Jack’s Dream
This song comes from Jacks words in his letter to Canadians.
Rick Barnes
Its a State Funeral
Jack died 22 hours ago. Like many I was stunned. I thought I had prepared for the news I knew in my heart it would likely come soon.I had my…
Asbestos is wrong, Even a Widow knows its true
If you feel the Government of Canada's support for exporting Asbestos is wrong, and you support the work of Michaela Keyserlingk. She is the widow who lost her husband to…
mob of flower wielding men
Flower power got two gay men released from jail in 1968. The Los Angeles police vice squad arrested two men in the Wilmington Gay bar in August 1968. The police…
Hidden message on a shirt
Look out tea party homophobes! This could happen to you . A German group has taken new tech printing on t-shirts to a new level. The group handed out free…
Take out six Wisconsin Senators today!
Wisconsin voters go to the polls Tuesday to recall six Republican state Senators. The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO lists some of the dirty tricks perpetrated by the right wing and allies…
Dr. Dawg calls for a Posse
A canadian blogger was recently successfully sued for libel. You can read all about the case here. Now you know it had to be bad when you see what has…
Queer Thoughts 2011-08-08 06:09:00
It was 1976 - A British Columbia Court dismisses the appeal of the Vancouver Sun against a decision of the Canadian Human Rights Commission's board of inquiry that found the…
This is for guys like me
This is a riot. This is fabulous a “recruitment mockumentary, for Toronto's Gay Muddy York rugby team. If you ever felt you didn't fit in, then this is for you.…
Sex-Negative Education and Rape
It makes sense. You tell kids they can't do something, they will try to find a way to do it. The trouble with the sex negative and abstinence-only education is…
BC folks against the HST
Has your ballot arrived in the mail? If not, you might not be on the voters list. The Liberals’ strategy is focused on reducing voter turn-out. Each and every vote…
Let the Blood Flow
Canadian Blood Services has an ad in the Village (Jarvis & Wellesley), Toronto's Gay Village that is. Are these people that inept. Its offensive at best to place this ad…
I wasn’t drinking, just taking odour out
It was shocking to read at first. Spray your clothes with vodka to take the odour out. No chemicals and less damage to the environment. Well, at $23.50 for the…
If my friends could see me now!
Last night I had some friends over for dinner. I did well with the mix of people, from 24 to 64, we sang songs from Broadway. It was to borrow…
Sober second thought
Sober second thought, of what... A globe editorial said even though Bill C-6, A Bill to force the resumption of postal Services sailed through the upper chamber, the bill received…
North American Security Perimeter Agreement
Many of us look forward to four years of fights with the Stephen Harper Government. They have in the first session so far signaled that they will do what it…
Afghanistan document link
Have you been following the Afghanistan Detainee fiasco in Parliament? If so the Harper Conservative government today released some 4,000 documents to the media. MACLeans Magazine is making them available…
Let’s be Marines! Get over DADT
Sgt. Maj. Barrett speaking to new Marines and I suspect to the attackers of DADT ... Sgt. Maj. Barrett, top ranked enlisted man in US Marines “Get over it,” he…
They are going to create a monster here
“They are going to create a monster here, because you will have at the end of the day … an elected body that may or may not be elected, that…
He robbed a bank of one dollar to get health care
North Carolina man robs store for a dollar so he can get health care in prison for medical problem "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," he…