Afternoon Drive: Romeo

I may not be in love, but let me tell ya, I'm in heat . . . .



A hit for Dolly a few years back.  Y'all have a good one, see you down the road.

Lt. Dan Choi Arrested at White House Protest

Catch the video posts at Joe.My.God.

Also:  GetEQUAL activists have staged a sit-in at House Speaker Pelosi's offices in Washington and San Francisco, saying they will not leave till ENDA is passed.  Story and videos at Towleroad.

Waitin' for the Weekend

Spring Fever

This week, I just don't feel like writing much.  The Bradford pear trees are all bloomed out in snowy glory, and the redbud trees are just about to pop.  Texas is awash in golden sunshine, and spring is quivering to be born any minute now.  It's a time of hushed expectation, a pause before joy:  listening for the horn of jubilee.

A languor has sunk into my bones.  All the usual news of the world's folly seems utterly irrelevant in view of nature's advent.  Let the mad pageant of the world roll on by; in spring, even an old man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and lust.  And who can blame me, when all around the birds and bees, fish and fowl, trees and plants are trembling with the resurgence of life, the vital Yes of creation?

Or to put it more simply:  this week, I'd rather dream than write.  And here's something worth dreaming about on a lovely afternoon in almost-spring, don't you think?

The Trans Thing

Joe.My.God. has posted this anti-trans video by MassResistance, a hate group in Massachusetts:



Which seems to fall awfully far short of its target to me.  First of all because, despite the scare captions throughout the video, it's obvious there is no mass panic in the restrooms of the hotel, nobody screaming or running for their lives, and even the cleaning lady is going about her routine in a perfunctory way as if it was all just business as usual.

Second, looks like a very mild party to me.  I would say dull even, but maybe it's one of those things you just had to be there.

By way of contrast, here's a very nice informative video by GLAD that ought to put any sensible person's mind at rest:

 

Now I will say I think the whole restroom thing needs to be thought out and discussed a little further.  I can't imagine guys who wear dresses are going to the ladies' room to rape anybody; but still, we all need as a society to reach a comfort level about this issue.  And problem is, people just don't know enough about trans people to feel comfortable with the whole thing yet.  We need more educational videos like the GLAD one.

Way too many people still don't understand the whole gay thing, let alone the trans thing, ya know.  And I have to say, it pisses me and lots of other gay guys off big time that people are still thinking, even at this late date, that all gay men love to wear dresses and makeup and big hair and bling.

Now I don't know what all you big city boys are doing, maybe you're all out in drag every weekend, but just for the record let me be clear on this point:  I do not want to wear a fucking dress.  Ever.

And wouldn't I look ridiculous if I did?

Living True: The Tour

Life does go on, even when your church and all your "Christian" friends turn their backs on you and consign you straight to hell.  Your Head Trucker can relate to that statement, and I'm sure many of my readers can too. 

As Joe.My.God. reports, gay ex-evangelical entertainers Ray Boltz and Azariah Southworth are teaming up for a nationwide tour later this spring.  Both were shunned and condemned by the Christian-music world when they (separately) came out in 2008.

Bonus:  I wasn't listening to that kind of music back then, but here's a pic of Ray Boltz at the height of his career back in the early 90's:

Woof.

Five Rules for a Happy Gay Life

1. It's important to have a man who helps at home, who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.

2. It's important to have a man who can make you laugh.

3. It's important to have a man who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you.

4. It's important to have a man who is good in bed and who likes to be with you.

5. It's very, very, very important that these four men do not know each other.


. . . found on the Internet.

Sunshine on My Shoulders

Actually, that's the one John Denver song I positively hate:  so repetitive and cloying.  But we did have brilliant sunshine here in Texas all weekend, which helped my feelings a lot.  Hope you boys are having good weather too.

Lovelight: I Like the Way You Move

Love ain't all hearts and flowers.  Sometimes it's heat and motion too.



Goodnight guys, and sweet dreams.

A Sunday Kind of Love

The great Etta James sings one of my favorites.



Can you relate?

Sunday Drive: Made in God's Image

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has written an editorial for the Washington Post, condemning the wave of anti-gay legislation and violence in Africa.  An excerpt:

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity -- or because of their sexual orientation. Nor should anyone be excluded from health care on any of these grounds. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. We knew this was wrong. Thankfully, the world supported us in our struggle for freedom and dignity.

It is time to stand up against another wrong. . . .

That this pandering to intolerance is being done by politicians looking for scapegoats for their failures is not surprising. But it is a great wrong. An even larger offense is that it is being done in the name of God. Show me where Christ said "Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones." Gay people, too, are made in my God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.

"But they are sinners," I can hear the preachers and politicians say. "They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished." My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. No one chooses to be gay. Sexual orientation, like skin color, is another feature of our diversity as a human family. Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? Does God love his dark- or his light-skinned children less? The brave more than the timid? And does any of us know the mind of God so well that we can decide for him who is included, and who is excluded, from the circle of his love?

The wave of hate must stop. Politicians who profit from exploiting this hate, from fanning it, must not be tempted by this easy way to profit from fear and misunderstanding. And my fellow clerics, of all faiths, must stand up for the principles of universal dignity and fellowship. Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.