The Book of Love - MSNBC’s Olbermann’s Eloquent Defense of Gay Love and Marriage
Filed under: activism, gay culture, men's health, spirituality, video
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This is, in a word: astonishing. I am definitely impressed that Keith Olbermann focused so eloquently and passionately on the core issue of love of those in gay relationships for each other. I was deeply moved and I think you will be, as well. Coming from a talking head from MSNBC, no less, it carries considerable weight. PLEASE SHARE - this is a stunning statement in support of LOVE.
Milk - Gus van Sant’s biopic about Harvey Milk Premiered this Week
Filed under: activism, art, gay culture, men's health, spirituality, video
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay elected official in San Francisco’s history, elected as a Supervisor in 1977 (similar to being on a city’s governing Council, except San Francisco is a City and County entity in California). He was assassinated in 1978 by another Supervisor, Dan White, in a shocking and brazen murder, at the same time that then Mayor San Francisco, George Moscone, who was known as an openly liberal and gay-affirming leader. The film premiered this week at the famous Castro Theatre, in an opening right out of Hollywood.
Soldiers and Seamen and Leathermen and Hot Boys at Folsom Street Fair 2008
Filed under: art, fables of fabulous faggotry, friendship, gay culture, health and wellness, men's health, spirituality
Annually, San Francisco’s gay leather community and friends throw the world’s largest street fair dedicated to leather, sex and erotic fetishes, and classic fantasies: the legendary Folsom Street Fair, which turned 25 this year. I usually go and stay for as long as I can tolerate the mass of the crowds, which can get up to a few hundred thousand, and which covers 13 city blocks in the South of Market area, also known as SoMa. Although much of the event is meant to be provocative, I like going to see the creations people wear and celebrate with friends…then there are all of the sexy, hot men to see!
A 12 year journey joyfully ended on 23 September 2008 - I received my PhD
Filed under: gratitude, health and wellness, literature, men's health, spirituality
Back in 1996, I began my doctoral studies in Health and Human Services. Little did I know that about a year later, I would sustain a C5-6 injury in my spine, resulting in a herniated cervical disk. As if that weren’t enough, I developed fibromyalgia (yes, it is a real condition), and then developed a regional pain syndrome. It took me several years to recover and to learn to live with chronic pain. Thankfully, my physical health and fitness resurged - with a lot of determination, persistent effort, and endless gratitude to my loving and supportive family and friends. Were it not for JD, Dan, Sean, and Kathleen, as well as my mother, I doubt I would have returned to a stronger physical health baseline.
Humpty-Dumpty, terminal greed, and the American economic failure
We are witnessing what is being called the greatest American economic recession since the Great Depression. Stating the blindingly obvious is Harold Myerson, over at the Washington Post: “And by the measure of their contribution to America’s economic strength and well being, both Reagan-age government and Wall Street’s investment banks plainly deserve to die.”
John Burnside, co-founder of the Radical Faeries, has died
Filed under: activism, gay culture, gratitude, men's health, spirituality
John Burnside, partner of the late Harry Hay, and co-founder of the Radical Faeries, died on Sunday, 14 September 2008, at the age of 91, in San Francisco. Along with Harry, John was cared for by a Circle of Loving Companions until his death, never missing a Saturday Radical Faerie coffee at the Charles Holmes Campus of the San Francisco LGBT Center. There is a shrine to John in the Castro at 18th and Castro Streets. Below are a few images taken from that altar of honoring and remembrance.
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