The Sun Is Shining For The First Time In Forever; We're Gay! Fagz Club Spring 2010

i don't know about this

I learned about Stonewall on my own; not once was it mentioned in college courses.

I did too but only from my super-liberal unitarian friend who knew bout all that stuff and wd constantly be all YOU'RE GAY, HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THESE THINGS??

WARNING SELF-PROMOTION ALERT: get your gay history fix here!

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificalgbt/pacificalgbt2.html

even the queer theory stuff I read is mostly about the intersections of race & sexuality, and for all sorts of unfortunate reasons this tends to be very seperated from white gay history

I mean, I'VE known about Stonewall since I was a teen. But its somewhere below the Teapot Dome scandal in most US history classes, mo doubt.

No doubt.

lol two weeks ago i accidentally referred to stonewall as 'stonehenge' in a class presentation and no one said anything

mo doubt, mo problems

where did the Teapot Dome riots take place?

i mean, stuff was always mentioned peripherally in classes...in my public middle school, i remember it being mentioned by name but not really talked about.

and this ain't bragging, it's more just my own life story, but i think that some of my shock comes from the fact that i was so immersed in this history from the time i was young, being a 12-year-old punk kid who was lucky enough to grow up being friends with people like the guyz from Limpwrist, as well as literary types who gave me Ginsberg and Frank O'Hara books and whatnot. i don't judge people who don't know about this history, but i definitely find it a little sad and weird that it isn't more well-known. that said, i'm sure that 'Milk' did raise the profile of the early gay-rights movement for a lot of people, for better or for worse. (i only add that caveat b/c that film is just eh, and b/c of other issues that surrounded my own viewing of it that i've talked about before).

anyway, i need to finish writing this article on Azari & III:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfNvPqKRJ0

Just showed a screener of the Stonewall doc to a gay who didn't know anything about them.

Does this work better than pinot grigio and Teddy Pendergrass?

Oh yeah, and his boyfriend was there too.

So I just graduated college, and then got fired from my job about 20 minutes after (they actually called me DURING THE CEREMONY to tell me)

very yin and yang. Was it something you didn't want to be fired from?

Yes. Oh yes. It was the one thing I was depending on after college to pay rent and save a few $$$s up to move to another city (where I could transfer locations). It's difficult to explain how enormously this has fucked me over.

Shit, I'm really, really sorry Stevie.

bah it's ok. I'm sure that something nicer will come out of it and it's one of those "blessings in disguise" things. But in the mean time I'm just like, oh my god, for real? It was the dumbest thing, too; it basically amounted to me giving someone too much of a free sample (which we're allowed to/encouraged to do)

I work[ed] at Wh0le F00dz by the by. R.I.P $12/hr wages and a 20% discount and some of the coolest raddest co-workers of all time :/

aw man, that sucks. sorry dude :/

if it's any consolation, yr grace jones picture is hanging on my wall (or is trying to, the tape i'm using to secure it isn't strong enough and i keep waking up with grace's face in my lap (ahem))

sorry Steve, but go sniff out some more money, pronto

i'm sorry too. may love be with you.

Oh I'm already working on my resume and hope to be sending it out to places by the end of the day. On the bright side I get to sort of relax a bit after graduation! So this is sort of somewhat nice on some level.

shit, that sucks. good luck finding something.

and if it makes you feel any better, i've almost given up on finding a job of any sort. thinking of setting up my typewriter outside of ritzy places and being one of those d-bags who writes poems for money. or doing medical studies.

There's always hooking. (Jokes aside, that does suck, and get that resume up to date immediately!)

On a happier note I've decided I'm going to make a tomato pie and maybe invite some crust punks over and listen to Rites of Spring and dissect capitalism.

there's a dude in nyc who does that 'writes poems for money' thing, he sets up a table inside various subway stations and advertises as a "new york times published poet". he looks increasingly haggard every time i see him

i just sent a job app in, hoping against hope i get this one

u are smart, devoted and worthy, just fyi

i am supposed to meet up with a member of gravy train!!! for a date right now, but he ain't txtin me back, the bitch. :(

eh, whatever. i'm off work, drink time.

that subway poet has been around at least 20 years.

I was home today w/ a chest cold, sucks. No Vaginal Davis tonight.

man, everyone's sick. and i have to report for jury duty at 8:30am. (almost wrote 'judy duty'. i wish.)

showbiz aspiarants, lose your Gay Voice!

http://gawker.com/5542923/want-to-get-rid-of-your-gay-accent-theres-an-app-for-that

(Commenters otm on Vincent Price and Snagglepuss.)

spent 3 nights in LA, 2 in Santa Barbara, 1 in Oakland and 5 in SF starting tonight. loving it.

too late for this now but LA gay bars = all about gold coast imo

rev, u read this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Disidentifications-Performance-Politics-Cultural-Americas/dp/0816630151

no, but it looks v interesting and thank u for pointing me to it!

hi

hi surm! ^_^

:D u seem in good spirits today reverend

He's done himself proud on a couple of the music threads.

too late for this now but LA gay bars = all about gold coast imo

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Sunday, 23 May 2010 06:52 (Yesterday) Permalink

ha, love that place.

so NYC gays: I'm going to be in town on June 6th through the 9th. I'd love to finally meet y'all. Can we plan something?

these guys are bad planners (youth, texting), but we can try. Bring yr phone charger this time.

and happy birthday, KJB!!!

I may go to LA next summer; what's this Gold Coast like?

hey all.

wild weekend, sort of. uh, been trying to hang with elmo, but have been too distracted or not into his planz? i am really bad at going to gay bars, at this point. maybe tonight? who knows. i sort of want to take him to Aunt Charlies tomorrow night, but i don't if he'll be up for it since he leaves the next day?

in other news, i believe i might have gotten a job. i try-out on thursday at this bourgeois coffee place in berkeley. kind of just excited about the prospects of having a job and some money in the pocket.

spent the weekend visiting my parents in ottawa, and awkwardly bumped into/hung out with half the guys from montreal i've ever been into and their new boyfriends (more or less). surprisingly enjoyable weekend anyhow.

LCD are playing tonight, so that should be good. otherwise life here is muggy and uneventful.

California sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.

California is too much fun. the key to surviving is naps.

i never go to gay bars now, but i have, like, no money and i have, like, no gay friends in town and going by myself isn't as fun

the really annoying thing is that every seemingly gay dude that i meet in the course of normal life that i am remotely attracted to turns out to be not a gay dude at all :(

aunt charlie's is not too far from my hotel, table, if that makes thing easier? we made dinner plans with a few friends on separate before realizing they all live in the castro --