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Category Archives: Queer

Oh, Amazon product recommendations, you amuse me so.

05-May-10

The only possible connection I can see between these two items is that the author of the book on estrangement – the one I ordered1 – is, indeed, a lesbian, although her text (while it is inclusive of persons of varied backgrounds, including those of differing sexual orientations) has nothing to do with lesbianism per [...]

Another Olympia queer history fragment, this time from the bottom of a box of files

07-Apr-09

[the last one having been discovered in my underwear drawer, at which time I was delighted persons still in Olympia shared my delight.] This flier: …was from the first meetings of Queer Nation in Olympia, hosted by my roommate Tod Streater (RIP). With him, I attended said meetings – along with the first local meetings [...]

Because Googling lyrics is cheaper than therapy

21-Feb-09

Some time ago, I tweeted, “I really need to find a way to sort out which of the voices in my head I should be listening to, and which I should ignore.” Lest anyone imagine I was joking, I present the following, composed, yes, entirely on my blackberry this morning (with a few edits/link and [...]

Olympia’s queer history, as rediscovered in my underwear drawer

09-Jul-08

Found in the farthest corner my underwear drawer, amid the ruins of the recently excavated bedroom (as we’ve been in the process of moving to the more-spacious rental next door): my shirt from Olympia, Washington’s first ever Queer Pride march (of which I was a primary organizer) in 1991. We put the damn thing together [...]

Variations on a theme of independence

05-Jul-08

Yesterday, the ever snarkful (& smart, so, what – can I now invent ‘smarkful’ in addition to ‘snarkful,’ also not an actual word?) Simon Goetz offered the following, um, pearl of wisdom with regard to incipient Fourth of July celebrations: Guys are prematurely shooting their colorful loads of Freedom all over the sky’s face. It’s [...]