Comments on: Late Night: Stonewall (and the Black Cat) — Happy Anniversary, Gay Rights Movement

By: AngelsAwake

AngelsAwake — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:58:22 +0000

Stonewall…. what a beautiful sentiment/image for the gay rights movement. Unmovable, indestructible, powerful.

I never knew about this. Happy Anniversary, Gay Rights Movement!

By: Cellar47

Cellar47 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:06:42 +0000

Yes. That book was by Stuart Timmons — a great and scandalously overlooked gay historian. His book on Gay Los Angeles, written with Lillian Faderman, is required reading for anyone who wants to know about anything.

That’s because Teh Ghey is central to American life — though the HeterosexualDictatorship does everythign in its power to shunt it to the margins.

By: Lisa Derrick

Lisa Derrick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:02:22 +0000

Side note, tomorrow people are being asked to email Sen Diane Back of Tennessee over the racist email one you her staff sent out (staff’s excuse–sorry it went to wrong list)

Her info is
Senator Diane Black:
sen.diane.black@capitol.tn.gov

Please me nice and polite. here’sa sample letter

Dear Senator Black:

I am deeply concerned about your response to an email that was sent by one of your staffers depicting our President, Barack Obama, in a racist manner. Though I completely understand that you don’t want to lose a valued employee, I was wondering if you realize that you have alienated the 1.2 million African Americans who live in Tennessee? At issue is not that your staffer emailed someone a racist email. For me, the bigger issue is your response. Just the thought that there could be a “right email list” on your computer for distribution of this type of email – as implied in the staffer’s response to the outcry over this offense, is frightening. If your morals allow you to have such disregard for another race, then how can we possibly trust your decision making on key issues that affect that race, or on any issue, for that matter?

I have a deep concern about the rising use of racist epithets by the Republican fringe and the fact that a seated State Senator is reinforcing this is unconscionable.

By: Lisa Derrick

Lisa Derrick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:47:45 +0000

Harry hay was problematic figure…there’sa great book about him “The Trouble wiht Harry Hay”

By: Millineryman

Millineryman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:47:38 +0000

I found When Ocean Meets Sky to be an interesting documentry about the history of Fire Island Pines. What a trip it is to spend some time there.

By: Cellar47

Cellar47 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:38:42 +0000

It certainly does. There’s a paly that premiered in New York a week or so ago called The Temperamentals. It’s all about how a former communist named Harry Hay and his lover Rudi Gernreich (who went on to create the topless bathing suit) founded the first gay rights group, The Mattachine Society, in L.A.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:37:33 +0000

g’nite dr dick and ratfood

By: ratfood

ratfood — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:35:54 +0000

I was fortunate enough to be considered undesirable by people of all persuasions.:-)

Time for this one to turn in. Pleasant dreams to all.

By: DrDick

DrDick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:35:40 +0000

I have to head out. One more day to corrupt all those young minds and then on Thursday I torture them with the final. Take care all.

By: Cellar47

Cellar47 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:31:12 +0000

They still are, surprisingly enough. So much has changed over the years. Mostly forthe better. But I miss the exclusivity of the Old Days. Discoevring that I was gay was the best thing that ever happened to me. Instead of dull routine life I had one full of exiting adventure, meet people from all classes and walks of life , AND I got to have sex with them!