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It's getting harder and harder to tell
Barack Obama from Bill Clinton.
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Michael Bronski's recent Guide
article (Stonewall was a riot, June
2009), a tribute to the Gay Liberation
Front, is greatly appreciated by
those of us who were involved back then.
However, Bronski injects
unnecessary pessimism by lamenting the
way the movement has evolved.
The current movement is much more than
the black-tie parties of the
Human Rights Campaign, which I have
never attended and have no desire
to attend.
I agree 100 percent that outside
activists need to be informed before
acting (Say no to the boycott, June 2009).
Having already written
extensively about the Jamaica boycott and
its problems, I agree that
the Jamaica boycott organizers did not do
their homework and were not
well informed.
I picked up a copy of the Guide at a
bar in New York City this week
because I have an upcoming trip to
Amsterdam. I was impressed. Okay, I
was very impressed by the look and feel
and the overall moderation of
the magazine. I will definitely pick up
the magazine when I am out and
about, and will pass it along to my
friends, who are all big travelers.
Look back in anger. The first national
march in 1979 had a defiant
tone, coming as it did in the wake of the
Harvey Milk slaying and
efforts by Anita Bryant and others to
strip gays of their civil rights.
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More than twice as many police as
participants
showed up at the annual gay pride march in
Bucharest, Romania. Gay
leaders said this wasn't necessarily a bad
thing.
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Leaders of all the major gay
organizations expressed outrage
last month when the Obama administration
fought against the repeal of
the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act using
the same arguments advanced
by the George W Bush administration.
Gays will no longer be allowed to serve as
police officers in Peru,
government officials announced last
month.
Uruguay will no longer bar gays from
the military, according to the
country's president.
The new law, signed by President
Tabaro Vazquez and Defense
Minister Jose Bayardi, says sexual
orientation will no longer be
considered a reason to bar someone from
joining the armed forces.
As Zimbabwe drafts a new constitution, the
country's civil rights
activists are insisting that it include
protections for gays.
The country's largest gay
organization, Gays and Lesbians
Association of Zimbabwe, made their
demands public in a letter printed
in the Zimbabwe Times.
Singapore residents might have thought
they were seeing spots. It was
one spot, actually, and it was a
particularly vivid shade of pink.
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Are these up-and-coming gay destinations
really hip, or is it all just
hype?
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A couple of promoters have made sure
that you won't want to go to bed
in the city that doesn't sleep
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Comedian Casey Ley says nothing is
off-limits in his stand-up routine
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One of the country's largest publishers of
sexually oriented magazines
is turning a page -- or rather, closing a
chapter -- in gay
history as it ceases publication of many
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Facebook has only enabled a habit I've
had for many years. I stay in
touch. People from my past -- ex-
partners, ex-partners and a fleet of
tricks-turned-friends -- inhabit my
current life. Some hover around the
edges, others participate on a daily
basis. They have become pals and
confidantes due to the elastic nature of
relationships in the gay male
community. While lesbians are better
known for keeping lovers close and
ex-lovers closer, gay men certainly come
in second.
You've just arrived for your vacation in
some monument-filled world
capital or palm-shaded tropical resort.
Before heading out on your
first day's itinerary, a burning
sensation while you pee fills you with
a familiar dread. Suddenly you remember
your Adam4Adam trick of a few
days earlier and let out a sigh of
regret. What do you do?
The economy has hit the travel industry
hard -- people are less likely
to hop on a flight to Vegas when they're
worried about their 401(k).
Well, at least most people.
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"Hello?" My voice echoed bluntly
through the downstairs of an obscure
house in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Dirty dishes were piled
everywhere, laundry was thrown helter-
skelter, and books teetered in
crooked stacks. Flies buzzed above it all.
Hot under the collar. JC Leyendecker's
Arrow collar advertisements
often seemed more than a bit
homoerotic.
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Treasures of Gay Art (All Saints Press,
$69.95) is an extraordinary
collection celebrating the history of
gay male art. Edited by Peter
Weiermair, it includes everything from
classic male physique
photography to overtly sexual images.
The breadth of the collection
from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art
Foundation is impressive. You'll
recognize the names of familiar artists,
but there are also plenty of
new delights from lesser-known and up-
and-coming contributors. And it
is sad to reflect that we have lost so
many of the great artists in
this volume. What's important is that
archivists like Charles Leslie
and Fritz Lohman have created a
historical document and a thing of
great beauty. This is a title any
serious collector should have on the
shelf.
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This patch of green in the middle of
San Francisco doesn't feel like a
traditional memorial. But Pink Triangle
Park, at the intersection of
17th and Castro Streets, is a place of
"remembrance, reflection and
education" about the gays killed by the
Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Lester is on vacation but check out the archived columns here.
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