Emmett Till was a fourteen year old Black boy living in Chicago in 1955. He was on his way to visit relatives in Money, Mississippi. He came home without himself, just his dead body, mutilated beyond belief. Emmett Till was a baby, just a boy, fucking FOURTEEN!!! He wasn’t a civil rights activist. He wasn’t […]
Note: The author of Letter #1 in the entry from 11/20/2003 responded and the discussion continues. > Margaret, (Got it right this time) Thank you. I was just pulling your leg! > I’m glad to see we have some common > ground in all this. You asked why, if > Biblical mandates are so important, […]
> Margaret, I just watched you on MSNBC and > heard your argument on homosexuality. To > be honest, I have heard of you and I know > you are a celebrity, but I am not familiar > with your career or the person you are. > After hearing your argument tonight, I > wanted […]
Note: In the past two days, Margaret debated Jerry Falwell on MSNBC and read a piece on NPR’s Morning Edition both on the issue of Gay marriage. She received and responded to many letters. We’ve chosen the following two for today’s entry. Letter #1 Subject: Morning Edition Commentary >Dear Morning Edition, Please, call me Margaret. […]
That is just so fucking typical. Reverend Stephen White, infamous for preaching against homosexuality and sexual promiscuity at Yale and other universities is facing charges of attempting to solicit sex from a teenage boy. White had been well known for his impromptu speeches denouncing minorities, gays, other religious groups that didn’t follow his particular brand […]
Moving your shoulder blades, hard and immobilized like tectonic plates, until the warmth of my hands gently coaxes the muscles to release you, and then they move with the slow assuredness of the continental drift. You wake me with your arms around me tight and we say the secretive, early morning improvised devotional lover’s song. […]
If you are faint of heart, don’t read this. Don’t. Close this window. Now. Do it. You cannot handle it. After you close the window, get off the internet. It is too much for the faint of heart. There could be a pop up, a virus, a worm, some sixty-three year old man pretending to […]
The Roman Catholic Church is talking about how condoms don’t block AIDS. I don’t know what to say about that. And taking the vow of celibacy doesn’t prevent pedophilia. What is wrong with them? If they oppose all forms of birth control, then when do we get to actually fuck? Or how do we get […]
I love hip hop. It is a language that speaks to me, with the complexity of the beats, the dexterity of the rhymes, the posture and pride of rappers that makes me swoon. It is like opera to me, with all the sturm und drang of Wagnerian proportions, but with modern values and transformative knowledge. […]
Gay culture seems to be ever present these days. There are a myriad of television shows: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Boy Meets Boy, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk. Madonna and Britney practice a little lesbian action on the VMAs. Interior designers are the new rock stars, and gay is the new straight. […]
In Italy, there is this wine company that sells bottles with labels depicting Hitler, Goehring and Himmler. It’s Nazi wine, and they use that as a selling point, using phrases like “Seig Heil!” and “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer” emblazoned on the bottles. German officials are outraged, and want an investigation into whether or […]
It’s Southern Decadence, here in New Orleans where thousands of gay men have flocked to dance and celebrate another year surviving being gay in America. I went on a search and rescue mission for my gal pal Bruce last night. He’d bought an ostrich feather mask and some beads that had toucans every 6th bead […]
