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Since I am flying today (Thursday), I went out for a late lunch Wednesday at my nearby excellent Indian Restaurant – it’s a few blocks away and I seem to go there for a meal the evening before most major trips. Normally there’s not much to remark upon – the food is excellent and I [...] my ticket! Wednesday night I finally saw a comedian that I’ve wanted to see for years: Pam Ann. Given how much I love travel, in particular, flying, let me just say that Pam Ann is a comedian right up my alley. She does comedy that is based on the airline industry, poking fun at [...] Thanks to a vacation policy that I don’t quite understand, back at the end of September I was granted an extra day off this year, which I immediately applied toward taking today off. As the election progressed, I came to realize that I would either be very happy or very depressed today, and in either [...] Today marks 14 years since the passing of Matthew Shepard. What strikes me now is how vivid my memories are of that week 14 years ago leading up to today, 14 years ago. I was living on Braeside Drive, in Bloomington, in an apartment complex that I’ve done my best to forget—rarely pausing to recall [...] A week ago Sunday, I went on an adventure with a friend to an all-you-can-eat cake buffet at Hudson’s Bakery over in Kreuzburg (Quick Review: 8€, includes tea, great cake, do it). Between the U-Bahn Station and the bakery, we passed a movie theater that I’d never heard of, Moviemento – and in its front [...] Plug Yourself In. Saturday I headed out to watch the two Christopher Street Day parades that happen in Berlin every year – the “normal” one and the “alternative” one. Wanting to hit up both parades meant that I had to choose strategically and that I never made it to the end party for the [...] Today, June 23, 2012, marks the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, a man whose efforts helped break Nazi encryptions, and, consequently, end the war. He was even awarded an OBE for this. There’s no way I could do justice to him in this space. But I do want to focus on the fact that he [...] I love this!
This is truly impressive and inspiring – a multilingual It Gets Better Project video aimed at EU citizens. EU Parliament GLBT Rights Group |
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