Via Bootboy, a video of "Jesus" singing Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive.

Here's an in­ter­est­ing Campari ad, where things are not as they seem. Worksafe, but only barely.

Some background from Campari: The Secret

I was born 41 years ago today. (Tech­ni­cal­ly, yesterday, as it's now the early hours of March 16th.) I was to have been called Vincent after my father, but my mother's father, George Victor Clery, had died just 12 days before. I was baptised George Vincent Reilly on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day.

Beware the Ides of March, I tell people: You might have to buy George a present. Better a birthday present than the reception that Julius Caesar received on March 15th, 44BC.

I've never liked the name George all that much, but I've never disliked it enough to do anything about it. (Emma legally changed her entire name about ten years …continue.

Via Amer­i­ca­Blog, it's ` Brokeback to the Future <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfOD­SPIY­w­pQ>`_.

I mentioned recently that I would be walking in this year's AIDS Walk. And so I did.

After months of dry, sunny weather in Seattle, I have grown un­ac­cus­tomed to rain. It was an unpleasant morning and an unpleasant shock. The skies opened and I stood in an endless line waiting to register. I raised $1180, which entitled me to huddle in the VIP tent, as the rain continued. The rain finally let up about halfway along the route, as we debouched onto Broadway.

Thanks to my fellow Team BiNet Seattle fundrais­ers, Emily and Meghan, who raised a few hundred more between them. Double thanks to Emily for giving …continue.

On Saturday 10th September 2005, over 8,000 people will par­tic­i­pate in the Northwest AIDS Foundation Walk. I will be one of them, as I have been every year since 1992.

To sponsor me, please visit my Donation Page.

I had originally signed up to march with Team Microsoft. Then we in BiNet Seattle decided to form a team. Please join Team BiNet Seattle: we'd love to have you.

It's been more than 20 years since AIDS was first recognized. AIDS is still wreaking dev­as­ta­tion in Africa and Asia, and affecting many in the U.S. Although the new protease inhibitors are helping many people in the West, the AIDS epidemic …continue.

(Originally posted to Queer at EraBlog on Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:48:38 GMT)

George W. Bush, after months of hinting that he would support the Federal Marriage Amendment, has endorsed it. He's desparate­ly trying to change the subject from whether he was AWOL from the National Guard in Alabama.

The Human Rights Campaign is urging everyone to oppose this. They provide a sample letter to send to your rep­re­sen­ta­tives, but I threw it away and wrote my own (below), which has been sent to my rep­re­sen­ta­tives, via the HRC Action Center.

The Bush Ad­min­is­tra­tion pisses me off on so many levels. I'm par­tic­u­lar­ly infuriated about Bush's support for the Federal Marriage Amendment. …continue.

(Originally posted to Politics at EraBlog on Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:32:12 GMT)

I sign a lot of petitions. Here's one that I wrote a custom letter for.

First, the background.

From: "John - THE LIST" <john@gayad­vo­ca­cy.com> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:24 PM Subject: THE LIST: Action Alert - Free Ruslan Sharipov THE LIST - Special Alert for Gay Torture Victim

Washington, DC December 1, 2003

Ruslan Sharipov, a journalist in Uzbekistan, is being imprisoned and tortured because he's gay. His government captors have threatened to rape him with a bottle and inject him with AIDS. But there is talk that the government may soon amnesty a few political prisoners. Let's make sure he …continue.

(Originally posted to Queer at EraBlog on Fri, 07 Feb 2003 08:51:06 GMT)

Amy Sohn writes about Hasbians: Women who came out of the closet only to end up in het­ero­sex­u­al re­la­tion­ships.

I came out as bi in 1991. I was very careful never to call myself "gay" because that label never fit me. Even so, that must have been what many people heard, because only that can explain their surprise when I told them a few years later that I had fallen in love with Emma and was going to marry her.

Now many people believe I'm het­ero­sex­u­al, unless I take the trouble to educate them. Bisexual In­vis­i­bil­i­ty. <sigh>