Uncola Pride: The Gay Identity Crisis
The Advocate has too much time on its hands and is spearheading a campaign to replace "Gay" with LGBT or GLBTQ. "Mom, Dad, I have something to tell you. I'm LGBT." "Have you tried one of the new...
View ArticleWhat's the difference between psychotic delusion and faith?
Remember the good old days when the Ku Klux Klan held their meetings deep in the woods during the dark of night, their faces hidden behind sheets? God, I miss that. Today, thanks to the loving embrace...
View ArticleThe Anti-American Dream
Katrina should have been nothing but a big old nasty storm, but she has turned into an iconic symbol of all that is wrong with America. As Miss Liberty stands for the American Dream of freedom and...
View ArticleTennessee TV Station Facilitates Gay Bashing
I'm no fan of public or risky outdoor sex (because I can't run fast enough anymore,) but in the state of Tennessee it's now a crime punishable by public humiliation and a roadmap to your house for gay...
View ArticleWhat happened to gay activism?
My contribution to the Stonewall Anniversary is a three part series on my blog on the sad state of gay activism. But rather than just kvetch, part three will provide a road map for moving forward and...
View ArticleGay activism and civil rights in crisis
PART ONE: AIDS AND THE RISE OF PARTYISM Extraordinary changes occurred in the years immediately following Stonewall. Gay activism came out of the closet and swept across the land like an angry and...
View ArticleA Lesbian Pandora?
In a most perverse and disgusting turn of events, an Ohio lesbian is using that state's gay marriage ban in an attempt to take away her former partner's right to visit the son they brought into the...
View ArticleToday's Face of Homophobia: Arkansas' Huckabee
How can any sane man who has the ability and wit to make it into a governor's mansion be so profoundly stupid and bigoted? Oh, right, the Bush brothers. Well, those aberrations aside, Arkansas...
View ArticleLady Liberty Taken Hostage By Christian Jihadists
While Congress was busy worrying about hippies and rock stars who turn our flag into ponchos, Christian Jihadists kidnapped the image of America's most treasured icon, The Statue of Liberty and turned...
View ArticleJuly 4, 2006: Fireworks or Rescue Flares?
Germany's National Socialist Party took a sacred religious symbol, the swastika and turned it forever more into a symbol of fear and, more importantly, the triumph of all that is bad in human nature...
View ArticleGay icons who are celebrity fund raisers for homophobia and the Christian right
I'm a huge fan of Sir Elton John's efforts in the areas of gay rights and AIDS, but lately I've been wondering how to reconcile the fact that one of the world's most outspoken and out gay men is in...
View ArticleGay rights: The "South" has risen again
In the bloody and cruel aftermath of the American Civil War, the vanquished proudly proclaimed that "the South will rise again." They were right. Only this time while it is not such an apparent...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg wants to steal your job
Fleeing extreme poverty, starvation and persecution by merciless despots, Jews illegally immigrated into Russia, Poland, The Ukraine and many other parts of Eastern Europe. Although never granted...
View ArticleA world near war: Who will hold the moral ground?
Among the more dangerous outcomes of George W. Bush's domestic and foreign policies is the loss of America's moral authority on the world stage. Even the Vietnam blunder left us with some of the...
View ArticleWhere is today's An Early Frost?
On the night of November 11, 1985 America experienced one of those now famous "tipping points" when about 33 million of us first learned truth and fact about AIDS. An Early Frost, the first and...
View ArticleWestern Morality: The Latvian Test
When innocent people are condemned and persecuted for being who they were born to be, it is among the worst crimes against humanity imaginable, particularly because it is the crime that leads us down...
View ArticleThe First Amendment and the Kindergarten Defense
Perhaps one of the most complex, emotional and thorny issues confronting this nation today is our ability--or inability-- to successfully navigate the oftentimes murky waters of First Amendment...
View ArticleThe Israeli-Lebanese mess: Bigotry by any other name would stink as much
One of the more difficult issues for most of us to understand and accept as we wonder in horror at the carnage in Lebanon is why has Israel seemingly so over-reacted to the kidnapping of Israeli...
View ArticleAmerica's peculiar addiction
I'm in the middle of on and off again power problem here in Manhattan and will post a link rather than a full entry...because I'm on dial-up which is also going up and down. Here I am in one of the...
View ArticleUK Documentary to focus on Legal Murder of Gays in Iraq
The UK press is now officially reporting that one of the fruits of American Democracy in Iraq under the US occupation is a growing epidemic of homosexual executions by Shia militias and the...
View ArticleConnecticut Joe and the Bush-Cheney War on America
The Bush-Cheney war against America opened a new front this week in the quiet and moderate state of Connecticut. Hoping to further polarize and divide America between "patriots" and "the weak," the...
View ArticleSuper Bush: Some Saturday Night Thoughts
Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four may be fictional but like our President, they became superheroes following high tech accidents.
View ArticleBring back Bill Clinton, and quickly!
Once again that sinkhole in Turtle Bay is proving itself to be worth less than the paper it's chartered on. Having convinced Israel to step down and withdraw from Lebanese territory, abandoning the...
View ArticleAs if Rosa Parks never existed
Growing up during the second half of the 20th Century, living through the 50s, 60s and 70s in particular, my heroes included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Leonard Bernstein, Lenny Bruce, Gloria...
View ArticleKindergarten where the the girls are tough and the boys are pretty
On very rare occasions, an unexpected sensory moment will trigger a powerful childhood and sometimes even a very early childhood memory It's always a startling and usually pleasant experience that in...
View ArticleThe Real Middle East vs. Political Rhetoric
Nations and Empires that are artificial constructs born of conquest and dictates by greater military powers are mostly doomed to endless violence and ultimate failure. This may very well be the...
View ArticleAmerica's ultimate hate crime
Every so once in a while I allow myself to consider the nightmare existence of a queer child growing up with religious fundamentalist parents. The thought of it is so painful that I need to keep it...
View ArticleHaggard is NOT a gay sex scandal
Why don't I feel rage over this latest so-called sex and drugs scandal concerning the nation's top Evangelical leader? The President of the National Association of Evangelicals has been exposed as a...
View ArticleMarine Reserves Holiday Wishes to Non-Evangelicals; Go to Hell!
Last week the Associated Press reported the Marine Reserves Toys for Tots program had rejected an offer from an Evangelical company to distribute talking Jesus dolls to underprivileged kids around the...
View ArticleA Second Protestant Reformation?
What does a dilapidated gay bar on Manhattan's Christopher Street have in common with a 15th Century church on Germany's Elbe River? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. Only time and history will tell....
View ArticleNew Jersey Civil Unions: Separate But Equal
Was the wording of the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on gay marriage a deliberate attempt to create an industry of litigation, guaranteeing a steady stream of income--mostly in taxpayer...
View ArticleGay Rights Crusaders: Rosie vs Ellen
Speaking as a presumedly liberal, progressive and open-minded gay man, I suspect that I run the risk of sounding conservative and judgmental when I say that I don't like Rosie O'Donnell. Furthermore,...
View ArticleBaghdad Streets: Kidnapped American Style
By White House standards, it's hard to be a "patriot" these days. I know that dissent is as American as apple pie but during "wartime" dissent can be a dicey business. And it is extremely challenging...
View ArticleThe Real Ford Legacy: Queens of Denial
As America rewrites history and whitewashes the very brief administration of Gerald Ford, those of you who weren't alive or adult during the Ford months may be unaware of the fact that this accidental...
View ArticleFlummoxed
As the year crawls to a bloody and brutal end, I remain flummoxed as to why so many of my fellow Americans and our Congressional leadership look askance at impeachment for Bush and Cheney. Some say,...
View ArticleMe, The Vatican and Hell Freezing Over
Surely the devil is figure skating on the River Styx today. And in other news I find myself agreeing with the Vatican on an issue. I've felt great sadness and even dread since learning of Saddam...
View ArticleI Probably Hate You
Americans relish condemnations of the Middle East and the Arab world in particular as a culture of hate. Google "culture of hate" and you'll find a bounty of essays, blogs and journal articles...
View ArticleAn exhausted gay American
Some mornings I feel exhaustion for no reason other than the fact that I'm a gay American. I wonder if my fellow citizens who spend their days campaigning and crusading to limit my civil rights--the...
View ArticleBaa Baa Black Sheep and an Angry Navratilova
By now you've likely heard of the controversy surrounding Oregon's gay sheep experiments. As scientists at Oregon State University endeavor to determine the biological origins of "male-oriented" rams,...
View ArticlePlease Move On
Like many of you, I have a hobby. It's not an unusual avocation. I take photographs. I was born on Manhattan island and have lived my entire life in this astonishing feast of visual diversity and...
View ArticleThe Pot and The Kettle
This morning's headline is clear: Iran Threatens the U.S. if Attacked. The Associated Press reports: " If the United States were to attack Iran, the country would respond by striking U.S. interests all...
View ArticleDemocrat-Loving Queers: Beggars Can't Be Choosers?
Are we the proverbial beggars settling for loose change and bread crumbs? Is that what we've been reduced to? By allowing gay activism to be hijacked by the polite and impotent blue-suited...
View ArticleBrandon McInerney, A Life Worth Saving
The horrific tragedy of Lawrence King and Brandon McInerney is about to enter its second act; and the question stands as to whether or not the trial will be yet another painful horror costing the life...
View ArticleMelpomene and Thalia
It is a joyous day and it is a sad day. I stand naked in my bedroom wondering if this is a day to stand by Melpomene, the ancient Greek Muse of Tragedy or Thalia, the ancient Greek Muse of Comedy....
View ArticleObama, Warren and Abused Wife Syndrome
Having spent too much time this morning reading reactions from gay bloggers, gay pundits and gay "leaders" to the Rick Warren controversy, I am left stunned by how easily so many of my fellow queers...
View ArticleFROM WASHINGTON TO MAINE; FROM JEFFERSON TO OBAMA
I firmly believe that nothing before in the history of this remarkable democracy has posed such a profound and toxic threat to America's future as gay marriage referendums. When a nation allows...
View ArticleThe Tea Party Has Stolen Our Gay Outrage
As a gay American, I am profoundly shocked, exceedingly embarrassed and deeply humbled by this past weekend's Tea Party Convention. And this has nothing to do with what you think. I'm certain of...
View ArticleDriving good leaders off the cliff
This morning I read a remarkable and moving commentary on Patrick Kennedy. The piece reminded us that Mr. Kennedy is a man in legitmate pain and that our political system leaves no room for such...
View ArticleAmerican Idol: Liberty or death?
Is the American celebration of mediocrity a symptom of the looming failure of democracy or an indication of its enduring health? Is the emerging dominance of ordinary, humdrum and limited in American...
View ArticleThe Dignity of Bigotry
Exactly. It ain't got none. None at all. And yet this nation persists in dignifying bigotry with labels like Christianity, religious freedom, conservatism, traditionalism and First Amendment rights....
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