Blast From the Past

OMG. Remember this!!! Ok - so most of you probably won't but if you were like 12 years old or so in 1989 you probably do.

"Just So You Know, Marjorie"

I have never been much of a "Designing Women" watcher...now the "Golden Girls" is another story. I own every season on DVD. Last week Dan and I were JR's and it was showtunes night so they play all the musical songs, disney songs, etc...but interspersed between the gay old songs they play various clips from TV shows, skits from SNL, and stuff like that. Well this little gem came on Dan shocked me by reciting the entire thing word for word (along with 50 other homos). My jaw dropped. I had never seen this episode but the scene is soooo great!

Go Ahead Britney, Let the Crazy Out

Couldn't Agree More

Harvey Fierstein sounded off brilliantly in the New York Times against the latest in the series of racist and homophobic tirades made by public figures. Read here for yourself...

"Our Prejudices, Ourselves"

AMERICA is watching Don Imus's self-immolation in a state of shock and awe. And I'm watching America with wry amusement.

Since I'm a second-class citizen -- a gay man -- my seats for the ballgame of American discourse are way back in the bleachers. I don't have to wait long for a shock jock or stand-up comedian to slip up with hateful epithets aimed at me and mine. Hate speak against homosexuals is as commonplace as spam. It's daily traffic for those who profess themselves to be regular Joes, men of God, public servants who live off my tax dollars, as well as any number of celebrities.

In fact, I get a good chuckle whenever someone refers to "the media" as an agent of "the gay agenda." There are entire channels, like Spike TV, that couldn't fill an hour of programming if required to remove their sexist and homophobic content. We've got a president and a large part of Congress willing to change the Constitution so they can deprive of us our rights because they feel we are not "normal."

So I'm used to catching foul balls up here in the cheap seats. What I am really enjoying is watching the rest of you act as if you had no idea that prejudice was alive and well in your hearts and minds.

For the past two decades political correctness has been derided as a surrender to thin-skinned, humorless, uptight oversensitive sissies. Well, you anti-politically correct people have won the battle, and we're all now feasting on the spoils of your victory. During the last few months alone we've had a few comedians spout racism, a basketball coach put forth anti-Semitism and several high-profile spoutings of anti-gay epithets.

What surprises me, I guess, is how choosy the anti-P.C. crowd is about which hate speech it will not tolerate. Sure, there were voices of protest when the TV actor Isaiah Washington called a gay colleague a "faggot." But corporate America didn't pull its advertising from "Grey's Anatomy," as it did with Mr. Imus, did it? And when Ann Coulter likewise tagged a presidential candidate last month, she paid no real price.

In fact, when Bill Maher discussed Ms. Coulter's remarks on his HBO show, he repeated the slur no fewer than four times himself; each mention, I must note, solicited a laugh from his audience. No one called for any sort of apology from him. (Well, actually, I did, so the following week he only used it once.)

Face it, if a Pentagon general, his salary paid with my tax dollars, can label homosexual acts as "immoral" without a call for his dismissal, who are the moral high and mighty kidding?

Our nation, historically bursting with generosity toward strangers, remains remarkably unkind toward its own. Just under our gleaming patina of inclusiveness, we harbor corroding guts. America, I tell you that it doesn't matter how many times you brush your teeth. If your insides are rotting your breath will stink. So, how do you people choose which hate to embrace, which to forgive with a wink and a week in rehab, and which to protest? Where's my copy of that rule book?

Let me cite a non-volatile example of how prejudice can cohabit unchecked with good intentions. I am a huge fan of David Letterman's. I watch the opening of his show a couple of times a week and have done so for decades. Without fail, in his opening monologue or skit Mr. Letterman makes a joke about someone being fat. I kid you not. Will that destroy our nation? Should he be fired or lose his sponsors? Obviously not.

But I think that there is something deeper going on at the Letterman studio than coincidence. And, as I've said, I cite this example simply to illustrate that all kinds of prejudice exist in the human heart. Some are harmless. Some not so harmless. But we need to understand who we are if we wish to change. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should confess to not only being a gay American, but also a fat one. Yes, I'm a double winner.)

I urge you to look around, or better yet, listen around and become aware of the prejudice in everyday life. We are so surrounded by expressions of intolerance that I am in shock and awe that anyone noticed all these recent high-profile instances. Still, I'm gladdened because our no longer being deaf to them may signal their eventual eradication.

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

Happy Peepster

So The Washington Post hosted their first ever Peeps Diorama Contest. With over 350 entries here are a few of the finalist. So much fun!! I wish I could see all of them...according to the article (www.washingtonpost.com/source) a bunch of people submitted Britney's melt-down as told thru peeps...was hoping for one of those pics.

Happy Easter - Enjoy!!!

Scotty Kangaroojus

My friend Josie sent me this clip from The Showbiz Show with David Spade (which I've caught a few episodes and is GREAT.

This clip is the best.

Hot Piece of Sex - Dan and Simba

Dan and his cancer kitty Simba....AWWW

Elle Woods Has Landed

So, I've been here for a few days and I'm totally thinking of you all(meaning my NYC crew)but completely trying to assimilate to the DC culture of talking about Afganistan, Tajikistan, Uzebekistan, Jennifer Anustain, Stan from South Park, and any other "stan" circulating in the world lately. Does that make sense? Don't care...it makes sense to me.(pay no attention to the bad spelling behind the curtain - I don't give a whore)

Loving the living with the bf situation. Easier than I thought - given it's been 4 days. LOL. Dan got out of work early today and we headed to the Cherry Blossom festival and the Jefferson Memorial. But it's been nothing but fagital bliss so far.... :)