After posting some lighter fair, I happy to share my next diary entry. This isn't so much about the failure of the gay marriage bill in the New York Senate, although like you, I am of course disappointed, and hopeful the bill will get another chance.

Instead, this diary… Read full post »

As someone who is living with HIV and has lost at least five friends to AIDS, I'd like remind open salon that today is World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization established World AIDS Day in 1988. World AIDS Day provides governments, national AIDS programs, faith organizations, community organiza… Read full post »

First, read a personal letter from Carrie Prejean and take a look at an exclusive Prejean interview on Michael Buckley's show discussing Sexxx Tapes for Jesus. I also include reviews of Prejean's & Sarah Palin's books. At the end, I ask you to help me respond to a troubling & perplexing… Read full post »

A collection of some of my favorite video clips this week. Please post yours! Thanks

This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless… Read full post »

When I came to Houston in the fall of 1985 to go to the University of Houston, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and had never uttered the word AIDS. I quickly found my way to Houston's Montrose neighborhood with its cluster of gay bars, coffee shops and restaurants. Houston's… Read full post »

Har Mar Superstar, Eva Mendes, Alia Shawkat, Eric Wareheim, and a bevy of intergalactic beauties get wet and sparkly. Produced and directed by Tomorrow's Brightest Minds. This is the original director's cut.

For more information about Har Mar -- the man & his music -- visit harmarsuperstar.com.

I recently read an article about the top "tourist traps" and was not surprised to see "Fisherman's Wharf - San Francisco" on the list. As anyone who's every been there can tell you, San Francisco has its share of tacky tourist traps. But despite the sale of really bad Alcatraz t-shirts… Read full post »

One year ago, I walked out my front door to survey the damage from Hurricane Ike. As a native Texan living on the Gulf Coast, I've been through many storms. Nothing compared to Ike. Before it was over, Ike had become the third most destructive storm in US history just behind… Read full post »