I found some old video recordings of the televised public hearings for Kansas City’s gay rights ordinance 20 years ago. Between the poor quality of the original VCR tapes and the transition to digital, they look even older than that.
You gotta’ love those glasses!
City council committee hearings here are televised on a local cable channel [...]
Once in a while I come across a piece of writing that resonates so closely with my own experiences that I want to say “I wish I had written that”.
Carl Stryg wrote just such an essay recently, published at The Truth Barrier, a website founded by journalist Celia Farber. From the first paragraph, Stryg has [...]
Michael sent me to the store this morning to get some bread for breakfast.
When I got home, he noticed that I’d only gotten a half loaf. We’d paid for a loaf of bread. He expected to receive a loaf of bread.
In response to his puzzled look, I could only shrug and say “well, half a [...]
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Amazing stories keep coming from Gossip Boy, an online gay publication based in Oklahoma City.
His latest post reveals hints that the infamous Westboro Baptist Church Phelps clan, known for picketing funerals and carrying signs proclaiming “God Hates Fags”, may be ready to commit a Jim Jones-like farewell party.
If you’re like me, you probably don’t monitor [...]
Most of us have seen the headlines by now about the rampant spread of AIDS in Washington, DC. It’s worse even than Africa, right?
It is if you rely on the AP, Newsday, NY Times and other mainstream media that parrots them for your information.
Surveillance data for prevelance of HIV and AIDS is easily misunderstood and [...]
(Note: This was originally written as my first blog post on OpenSalon (account no longer active) February 6, 2009, where it was selected as an Editor’s Pick and People’s Pick.)
I have only a few fond memories of growing up in Colby, Kansas in the 1960s. Actually, I was raised on a wheat farm about [...]
change.org has not eliminated the risk of voter fraud in its Ideas for Change in America campaign that I first wrote about a few days ago: “I committed voter fraud @ change.org”. This morning I was able to log in using the same disposable email accounts I used to test their system with New [...]
Ballot stuffing + Censorship – Integrity = Bogus election
Today is the start of Round 2 in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America project. It should be known the Ideas finalists did not result from grass-roots driven democracy. Rather, the process has been tainted by unfair tactics and strategies by participants and organizers alike.
Despite recent disclaimers that they are a “private” venture, many of us who participated in the Idea project were led to perceive the site was
