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Jesus!

I watched a movie starring Pastor Haggard with my office colleagues.

Amusing, for all the wrong reasons—and despite the fact that it was my second viewing of the film, I was still nauseous.

Matthew Shepard .08

Remember Matthew Shepard

1 December 1976 – 12 October 1998

Last Year

Love One Another

One of the more edify aspects of my journey to Armenia was the realization of how deep mistrust and hatred of other peoples can go. There were two things that drove this message home, affecting me in ways I had not anticipated.

The most obvious and visible symbol of hatred in Armenia is Tsitsernakaberd, the […]

Foreigners Attacked in Weimar

Notice: Please keep discussion on this post focused and on subject. I will have a low tolerance for flippant remarks on this subject.

Weimar has officially joined the list of places I’ve lived where hate crimes have taken place in the last decade. Laramie and Matthew Shepard, Bloomington and Won-Joon Yoon. Denver has probably had […]

Matthew Shepard .07

Tonight, when I headed out from my Rotterdam hotel, I had intended to go to a bar that I was familiar with—much to my surprise, it was closed today, so I wandered around Rotterdam a bit before discovering “dè Kameleon,” a gay bar right down the street from my two regular Rotterdam […]

Unsolicited Mail from a Legislator…

Hello friends. It’s Chris C hijacking elmada again. I think I need to get my own blog. Anyone that can help, please feel free to show me how!

The other day I received a letter in the mail from my Virginia Delegate welcoming me as a new voter in the 14th district. Many legislative accomplishments […]

Matthew Shepard

Today, October 12, 2004, marks the 6th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder.

As has become habit with me, I want to take a few minutes to reflect on Matthew Shepard and what he meant to me-somebody who was uncannily like me, and yet so unlike me.

I left Laramie, Wyoming, in May 1998, graduating from […]

God-niks

I was over on MT’s blog and saw her entry regarding, “One Nation, Under God: Vote to Keep it That Way.” It got me to thinking about Catherine, one of the God-niks in my life.

Catherine is a person who was a good friend of mine when I lived in California. Back in the early […]

Faggot

For what felt like the millionth time, this weekend I was again informed about the definition of faggot/fagot:

fag‧got also fag‧ot n.

1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together. 2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.

tr.v. fag·ot·ed, also fag·got·ed fag·ot·ing, fag·got·ing […]

Mourning/Morning

Tomorrow is the big day of Ronald Reagan’s funeral.

I can’t say that I’m going to miss him–he’s a man who refused to utter the word “AIDS” until the end of his term of office; a man responsible for a huge federal deficit; and a man who felt that the homeless were homeless because they […]