June Is GLBT Pride Month XXII

"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons". ~Letter to the editor, The Advocate

June Is GLBT Pride Month XXI

"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.”~ Harvey Milk

June Is GLBT Pride Month XX

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision".~Lynn Lavner

Test Day: Comma Toes

You Are a Comma

You are open minded and extremely optimistic. You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything. You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests. You find it hard to turn down an opportunity, even if you are pressed for time. Your friends find you fascinating, charming, and easy to talk to. (But with so many competing interests, you friends do feel like you hardly have time for them.) You excel in: Inspiring people You get along best with: The Question Mark

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Test Day: It's All True

You Scored an A

You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.

The It's Its There Their They're Quiz

Boys On the Side

Once upon a time, it was 1970. We were here, queer, outta the closets and in the streets. In the Boys in the Band, we were also on the big screen showing the country "exactly" what it meant to be a Big Apple Faggot: self-mutilating, self-pitying, self-loathing, vain, shallow, hateful and miserable people.

the huz and i sat down last night and watched it, again. i'd seen it once, a number of years ago and he'd seen it a couple of times over the years (and always maintains how much he dislikes it). after 2 viewings, i have to admit: i like the movie. like one of the characters say, halfway in, "it's like watching a car wreck; you don't want to look, but can't look away". i like it the way i like Desperate Housewives and Dynasty: marginally good looking, barely 3 dimensional, people doing awful things to each other while drinking heavily and trading wickedly funny verbal barbs at each other; it's like watching Queer As Folk: the Movie, with that '70's sense of "beautiful" (even ugly, paunchy people, with crooked teeth and bad noses, were sex symbols); and, just like QAF, i'm sure both gay and straight people watched it and took it as gospel truth ("god, how can they call themselves 'gay' when they're so unhappy") but, that's the power of the mass media. i'm also pretty sure it spawned a whole generation of faggots that walked out shaking their heads thinking "if that's what it means to be queer in the city, i'm stayin' in muncie" (if it even made it to muncie) and haven't been heard of or seen since (except in truckstop and department store restrooms).

this movie was the anti-Stonewall.

it's also a wildly entertaining, compelling and thought provoking melodrama and definitely in the Top 10 Must sees of Gay Cinema experiences; if for no other reason than as a reminder of who we were, who we thought we had to be, and who we should never become.

June Is GLBT Pride Month XIX

in honor of Cinnamon Jenkinz triumphant return to the blogverse...

"Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for – in other words, cheered on – by people who feel different"~ Liza Minelli

June Is GLBT Pride Month XVIII

"Family need not be defined merely as those with whom you share blood but for those for whom you would give your blood"~ Nathan Lane

June Is GLBT Pride Month XVII (and This is my ONE THOUSANDTH post)

“Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate”~ Margaret Cho

This is My Blah-g

is everybody else as bored with my blog as i am?

June Is GLBT Pride Month XVI

"I believe that we, the lgbt community, need to continue to dialogue among ourselves about the issues and concerns that effect us. We are often banded together so often against a common foe, we forget to take the time to talk to each other about our lives and feelings as gay people. We are not all the same, we do not all have the same goals and desires and we do not always agree on everything just because we all share a common sexuality or struggle"~ Sean Breen

Test Day: We All KNow What "Rubber Duckie" Was Really About...

You Are the Very Gay Bert and Ernie!

Two grown puppets living together, sleeping in the same room? They've even got coordinating striped shirts!

What Gay Childhood Icon Are You?

June Is GLBT Pride Month XV

“There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable”~ Rufus Wainwright

June is GLBT Pride Month XIV

"the idea that your parents influence your sexual orientationis ridiculous. Because if it were true, I'd have my mother's taste in men, and i've never dated a guy who falls asleep in his chair during Jeopardy"~ Bob Smith

June Is GLBT Pride Month XIII

"We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag"~ RuPaul

No, It's Not Too Early to Be Thinking About My Birthday...

at least not according to my mom and husband. so, in the interest of getting them off my back about what i want for said birthday, i give you the amazon.com wishlist:

we all remember how well this worked for christmas, right?

the Power of Music~ Kristine W.

a steal at $9.99 on iTunes! Honestly, one of her best albums since it has her last 4 singles (Walk Away, Love is the Look, Never, the Boss, and I'm Coming Out)plus 15 other fabulous tracks!

June Is GLBT Pride Month XII

"Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid"~ Chastity Bono

June is GLBT Pride Month XI

"Tolerance and acceptance are not enough for me-it's celebration I'm aiming for"~ Kevyn Aucoin

June Is GLBT Pride Month X

"Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust"~Alan Moore

June Is GLBT Pride Month IX

"On the surface, civil unions are a politically safe middle ground, an attempt to highlight the artificial divide between secular unions and the religious rite of marriage. But the fact is that marriage is a civil institution just as much as it is a religious one, and therefore religious objections to same-sex marriage shouldn't be an obstacle. We allow atheists to marry and we do not refer to a wedding performed by a secular judge or justice of the peace as a 'civil union'."~ William Jelani Cobb

thanks to Lady N'il at a Fool's Prerogative for sending me this article.

Ryan Charisma May Finally Have a Reason to Travel to an "Outer Borough" Pt. 2

Holy shit this is exciting!

June is GLBT Pride Month VIII

"...there was something reassuring about watching my best friends joking around. It was what we did, how we engaged with each other. Silly but witty chit-chat about inane things. It's funny how meaningful inane things can be- comforting, easy things like family. And they were my family."~ Tommy's Tale (Alan Cumming)

June Is GLBT Pride Month VII

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination"~ Oscar Wilde

June is GLBT Pride Month VI

"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook"~ Quentin Crisp

Test Day: **PHEW** Pt. 2

You Are 54% Pure

You're not so innocent... in fact, you're quite unpure. You have seen and experienced a lot. And you're no worse for the wear!

The 100 Question Purity Test

June Is GLBT Pride Month V

"I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from...you heterosexuals.”~ Ellen DeGeneres

June Is GLBT Pride Month IV

"I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short"~Armistead Maupin

June Is GLBT Pride Month III

"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. the only queer people are those who don't love anybody"~ Rita Mae Brown

thanks to LionsMane at My Journal of Random Things for e-mailing this to me!

June Is GLBT Pride Month II

"They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!"~ Lea DeLaria

June Is GLBT Pride Month!

in honor of this month, i'm going to try and post a different, quote every day, but i'm going to need your help! what's your favorite quote about pride or from an GLBT person you love or admire?

"I have come to fully understand that tolerance is only a fraction better than intolerance but a world away from acceptance"~ CawfeeMate