Talk about epic failure!!! City councilmembers making $100,000 + and top city officials of a rf a rinky dinky little town of only 37,000 making 7 times more than the president of the United States???Anyone with even the most minute amount of common sense would find something a bit strange about that one. It’s obvious these politicos [...]

I know I’ve seen this guy around town so I thought I’d pass this story along, via KMPH: Madera County Sheriff’s Detectives have arrested a child predator, who they say used Facebook to lure his victims. Deputies arrested 30-year-old Daniel Alvarez, after they say he lured a 15-year-old on the social networking site. Officers say [...]

I meant to post this coverage over the weekend but I didn’t get a chance to. This is a link to the ABC30 story covering the funeral services for Gloria and Stevie Acuna. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=7570835

As Ellen DeGeneres bows out of American Idol, and Kara DioGuardi gets the boot, the reality show has two open seats for new judges for its 10th season. One of those seats may be filled by Former Fly Girl Jennifer Lopez (yeah, we know she’s done stuff since then, but the Fly Girls were so…fly, [...]
Sara Gilbert – oh, you know, that lovable angst-ridden teenager Darlene from Roseanne and the engaging if not nerdy vinyl junky Anna Moss from High Fidelity – recently spoke at the Television Critics Association panel in Los Angeles, the first time she’s addressed being gay in public. Gilbert and her partner, television producer Allison Adler, [...]
President Barack Obama believes that the Defense of Marriage Act, along with the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “should be changed,” according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who responded to questions on the issue from The Advocate Thursday. The Advocate asked Gibbs: A growing number of people have started to call on the administration [...]
Jose Luis Navarro and Miguel Angel Calefato – an architect and a retired office worker, respectively – became the first same-sex couple to wed under Argentina’s newly legalized same-sex marriage law. The couple have been partners for 27 years. The law took effect just this morning, and was signed into law on July 21. According to the [...]
The other day a woman I hardly knew asked me, âDo you have sex?â I answered, âYes, I have sex all the time.â She stared at me for a moment, blinked and walked away. I had a lot of fun trying to imagine what she was thinking. But really, we all have sex all the time, everywhere we [...]
I spent the last nine days in my home state of Iowa reconnecting with family and friends. My partner Joe and I both grew up in Iowa, but have been living in Seattle for the last three years. The last time we were home was in April of 2009. We departed Iowa the day the Iowa [...]
Pesticide residue carried by rainwater finds its way through the leafy canopy to the forest floor and into the groundwater where it mixes with other compounds andts way through the leafy canopy to the forest floor and into the groundwater where it mixes with other compounds and has disastrous effects on the earthâs biosphere. Similarly, issues of Native American identity filter down through the culture, mixing with loss of language, poverty, struggles to continue traditional [...]
Hi. My name is Elena Kelly and I am a fundamentalist. I have been evangelism-free for twenty-four years. Hi Elena! I was âsavedâ for the umpteenth time at a small Baptist church iears. Hi Elena! I was âsavedâ for the umpteenth time at a small Baptist church in northern California in 1979. I’d turned my back on Christianity years before, but having run afoul of the drug laws, and coming to [...]
Even though I pass for a biological male at most times in life, there are still unique situations as a trans guy that I deal with and will have to continue to deal with for the rest of my life. As Iâve mentioned in previous articles, I take testosterone. I use a gel daily that gets [...]
My daughter doesnât like me writing for Our Big Gayborhood. Sheâs evinced this before, of course, refusing to read more than a sentence or two of the articles that I write, asking straight-out why I âwrite for that thing.â Tonight, after Iâd told her that I had some writing to do, she decided to dispense [...]
Today, July 23, I turned 55 years old. As Iâve gotten older, Iâve taken time to reflect on my life on each of my birthdays since the 40th. I think about what I might still need to reconcile, or what regrets I may have. And, on this birthday, I find I can only reflect on [...]
There was a time in my life when I could pick up and move from one place to another, often sight-unseen, without so much as batting a single carefully mascaraâd eyelash. As evidenced by my very recent relocation from Massachusetts back to my Southern homeland, that is no longer the case. Perhaps it has to [...]
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