SOMEBODY HAS TO SAY IT

by Tommi Avicolli Mecca

Tommi Avicolli Mecca

Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Location
San Francisco, California, US
Birthday
July 25
Bio
I am a writer, performer and activist, editor of Smash the Church, Smash the State: the early years of gay liberation (City Lights), and co-editor of Avanti Popolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus and Hey Paesan: Writings by Italian American Lesbians and Gay Men. To view my creative stuff: www.avicollimecca.com. youtube.com/user/avimecca. myspace.com/peacenikssf.

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March 19, 2012 09:41AM
“thanks, myriad...and send a copy or at least a link to where I can hear it...I wrote some songs during that time and someday I should record them...yea…”
About: ACT UP 25 years later
March 11, 2012 05:22PM
“Toritto, I read the piece when you put it up, I'm glad that at least two of us know our history...it's so sad what happened to our paesans, maybe there…”
About: Santorum: the new Mussolini
February 14, 2012 10:10AM
“I'm with you, spiritman, the chemicals are toxic and we buy them because we've been sold a bad line about our natural smells...it's like garlic, people…”
About: Valentine's Day: it's a smelly affair
January 23, 2012 08:37AM
“you hit it on the mark.”
About: American Guernica
January 22, 2012 09:48PM
“@Gurl Zone: I know about Queers for Economic Justice in NY...we have QUEEN (Queens for Economic Equality Now) here in SF. Some of us are organizing and…”
About: no "golden years" for queer seniors
January 20, 2012 01:15PM
“I think this was just a prop for the ballet event, but still so stupid that they would even put something up with a fig leaf.”
About: Michelangelo's David wears a fig leaf in San Francisco!
January 15, 2012 02:50PM
“thanks for the comment...I was raised catholic but have been proudly atheist since I was about 16...I think the girl scouts probably accept persons wit…”
About: Buy a Girl Scout cookie for Bobby Montoya
January 15, 2012 11:26AM
“not surprising, our military is no better than any other...militaries are militaries and war is not pretty. we need to work harder to end all war and e…”
About: The Desecration of the Dead
January 07, 2012 06:32PM
“I have been vegan for 32 years and I love quinoa. I discovered it years ago and use it all the time with tempeh (fermented soy bean) or seitan (wheat g…”
About: What is it? Quinoa?-Quin-O-ah?- Keen-wah!
December 31, 2011 08:00AM
“thanks, Francoise, and a happy new year to you...let's hope for the best but expect the worst”
About: Oh. Right. Happy New Year.
December 28, 2011 04:23PM
“ugualmente, buon anno a ti, torrito..”
About: Goodbye to the neighborhood barber shop
December 07, 2011 10:09AM
“Not Calabrese, my mother's family is from Basilicata and Papa's famiglia from Molise. But, as you know, the Calabrese don't have a monopoly on "te…”
About: my mother's son
November 30, 2011 11:03AM
“you're right, toritto, but it sure gives me molto agita to see the hypocrisy of the "green" movement in this country that never challenges th…”
About: saving the planet is a joke
November 28, 2011 09:22AM
“Another bad american export -- christian missionaries. Our fast food exports poison the body and the religious crap poisons the mind and soul.”
About: "We Shall Stand Up If We Are Helped"/Plea From a Gay Ugandan
November 22, 2011 10:15AM
“it's a day none of us of that generation will ever forget, and funny how many details we all remember....I can't remember anything at all about the day…”
About: November 22, 1963: Remembering JFK
November 04, 2011 07:48PM
“Shawn: I was referring to cuts to Social Security being proposed by the politicians and cuts already made to some benefits that seniors receive...that…”
About: no "golden years" for queer seniors
November 02, 2011 11:10AM
“consider the source: a church that waged inquisitions, pogroms, witch burnings, murders of gay men, crusades (the last of which children ended up sold…”
About: THE CHURCH & LADY GAGA: On The Same Page
November 01, 2011 11:09AM
“I finally allowed myself to read this, I've been avoiding it because my own cat has chronic renal failure and I know she's living on borrowed time thou…”
About: On the Death of an Iconic Cat
October 31, 2011 10:47PM
“Note to Mississippians: The world now has 7 BILLION people, we do NOT need more humans, in fact we should be awarding people (with tax breaks and the l…”
About: Zygotes R People 2? Let's Vote!
October 27, 2011 11:03AM
“Sheila: Actually, they don't let you out if you write them. Even if you say you're queer and atheist or believe in the devil or whatever. Hitler was ne…”
About: I want to be excommunicated
October 27, 2011 10:34AM
“Interesting thing is that there is absolutely no reliable historical proof that the first jesus ever lived. Josephus' passage about him has been questi…”
About: "JESUS H. CHRIST!" -- "H." ? -- Where'd THAT Come From?
October 25, 2011 08:58AM
“My problem with jesus (besides the fact that I don't think he ever lived, read "Nailed" by Patrick Jones or see "The god who never was&…”
About: Occupy the churches
October 21, 2011 09:35AM
“P.S. I wrote something about this in my current blog...how I don't think wearing purple on October 20 will change the situation with bullying...for tho…”
About: How Tough Should Your State's Anti-Bullying Law Be?
October 21, 2011 09:33AM
“This is a topic that is personal to me since I was a bullied kid, I was picked on because I was "effeminate." A sissy, they called it then. L…”
About: How Tough Should Your State's Anti-Bullying Law Be?
October 17, 2011 10:38AM
“Sorry, it doesn't convince me, Bert. I'm still an atheist who doesn't proselytize like religious folks do...”
About: Seeds of Faith: A Response to Atheism
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