words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Thursday, March 11, 2004
The California Supreme Court has ordered San Francisco to stop marrying us. They haven't invalidated the marriages yet, and nobody expects to rule on that subject until this summer. I wonder what Newsom will do. will he continue to defy the state government? will he accept defeat and fight in court?
The next few months are going to be big. What will happen in Portland, in Massachusetts? Will we finally have a charismatic gay leader rise up to lead us, a man, a woman, a transgendered person? will we fight? will we finally stand up for ourselves, proclaim who we are instead of hiding in the shadows? will the two guys who i see at the cofee shop actually look like a couple in public instead of remaining vague? will i find someone to hold hands with on the street? will our drag queens lead us again? or will we just let our hopes die because we didn't know what to do, weren't comfortable enough to work?
I ask these questions of myself, too. as a gay man, i haven't lost that many rights. i'm pretty comfortable in my life; i didn't want to be in the military anyway. ("the problem is not gay soldiers. the problem is dead soldiers. ban the military") I haven't lost a job yet for wearing nail polish, and there's a crazy gay guy who dances down the street i work on, to entertain the people. is the goal of obtaining marriage licenses worth the incredible effort it might take? i think it is, and yet, i haven't done a whole lot to work for it. Writing about it at queerday.com helps. but, is it enough? what more as a community can we do? if we can organize a huge pride parade here every year, can we do more than that? how many of us want more than entertainment to fulfill our lives?
5:28 PM
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