Yesterday, Mexico City (aka / el D.F.) — the city I love, the city I plan on moving to in a few years — became the first Latin American city and the largest city in the world to legalized same sex marriage and adoption by same sex couples. The Mexico City law changes the meaning [...]
Today is World AIDS Day: a day for raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. For me, a day to remember those I’ve lost. Below is my short list — a list of relatives, close friends, boyfriends and partners. To add my second and third circle of friends would make the list even [...]
Last nght about 100 morners gathered at Harvery Milk Plaza in the Castro to hear speeches and mourn the tragic murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a 19 year old transsexual in Puerto Rico who’s body was found on the side of the road decapitated, dismembered and partially burned. Outrage is pouring from the gay [...]
Is there a chance that marriage equality in California will see the light in 2010? I ask this simply because, sad to say, what the hell is going on? What is happening with the 2010 movement? Where is the leadership? What’s with the infighting, childish bullshit? From talking to a number of folk I have [...]
I need to preface this post with my feelings about the passage of Prop 1 in Maine as compared to last year’s passage of Prop 8 here in California.
Last year I was numb. Now I know better. It’s sad to say but when we put our rights up to the majority vote, we get shot [...]
“You can’t put a civil rights issue on the ballot and let the people decide. You have to have elected officials to who have courage to make the right decision. If you left it up to the people, we’d have slavery, depending on how you worded it.” – Former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler Jesse [...]
Last night the husband and I attended the procession of Dia de los Muertos in the Mission. A yearly event here in San Francisco that follows friends Tom and Chris’ Day of the Dead house party (Tom owns Regalito Rosticeria). The party is always filled with good friends, good food and is a nice send off to [...]
Today is Gustavo and my one year wedding anniversary. It was one year ago today that we celebrated our love in front of a few friends in San Francisco’s City Hall. It was one year ago today we exchanged our vows to love, honor and cherish all we hold dear.
It was 8 days later that [...]
With Katya Smirnoff-Skyy away in China doing missionary work (or smuggling diamonds–depending on who you ask), Summer Clearance and Ethel Merman stepped in to fill the void left in her absence at Martuni’s last night. Needless to say they were on top of their game.
Between the banter, jokes about Judy Garland and music by the Tom [...]
Come hear Summer and Ethel play…(in):
“While the Kat(ya) is Away, the Mice will Play”
Below is a lil’ info about the show.
Hi Friends,
Get ready for the Met to become Minsky’s as Ethel Merman and Summer Clearance take over for popera-diva Katya Smirnoff-Skyy on Sunday, October 18th, co-hostessing a night most definitely not at the opera. The [...]
Below is an email from my friend Bob who is attending the National Equality March in DC this weekend. I’ve already stated my feelings, negative as they are, toward this march elsewhere in this blog and I have need not repeat them here. So, on a positive note: as I type this post with the [...]
I came across this piece last night and it’s definitely worth the read — yesterday’s Daily Kos daily diary entry: “I’m Heterosexual and It’s Freakin’ Fantastic!” Yes, it stings, stings like a mutha’ fucka’ because it’s oh so true. So when the far right and their religious bed mates fling their god’s righteous bullshit at you, [...]
It was 1993 when I decided to cover up the Celtic armband. As I stated in the previous post I was never completely thrilled with the piece and with an influx of cash, i.e., graduate school loans, I decided it was time for some more work. Moving to Albany, NY to attend grad school. was [...]
Two articles, two messages, one meaning — 2010 CAN BE OURS!!!
But we all need to get off our collective asses and move. Nothing is going to be given to us. The “hurry up and wait” mentality of Equality California (EQCA) and others is not the way. What next? Sing-alongs of we shall overcome? Safety is [...]
I received this yesterday, but being at work all day, I could not get to it until now. Please circulate this far and wide. Thanx.
(Via LA Weekly Blogs)
It’s always interesting how things are never exactly what they seem when it comes to Equality California, one of the leading gay rights groups in the state and [...]
F.Y.I. In case ya didn’t know
(as per the organizer’s email):
Over the past 5 years, we’ve strived to put on some really great events. And thanks to wonderful support from the community, volunteers and sponsors (especially Budweiser), our Hairrison and AIDS Lifecycle efforts have raised close to $300,000 for a variety of non-profit organizations — an [...]
Below is a statement from Yes! on Equality regarding Equality California’s decision to wait until 2012:
“We are extremely disappointed, but not surprised, by Equality California’s decision today to wait until 2012 to go back to the ballot for marriage equality in California, especially since every poll we conducted shows majority support within the LGBT community [...]
I heard about this via The Gay Buzz so I have to throw my two cents in.
Equality California has done it again. Sticking to their “hurry up and wait” mentality and going against the wishes of their own membership EQCA announced today that they will wait till 2012 to return to California voters with an initiative [...]
Tagged in: 2010, 2012, barber 94114, courage campaign, equality california, gay, gay elite, gay marriage, lies, marc solomon, subterfuge
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(Just to set the record straight, again, there was a decision made at the Marriage Equality Summit Meeting last weekend. The decision was that we will move forward with 2010. This meeting is to discuss how we will proceed (not if). This is a copy of an email sent to me. Please pass it on).
PLEASE [...]
(To start: My sources are my friends and customers whose trust I will not betray [barbers are kind’a like priests,‘cept when there’s sex, it’s always consensual]. Thus I do not repeat what is told to me, or, if given permission to do so, I do not attach a name. Nothing here is probably new or [...]
Last night a couple of friends and I had the pleasure of seeing Katya Smirnoff-Skyy and Summer Clearance perform at Martuni’s. What an enjoyable evening.
Katya and Summer strike a wonderful balance to each other’s style. Katya sings over the top, operatic versions of such classics as “Back in the USSR,” “(I) Will Always Love You,” and [...]
So the husband and I spent a few days in Seattle this past week for a quick get-away. It’s really a wonderful city: beautiful, friendly, clean and progressive. Shame it’s stuck in a narrow-minded state that’s wants to turn back the clock on domestic partnership.
In May of this year Washington’s governor, Christine Gregoire, signed a [...]
Apparently a kiss is just a kiss — NOT! It’s an affront to all that’s decent and good!
Two incidents in the past week have been reported where a gay couple have been harassed or arrested by authorities for kissing. Both incidents have been instigated by ignorant security guards, and followed through by ignorant overzealous police.
In [...]
above: Swami “Schmuck-Nuts” Ramdev
Claiming that homosexuality is a disease, Swami “Baba” Ramdev, believes it to be curable through yoga. “[Homosexuality] can be treated like any other congenital defect. Such tendencies can be treated by yoga, pranayam and other meditation techniques.”
In the wake of the Delhi High Court decriminalization of homosexuality in India, the Swami is [...]
Via Joe.My.God
He sounds like any number of my aunts or cousins out on the Island
Prologue: I would have published this over the weekend but I was feeling a lil’ under the weather, and not up to writing.
Forty years ago this past weekend was the Stonewall Riots. It was a night that the cops raided another gay bar. A night that the cops harassed another bunch of queens. A night [...]
Just wanted to add this piece via Joe.My.God blog (comments above Dan’s statement are mine).
Dan Savage offers an alternative to another of those “Million Whoever Marches.” I find this definitely a more effective way to get our point across rather than a 1 day media blitz of “hey-hey; ho-ho” chanting, and (ugghh!) sing alongs. And [...]
From Yahoo News
Tue May 26, 9:41 P
Gustavo Vasquez, left, and his spouse Jeff Cilione, join about one thousand same-sex marriage supporters rallying outside San Francisco’s City Hall on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The couple married in 2008. Earlier in the day, the California State Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but it [...]
I just got back from the evening rally that started at City Hall. The crowd grew quickly. From about 50 people at 4:30 to over 300 by 5PM (this number continued to grow as the rally went on).
It was a bit exciting as the crowds massed to hear what was being said. Gustavo was 100% [...]
As expected, in a 6-1 decision the California State Supreme Court upheld Prop 8 while leaving the 18,000 same-sex marriages intact. The sadness I discussed last night is in my heart. Though Gustavo and I remain married, it is a hollow victory. We screamed out in our frustration while the numb-nut haters applauded and cheered [...]
