great. The Caracas mayor gives us the sound system for free. Now there is an amendment to the constitution [proposed] in order to promote same-sex marriage.”

According to Hung, it is “difficult to come out of the closet when you are in a precarious economic position. It is easier if you are from the upper class. We are also up against a culture of machismo. Everyone is brought up with that ... We have problems with gay bashings. On the other hand, it is easier if you live in a big city than in the countryside.

“Teenage suicide used to be a huge problem 20 years ago. Now the big issue for teenagers is vulnerability to STDs. They still don’t know much about sex education. So that’s why we work on this.

“The other problem for young Venezuelans is getting kicked out of home when they come out. Those at higher risk are the ones from lower-income families. If you have a family with 10 children, are in poverty and find out your child is gay, then it is easy to say 'Get out, we have more mouths to feed’.

“Hence child prostitution among young GLBT people is common, but not well-known. It really has to be dealt with on the social level. The new mission to eradicate homelessness ... Negra Hipitolia, is providing education and shelter for young homeless. Not enough people have access to the shelters, but the government is doing well.”

Gay bashings are a big problem in Venezuela. “Out of all the violent bashings that occur and are reported, 5% are gay bashings”, Hung said, adding that many people lack the confidence to report incidents. He explained that reporting attacks can be “a very bureaucratic process”, and many people fear repercussions if they are recognised.

“If you are working and say 'I am a homosexual’, then people might not fire you immediately, but they won’t give you a better job or a raise. Gay Venezuelans who come out often have financial security. They can be gay publicly because they have their own business. This is why I came out — I can sustain myself.

“There are no problems for people who are employed in the public government or working for themselves”, Hung clarified. “Every worker has legal protection. But if you are working for a private company, coming out can be hazardous. Same when you become HIV infected.

“When you are a top executive, you have all the benefits the company can provide: social security and so on. If you are in lower work — administrative trainer, cashier, bank-teller — the company is not interested in keeping you on the payroll and will get you to quit.”

Hung said that along with other countries in the region, Venezuela has experienced an increase in herpes and syphilis. “The Ministry of Health provides free condoms to us to give to the people, but outside these free condoms, condoms are expensive. They are about US$3 for a packet. This is equivalent to two lunches. We still have a high rate of unemployment and people are worried about living and eating. So they look for escape holes, like not buying condoms.”

According to Hung, one of the “greatest achievements of the [Chavez] government” is the provision of health care such as treatment for STDs. “In the main hospitals they have the specialists. In the barrios they have free doctors. Tests and drugs are free.”

“Changes are coming through. We are going to be great. The movement here is growing stronger and stronger. I pray we get same-sex marriage”, concluded Hung.

[Contact Moises Rivera Lopez at <coorglbtdaas@hotmail.com> and Marcel Quintano at <asesdevzla@hotmail.com>. Visit Lambda’s website at <http://www.lambdavenezuela.org>.]

From Green Left Weekly, March 1, 2006.
Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.

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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe described gay people as worse than "dogs and pigs"

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:00:10 GMT

Mugabe attacks gays and threatens pro-gay clergy with prison
26-Feb-2006
Benjamin Cohen

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has launched a blistering attack on homosexuality in a speech to mark his birthday. Mr Mugabe, who has previously described gay people as worse than "dogs and pigs" used an hour long speech to warn Zimbabweans of the dangers of homosexuality and threatened pro-gay clergy with prison
sentences.

"Leave whites to do that," he declared in reference to homosexuality in the speech made in Shona, one of the native languages of Zimbabwe.

Mr Mugabe told the cheering crowd of supporters that gay marriages are a threat to civilisation and condemned churches that chose to bless same sex relationships. He added that police would arrest and jail clergy who performed ceremonies for gay couples in Zimbabwe.

The human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell of the gay rights group OutRage! attempted to perform a citizens arrest on Mr Mugabe in Brussels in 2001. Mr Tatchell was beaten unconscious by bodyguards employed by the Zimbabwean leader.

In 2004, Mr Tatchell requested at Bow Streets Magistrates Court for an arrest warrant for the Zimbabwean president over allegations of brutality, homophobia, and repression of civil rights. Mr Tatchell documented accounts of political opponents being rounded up and imprisoned. However, the magistrate, Timothy Workman, ruled that Mr Mugabe was entitled to immunity as a head of state.

Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth in 2001 over allegations of fraud in the presidential elections.

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Gay campaigner unhappy with "sexually discriminatory" census

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:36:59 GMT

24-Feb-2006
PinkNews.co.uk writer

A gay rights campaigner is accusing New Zealand’s national statistical office of breaking the law by excluding a question on sexual orientation from the census Victor van Wetering, former editor of gay newspaper Express, is calling the omission by Statistics New Zealand “actively discriminatory.”” He first complained to the Human Rights Commission in 2001.

Discussions will begin later this year on whether to include the question in the 2011 census. Mr van Wetering said a question on sexual orientation would provide policy makers and planners with useful information to serve the gay community.

He told the New Zealand Herald: "For example, some public campaigns might become more targeted at queer New Zealanders if this group was found more likely to smoke, or less aware of benefit entitlements, than other New Zealanders."

In 2003, Statistics New Zealand research indicated most people would accept a question, provided people could refuse to answer. It is illegal under the Human Rights Act for a government policy to treat any section of the community unfavourably because of their sexual orientation.

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Property experts rank Eastern Europe as top gay destination

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:31:02 GMT

23-Feb-2006
Marc Shoffman

Eastern Europe is being touted as a top destination for gay couples looking for a holiday home, according to overseas property experts.

Property writers at Home Overseas Magazine are recommending up and coming countries such as Bulgaria for the perfect getaway since several gay bars and clubs as well as dating agencies have opened up in many parts of the country. The former Soviet satellite state held its first national gay festival last summer, where it is illegal to discriminate against homosexuals.

Industry insiders recommend Bulgaria as good value for money with property starting from as little as £30,000 and with first class skiing facilities and the massive amount of inward investment due to its bid to host the 2014 Olympic Games. Experts will be available to talk about Bulgaria, along with other top destinations at the Homes Overseas Magazine Exhibition at the National Hall in Olympia between the 10th and 12th March 2006. Visitors will be able to get legal, cultural and practical advice on the implications of buying a home in their favoured area. The Home Overseas Exhibition is also offering a comprehensive guide to buying homes overseas for all those who buy a ticket in advance.

PinkNews.co.uk is running a competition with the magazine to win 15 pairs of tickets to the property exhibition. The lucky readers will get to go to the event in the National Hall between the 10th and 12th March 2006. They will receive free impartial seminars, with detailed expert advice from foreign law specialists, John Howell & Co. and financial advisers Blevins Franks on buying property abroad. It is predicted that this year the UK will spend an additional 50% on property investment, as year after year all the major equity increases come from property. The pension crisis, the lack of company schemes and prospect of working for longer has fuelled the growth in the property market.

Whether its Spain, Cyprus, Dubai or Bulgaria that gets your keys dangling, representatives from countries all over the globe will be on hand at the show and offer you the opportunity to talk first hand to property developers, estate agents, mortgage lenders and lawyers. Kate Hamilton, editor of Home Overseas Magazine, told PinkNews.co.uk: “It has never been a better time for gay couples to invest in a home overseas. With the increased tolerance in Eastern Europe, which has an ever-growing gay community, the choice of where to buy has grown enormously in the past few years.”

“With change in civil partnership laws couples are now discovering that with low cost airlines, and cheaper property prices in emerging markets such as Bulgaria and Turkey, their dream of buying a home abroad a can become a practical reality. Making these destinations perfect for a romantic week-end or a relaxing summer break.”

For more information visit the website

www.homesoverseas.co.uk/events

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ad on craigslist

Dave — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:01:27 GMT

Tonight I found this ad on craigslist:

"NOT DEPERATE .....IF IT HAPPENS, FINE..........ASIANS PLS READ :)

If this does not happen, thats fine, but...

1) mutual nipple play mine and yours

2) rim your hot ass

3) swallow youR load (especially if my nips worked)

4) I cum when u cum we are both happy and u go home

I'm off edinger near harbor in the Tiberon

send a pic, lets play"

I guess Woody Allen was right all those years ago. Sex is now performed by the Orgasmatron. We no longer value each other for anything but our own selfish desires. It makes me want to puke.

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Heath Ledger item?

khrysso — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:29:08 GMT

Am I imagining things, or did I read in the latest copy of the Advocate that Heath Ledger's contract for Brokeback Mountain contained a clause insisting that he was only to be portrayed as the Top?

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I know this will sound extremely Nieve....

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:48:22 GMT

But What exactly are Poppers...and I'm guessing they're not Illegal? I always thought they were a form of meth, but further research today has yielded information that they're not. To the "wise", do poppers have long term health damage, addictive? and I guess they've been around for awhile.

I always get entertaining responses here. But seriously....whats the use? I've encountered poppers once 3 years back. I passed because i thought it was meth.

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First Northbay Bifriendly this sunday

maroonbaboon — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:09:11 GMT

This is a last minute reminder for those interested in attending a Bifriendly event.

We will be hosting our first bifriendly on Sunday February 5th and will continue with the first Sunday of every month after that. The brunch is from eleven AM to 1 PM. Keep an eye on the website for regular updates, we are still hoping to host a monthly meeting out in Guerneville as well; website and more details below:

The BiFriendly meetings are unstructured social gatherings (with no set agenda or topics) that focus on fun, good folks, conversation, food and drink, and general silliness. Please note that BiFriendly is a free form social group and not intended for those just looking for sexual partners.

Here is the info for the first North Bay BiFriendly meeting on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006:

* Who: BiFriendly, open to all genders.

* What: Brunch, coffee and good conversation.

*When: 11am-1pm, First Sunday of the month (beginning Feb. 5, 2006)

* Where: Wolf Coffee, 614 4th Street (NE corner of the Plaza), Santa Rosa 95404

* Contact: Raven (fagelamorgan@yahoo.com) or Patrick ( pcapt14@gmail.com)

* URL: www.bifriendly.org

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New Tribe: Poly Gay/Bi Men

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:24:44 GMT

The Poly Gay/Bi Men tribe is a place for conversation, questions and support for men in the male-male poly life. It's also a place to meet other poly gay and bi men. Flirting encouraged. FTM/Trans-men are welcome.

I think the gay/bi men's community doesn't have a lot of understanding about the poly life. Maybe by getting together we can create a bit of community.

Please consider joining.

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too Straight?

zerocasualties — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:09:38 GMT

I was told the other day that I come across too straight.

What can I do to make myself a more elegant fag?

Zero

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GLBT WeNoCa tribe

GAVCO — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:11:23 GMT

GayLesBiTrans Western North Carolina kind. JFF (just for fun). Asheville, Black Mountain et al.

11 Members - Open Membership - updated 01/07/06
http://tribes.tribe.net/GLBTWeNoCa

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Have you ever talked about "gay marriage"?

organicscott — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:04:34 GMT

Gay Marriage, as it is called, will be a hot wedge issue in the presidential election and it has already surfaced in a major way in almost every the state capitol. People will be talking more and more about this issue.

I am curious to see if people in this tribe have ever engaged in a conversation about legalization of same sex marriage to their families, friends or even complete strangers. If you HAVE what was the reaction? What moved you the most about the experience?
Thanks.

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things i thought i'd never see...

esteban23 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:24:40 GMT

What a day for Transylvanian Transexuals!!!

The annoncement that the National Film Registry (U.S.A.) picked "The Rocky Horry Picture Show" as one of this year's twenty five films to be preserved by the Library of Congress (U.S.A.) must be music to their ears. I wonder how long it will take the news to travel to Frankenfurter's home planet?

I am literally speechless, dumbfounded, and pretty darn well excited as one of my guilty pleasures from my high school days in Austin has become much more than the Friday Night Midnight cult movie we used to sneak down to see at the Riverside Theater in Austin back in the '76.

How many commas should have been in that sentence? Anyway....

I remember the first time I saw TRHPS late one Wednesday night, when it was in its first release, in the spring of 1975. Some guys from the restaurant where I worked had told me I had to see it because it was just to odd to believe. We left work that evening, drank a six pack on the way to the theatre, and then settled in with less than a dozen people to watch the last screening of the evening. Who else has ever seen Rocky on screen before midnight? This was at 9:30...at the time we couldn't believe we were going to the movie "So late", but hey I was only seventeen at the time and had school the next day. Needless to say, I was pretty much speechless after the movie. My friends were all gabbing about how sick the bisexuality theme was in the movie. I wasn't out of the closet yet and was holding on to my secret of how erotic I found the movie. I also was dealing with the realization that I found myself erect at several different points in the movie. I was quitely chiding myself too about being turned on by an older guy ,Rocky. My how times have changed.

I also remember that once I had come out and fallen in with a group of fellow Rocky lovers how we wouldn't go to the bars on Friday night until we had seen "the late night double-feature picture show, by RKO...".

I never thought the movie would ever be seen by anyone other than curious teenagers and die hard fans. Then a few years back it was broadcast on HBO, then later VH-1, this year I saw in on IFC at 3p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon.
Thirty years after seeing it and thinking how wild and cutting edge it was, now it was not only mainstream but airing in the middle of the afternoon.

I wonder if it will take "Brokeback Mountain" that long???

Hugz,

Esteban

In (Judy)Garland, TX where we sure could use some rain....

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Bernard Baran

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:49:22 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/BernardBaran

"It was because he was a homosexual that he was arrested, it was because he was a homosexual that he was judged, it was as a homosexual that he was sentenced, and it was because he was a homosexual that no one can invoke on his behalf the voice of justice and truth..."

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Discopia

djapollo2k — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:54:11 GMT

Some friends of mine in the U.K. are publishing a zine called "Discopia." The latest issue, 6, features writing by yours truly as well as my mate Greg Wilson:

"Check out the bumper file of articles from Apollo, charting the development of that music we call House. We have an exclusive, in-depth interview with the one and only Nicky Siano, covering everything from his early days at the Gallery right up to now and his rework/re-release of the classic "Kiss Me Again", plus Greg Wilson has an excellent article on Harry Taylor and Spin Inn records in Manchester. We speak to DJ James Hillard and get the low down on top London soiree Horse Meat Disco, and Daniel Wang gives us his longest, most personal piece yet: shocking, funny, moving and explicit, this is definitely not one for the squeamish! We also have charts from Mark Johnstone of London-based DJ and production outfit 'The Readers Wifes' and Jack Archer of Glasgow club 'Lovebug', articles on Patrick Cowley, Vauxhall is Gurning and Disco Sucks. Oh, and don't forget to check out our new correspondent "DJ X"'s run down of the gayest record sleeves of all time - it's a hoot, dahling!"

Check it out: www.discopia.com

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