QN to expand national footprint (via Queer Networks)

July 2, 2010

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We’re growing steadily across California, and now the country. Who knows where we’ll pop up next?

In a move intended to widen our coverage in the U.S. and increase the emphasis on our local web portals we will be going live with both Queer Dallas and Queer Miami next week.  We will be officially launching Queer Dallas on Tuesday, July 6 and Queer Miami on Thursday, July 8.  This expanded operation will be headed up by Vice President David Bishop and will lay the ground work for more specific and targeted growth and development in the surround … Read More

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June 25, 2010

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Even a straight, womanizing former President knows a hottie when he sees one!

From Huffington Post.

I Won! I Won!

June 22, 2010

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I won!  I won!

The TEDG “raffle” that is.  Dolores always brings a little something to give away, and tonight’s prize was three free pretzels at Auntie Anne’s.  Good stuff!  I love them giant, hot, and salty!

Thanks, Dolores!

JimmY Joe Reeves, with a “Y”

June 16, 2010

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The stats page for this website includes a list of search terms that brought readers to my site.  One day, I noticed “Jimmy Joe Reeves” in the listing, and wondered if they were looking for me and simply misspelling my name, or if there was something else going on?  My name is spelled Jimmie, with an ‘ie’ at the end.  This search term was Jimmy with a ‘y’.  So, being the ever inquisitive fellow I am, I immediately “Googled” ‘Jimmy Joe Reeves’.  Here’s what I found!


Meet Jimmy Joe Reeves, from Germany.

He’s apparently an actor (one video on his site shows him in a German movie with American actor Stacy Keach, but it’s in German, so I’m not sure what’s going on).  I do know one thing:  he’s pretty hot!  😉

Here’s his Facebook page, and some more pictures after the jump.

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QueerVisalia’s Pride In The Park hits the newspaper

May 24, 2010

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Monday’s Visalia Times Delta contains a short article about Saturday’s Pride in the Park celebration put on by QueerVisalia.  Although I thought the usage of  “alternate lifestyle” was a bit odd, overall I’m happy with the article.  I was mentioned by name in the article, so there’s that.  😉

Attendance was less than the previous two years, and we’re still trying to decide just why that might have been.  We’ll be kicking around ideas for next year’s event during the next weeks and months.  If you have any suggestions, be sure to send them along.

In the meantime, keep checking back at the online article, the comments are sure to get interesting, and probably maddening!

Busy Saturday! PITP, SFGMC, more!

May 23, 2010

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Katie, Kristeen, Amanda help kick off Pride in the Park 3

One of the big problems with working swing shifts forever, is that your body is trained, and firm in it’s patterns, about going to bed late, and rising late.  When something requires an early start, the body (mine anyway) doesn’t really see the need to cooperate.  I’m not one who can change my pattern on short notice, so I didn’t get much sleep the day before the festivities.   We had a fun 5 hours in Plaza Park, at Queer Visalia’s third annual Pride in the Park picnic and BBQ.  The weather was wonderful (a tad chilly for skinny guys like me whenever the sun went behind one of the cottonball looking clouds blowing overhead) but sunshiny and warm.  We avoided the 95+ degree temperatures of PitP’s of the past, and enjoyed a great afternoon of burgers, hotdogs, volleyball, and socializing.  Jesse brought his new puppy, and of course was the center of attention showing him off!  I neglected to get a picture, sorry!

After Pride in the Park, I went to Fresno to see the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at the Tower Theater.

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

They came, they sang, they wore pink cowboy hats!  (in one song)  Such a powerful and moving performance, having the audience in tears one moment, and roaring in laughter the next.  The Fresno Gay Men’s Chorus also performed, doing several songs, my favorite which was “Color in Colorado”… very good!

Dinner afterwards at Livingstone’s, then home.  A busy day celebrating Visalia Pride and Harvey Milk Day!  This is the first annual Harvey Milk Day in California, as passed by the state legislature and signed by Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Harvy would have turned 80 yesterday.

More pics of the day after the jump.

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First Clue He’s Gay

May 21, 2010

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Lady Gaga says (sorta) “Don’t Get Caught In A Bad Hotel”

May 14, 2010

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In what may be the cleverest picket action ever (of course it’s in San Francisco), the Westin St. Francis (a VERY nice hotel that I had a chance to stay in some years ago) is hit with a Lady Gaga inspired protest.

Employees are fighting for health care benefits, and apparently the hotel negotiators have dug in their heels.  Stay tuned.

Homosexual Families Don’t Count

May 10, 2010

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Merlin Bartz, Iowa State Senator

This man does not believe your family should be treated the same as other families.

Merlin Bartz, a state Senator in Iowa, is trying to block the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) from changing the wording of regulations regarding camping sites at state parks.   The regulations in question refer to the ability of a family group to pitch more than one tent in a campsite.  In one part of the regulations, a reference is made to “mother, father, children”.   “They’re citing the Supreme Court case and changing, you know, ‘husband and wife’ language to ’spouse,’ ” Bartz is quoted at RadioIowa. (He’s not even getting the regulation he doesn’t want changed correct!  It’s clear it’s not well functioning state campsites he’s worried about!)

Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled in April 2009 that denying same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The court overturned the Iowa Defense of Marriage Act, in effect legalizing same sex marriage.  The ruling was unanimous. As government agencies move to make their regulations reflect the law, right wing forces have tried to prevent those changes.

Even after we’ve won, we can’t relax our vigilance.  The forces of hate will still be out there, and they’ll still think we’re evil.

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Pure Silliness

April 30, 2010

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