Pelosi & ENDA:
SF Pride's Call to Action

A chat took place yesterday between leaders of the SF Pride org, Amy Andre and Mikayla Connell, and three activists who were at last Thursday's town hall meeting, Patrick Connors, Stephen Zollman and myself.

The five of us sat in the lobby, behind the staircase, of the gay community center. We were very transparent in respect to everyone passing through the lobby saw our meeting as they walked by, and the lack of doors pleased my sunshine heart.

After we explained our fierce opposition to giving Nancy Pelosi a free ride at Pride, because of her betrayal to our community regarding a vote this year on ENDA, Mikayla and Amy consented to have remarks made before or after Pelosi's taped address.

Since she will introduce Pelosi's address, as president of the Pride board, Mikayla has the honor of delivering a message to the Speaker of the House and all members of Congress, calling for action on ENDA.

We are drafting a bullet point about Pelosi's recent broken promise of a House vote on ENDA this year, and pent up community frustration over the lack of movement on the bill. Another bullet point will call for immediate, measurable and regular public engagement by Pelosi's district staff with the local community, on ENDA, and all the other issues of importance to us.

Amy said that in their thank you note to Pelosi, they would put it writing, at our suggestion, recommending that Pelosi's openly gay district office manager, Dan Bernal, either organize or actively participate in community forums.

She also commented that such advocacy from the Pride folks may not be enough to accomplish the goal we want: Pelosi's top aid in SF finally starting a public discussion with the community, and ENDA pushed by the Speaker. Amy has a point.

And it will take lots of voices to bring about something I believe Harvey Milk would be screaming about, if he were alive today. We have a shameful dearth of regular town hall engagement by every one of our elected friends, gay pols and Gay Inc orgs and executive directors.

From Pelosi to Mark Leno, Tom Ammiano, Bevan Dufty, David Campos, from the political world, to Matt Foreman, Geoff Kors, Kate Kendell, Roger Doughty, Toni Broaddus, and others in the non-profit, professional homosexual realm, we have a collection of vampires. They fear the sunshine and collective force of community forums and engagements.

But there a shining example of how to do better organizing with non-profits, and I want to give it the attention it deserves. The SF Pride folks told us about their open board meetings. That's not a typo. Open board meetings. Held by a gay org. In San Francisco. I will follow up, after the madness of Pride is over, with the organizers about their monthly meetings that anyone can attend.

I look forward to SF Pride making a strong call to action involving Pelosi, our community and ENDA at the Sunday rally in Civic Center Plaza.

HRC = Big Donor to IL's Mark Kirk;
$33K to GOP Closet Case

(Kirk, on the left, with an unidentified young male constituent.)

Mark Kirk is a glass closet-living Congressman from Illinois, vying for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Barack Obama.

Elected to the House in 2000, Kirk wants to step up the federal political ladder, and is facing many tough questions about his military, academic, and political resumes. Oh, and DC blogger Mike Rogers recently outed him as a homosexual.

I wasn't surprised to learn that the Human Rights Campaign, according to public records available at OpenSecrets.org, has been among the top 100 donors to Kirk's campaigns.

Kirk took in $10,000 for his 2002 race, placing HRC at number 5 on that year's list of biggest donors. During 2004's election, he received $5,000 from them, landing the org at number 40.

In the 2006 cycle, the org donated $6,025 to Kirk, and earned the 76th spot on the list. For 2008, the HRC contribution was for $10,000, and the org took the 46th ranking. And so far in 2010, the org has given nothing.

Sub-total of HRC checks to Kirk's House races comes to $31,025.

Cruising over to the Federal Election Commission web site, public records show that that HRC gave Kirk $2,000 in 2009 for his Senate race.

Total amount Kirk has taken in from our largest gay political advocacy org, for House and Senate campaigns equals $33,025.

All that gay money thrown at Kirk, who enjoyed high ratings from HRC's political scorecard over the years, came to naught recently when he voted the wrong way on Don't Ask, Don't Tell and HRC has abandoned him and his Senate candidacy.

SF Pride Chat Over Pelosi Tape at Rally;
Monday, Noon at Gay Center

Amy Andre is in her sophomore year at the helm of San Francisco's gay pride parade and rally, and I've become friendly with her, from seeing her at the DeLessio's Cafe, and I'm quite appreciative that she has quickly agreed to chat about grassroots anger because Nancy Pelosi has not delivered a promised vote on ENDA.

There will be an open chat on Monday, June 21, starting at noon, for 30-40 minutes, at the gay community center on Market Street. We'll be in what was the cafe area on the first floor.

From the Pride committee will be Amy, Mikayla Connell, the chair of the board, Stephen Zollman, a gay attorney who at the town hall meeting on Thursday night, and myself. To enhance what little transparency we have in movement business in San Francisco, other folks are welcomed to join us. Just give me a heads up, please, if you plan to attend.

The issue is Pelosi's failure to bring House vote this year on ENDA, and her taped remarks on June 27 at the Pride rally in Civic Center. I am quite pissed that Pelosi is about to get a feel-good vibe from the crowd, via broadcasting on the JumbroTron, and she and the Democratic Party have broken one more promise to our community, and have yet to feel any blowback.

Here are few ideas I have shared with Amy and Mikayla, for ways to bring some criticism over the lack of ENDA movement by the Dems and Pelosi, and to reclaim some self-respect for our community:

1. Cancel the broadcast of Pelosi's remarks. If she has no vote in hand on ENDA, then no speeches at Pride.

2. Give equal time to a local grassroots community organizer to denounce the betrayal again of us by Pelosi and Congressional Democrats.

3. Schedule a minute of silence after her b.s., to mark the shame of Pelosi's ENDA failures.

4. After that silent minute, have the crowd chant: "Pass ENDA Now!"

5. SF Pride endorses town hall meetings that require the participation of Pelosi's gay aide and district manager, Dan Bernal, and Gay Inc leaders currently hiding in ivory towers built on a rainbow foundation.

There are other issues to discuss at the chat and that list is just to get the SF Pride folks to think of how to inject some much-needed anger directed at Pelosi into our rally event next weekend.

One thing I expect to learn is how this free ride for Pelosi came about. Until we have a House vote and passage of ENDA, I don't want to hear a thing from the Speaker, unless she wants to say, on the floor of the House, "My colleagues, I now proudly call for a roll call vote on ENDA."

Let's reclaim Pride for queers, and not corrupt Democratic Party leaders who keep selling us down the river. No ENDA House vote; no Pelosi speech.

Did Kors & Kendell Kill ENDA For This Year?

(Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Geoff Kors, and Michelle Ortiz of NCLR's board, on May 21. Photo by Bill Wilson.)

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, starting in 1994, has been dangled before the gay community as a federal piece of legislation that would address the gross lack of work-place protections for gay people across the nation. ENDA has been used by gay Democratic Party leaders, especially at the Human Rights Campaign, to raise millions of dollars, and the hopes of millions of gay Americans.

And in 2010 the gays were again screwed without a condom or lubrication by Democrats such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding ENDA. For a while in the spring, Gay Inc leaders assured the community our Democratic friends were gonna vote on and potentially finally pass ENDA.

Back in November, activist Kip Williams, who is now part of Gay Inc through his new well-funded org GetEQUAL, went with a few friends to Pelosi's San Francisco office and rabble-roused. Afterward, Williams shared his thoughts on Bilerico.com:

My friends and I will be heading back to Pelosi's office soon. And this time we want a plan, complete with achievable goals, benchmarks, and ways that we can help. We're not going away [...]

But I don't want to get in the trap of the laundry list. They'll throw us a bone or two, and tell us to be quiet and wait again. [...]

ENDA is much more important to me personally. I'm just saying that we've got Pelosi on the record in support of ENDA, so it doesn't make sense to pressure her about it. [...]

Since then, GetEQUAL has staged two actions at her DC and SF offices, involving activists getting arrested when they wouldn't vacate the premises. And much publicity came of the actions, along with verbal promises from Democratic Party and Gay Inc leaders that ENDA was a do-able item:

In an hour-long telephone conference call with representatives of six LGBT groups on [May 17], House Speaker Nancy Pelosi restated her promise that both ENDA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell would get votes this year.

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), said Pelosi, “in no uncertain terms, without any equivocation or evasion, stated several times that ENDA was her priority and that it would move in this Congress — and there was no question.” [...]

The day after that call, Kendell and Gay Inc leaders, including Williams and Robin McGehee of GetEQUAL, staged a well-attended butt-kissing rally on the sidewalk outside the Speaker's district office. NCLR laid out what was at stake:

We are ready. We have the support. We must have a vote on ENDA now.

If we don’t get a vote in the House very soon, we will not have time to get ENDA passed in the Senate. If this doesn’t happen now, it could be years before we have another chance to enact this most basic civil rights law. [...]

Um, notice that NCLR omitted anything about what the gay community would do if we don't get the promised ENDA vote. How about at least lashing the Dems with organic vegan wet noodles? All they say is that it will be years before we may get another time to push the bill with any hope of passage.

The same day as the rally is when Williams went into the bank to deposit a $250,000 check into GetEQUAL's account, but I don't know if there's a connection between the generous gift from gay millionaire Jonathan Lewis and GetEQUAL no longer pressuring Pelosi with direct action. However, those dollars, and other reasons such as no public meetings organized by GetEQUAL, is part of why I put the org in the Gay Inc realm.

Check out this video, at the 1:13 mark, and listen to Kendell declare her love, and on behalf of all of us too, for Pelosi and her hollow ENDA promises:



Hey, Kate, who is this "we" you're talking about? I missed the public meeting you held at NCLR where we all had a chance to vote on whether we love Pelosi on ENDA or not.

Two days following that sidewalk love-fest for Pelosi, Geoff Kors, wealthy gay Democratic Party supporter, and his Equality California org, quietly organized a fundraiser for Democratic gay politicians, that happened on the eve of Harvey Milk Day. The star attraction? None other than the Speaker herself. She was not zapped by GetEQUAL, and by all accounts, the evening was free of rude queers pushing for ENDA.

With no date set for a House vote on ENDA, the kissy-kissy relationship with Pelosi from another Gay Inc component, the San Francisco Pride Committee, continued into June. On June 2, Pride issued a release heralding an agreement with Pelosi that allows her to address the Pride festival in SF's Civic Center Plaza, via satellite.

Pride omitted ENDA and every other important gay issue we have before Congress, in their announcement. But two paragraphs were devoted to praising Pelosi:

First elected to Congress in 1987, in 2002 she became the first woman in history to lead a major party in the House. In 2007, she made history once again when she was elected as the first female Speaker of the House, making her the highest-ranking female politician in American history.

In addition to Speaker Pelosi's video address, an official letter from her "to honor San Francisco's proud history of advocacy for equal rights and to honor the contributions of the LGBT community to our city, our state, and our nation" will be distributed through SF Pride's annual Inside Pride Guide magazine [...]

Hello, Pride Committe? We aren't getting jack from Pelosi and her buddies, and you're handing her a golden opportunity on a silver platter to make a cameo appearance at the Pride event. Did I miss Pelosi breaking into a sweat for ENDA recently and somehow deserving of the Pride broadcast?

So, we have GetEQUAL breaking its promise to keep going back to Pelosi's offices, Kendell swearing undying love for her, Kors getting another photo-op, and Pride giving Pelosi time at our June 27 celebration. What did it all produce, in terms of forcing Pelosi to keep her promised ENDA vote this year?

The answer comes from a June 11 presser Pelosi held, in which a Washington Blade reporter asked about ENDA:

During her weekly press conference, Pelosi said in response to a Blade inquiry on ENDA’s prospects that lawmakers “still have to finish ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”

Referencing the successful House vote May 27 to attach repeal to Defense Department budget legislation, she said, “And now, of course, we’ll go — after the bill passes in the Senate — we’ll go to conference. But our work is not finished in that regard, so one thing at a time.” [...]

If the gays are lucky on DADT reform, and lots of other stars align in our favor after the November mid-term elections, and the Democrats and President Obama are not too worried about getting ready for the 2012 presidential election, we may/perhaps/possibly/likely/conceiveably/potentially get a vote on ENDA.

Kors and Kendell had much help in showing Pelosi there would be no serious consequences to breaking another damn promise to the gays.

If any gays want to kick Pelosi's butt over ENDA, they'll first have to push aside the tongues of leaders at NCLR, EQCA, HRC, GetEQUAL, SF Pride and lots of other Gay Inc orgs busy spit-polishing her derriere.

SF, SJ Report Back to the Community
on Town Hall Forums

Below are reports from two town hall forums that took place in California last night. One was in San Francisco and the other down in San Jose. Please give them a read.

My trusty little Canon PowerShot pooped out yesterday morning, otherwise I'd have some pics from the SF event posted here. The camera cannot be fixed, so I'm putting the plea out there, that if someone has a working digital still camera sitting around gathering dust, I could use it. If you have a camera to donate to me, lemme know.

And big thanks to all who came to both forums, those who were able to listen in via web phones, and everyone who is committed to attending San Francisco's next town hall. Nice to know there is support and interest in our efforts.

Mark your calender. July 8 is when San Jose activists meet again, while July 22 is San Francisco's next town hall. We want you there!

Here are the reports:

Minutes of 6/17/10 San Francisco Town Hall Meeting

Attendees: Patrick C, Robert C, Michael P., John B, Stephen Z., Robin M., Michelle W., Jeff T. Resha, Joe T. and at least three others via conference call.

Reason for Call for a Town Hall Meeting: Patrick...he went over the reason for his first article in SF Weekly about all the recent concern over the examination of Get Equal and the need to have this level of examination provided for all of our orgs. He also discussed his most recent article concerning the research done on the effects of marriage PR on the eventual voting patterns.

Attendees then determined the following proposed agenda for the evening:
- 20 Minutes for Q & A of Get Equal
- 20 minutes for local next steps
- 20 minutes for ways to connect on a national level

Q &A of Get Equal
Robin stated that she was willing to answer any and all questions. Questions were raised about the lack of transparency and accountability. Specifically, who their benefectors are/were and what their goals were for GE.

Robin responded that they have only one benefactor and that the money was entrusted to them based on their demonstrated work with Meet in the Middle, the National Equality March and One Struggle One Fight. There effort is for non violent civil disobedience with combined on line and off line activism. There are only five paid staff. The three goals of GE are 1) to eliminate homophobia and transphobia 2) developing creative ways to fight back 3) implementing those ways with others..

Next Steps at Local Level
Michael P. suggested we show our concern that Nancy Pelosi has not meet her promises to our community by encouraging SF Pride to not have her address us at Pride. All appeared in agreement with this and a small group was formed to discuss how we could have this happen.

Next Steps at National Level
Much discussion was had that our leaders need to be more accountable to our community. All were in agreement that we should have regular town halls and invite our leaders to attend. Special chairs would be reserved for them at each meeting. Focus would be on Kate Kendall, Geoff Kors, Matt Foreman and Dan Bernal for our next meeting.

Next Meeting: 7/22...Location TBA

Respectfully submitted...Stephen Zollman

And this report from the San Jose area meeting comes from Gloria Nieto:

Marriage Equality Silicon Valley had a community meeting on Thursday night at the DeFrank Center. The intent was to discuss the Prop 8 trial and then have dialogue about what next steps to take.

We were joined by Cleve Jones who is part of the advisory board for the American Foundation for Equal Rights who has brought the judicial challenge to Prop 8.

We talked about the court case and then what to do in the future. Cleve talked about why he is against going again in 2012 and I actually think it is a sound argument. Let's step back and let the court case go through the system. I doubt that we will have the majority opinion despite what Solomon and Kors say. He said the polling you covered the other day was a CYA poll.

It was decided that we would rent a booth at the DeAnza flea market to talk to people about marriage equality; work in the Asian and Latino community to develop support for outreach in our communities; create a flyer for San Jose Pride to distribute at the event in August; have a demonstration on the day Judge Walker announces his decision.

Planning for the demonstration will be convened on July 8.

Also we will out reach to labor about the guerrilla theater they did in SF and see if they have other songs and plans for actions; we must engage immediately with the youth group and see what they would be interested in leading.

June = 29 Months till Nov 2012;
EQCA's Kors = Disaster Again

(Geoff Kors)

[Some of the following was on my mind and up for public debate at SF town hall meeting tonight. More straightforward notes on the meeting should be ready by morning. -michael.]

Oh, it's nothing, really. Just a little fear. The kind that comes having this week seen Geoff Kors, he who ran the Prop 8 campaign, lost gay marriage in CA, spent $45 million doing it, without leaving any tangible educational footprint.

Despite not being elected in any shape or form by the community he speaks for everyday, he has remained executive director of Equality California and positioned himself as a key decider in when we go back to the ballot box over gay marriage. And he sooooo does not inspire me in the least politically, while I also cannot accept him in a leadership role in any CA ballot prop fight, not if he can't organize basic town halls.

What the hell are we supposed to do about this nebbish who can't regularly meet with the San Francisco community, because the anger is still so deep against him over Prop 8?

This is not the sort of hobbled statewide leader we need at any time, and we cannot continue any further without discussing what to do about the problem known as Geoff Kors.

The month of June marks the 29th month before the November 2012 election when CA is very likely to have a gay marriage prop before the voters. And Kors will not be holding a town hall forum this month to engage the community, nor has he any announced plans to start monthly engagements with us.

This is an exact repeat of how Kors failed us in 2008. The man is afraid to hang out with his own local community, and he's gonna lead us in battle, with the months quickly passing away?

Let the record show, that with only 29 months left until CA voters again will return to the polls to cast ballots on gay love and marriage, Kors and EQCA have no public plans to began monthly town halls.

Hell, even if by some miracle all efforts at a 2012 marriage prop disappear and no ballot prop to organize around is before us, we still have the 2012 election bearing down on us in 29 months, and San Franicsco gays have not held a single organizing meeting about it yet.

Am I the only fag fearful of this frightening situation with Kors, and does anyone really think Kors repeating his non-engagement mistakes is gonna produce different results?

This is Gay-ja vu, all over again.

Kors, Kendell, Foreman Pull Prop 8 B.S.;
Prepare to Lose 2012 CA Initiative

On Tuesday morning, key leaders of Gay Inc - Matt Foreman, Kate Kendell, Geoff Kors, Patrick Egan, and others - held a presser at SF's City Hall, and to get to it, one had to go through building security, some questioning at the City Attorney's office, in whose domain the presser was held.

It was a replay of our leaders whipping up some supposedly great new findings from their social researchers, and no town hall meeting this week in the evening at, say, our local community center, which needs meetings to be here there, desperately too.

The only focus on Tuesday for the team that lost us gay marriage in CA, and spent $45 million dollars in the process, without producing any pro-gay educational gains because their ads omitted fags and dykes, was spinning the press. Community engagement be damned.

I was at the presser and raised the matter that these leaders were dooming us to failure again, and demanded they hold more town halls and one especially on this new polling of theirs. What a brilliant idea, they exclaimed, as if they relish the idea of having to hold public forums open to all community members, including the likes of me, and the failures of Gay Inc on Prop 8 in 2008 flooded the room.

But I digress from my point, which is that Patrick Range McDonald of the LA Weekly has taken a skeptic's look at the Gay Inc presser and pointed out a few problems:

Interestingly, a press release on the EQCA and NCLR Web sites appears to pass off the study as an independent endeavor, describing the Haas fund as "a long-time supporter of extending the freedom to marry to gay and lesbian couples."

Which is certainly true and good.

But Kors and Kendell fail to mention that the Haas fund has also been a major contributor to EQCA and NCLR over the years. In 2009, gay blogger Michael Petrelis uncovered that from 2003 to 2008, "the fund contributed $1,385,000 to EQCA and $1,175,000 to NCLR, for a combined total of $2,560,000."

The motives behind the study are questionable.[...]

Armed with his study, Kors appears to be not only trying to set the agenda for the gay rights movement in California, but he's sending a message to other gay rights groups -- a pro-gay marriage ballot measure in 2012 is no sure thing. [...]

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, came up with this chestnut about the study's findings: "Clearly, the time to changes hearts, minds and votes to support equality is before a campaign starts."

That's common knowledge, no?

No word on how much the groundbreaking study cost to help Kendell and Kors figure out the basics of political campaigning and grassroots activism [...]

Oops, they just forgot to disclose all those millions flowing from Haas to EQCA and NCLR. Good of McDonald to recall my earlier research on this. Just one more bit of proof these folks have a hard time with transparency at every opportunity.

If only we were holding regular community forums with Foreman, Kendell and Kors, we could all be get over the Gay Inc-created divisions, and debate with them about their stewardship of movement dollars and direction.

Sadly, throughout 2008 I saw up close how these leaders didn't respectfully and continually engage with the larger community, beyond their self-contained circles of friends from other non-profits and their boards, and we know what that got us.

Now, inching ever-closer to the 2-year mark of Prop 8's loss, I bore witness to Gay Inc taking a page from the 2008 playbook and enact it all over again. Prepare to lose whatever repeal effort is made in 2012, or any other year, with this sort of (dis)-organizing.

SF Town Hall Tonite, 7pm, Unitarian Church:
Wither Gay Activism?

Self-described uppity fag Patrick Connors, a San Francisco-based writer and activist, has a blogging gig with the SF Weekly, and he recently criticized the latest addition to the Gay Inc world, the GetEQUAL org, at his blog. Out his post has come a town hall meeting with, granted, not enough advance time to properly get the word out, and that will serve as a strategy session for a more organized town hall.

I'm supporting Connors' effort because if there is one city America that desperately needs a discussion about Gay Inc, our officially-designated leaders and the slowness of political change at many level, it is San Francisco.

Here's his announcement with the facts about tonight's event. Come on by and participate, or give Connors some praise and encouragement, if you can't make it, through email or phone. His contact info is below:

This was sent to BAR, Advocate, Queerty, Towleroad, Courage Campaign, Bay Times, and a version of it with the invite was posted on the FB walls of Courage and EQCA and Get Equal.

Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Unitarian Universalist church
Street: 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary)
City/Town: San Francisco, CA

An overdue Town Hall meeting addressing LGBT concerns will be held this week in San Francisco. With many national issues in the news (DADT repeal, ENDA legislation and potential immigration reform that should include our community) as well as local developments (closing arguments in Prop 8 trial, the decision on the case, and the impending campaign to repeal Prop 8) we can no longer wait for our advocacy organizations and/or political leaders to make plans to address the general public.

This will hopefully be the first of many regularly scheduled Town Hall meetings to be held giving the general public the opportunity to address LGBT advocacy groups.

The idea for this meeting originated in a column at The Snitch, SF Weekly's blog, in response to the criticisms levied against Get Equal.

In the comments of the blog Robin McGehee from Get Equal mentions that she will be in attendance at the Town Hall. This meeting will be an opportunity for the general public to hear directly from McGehee about the recent reports on Get Equals funding and structure.

I hope you will be able to provide some coverage of this event on the day following the closing arguments from the Prop 8 trial.

Please contact me if I can provide more information. Thank you.

Contact Person: Patrick Connors
Telephone Number: (415) 350-0414
Email Address: patrick_connors (at) comcast.net

Thanks, Patrick, for taking on this important initiative.

Hiatus Interruptus: For Anna Magnani

Let's get back to blogging. I've got a few things to say about the usual suspects in Gay Inc and the state of the movement. More posts to follow soon enough.

In the meantime, I want to share a snippet from Roberto Rossellini's classic neo-realist film "Open City." It's the heartbreaking scene in which the great Anna Magnani chases after her partisan lover and is shot by a German soldier.

Just a small dose of inspiration for stepping back up on my soapbox.

HIV Drug Induces Blogging Hiatus

The recent new mix of drugs in my AIDS cocktail has produced some excellent lab results, but the serious side effects of one medicine have kicked my butt and head. My doctor and support network agree with me: time to stop Truvada. It's the likely culprit causing the problems, and so my cocktail evolves yet again.

Just a few reasons why my blogging has been so light for about ten days, and why I'll keep to an intermittent blogging routine. Emailing and commenting are enough, for me right now.

The new HIV stats for California, the White House making visitor logs even more confusing and user-un-friendly, pushing the FBI and NIH to release the files and contracts I've requested, can all wait.

But I do have time to say thanks to Rick Rosendall of Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance in DC, for publicizing and endorsing my post calling for the White House to honor gay pioneer Frank Kameny with the Medal of Freedom.

And time to also share a comment from gay legal eagle Dale Carpenter, who is on this medal-for-Kameny bandwagon, and sums up so fabulously part of the importance of what this honor would mean: "It would be nice to have our government say that our only gay heroes aren't the dead ones."

Well, I've got a new three-speed bike to break in, the San Francisco weather is gorgeous and I'm not only on a mini-drug vacation, but also a hiatus from my blog. Catchya later, alligator.