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Category Archives: Queer

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 scary [...]