History of my Gay section |
 On the occasion of Hamburg's Gay Pride week (June 6 through June 15), Gay Pride week-end (June 13 through June 15) and today (June 14)'s marvellous Gay Pride parade, commemorating the Stonewall Inn riots in New York's Greenwich Village in June 1969 [I had spent six weeks in Big Apple at the turn of the years 1968 and 1969, probably unknowingly preparing those riots . . . ;-)] and the beginning of the modern world-wide Gay Liberation movement (and therefore formerly called here "Stonewall", now "CSD", for Christopher Street Day, that Stonewall Inn having been located at No. 53 of that street), I spontaneously decide to open a Gay Section on this website (which I clearly had never intended). Find out why! [Saturday, June 14, 2003] |
First of all, as I said on my home page on June 14, 2003, the decision to open this section was a spontaneous one, it had never been planned. It has been prompted though by the following:
a) the special impact that this year's marvellous Hamburg Gay Parade has had on me;
b) a circular letter by e-mail a visitor felt compelled to address to the webmaster (maybe naively, unsuspectingly, thinking that I would agree, or else as a not so subtle attack against my not being, in these after 9/11 Patriot Act and Iraq War II times, sufficiently pro-American, at least in the eyes of some mainstream Bible Belt stars and stripes aficionados, being not so comfortable with the eight, seven or current six striped rainbow flags, be they gay or only pacifist. You can read the circular hereafter.
But before you read it, I suggest that you pay a visit to
"Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture," the online edition of a Columbia University Libraries exhibition held from May 25 to September 17, 1994. New York: Columbia University Libraries, 1995. URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/index.html
Let me quote from one of the exhibits the sentence
"Before we loathe the homosexual as anarchist against Nature, as renegade toward religion, as pariah in society, as monster in immorality, as criminal in law, let us feel sure that we have considered well whatever the complex mystery of Life presents as his defense .... "
so that, on your return from the online exhibition, you may better "enjoy" the following Bible Belt missive:
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From: Vernie Nobles <mikesbabydoll44@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: Fw: The ABC Network
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> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 07:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dennis <dgallio2003@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: The ABC Network
> To: Ally <jesus_is_watching@hansonhouse.com>,
> Ron Auvenshine <rauvenshin@aol.com>, Steve
> Baczewski <badski@austin.rr.com>,
> James Carroll <jcarroll@littler.com>, Chance
> <cowboys07@ltex.net>,
> Deborah Lynn Kincaid <magnoliakin@aol.com>,
> Yvette Moore <lttlbt091566@aol.com>, James Neal
> <neal@ci.cedar-park.tx.us>,
> James Neal 2 <timesgate@earthlink.net>,
> Vernie Nobles <mikesbabydoll44@yahoo.com>,
> Vernie Nobles <mikesbabydoll44@yahoo.com>,
> Sylvia Rehders
> <sylvia_rehders@elem.pflugerville.k12.tx.us>,
> Bert Thompson <mariner@usa.net>, Dan Tidwell
> <gengraph@earthlink.net>,
> Carol Vance <csvance@msn.com>, Alice Yount
> <alice19432001@yahoo.com>
> charlie.r.walker@exxonmobil.com wrote:Subject: Fw:
> The ABC Network
> To: ewhenders@aol.com,
> nolan.w.glover@exxonmobil.com,
> alvin.j.hettinger@exxonmobil.com,
> michael.g.isaacks@exxonmobil.com,
> dgallio2003@yahoo.com,
> john.h.shepard@exxonmobil.com,
> arlon.d.walker@exxonmobil.com
> From: charlie.r.walker@exxonmobil.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:39:38 -0500
> > Charlie Walker
> JE Merit Drafting Office Supervisor
> Phone 4-2895
> Fax 4-7086
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> | Subject: Fw: The ABC Network |
> LARRY GARRISON
> JE DRAFT
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> Garrison/B/Baytown/ExxonMobil on 06/04/03 06:28
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| | 06/03/03 10:50 PM |
> | Subject: Fw: The ABC Network |
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rose
> To: amytraveldesk@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:36 PM
> Subject: FW: The ABC Network
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sabp78@aol.com [mailto:sabp78@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:54 PM
> To: ahlcky@aol.com
> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
>
> In a message dated 6/3/03 8:16:47 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> ptrj646@webtv.net writes:
>
> RE: ABC TV - A must read
> ABC TV - A MUST READ
>
> If more of us took a stand maybe we could have some
> decent TV programs.
>
> Jim Neugent is a coach in Childress, Texas.
>
> Jim writes:
>
> My name is Jim Neugent. I wrote to ABC (on-line)
> concerning a program called "THE PRACTICE." In last
> nights episode, one of the lawyer's mothers decided
> she is gay and wanted her son to go to court and
> help her get a marriage license so she could marry
> her 'partner.' ! I sent the following letter to ABC
> yesterday and really did not expect a reply, but I
> did get one.
>
> My original message was:
>
> ABC is obsessed (or should I say abscessed) with the
> subject of homosexuality. I will no longer watch any
> of your attempts to convince the world that
> homosexuality is OK. THE PRACTICE can be a fairly
> good show, but last night's program was so typical
> of your agenda. You picked the dufus' of the office
> to be the one who was against the idea of his mother
> being gay and made him look like a whiner because he
> had convictions. This type of mentality calls people
> like me a "gay basher." Read the first chapter of
> Romans (that's in the Bible) and see what the
> apostle Paul had to say about it.... He, God and
> Jesus were all 'gay bashers'. What if she'd fallen
> in love with her cocker spaniel? Is that an
> alternative lifestyle? (By the way, the Bible speaks
> against that, too.)
>
> --Jim Neugent
>
> Here is ABC's reply from the ABC on-line webmaster:
>
> How about getting your nose out of the Bible (which
> is ONLY a book of stories compiled by MANY different
> writers hundreds of years ago) and read the
> declaration of independence (what our nation is
> built on) where it says "All Men are Created equal"
> --and try treating them that way for a change!
>
> Or better yet, try thinking for yourself and stop
> using an archaic book of stories as your lame crutch
> for your existence. You are in minority in this
> country and your boycott will not affect us or our
> freedom of statement.
>
> Jim Neugent's second response to ABC:
>
> Thanks for your reply. From your harsh reply,
> evidently I hit a nerve. I will share it with all
> with whom I come in contact. Hopefully, the Arkansas
> Democrat Newspaper will include it in one of their
> columns and I will be praying for you.
>
> - -Jim Neugent
>
> Note:! Wouldn't Satan just love it if people stopped
> using the Bible for a crutch? Please resend this to
> everyone in your mailbox.
>
> -- Thanks, Jim Neugent
>
> I wonder if the person from ABC considered how many
> people would read this e-mail! This is one we should
> definitely pass on.
> ----- Message from "Paul & Lorraine Thomas"
> on Tue, 3
> Jun 2003 07:16:19 -0500 -----
>
> To:
> cc: , , , , ,
> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
> ----- Message from on Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:43:54 -0500
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> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
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> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
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> To:
> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
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> To:
> cc:
> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
>
Message from on Thu, 29 May 2003 21:47:49-0500
> To:
> Subject: Fwd: The ABC Network
Message from on Thu, 29 May 2003 20:51:44 -0500 -----
>
> To: >
> Subject: The ABC Network
> RE: ABC TV - A must read
> > Jim Neugent is a coach in Childress, Texas.
>
> Because of God's grace and mercy. The Rose of
> Sharon.
=====
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PS: Here, dear normal fuckers before God, you can also study the Bible:
, for instancehttp://www.indegayforum.org/authors/corvino/corvino3b.html
http://www.indegayforum.org/library/religion.html
[June 14,2003]
Latest news
Regarding the cocker spaniel mentioned above in that religious right propaganda, read the following:
Woman talks friend out of suicide; police shoot her dog
"A [Milwaukee] woman who had just talked a friend out of suicide had her pet cocker spaniel shot to death by a police officer called to her house. Then the officer handed Valerie Mueller a $120 citation for having her dog, Sprite, outside without a leash." (06/20/03)
[From http://startribune.com/stories/1451/3947380.html quoted by Rational Review]
Was the police officer a member of the religious right thinking that Valerie Mueller had a sexual relationship with her cocker spaniel? :-)
As we all know from that blood spilling Old Testament, death penalty is required for being out of the norm, thus obliging that Old Testament God. Poor God, sorry, dog!
C.B.
[June 23, 2003]
The world can and should rejoice!
The United States of America yesterday finally entered the age of modern civilization (if I forget about capital punishment for a minute). It was about time. The Europeans (for instance the French in 1810) did that a long time ago. Of the famous slogan
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
the first half "Make Love" has now become reality. The second half "Not War" is still in the making. So the Americans will be limping for a while, but we will be glad to offer them some crutches, won't we? :-) My congratulations go to the Texan Longhorns (by all means take this as double entendre!), a special hello to Lubbock, and, of the other States concerned, to Kansas and Missouri! Read all about this Supreme Court decision in the "Austin American-Statesman".
[June 27, 2003]
The Texas Taliban . . .
"And so we bid farewell to the Texas Taliban as they ride into the legal sunset. The Supreme Court has finally put an end to a long line of theocrats and theojudges who told consenting adults what they could do to whom and with which body parts."
Isn't this just darling? And the formulation is by a woman. Men are so often cowardly (or simply dumbly) un-outspoken . . .
You can read the whole article here: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/180/oped/Playing_catch_up_on_gay_sex _ban+.shtml
[July 1, 2003]
For my fundamentalist (yeah, just like the Wahhabis) Christian readers who had triggered the creation of this section the following, found on the website of Madd Maxx:
I've found this on a few web sites and thought it might interest you - it is the final verse of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe.
"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free!
While God is marching on."
(emphasis added)
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free!
While God is marching on."
(emphasis added)
Does your church's hymnal contain this verse?
CB: So far for Madd Maxx for the time being. The above poem was first published in The Atlantic Monthly, February 1862, Volume 9, No. 52, page 10.
[July 2, 2003]
"Bush's favorite Supreme Court Justice"
"Picture yourselves ten years from now with a majority of Scalias on the bench."
"Bush's adoration of the man who wrote one of the most despicable and hate-filled dissents in the history of jurisprudence should be among the top reasons to do everything in your power to defeat George Bush in 2004."
Read The Scalia Dissent in Lawrence v. Texas: Hateful Diatribe from the Morals Police by Elaine Cassel
[4th of July, 2003]
Another good reason to call this section Gay I discovered today (2 December 2003), and this beats it all: Boy punished for talking about gay mom. How utterly insensitive, how Procrustean those statist "pedagogues", that do not deserve the name, can be, in their arrogance to mold young individuals into their collectivist frame. That teacher and that principal were lucky not to have to do with me and my strong reaction, as a kid a few years older, when someone had insulted my mother! Only recently, as my readers may know, I had reacted to such a deep insult in a way that got me into a long lasting detestable lawsuit that I won at all levels, but which for more than a year ruined my finances, my health and had a detrimental effect on my websites. Now I can only shake my head and deplore that America is so often such a terribly backward country imposing so much harm on the souls and bodies of its citizens. Liberty is just in the window, not in the shop. Or only a statue... Dear Lesbian mother(s), opt for homeschooling!!!
PS: Yes, I know that these basic problems are universal, and that the enemies of liberty, with their power of office and money, the latter commanding ever improving technology, and their billions of branch offices in the heads of the people unfortunately, are very active everywhere in the present worldwide Restoration period of things a few years ago we had hoped to be definitely vanquished. Nevertheless, I cannot imagine that around here where I live and in most parts of Europe, such a thing could happen these days. Tolerance seems to have become more mainstream here.
PS 2 (12 December 2003): Here is an article that describes rather well and in more detail what actually happened: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?news_id=29023
[December 2, 2003/December 12, 2003]
More recent comments than the above, starting with August 2003 (with the single exception of the above one of December), are now to be found continuously and only in my weblog "merrygayhorny" on the home page of this section.
PS: Yes, I know that these basic problems are universal, and that the enemies of liberty, with their power of office and money, the latter commanding ever improving technology, and their billions of branch offices in the heads of the people unfortunately, are very active everywhere in the present worldwide Restoration period of things a few years ago we had hoped to be definitely vanquished. Nevertheless, I cannot imagine that around here where I live and in most parts of Europe, such a thing could happen these days. Tolerance seems to have become more mainstream here.
PS 2 (12 December 2003): Here is an article that describes rather well and in more detail what actually happened: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?news_id=29023
[December 2, 2003/December 12, 2003]
More recent comments than the above, starting with August 2003 (with the single exception of the above one of December), are now to be found continuously and only in my weblog "merrygayhorny" on the home page of this section.
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