fiction and musings from a gay black dude with delusions above his station
(Editor’s note (4/11/2012): A link was added to this piece, in the first sentence, to a CBS News article which quotes Mr. Zimmerman’s now ex-attorney, Craig Sonner, verifying that The Real George Zimmerman website does in fact belong to George Zimmerman. It is on this basis that the gar spot accepts the veracity of the…
During the Prop. 8 campaign four years ago, I received a mailer from the Yes on 8 folks which featured black religious figures on one side and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on the other. It contained quotes like these: “Marriage is something that is sacred and worth defending as an institution of one man and…
March 3, 1991. Rodney King led officers on a high speed chase that ended in Simi Valley, California. When he finally surrendered, police took him out of the car, tasered him, and, as the now infamous video shows, kicked and beat him repeatedly as he laid on the ground. The officers claimed he resisted arrest…
I can’t look at his face. It’s too young and too fresh and too new. I can’t look at his face. It’s untested, unchallenged. There are so many first lights he did not get to see, so many mountains he did not get to climb, or even envision, so many triumphs he did not get…
I received some nice feedback for my short story “Clyde” published a few weeks ago. Thank you for that, and thanks to everyone for reading my stuff. I truly appreciate it. A friend asked if “Clyde” was in fact a true story. I said quickly, unequivocally, and publicly (on Facebook) that it was a work…
The circumstance behind Tyler Clementi’s death sickens me to the core. A young man with a shy smile and a whole life ahead of him ended his own life after his homosexuality was posted on the internet for all the world to see. How was his gayness placed on the internet? His roommate at Rutgers, Dharun…
Hello, this is Richard Foote-Long again. Now, you little ladies out there scoffed at the sentiments of my last little commentary about the necessity of protecting My Sacred Sperm. You demonstrated your disdain for my beliefs by the way you treated that great soldier of the cause Rush Limbaugh. Mr. Limbaugh finds himself fighting to hold…
I was trying to think of words to describe my feelings about last weekend’s Occupy Oakland demonstration, where protesters broke into City Hall and smashed things. But I think Robert Gammon at the East Bay Express pretty much captured it all. Check it. Some commenters to Mr. Gammon’s piece are trying to argue that it…
From Digby via blue aardvark on Daily Kos: Since 1986, the US has observed the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the third Monday of January, which typically falls within a few days of his actual birthday, January 15. All 50 states first observed the holiday in 2000. But in the good state…
“…[G]ay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Addressing the United Nations on International Human Rights Day Do read or watch Secretary Clinton’s remarkable speech on LGBT rights. She spent about a half-hour talking about the need to further the cause for LGBT human…
