This is Editors's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Editors's activity
Editors
Recent Activity
First Fridays: Home Grown at The Pember!
Posted Sep 2, 2010 at The Pember Library and Museum
Comment
0
Editors is now following The Typepad Team
Mar 15, 2010
You would prefer, perhaps, that he had vetoed the bill?
Schwarzenegger Does the Right Thing...
It's amazing what can be accomplished when a Governor needs to court votes. Late last night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Harvey Milk Day, out-of-state marriages bill and domestic violence protection bill. However, Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 1185 (Lieu), which Equality California legisl...
I know the film well, as I knew Father Mychal, too, I might add. I was the Parish Council president of an Upper West Side parish where a good friend of Father Mychal's was in residence (oddly, his name was Michael). We would visit with Mychal frequently at his parish house.
Our purpose, with the GayWisdom blog is not necessarily to promote every gay-centric film, but to give notice to those that would normally not "be on the radar." "Saint of 9/11" got lots of notice (particularly here in NYC) when it came out, so we didn't think it needed any boost (if that's what it is) from us.
Rise Up and Shout!
Got some good news in the morning email (almost called it "the post" which has a whole new meaning now) from psychotherapist and filmmaker, Brian Gleason, who works so hard in Los Angeles. Some of you may be familiar with the Rise Up & Shout! project with which White Crane has been associated....
I know the film well, as I knew Father Mychal, too, I might add. I was the Parish Council president of an Upper West Side parish where a good friend of Father Mychal's was in residence (oddly, his name was Michael). We would visit with Mychal frequently at his parish house.
Our purpose, with the GayWisdom blog is not necessarily to promote every gay-centric film, but to give notice to those that would normally not "be on the radar." "Saint of 9/11" got lots of notice (particularly here in NYC) when it came out, so we didn't think it needed any boost (if that's what it is) from us.
Rise Up and Shout!
Got some good news in the morning email (almost called it "the post" which has a whole new meaning now) from psychotherapist and filmmaker, Brian Gleason, who works so hard in Los Angeles. Some of you may be familiar with the Rise Up & Shout! project with which White Crane has been associated....
That may well be...and we can only hope you are right. But like LBJ, we need to keep the pressure on so he can act. LBJ himself said that he needed the pressure of the Black Civil Rights movement to make the changes he made. I think the same is true of Obama. On one point I do disagree, though: he could, with the stroke of his pen, by executive order, just like Truman did, suspend DADT and stop people from being drummed out of the service, And purely as a matter of national security, given how many Arabic interpreters we're losing. Marriage equality is the least of my concerns, personally. I happen to think that's not one of the most important things, either. Granted, it is a matter of constitutional rights and equality, but there are other, more important things that relate specifically to the GLBT community that could be done.
Obama and the GLBT Community: A Reason to March?
Last year, after the election of Barack Obama (whom I supported), I predicted that Obama “is likely to disappoint us the way that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did before.” This was not meant as an indictment of Obama but as a reality check: Presidents inevitably disappoint those who voted for...
That may well be...and we can only hope you are right. But like LBJ, we need to keep the pressure on so he can act. LBJ himself said that he needed the pressure of the Black Civil Rights movement to make the changes he made. I think the same is true of Obama. On one point I do disagree, though: he could, with the stroke of his pen, by executive order, just like Truman did, suspend DADT and stop people from being drummed out of the service, And purely as a matter of national security, given how many Arabic interpreters we're losing. Marriage equality is the least of my concerns, personally. I happen to think that's not one of the most important things, either. Granted, it is a matter of constitutional rights and equality, but there are other, more important things that relate specifically to the GLBT community that could be done.
Obama and the GLBT Community: A Reason to March?
Last year, after the election of Barack Obama (whom I supported), I predicted that Obama “is likely to disappoint us the way that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did before.” This was not meant as an indictment of Obama but as a reality check: Presidents inevitably disappoint those who voted for...
Subscribe to Editors’s Recent Activity