Most of us have heard of the wild, crazy and often destructive-sounding ingredients of a witch’s brew.  “Eye of Newt” and “Adder’s Tongue” jump to the front of my mind, and to be perfectly honest, I used to think these names were to be taken literally.  T… Read full post »

I read a great piece on The HuffPost this morning, borrowed from gaygirlrevolution.com.  The author wrote a letter to her 15-year-old self about how her life got better after she acknowledged to herself that she was gay.  It got me to thinking of a very special friend who struggled with her… Read full post »

I read a great piece on The HuffPost this morning, borrowed from gaygirlrevolution.com.  The author wrote a letter to her 15-year-old self about how her life got better after she acknowledged to herself that she was gay.  It got me to thinking of a very special friend who struggled with her… Read full post »

Home Remedies That Work

Every so often, I’ll see an article online or in the print media that talks about those miracle, often-misunderstood home remedies that actually work.  They are sometimes written with a flair of, “OMG! Did you know that you can do X, Y or Z or A,… Read full post »

For the past couple of years, I’ve been running a very small and very limited, incredibly part-time business.  I make custom essential oils, I am an ordained pagan minister, and I create and mix my own gem essences, among other things.  I am also trained in the art of Theta Healing… Read full post »

I hear it and read it all the time.  Individuals posting comments on articles debating the question of whether being gay is a sin. It happened again this morning as I read an article about Kirk Cameron’s recent visit to the Piers Morgan Show on CNN.  Mr. Cameron, who experienced some… Read full post »

The most recent debate about what a hate crime is and whether it should be applied has reached the Huffington Post.  Three women are charged with beating a gay man after he bumped into them with his backpack.  During the assault, they hurled anti-gay slurs at him.  Ultimately, the man… Read full post »

"It is time that members of the Negro race are accorded, without reservations or evasions, the full rights guaranteed them under the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Judges have been avoiding the real issue too long."

Powerful words, aren’t they?  This poignant statem… Read full post »

Hattie McDaniel and the New Civil Rights Movement

"It is time that members of the Negro race are accorded, without reservations or evasions, the full rights guaranteed them under the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Judges have been avoiding the real issue too long."

Powerful w… Read full post »

Today, I performed a very special wedding event.  My daughter married her partner for life in a beautiful ceremony in my front yard, beneath the protective branches of our favorite tree.  As I read the rites and joined these two amazing people, I couldn’t help but think to myself, &ld… Read full post »

Whitney Houston lay dead in her hotel at the age of 48.  Four stories below in the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, some of the best and brightest in the industry were arriving for Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy bash.  This is the party that Whitney Houston was preparing for when, for… Read full post »

Today, I received an interesting email from Presidential candidate… oops, sorry, House of Representative Incumbent Michele Bachmann.  Apparently, Howard Stern called her the “the worst person in the world,” on his radio show.  Other than the fact that I would have loved t… Read full post »

If you haven’t heard about Tommy Jordan’s brand of parental justice in the past three days, you’ve been on a vacation from anything with a speaker or a screen.  Just to catch you up on all the goings on, Tommy Jordan found a letter his daughter had written to him and… Read full post »

Washington State is half-way through the fight for marriage equality this week.  The state Senate approved a bill granting same-sex couples the right to marry, and soon the state house of representatives will vote on the same measure.  And let the Christian hoopla begin…

One zealot,… Read full post »

The recent decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation to defund Planned Parenthood is a striking blow against women.  This much is a given.  The roughly 600K dollars annually that Planned Parenthood received from Susan G. Komen paid for breast-screening exams for women who can o… Read full post »

Okay, so I’m just going to go right out on a limb and say it:  Yeah, so?

Kristy McNichol, former child star and one of my all-time-biggest-crushes-ever, officially came out of the closet in the newest edition of People Magazine.  The comments on the articles about this announcement t… Read full post »

I opened my email after taking a well-deserved week off over the latter part of the holidays to find more anti-gay rhetoric.  This is not surprising.  What is suprising to me is the blatant disregard for truth I found in a Weekly Standard email released on hehalf of "Public Advocate for… Read full post »

So, Mitt Romney had a little chat with a potential voter recently on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.  Apparently, Mitt sat down next Bob Garon and proudly announced to all and sundry that Garon is a “Vietnam veteran!”

Doesn’t that just make you proud, all by itself?&n… Read full post »

Recently, a teacher named Viki Knox posted a horrible rant on her Facebook wall in response to a shadowbox display honoring Gay and Lesbian history month.  The trophy-case style display has photos of well-known gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals like Ellen Degeneres and Chaz Bono.  W… Read full post »

Michele Bachmann introduced the “Heartbeat Informed Consent Act” to the United States House of Representatives earlier this month.  This bill, in a nut shell, requires all abortion providers to conduct an ultrasound in front of the patient prior to performing an abortion service.&nbs… Read full post »

Okay, so by now most people have heard about the analogy that country-music legend Hank Williams, Jr. made on Fox and Friends last week.  In discussing American politics and President Obama’s golf outing with Senate Majority Leader Boehner, Hank Williams, Jr. said, “That’s like… Read full post »

I wrote an article for Yahoo! Shine recently which posed the question of whether gay people should be held to a higher standard when it comes to public behavior--specificially public displays of affection.

A week or so ago, Leisha Hailey (The L Word, Uh Huh Her) and her girlfriend, Camila Grey (… Read full post »

When a person screams fire in a crowded movie theater, he is responsible for the carnage of trampled bodies that result.  He is not free to scream “fire” unless there is, in fact, a fire.  When a man is running for the highest office in the free world, the Presidency of… Read full post »

Is anyone really surprised by Christine O’Donnell and her latest antics?

Tuesday night, August 17, 2011 marked the official release of Christine O’Donnell’s autobiography, Trouble Maker.  With this auspicious occasion comes the inevitable book tour.  Part of her tour… Read full post »

If you're gay, you don't deserve a ring.

_{And so the fight in New York begins… The National Organization for Marriage promises to mount a remix of the Prop 8 fight in California on the streets of New York.  Shame on them!}

Sunday, July 24, 2011 was a great… Read full post »