There was no commotion on the BART on the way home the day of the verdict for my daughter and me, despite the marginally disappointing verdict. I still think it was historic that a white “officer” (I don’t understand why BART police need guns in the first place) was charged with at least involuntary manslaughter for killing a black (unarmed, no less) man who had never been in any serious trouble with the law. I still think the idea of him thinking he was reaching for a taser, which does not have a holster lock nor a safety log or a finger trigger, have nothing to do with what prompted him to shoot the obviously struggling young man who was on the ground with another cop’s knee into him. It was something that I do believe his lawyer had suggested several days later that they issue to the press to excuse the homicide. I think it was tantamount to gay panic by this rookie white security guard having “black panic” when there really was no reasonable cause for belief that Oscar Grant was armed.
Category Archives: Activism
That Rekers (like oxidized hypocrisy)!
I’m so reveling in the PERFECT HYPOCRITE squirming like a maggot: “Rentboy.com Rekers” testified against gay parents because of neurotic suppression of his own gayness! Wake up people!
I can’t find anything online yet re Rekers’ wife; was she at home during this ten day trip to Europe with rentboy? What about all of his other “assisted” vacations? UPDATE: So now it is clear what Rekers was trying to protect in part: he has a wife and sons (presumably grown) and he has finally admitted to some weaknesses and getting spiritual help that he needs, even though he’s clinging on to the claim that he was able to “counsel” his rentboy on being saved (presumably while he was enjoying the mandated naked massages that he insisted on paying for daily).
The lawyer in me cannot fathom how Rekers could be SO DUMB as to put his “contract” expecting intimacy in writing! I believe they showed the document, with Rekers’ real name no less, in the CNN interview video with the waif, who was probably the one who provided it to them. I guess Rekers needed it in writing because was concerned he wouldn’t get his $75 worth every single day of his trip! I do not believe it required a happy ending!
At least SOME of the fortune Florida paid Rekers for his bigotry&self-loathing streams back to the community through his string of rented twinks, right?
Running for the Border
I hope I have enough documentation to cross the border into the Draconian state of Arizona for the first time in my life next week.
As a 15/16ths Caucasian-American, if I get arrested for looking too ethnic in AZ, can I pay my fine in Sue Lowden chickens, or do I go right to directly to jail without passing go?
Why heterosexuals should be allowed to marry…
Now both single after 8 divorces each, Larry King & Dame Elizabeth Taylor getting married would yield a theoretical 17th wedding ceremony between them.
Ann Coulter really needs attention…
Something tells me she’s been a rabble-rouser since preschool. I’m not even going to dignify her by restating her obvious attempts to garner attention here, but suffice to say that she is playing the victim game. This woman seriously needs to get laid, and according to her strict moral values she must, of course, be a virgin, because she has never been married.
RIP Gene Baugh
You were my friend with whom I had so much in common for so many years. You were a rock. I can’t believe this.
Just got terrible news about losing one of my closest gaydad friends in the world, Gene Baugh, in Columbus, who raised his five kids. I read his autobiography, although I don’t think it was ever published. He was a huge fan of the Spanish language and had spent time in Spain in his youth. I flew to Columbus to be in his marriage to a man in 1998, and he and I also spent time together at various gay parenting conventions around the country. We originally met in 1996 in Minneapolis and stayed in touch quite regularly the whole time, sharing the drama of our kids and our lives before and after coming out. He was only 56, and a big bear of a man (also very tall).
His daughter, Ruth, who lives on the West Coast now, as I do, went with my daughter and me to our first Provincetown Family Week. Ruth and I recently got back in touch with each other and today she emailed me with the news that he had been taken off life support as he had requested be done if he should ever be in this state. He had a stroke on Friday.
Palin doesn’t bury herself fast enough….(so I’ll help her out a bit)
Alaska must be such a small state! Sarah sees Russia from her backyard AND apparently also Canada, where she now admits using their “inferior” medical system regularly. What a socialist traitor, right?
Marie Osmond’s son
So Marie Osmond’s son who recently killed himself similarly to my cousin (jumping from balcony) was gay and Mormon? I have always liked Marie, but bigoted communities yield high suicide rates. Roseanne Barr made a controversial blog about the subject, but I’m afraid I have to agree with her.
Daughter said she realized her father was a “genius”
Yesterday when she learned in environmental science that tap water is cleaner than bottled, and that was something that I had advised her of a long time ago. Moreover, bottled water I learned can seep plastic into the water when left in a hot car trunk, for example, over time.
Liz Cheney announced she is against DADT *after* she emcee’s the conservative conference!
I’m sure the check was deposited before she released the statement today.
It’s no surprise that she would support her lesbian sister and concur with her father, but somehow this hypocrite whose family still profits off of the wars in the Middle East, still holds herself out as some kind of new age Repub.