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🏳️🌈 Do You Kiss Your Mother’s Guns With That Mouth?
To quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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🏳️🌈 Illuminating Pride
Our spirit is incandescent.
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🏳️🌈 The First Pride Was a Riot. And Don’t Forget It.
Denying the reality of Stonewall repudiates our hurt, anger, and power.
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🏳️🌈 More Musical Numbers
Yesterday, I introduced my Song Gayness Rating System, which is probably bunk but was fun to create. Now let’s look at the scores for some well-known songs: SongScoreNotes“Born This Way” by Lady Gaga136.5Well, duh.“I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor123.5If you’ve…
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🏳️🌈 Summing Up Gay Music
It’s time to hoist the rainbow flags! Today is the beginning of Pride Month, the most fabulous 30 days of the year. I’m kicking off this year’s Gayskool series with two playlists to get you in the mood for Pride.…
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Traveling Violation
I *usually* give awesome travel advice. But, every once in a while, I’m an insufferable, overly critical schmuck. Sorry. I’m working on it.
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The More Things Change, The More I Write The Same
I went back in time 20 years and found something I could have written 20 minutes ago. (I’m talking about figurative time travel. My flux capacitor is in the shop.)
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Sedona Rocks!
Sedona is spectacular at sunrise, sunset, and pretty much every moment in between. I could have done without the bumpy roads and cold weather, but I loved the pink Jeep and red velvet donuts.
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Into the Vortex
I had an extraordinary, unforgettable time in one of Sedona’s legendary energy vortices. But was it a mystical experience?
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Strike a Prose
Alexandra Jacobs’ new biography looks at how Madonna changed everything. Here’s how Madonna changed me.
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DNF (Did Not Finish) and DNF (Did Not Fail)
Praise yourself for getting to the start line. Don’t chastise yourself for not getting to the finish line.
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A Chickenshit Proposal [Update: Not Gonna Happen]
10 p.m. update: People came out in force to decry the proposal. It looks like it’s not going anywhere. I’m delighted that someone discussed the impact shutting down Ybor would have on the LGBTQ community. Today, the Tampa City Council…