Better late than never! The Visalia Times Delta publishes my letter

November 12, 2011

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October 11 was National Coming Out Day.  I wrote and submitted a Letter To The Editor about it, hoping my local paper, The Visalia Times Delta, would publish it on NCOD.  They didn’t, and I dismissed the hope of seeing it in the printed edition.  A few days after the 11th, I went ahead and posted it in the blog section of the paper’s online site, and to QueerVisalia.com.  Imagine my surprise to see it in yesterdays paper!  It appeared on the 11th, but the 11th of Novemeber!  Better late than never, I suppose.  The comments are filling up with a lot of religious bigotry and hatred, and a couple of positive remarks.  There are a lot of remarks from a few different screen names, posting multiple times, and endlessly going on about how I’m going to hell, and need to repent.  Some of us who post regularly to the online forums of the VTD suspect the multiple screen names belong to one individual, but you never know.  In this area, there are plenty of homophobes ready and willing to rant their anonymous diatribes.  It could be more than one person, but regardless, they continue to spout lies, hatred, bigotry, and endlessly go on about how “God” hates this that and the other.  But, it did get printed.  Already got some nice comments at work and at my Facebook page about it.
Check it out here.

Cracking Jokes At Work – The Value of being out and proud

October 23, 2011

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Thursday night a couple of the ladies at work are chatting, alternating between being silly and serious, when the conversation turned to the relative size of their tushes. One, a rather slim one, was joking that she was going to have implants done to her bottom side. The other, a bit on the heavy side, said she’d like to have some removed. Then she offered hers to the first, saying she could spare some, and that then they’d be “butt buddies”.

I spoke up and said “you know, in my world, ‘butt buddies’ has a whole different meaning!”

It’s a good thing the radio traffic was dead right then, because neither one would have been able to transmit anything but laughter.

That humorous interlude would have been impossible if I were still in the closet. Just another reason to be out and proud. You don’t have to pass on fun word play!

Just Because

October 10, 2011

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Spur-of-the-moment leads to fun weekend

September 11, 2011

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Friday morning (well, just after noon, but way morning for me), as I’m in that kinda-asleep-but-kinda-not condition that you get to experience if you don’t wake up to an alarm clock, I heard the text-message chime go off on my phone.  At first, I try to ignore it, after all, I’m still “asleep”, but my curiosity got the best of me, and I pick up the phone to see what was up.  Ted sent me a message, saying  “pack your bags ur going to bass lake for the weekend!!!!!!”.  Well…  you can’t argue with something like that, so I started packing.

Here are some pictures and details of the weekend.


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Ted’s Birthday Party

July 18, 2011

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Ted’s 36th birthday bash at the Fresno Express was held Sunday night, with a good time had by all.

 

Birthday Bash for Ted, Sunday July 17th, in Fresno!

July 7, 2011

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Sunday, July 17, 6pm, at the Express, 708 N. Blackstone, Fresno.

Join us as we celebrate the birthday of Ted Freitas, and help us embarrass him silly!

Full details at the Facebook event page, here!

See you Sunday!

Pool Party

July 2, 2011

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This was the setting for the Men’s Mixer Pool Party.  A good turnout of folks hanging out in and around the pool at Todd’s place.  Fantastic setting, good people, and we even got the police called on us!  (turns out a neighbor really doesn’t like the queers in the neighborhood and takes every opportunity to make that fact known)

Thanks for hosting, Todd.  Great backyard!

What’s up with that??

July 1, 2011

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You’re not following @queerlandia !  What’s up with that?  Get over to Twitter right now and take care of that problem!

Did she just call me a faggot? (via Queer Visalia)

June 6, 2011

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Did she just call me a faggot? I think I might have been gay-bashed, verbally at least, this afternoon.  It’s a bit odd, and I’m not sure that it actually happened. I’ve been pretty lucky, as far as gay-bashing goes.  I’ve never been the victim of any kind of physical assault, and the last time I can recall being verbally harassed was in high school (and that was 35 or so years ago!).  Back then, it was simply the worst thing one teenage boy could say to the other, and it was … Read More

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AIDS/Life Cycle 10 Kick Off

June 5, 2011

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Here’s Ted and I at the front lobby of the Cow Palace, waiting for the opening ceremonies to begin.  Can you tell we’re both running on almost no sleep?  Huge crowd, I’ll have some videos later of the riderless bike, and the start of the ride.

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