From a forward I received:In reading rex wockner's international news column just now i wasparticularly struck by the following item:"Britain to count gay population"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Britain's Office for National Statistics is going to count the gaypopulation.
BIGOT!
I know this is easy for me to promote since I'm out of town, but much like my Larry Craig protest, I'd be up in Times Square as soon as possible protesting this fucking bigot and Obama allowing him to speak.
First up with a guest post is Nathanal Siegel - writer, poet, AIDS activist. Currently Nathanial has an installation at the Leslie Lohman Art Gallery entitled "2, 117 Days of Silence.
I'll be out of town for work during the next 11 days. Blogging will be spotty on my part but some close friends and special guests will be dropping in for a post every now and again so stay tuned!Happy Holidays to all!Rage.
Saturday Dec 20th: NYC Lights Up!
Sat December 206-8PM Columbus Circle with a March to Times Square
JoinTheImpact, the group who brought you the Nov.
Over the weekend I was thinking about some of the events which have transpired over the last couple of months.
The Ali Forney Center, a non profit organization offering housing, food, shelter and work training programs to homeless or kicked out GLBT youth, had their 5th annual holiday fundraiser last night in the Meat Packing district.
I couldn't help but notice the new massive HIV Stops with Us campaign in the West 3rd subway station.
This weekend I learned to be more confident about making changes to my blog. Today I started by changing some fonts and adding some new photos and gadgets and what-nots.
Activism 4.what?
Ever since the term Activism 4.0 was coined, I suppose around the Prop 8 Protests, I've been trying to figure out, for the life of me, what the term means?But I think I'm finally getting close.
The only thing more gay-cliche than writing a kumbaya, everybody get together now GLBT Blogger Initiative round-up, would be to do so while listening to Ani DiFranco and burning Nag Champa.
I'm a contributing writer over at The Bilerico Project and every week the gorgeous Serena Freewomyn does a feature called, "Better Know a Contributor.
When big wig Washington DC politico and famous gay republican outer Mike Rogers called me to tell me I had been accepted to the GLBT Blogger Summit in DC I was honored and excited.
I'm DC this weekend for the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative. I'm here with around 50 other bloggers, techies and teachers all of the rainbow persuasion!By the way I'm all about Bolt Bus! Cheap, efficient, wireless!
I've really got to hand it to this week's HX magazine for pumping out such a cute and creative who's who in current New York nightlife.
Masterbeat-Downs?!!?
In an incredibly bizarre twist of fate the 11th place team- that's right, 11th place team, The Masterbeat MasterBeatdowns, won every game and climbed the ladder of this week's championship games and came home in the number 1 spot!The whole league was astonished that this rag-tag team who nobody took seriously was able to beat The Logo - DownLogos, The Stonewall Riots, The United Shipping's Massive Delivery and one of the most powerful teams, The Henrietta Hussies and took home the BigAppleDodgeball Season 3 trophy.
The Center is holding two meetings tonight regarding equal rights/marriage equality.Tonight- Wednesday December 3rd:Marriage Equality NY: 6PM- 8PM Room 410Join the Impact Meeting: 7:30PM-9PM Room 212.
if that...The NYC World AIDS Day Event entitled "Out of the Darkness" included a meet- up at GMHC and a candle light vigil march down to a church in Greenwich Village where speakers, activists and performers were all part of the program.
The other day I was digging through files for the hell of it and interestingly enough came across a folder entitled "College Writing Fall Semester 2002.