Gay Homophobes

So. On facebook tonight there was a post on my page talking about a homophobic singer who has a concert here in dallas tomorrow night. My friend is staging a protest against him.
I am all about it.
I feel like we have to state our case and we should do so at every possible venue.
The response to my friends post by some guy named Mario Quintero really, really pissed me off.

This was his response:

Oh Daniel Daniel. Why, why, why? It's his right to say what he wants about homosexuality wheather you like it or not. Protesting him is just validating his stance on homosexuality and are just giving him publicity. I have never heard of him until I got this message from you and I don't really care to know who he is. It's those who listen and make a fuss who create this and give people like him exposure. Ignore those people who try to hurt you with words and it is as if they never said them at all.

And as for your other fights for gay rights, I think gay people need to change if they so desire the change that they ask for. You well right know how shameful the behavior is of most of the gay world. I am not generalizing everyone but the grand majority need to look within themselves and make changes before they expect to get the respect from those who consider themselves "normal". We first need to show the rest of the world that we are worthy of those rights before asking for them and I think until that happens will be when we get what we rightfully deserve. You probably know exactly what I am talking about. I am not ashamed to be gay, I am very proud to be gay, but I can not say the same for others.

This was my response:

I find the first comment to be a bit self righteous. The only way that ignoring people such as buju will do ANY good at all is if EVERYONE IGNORES HIM. As in everybody that is exposed to him. This is obviously not going to happen. So there are people like us who will take a stance and stand up for what we think is right. This is conflict and unfortunately the human experience is based on it.
I also understand what you are trying to say, but I take offense to the fact that you are referring to gay people when you speak of it. Even though you say your not "generalizing everyone" you are doing just that when you use words such as "the majority."
We have to take a stance if we want to get our rights. it was inspiring to be at the Equality March in DC this past week, and it made me realize even more that unless we are loud about our demands we are not going to get them.
We do not have to prove or "show" the world anything.
We are diverse and beautiful, different people just like the rest of the human population and we DESERVE the same rights as them by default.... .
They are no better- And we are no worse.

Gay Homophobes are worse than Straight ones.

Support us with a simple phone call.....

WE NEED YOUR HELP. Homophobic reggae artist Buju Banton is scheduled to perform at the Palm Beach Club in Deep Ellum Tuesday, Oct. 20. Banton's show was canceled at the House of Blues in Dallas and Houston; however, his promoter Tony Gold has found other venues. Live Nation pulled out of promoting the concert in April after the LA Gay & Lesbian Center began efforts to oppose the national tour. The Palm Beach Club's phone number is 214-742-4743. Be respectful, but ask why they are promoting hate by booking this performer. Share this information with your friends!

Balance

I am a pacifist.
To a certain point.
Then I am done because sometimes I want to hurt people.
I do.

But the people I want to hurt are people who are bigots or ignorant or spreading hate in some way to people who don't deserve it. Or people who hurt animals or the environment for no reason other than the fact that they can. People who have given in to the darker side of our animal nature. And especially the ones who disguise their hatred, their bigotry and ignorance, behind a figurehead like Jesus or the church.

Those are the people I want to hurt. I want to beat them in the face until the meanness is just pounded out of them. I do realize that there are people who say that this is probably no better than what they are doing, but I think that that is a cliche.

I am a balanced individual. I love the world, I love people, I love animals and nature. I love exercise and art. I love writing and taking photographs and making people smile. I love my partner of five years and I love the fact that I feel comfortable enough with him to be myself, no matter how stupid and silly that may be.

However, I still have the capacity to get angry and I do, often.

I get mad at injustice, I get mad at politics, I get mad at the monetary position of myself and capitalism in general and the fact that I am stuck in a retail job. I get angry when people kick dogs and burn rain forests. I get angry when people don't use their blinkers when driving. I HATE bigotry, homophobia and racism.

Children make me smile and War makes me sad.

Like I said, I am a balanced individual. I do not believe that anyone is inherently good or evil. I believe that everyone is born with the capacity for both and we have a choice where we take it. Our choice in this matter would be decided by our experiences and how we are socialized as children, as would every other choice we make in our lives.

I do not believe that a conflict can ultimately be decided by turning the other cheek. I believe that this is a good way to start out, but I am a firm believer in defending yourself when provoked. Someone lashes out at me and I will take it until I cannot take it anymore.
Then I will put them in their place.

I get mad in the movies and television shows when the hero has the really bad guy right where he wants them and he won't pull the trigger because it would "make them no better than the people they are trying to stop."
Just kill him because we all know what is going to happen. The hero isn't going to do it and the bad guy is going to SCREW them over so bad that there is going to have to be a sequel or an entire second season to clean up the mess that the hero could have prevented if he had just PULLED THE FUCKING TRIGGER!

If I am in a position like that where I am fighting for my life or for my beliefs and I have the chance to pull the trigger- I am going to do it. Some might consider this crossing over to the dark side.
I call it balance, and if someone attacks me I am going to fucking fight until they are on the ground- or I am.

Overheard

So I was sitting minding my own business in Buli Cafe- a little gay cafe on the strip here in dallas- and these two queens sat down next to me. That is fine. They were at the other table. Then some other guy with this crazy ponytail came up and freaked out because he hadn't seen them in "FOREVER." Then he proceeds to sit in the seat across from me at my table and have a long conversation with them. Is that rude?
I think it is.
Here is a video of me being pissed.




overheard @ Buli in a very southern accent " I think that we should live with our partners in duplexes, so that we could have our own space.....I don't know.....(gay sigh and an even more gay shake of the head)"
What is the freaking point of having a partner then is what I want to know? If you need a duplex, then you need a NEW PARTNER even more.

Well, to each his own I suppose.
These guys were kind of funny as it turns out. I just wish they had asked if they could sit at my table.....That would have been the socially appropriate thing to do... I think.
Social Appropriateness has never been my forte.

I don't really have anything to say...yet.

Dallas Drag

Dallas Drag

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Samariah Made my Day

I was working with my friend Sam today. I always enjoy working with Sam. She was going to her car to get clothes to change into cause she was going to see a movie after work and as she walked out the door I jokingly told her to bring me "Something fun."
Here is what she came back with.....

Her name is Megan and she is chinese. Her new home is on the wall in my art studio next to my odd collection of wooden birds from the World Market.

I love Sam.

Refrigerator Pictures

You can tell a lot about a person from what is on their refrigerator.......

Mine and Eloys Fifth Anniversary

Crazy Random Photos

Me and Baby Snaps.

Carrie Ann Bowling. She hates bowling. She used to cry when I tried to get her to go bowling. And yet here she is.

Baby House Gecko. I did not take this pic, but I thought it was neat just the same.

Webcam Snapshot of Eloy. 8-3-09

Random Pic of the Day

This is my Beautiful friend Adrianna. We were bored a few years ago when we both worked at Kinkos and I dared her to copy her face.
She obviously did it.

Random Photo of the Day

Random Picture of the Day

Bunny

Bunny's been to San Francisco Twice. This is mine and Carries traveling mascot. We take pictures of him/her wherever we go. It is fun. Except when Carrie forgets about it.

New Article at the Examiner.com!!!!

New post at the Examiner. I wrote it today. It is a review of my favorite coffee shop down on the strip near oak lawn in dallas.

Click here to read me.

Full Disclosure on Sexually Transmitted Infections is the Best Policy....

Full Disclosure on Sexually Transmitted Infections is the Best Policy....

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This is where life hides....

I got off of work tonight at eleven and then I went to the gym and worked out. When I got home it was a bit past midnight. I walk in and the dog is sitting on her bed just waiting for me. She stood up and slowly walked over to the gate, stretched and then got all wiggly and excited. For some reason, i was just overcome with this feeling of contentment and love. I bent over and gave her a big hug. We went outside and I watered the plants while she hid behind the tree, afraid that she was going to get a bath. Just like she always does. That is when I realized that life is made up of all the little repetitious things that you do and things that happen everyday of your life.
I was bad tonight and smoked a cigarette before I got ready for bed. Snapshot just laid down at my feet and waited for me to finish. I looked up at the sky and saw the big dipper.
I haven't seen the big dipper in months.
It made me think of the first night I came over to Eloys house and all the things that have changed since. The way I do things that I never would have dreamed of doing at that point in my life.
The way I have changed and the way I have changed the things around me. The way my relationship with Eloy has changed both of us. I just really realized that life is made up of the little moments that fill in the gaps between the events and occasions that we consider to be important.
Life is saying I love you before you go to bed at night. Life is watching your partner or wife or husband or son or daughter sleep and just letting the waves of emotion roll over you when you realize how much you love them.
That to me is life. The little moments that we take for granted- the unconditional love of a pet. The food you eat everyday. The roof over your head. The friend who kn0ws just the right thing to say when it feels like your about to fall apart. The lover whose touch you never grow tired of.
The promise of a future with someone you care deeply for.

I get too caught up in the so called big things when what I need to do is take a step back and embrace the little ones that never get any attention.
This, I believe, is where life hides.