Gabi Clayton
Obama to form gay advisory panel.
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama was running a little behind schedule. He had just delivered a speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters at the Hyatt Hotel on Capitol Hill. Obama’s news hit, if there was to be one, was supposed to be his speech at the union’s presidential forum. But it was …
“Generation on Fire” sounds like a fabulous book!
The political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s has become a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, it is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and general irresponsibility. Few people remember that many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established …
Evolution of a feminist daughter ~ and ~ Favorite Daughter Peels Off Virgin Label
Evolution of a feminist daughter Rebecca Walker – the daughter of Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple,” and Mel Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer – was a nascent feminist when she laid bare the details of her freewheeling, lonely adolescence in 2001’s, “Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.” The memoir, …
Alan Shore (from the television series Boston Legal) speaks on Homosexuality
The plaintiff is an elderly judge suing to recover $40,000 he paid to a religious rehab clinic which promised to cure him of being gay – it didn’t work. Alan Shore is a character on the ABC Network television series Boston Legal, portrayed by James Spader. More of Alan Shore on youtube hereAlan Shore on …
article: For the Christian Right, Gay-Hating Is Just the Start
On the morning of March 8 in Sioux Center, Iowa, two buses parked outside a hotel were found covered with anti-gay slurs, along with a hate-filled message on a piece of cardboard reading: “God does not love feary fags.” The buses were transporting some 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, along with supporters, on …
We Are Seeing “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” in Seattle Next Sunday
While the play has inspired protest and controversy, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” is, essentially, the story of one woman. and A Seattle Repertory Theatre production of the play, adapted from the writings of Corrie, The Evergreen State College student who was killed while standing in the way of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, opens …
Objecting to This War
In an editorial Johnson failed constituents in The Olympian on March 16, 2007 the writer called our city councilman TJ Johnson a scofflaw which means “a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices … One who habitually violates the law” I was glad to see that a letter to the editor from Alec and …
ACT UP Founder Comes Home
Returning to the community center where he gave a 1987 speech that is associated with the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, playwright Larry Kramer marked the 20th anniversary of that activist group by calling for the creation of a gay army with gay leaders fighting for gay people under a gay flag, …