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
Before there was Stephenie Meyer, there was Anne Rice, the Vampire Chronicles matriarch who years back quit being a blood-sucking, homoerotic-espousing scribe to focus on her newfound faith. The author revealed yesterday via Facebook that she was abandoning Christianity because of several personal conflicts with the church’s doctrine. She wrote: “For those who care, and I understand if [...]
Ever wondered how far you’d have to travel to legally wed your partner — without leaving the country? (Iowa.) Or which Oregon lawmakers stand in against marriage equality? (Rep. Greg Walden.) StatesThatAllowGayMarriage.com provides an interactive map tracking the status of same-sex marriage across the country and includes details on politician’s voting records as well as the [...]
July has five Fridays this go around. It also has five Thursdays and five Saturdays. What does it all MEAN? Your guess is as good as ours, but on thing’s for sure: Red Cap Garage/Boxxes is seizing the opportunity by engaging in a two-day onslaught of live performance, Burlesque, dancing, and all things five (5). Starting [...]
Thanks to Portland blogger extraordinaire and Just Out contributor Byron Beck for a heads up on the following. Per an Eater PDX post by Erin DeJesus, Looks like the swirling rumors surrounding the location of the reborn Portland outpost of Hamburger Mary’s â€" a California-based chain of LGBT-friendly bars â€" can finally be put to rest. … [...]
What better way to start your Friday night festivities than by getting fancy? Getting dolled up and still having dollars left to enjoy a night out, while supporting a worthy cause. Parlor invites folks of all genders to “enjoy a night of glamour and self-indulgence” as In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources transforms into a [...]
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 and has disastrous effects on the earth’s 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 “saved†for the umpteenth teen evangelism-free for twenty-four years. Hi Elena! I was “saved†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 I’ve mentioned in previous articles, I take testosterone. I use a gel daily that gets [...]
My daughter doesn’t like me writing for Our Big Gayborhood. She’s 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 “write for that thing.†Tonight, after I’d told her that I had some writing to do, she decided to dispense [...]
Today, July 23, I turned 55 years old. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve 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 mascara’d 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 [...]
Our Big Gayborhood is proud to add the voice of 15-year-old gay teen Jacob Griffith Gardner to the diverse sounds of life here...where the queers write.
Okay, my secret is out. Margo (with the help of Chris) let the cat out of the bag in my profile last month. I like cute undies!! No, I LOVE cute undies!! Not in a pervy, fetishy kinda way. I don’t do weird sexual things with them or steal them from other guy’s gym bags [...]
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