TURN PRIDE PARADES INTO MARCHES!!!

I call the cities that still have pride parades coming to turn those into MARCHES.

We have our pride parade, in our communities and do not venture out. We will have everyone out on Pride days, those usually warming bar stools, busy with work, wrapped up in their families, & more who normally may not be able to attend a MARCH. Well They will be out that day, parading to the fairgrounds.

WHY NOT TAKE A DETOUR?

WHY NOT TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY and turn your "Stonewall 2.0" PRIDE PARADE & make it really count???

MARCH, PROTEST, and get people to notice we are here, proud, and WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY UNTIL WE GET OUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Example: In SAN DIEGO: Parade, Saturday, July 18, 11:00 am

Normal PRIDE PARADE ROUTE



New PRIDE PROTEST MARCH ROUTE


This Protest Route would go through downtown and then through Balboa Park which would be filled with weekend visitors.

It would avoid CHP, because it does not interfere with Hwy 163 or the Hwy 5/163 interchange.

Yes, it would involve possibly three (or four) different police groups: Hillcrest, Downtown, police maintaining Balboa Park, along with park officials. BUT, if we remain peaceful, and if even 1/4 of the 100,000+ attendees to the parade join, they would be more than willing to block streets (With prior notice and enCOURAGEment on our part).

LET'S make "STONEWALL 2.0" MEAN SOMETHING!!!

OBAMA isn't listening, YET.

I do not want to wait 15 MORE YEARS for my RIGHTS!!!!

BLACK Bigots Are Getting To Me: And Its Killing Their Own.

Rev. Wright does it again. He HATES Jews. He doesn't mind saying it as he did to the Daily Press after his sermon at the Hampton University Ministers' Conference:

"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News (I heard it on the news, and found it here on Huffington Post).

DUDE, why would Obama want to talk to you? You are a BIGOT that will undo much of what he is trying to accomplish, and give the GOP Bigots plenty of ammo to fight anything he tries.

My bigotry is showing its nasty head, but it only shows itself toward bigots. It is the only Prejudice that I have (I think). The worst bigots for me is any minority preaching HATE toward another minority AND we have had too many Black preachers, & Black Gays, spouting HATE toward Jews or Gays in the past several weeks (Years). It is bad enough when we have white bigots hurting us, but for me, it is worse when any minority spouts hate toward any other. WE ARE IN THE FIGHT TOGETHER, DICKHEADS!!!

The "best for them" thing that white bigots have done, is to teach minorities to hate each other. IT IS STUPID, and COUNTERPRODUCTIVE to receiving RESPECT and for Gays, keeping us from getting laws to protect us (which we have none).

FUCK YOU, Michael Henry Adams & Huffington Post for letting you, and others, preach your hate or Fucked-Up sense of superiority in the fight for Civil Rights. Adams is a Black Gay Man, telling Gays their fight "DOESN'T COMPARE" to The Black Fight or the interracial fight for marriage. http://tinyurl.com/leecdo





FUCK YOU, Marion Barry!!! You can sleep with Hookers on the side while doing coke, AND "Gays are ruining marriage". DICKHEAD!!! http://tinyurl.com/r8u5ag







FUCK YOU, REV. Anthony Evans!!! You should have heard this ASSHOLE on the news screaming with several other Black men that they would fight Gays and their Allies. As quoted from Huffington Post:

"The Rev. Anthony Evans, a pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Washington, said he would work to have the measure killed in Congress _ and to unseat every D.C. Council member who voted for it." http://tinyurl.com/c4xpjj

Is it INNER Hate for yourselves, like abused people passing on the abuse as someone might if they were molested as a child? Is it like the "small dick syndrome" or "little man syndrome"-Needing to scream and make yourselves heard by oppressing others in order to feel more superior and boost your fucking ego?

Whatever it is, STOP IT. It makes you a HYPOCRITE!!! It makes you a DICK!!! And it will hurt you in the end.

GAYS ARE NOT TRYING TO TAKE YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY. BUT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING RIGHTS in the law, YOU DO!!! It might be time you worked on getting people to overcome their prejudice for you, but spouting this shit ain't gonna do it.

Gays (A LIGHTs) have been with your fight all along. Bi-sexual Lincoln fought for your freedom. Gays legislators & liberals helped back you in your fight (Our "Closets" have helped you at our expense- See "Outrage"). BAYARD RUSTIN advised MLK and helped lead your movement in the 60s to victory by teaching you non-violent protest practices and organizing your marches. Bayard if you didn't know was BLACK & GAY!!!

SO SHUT THE FUCK-UP or help yourselves by being RESPECTFUL to other minorities & start helping Gays get their rights, because it will help YOU!!!

OKAY

Did you know that HIV is running at epidemic levels in the Black Community. In D.C. the rate is higher than ANY African Country. Could it be that the problem Blacks have about talking about anything GAY may have something to do with it? Down-Low love & that arrogant, "Condoms are too small" idea, may be keeping you from talking about gay sex and safe sex. If you can't be comfortable talking GAY, how can you talk HIV?

What about Jaheem Herrera










and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoove,











Two 11 year old youths bullied, with gay slurs, who then committed suicide?
Gay teen suicide rate is around 6 times higher than straight kids.
Do you really want your kids to die?

If Obama were to really back and fight for an all out GAY Civil Rights Act, he could be a hero for all of us. He is gonna need to hear it from you.

BURNING IN HELL - THE MUSICAL !!!

We may be heading for Hell, as the Right-Wingers keep telling me, but I only believed it was possible when I saw this, then couldn't stop laughing.

At least we will do it SINGING!!!

Quick Note - I am still doing the Hail Mary's for my thoughts during Jesus Christ Superstar. "Forgive me Father, For I Have Siiiiiinned...," something I am really used to saying.

Picture From: Cool Stuff - Time for a Laugh

WHO WOULD JESUS HATE?

I always learned that Jesus taught Love, Compassion, & Helping those in need. I keep trying to find all the hate that Right Wingers say is in the Bible.

Oh, there I found their "New Version"(Or is it a repeat from the Crusade days?) and their "NEW RULES" (Bill Maher will be upset, well maybe).

Getting Ready 4 the Gathering Sh*t Storm

Btmenw Mark is in from a couple weeks of defending off flying debris from the Sh*t Storm Happening Over LGBT Rights. NOW, is Hunkered-Down watching Twitter, With Caffeine & DEPENDS-ables (So, he doesn't run away and miss anything), taking a breather before the next Storm Front Moves in.

OBAMA-Your ROOTS Are Showing!!!

I've been known to ask, "Are my Chicago Roots showing?" I say this because I tend to be more liberal, direct, & diverse in my attitude towards just about everything. I like a little of all, and think people should be fairly treated financially and treated with respect (Only prejudice that I think I have is against Bigots).

I am usually very optimistic, as well.

I thought Obama learned these things from his time in Chicago, and it appeared even more so, when he began instituting some of his plan over the past few months.

BUT, In the past few weeks, I have come to think Obama has been forgetting his Chicago (transplanted) roots and is going for other ones when it comes to LGBT issues.

When it comes to "A LIGHT" (Gay/LGBT) Issues, I am still trying to figure if Obama is a mix of:




Harvey Milk & MLK,




Bayard Rustin & Gavin Newsom





OR Bill O'Reilly & Marion Barry

WHY WE NEED TO DEMAND IT ALL, NOW!!!

I have been tired of hearing "WAIT", "BE PATIENT", OR "One day we will get our rights from encouraging voters". This thinking has caused our movement to work in reverse of all other civil rights movements and has caused our goals to be underachieved.


We are willing to wait until people like us enough to give us rights (Usually sitting on our bar stools), stay in the closet because we have become comfortable there (And are like some battered women who won't leave their husbands because it might be bad, but it is what they know) and, like many Americans, expect things to be given to us without effort because, well, we are (arrogant) Americans.



The movie, "Outrage" deals with these issues as a, "CLOSET EFFECT". We are so used to the way things are, so afraid to demand what we want, and SO AFRAID that people might hurt us, that we hide, lie, and hurt our own in order to keep things the same. The ones that they talk about, also start more risky sexual practices and in turn hurt us more because they are the stereotype our haters have for us.

I see it as that we are born into families in every minority or majority group and we learn these abilities to hate, lie, and the pain from our parents. We learn that they hate us and we need to stay hidden. We do not have a parent, as other minorities do, that can understand our pain from our point of view. This also causes an almost 6 times greater gay teen suicide rate. Not having laws to protect us, and judges telling people we don't deserve them, encourages bullies to taunt and perform hate crimes and then gives us more reasons to feel depressed.

New data and old data prove that 30 year old comments from Harvey Milk are one of the best ways to get votes and move public opinion, "COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT!!!" We would have been about 15% ahead in California if our friends, family and co-workers knew we were gay.

If we followed Milk's actions and those of all other Civil Rights Movements and used the full book of nonviolent protest practices, we would have our rights by now. Protests, Boycotts and SCREAMING works to move legislation/Legislators.

We all need to get involved, step up the fight and use all the help we can get. If we settle for bits and pieces, that is what we will always get. We will never receive everything unless we demand it & demand it all at once, NOW!

Help to get others involved by using my 4 Hour Plan & keep the conversation alive. I want conservatives to get so tired of hearing about us and seeing us in the news, that they grow tired, go away, and let us have our rights.

"Goes To Twelve" Blog gives us some interesting ideas on how to focus our fight and encourage our enemies to give up, with "Alinsky's Rules For Radicals" in the right column.

What do you want? EQUAL RIGHTS
When do you want 'em? NOW

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? GET ANGRY
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? COME OUT
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? READ THE 4 Hour Plan
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? GO SEE OUTRAGE
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? GET OTHERS TO FOLLOW 4 Hour Plan

Who Are We Forgetting With "LGBT"?

I use the term "Gay" a lot, maybe too much. I identify with it as a Gay male, but also am old enough to remember a time when their wasn't a common word yet for many of our LGBT community members.

When "Bras were burning", I realized there were Lesbians not happy under the cover of the umbrella of "Gay". I met my first "Dykes" and my first bit of anti-gay prejudice from my Lesbian sisters.

It took me a while to understand. I was always in the belief that "Gay" united us and didn't want any other terms that might divide our community, as this seemed to be happening.

My favorite blog uses "Queer" in its title. I am not comfortable owning that one full-time for myself, either. Never was a "Twink", a total "Muscle Boi" or "Muscle Bear", not exactly a "Leather Boy" or "Sir" and now I am closing in on "Daddy" when I don't shave, but am too baby faced to be called that for a few more years (I Hope). I think I am a little of everything and like it all (Guess it's my Chicago roots showing).

Over the years, I have had a parade of new identifying terms as my friends began finding a term they identify with. When Obama made this month "LGBT Pride Month", it got me to think about those who might have trouble being left out.

It brings me to another problem. If I add the "I" for Intersexed, "Q" for Queer, "H" & "H" for Heteroflexible and Homoflexible, and FTM & MTF Transgendered physically, but then they each have their sexual preference to take in account, I am into a tounge-twister of a title and it's beginning to look like a secret pass code for my favorite porn website.

A few months ago, I even tried to combine a few, hoping noone would get mad, into an "A LIGHT" RAINBOW. Asexual(A), Lesbian(L), Intersexed(I), Gay(G), Heteroflexible/Homoflexible/Bisexual(H), and Transgendered/MTF/FTM/Gay/Lesbian/Straight/Bisexual combinations (T). I hoped Bisexuals wouldn't mind being consolidated into the fold, or piss off a whole new group, because Bears, Muscle Bears, Otters, Grey Foxes, Cubs, Papis, Daddies, Sirs, Boys, Twinks, Muscle Bois, Queers, Fags, Queens, Dykes, Fems, & Doms. Then let's not get into the preference subtitles tops, bottoms, versatile, versatile-top, versatile-bottom, and flip. I know I have forgotten all the categories of Asexuals and Intersexed individuals but my head is about to explode.

OMG, I would sound like Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins singing our new title if I even tried. Therefore, you are gonna have to bear with me.

I will use "GAY", because I am old and love you all and want to include you all. I also am old enough to remember when people used that to mean "Happy" (Which, I hope we all one day will be). Or, I will make an effort to include you all in a way my tongue, although used to twisting, can handle and use my term "A LIGHT" Rainbow shining on us all (So Gay, I Know).

I can say sorry to the female Bisexuals for regrouping them, or say figuratively to the male ones to, "BITE ME NOW!" (When literally, I wish some would). When all I want to do is have a "GAY OLD BLOG" where I can make you all happy enough, at times, to deal with me when I need to rant, rave, and use your self-owned title in an unflattering way.

Otherwise, BITE ME NOW!

DOD FED GLOBE for Repealing DADT!!!

JOIN to help end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

www.dodfedglobe.com

SIGN-UP HERE

This group directly lobbies the Department of Defense in an effort to repeal DADT and other policies of discrimination toward LGBT community members in the armed services and other governmental departments.


Lt. Dan Choi is a member.

I am a member.

You need to be a member!!!

The 4 Hour Plan

EVERYONE CAN VOLUNTEER FOR EQUALITY

The 4 Hour A Month Plan

GOAL: To get ALL LGBT Community Members and Allies who are not Involved, to become active and aware community members WITHIN their busy schedules. This is a work in progress. Make positive suggestions to (Mark) btmenw@live.com or btmenw at Twitter, search/hashtag #4HourPlan.


1st MONTH: Getting Organized

Hour 1- Boycotts Work

* Write a shopping list of ALL products you buy & services you use weekly.
* Download list of companies friendly/not friendly to the LGBT Community.

- HRC Buyers Guide to businesses who are LGBT friendly. www.hrc.org/buyersguide2009
- Queers United Blog's Gay Friendly & Unfriendly Companies queersunited.blogspot.com
-Prop 8 Supporters www.hrc.org/news/11542.htm gayboycotts.org www.afterellen.com/node/39787 (I will find best lists & update).

* Compare your list to the HRC Boycott List & Queers United List, then Skim Prop 8 Supporting Business Owners in your area. Know what products and services you may need to stop using.
* Example: May want to replace your Poptarts because Kellogg's is around 60% (Yellow). Definitely want to not buy a Butterball Turkey for dinner, because they are in RED group.

Hour 2- Be Informed

YOU READ, SKIM & SCAN

* Find & Bookmark Key Online Sources

- The Advocate www.advocate.com
- Huffington Post www.Huffingtonpost.com Skim Headlines, Then Search G- for Gay & C-for Civil Rights under (button down page on right named) More Big News Pages. Liberal & Not so liberal news & blog articles.
- Queers United Blog queersunited.blogspot.com LGBT News, Vocab, & Events

*Grassroots organizations, Events & Protests in your area.

- Join The Impact jointheimpact.com Protests & Events/Search Your town
- Courage Campaign www.couragecampaign.org A grassroots organization of LGBT and Straight Allies working for Civil Rights.


NEWS COMES TO YOU

* Join These Organization Sites & News will come to you by email.

News

- www.advocate.com Advocate, Gay news from around the country.
- www.Huffingtonpost.com Huffington Post, Sign Up & you get emails & you get a profile & can comment on news stories on all topics.


Grassroots Organizations

- Join The Impact jointheimpact.com Protests & Events/Search Your town

- Courage Campaign www.couragecampaign.org A grassroots organization of LGBT and Straight Allies working for Civil Rights.

- SDEC= San Diego Equality, www.sdequalitynow.com

- SAME= San Diego Equality & Peaceful Protest Group, www.samealliance.com













- DOD FED GLOBE= DADT Lobbying, www.dodfedglobe.com

- Young Democrats, www.sdcyoungdemocrats.com


Non-Grassroots Organizations

- www.sddemoclub.org SDDC=San Diego Democratic Club has a monthly newsletter of information for Democrats, Local & National News Items, Comedy from around the web and campaign information.
- www.hrc.org HRC=Human Rights Campaign
- www.aclu.org/lgbt ACLU=American Civil Liberties LGBT issues.
- www.eqca.org EQCA=Equality California
- www.marriageequality.org MEUSA= Marriage Equality Outreach

* Create a profile by signing up. You can Comment on News Stories & Blogs.
* You may create a new free email account under fun screen name for anonymity at www.hotmail.com.
* You Can use this account to join organizations & sites like Twitter as well if worried about excessive emails or anonymity.


LET SOMEONE ELSE FIND THE NEWS

* Twitter twitter.com Quick Prescreened News. Each person or group you follow will give you links to current updated news, information of upcoming events, & quick comments on news.

* Join Twitter For Quick News Links:
* Do search of #4HourPlan for hints on an extended list of who to follow & why.


Short List:

News You Can Use

@TheAdvocateMag The Advocate
@queerunity Queers United Blog News Alerts
@davidbadash Online Blogger
@GayMarriage Gay Marriage News
@GayRainArmy Gets to the Heart of things.
@btmenw (My Screenname) News, Event Info, & Comments on Gay Rights Issues.

Protesters/Events & Grassroots

@JoinTheImpact Upcoming Events & Protest News
@YesOnEqualiy Yes on Equality & Ballot/Proposition in CA
@CourageCampaign Courage Campaign
@sarabethbrooks Grassroots Organizer
@sdequalitynow SDEC San Diego
@dayofdecision Protest Events

National & Non-Grassroot

@HRCBackStory Human Rights Campaign
@MEUSA Marriage Equality USA
@ACLU American Civil Liberties Union
@eqca Equality California



YOU Chatroom?

* Twitter allows you to reply to others, add comments, & enter subject areas by searching and adding a
#hashtag (#LGBT, #DADT, #4HourPlan), and you can “chat” back and forth with people on topics.

#4HourPlan
#LGBT
#DADT
#Prop8
#MITM4E

* Give feedback on Tweets (Twitter messages) or pass along a good one by copying & pasting it in upper comment window. Type RT (A Retweet) before it & a “@” in front of senders name. It gives recognition to the original sender.



Hour 3- Know About Upcoming Events


* Find protest events in your area and mark them in your CALENDAR & Set-up an ALARM on your phone calendar.

- @JoinTheImpact

Hour 4- Spreading Your Story

* Come out to your family, friends, and co-workers. They will be more likely to help us if they know.

* Take five extra minutes & ask the stores you shop at & the clergy you hear at mass, where they stand (Come out to them). Decide if you can do outreach to them and change their opinion on LGBT Rights OR decide if this is the place you should spend your money or time.


2nd MONTH:

You already know where you stand as a gay person with your products and your service providers and where your church stands. You know what businesses to avoid. You know what events are coming up. You have your calendar ready & you know where to find your news.


Now:

Hour 1- Skim Your News & Emails

* Check your gay websites a few minutes a day & Read them while you are waiting for your mail to open.
* Update your calendar of events.
* Check your email.


Hour 2- Inform Others

Have a drink at a gay establishment, talk to family, talk to co-workers, straight or gay, and talk to your friends and acquaintances about upcoming events. Tell them what is happening in our country about DADT, DOMA, LGBT Rights, and (Gay) Marriage Equality. Keep the conversation alive, while interesting others in taking part in their futures & their Civil Rights. Have fun, but keep the conversation alive.

Hour 3 & 4- Go To An Event

* Spend two hours at a LGBT rally, event, meeting, or protest this month, even if that is an excuse for a sunny day road trip to an event in a town nearby. Courage Campaign’s Camp Courage may be a nice day or weekend event.
* Look For Local Organizations

- Jointheimpact.com For Events.
- Check your local LGBT Center or organizations listed above.


* Based in San Diego, With California & National News & Influence- Join:

- SDDC=Democrat Issues, www.sddemoclub.org
- SDEC=Equality, www.sdequalitynow.com
- SAME= Equality & Peaceful Protest Group, www.samealliance.com
- DOD FED GLOBE= DADT Lobbying, www.dodfedglobe.com
- Young Democrats, www.sdcyoungdemocrats.com
- MEUSA= Marriage Equality Outreach, www.marriageequality.org

Or join all at Marriage of the Minds 1st & 3rd Sunday at 5:00 for information on all group activities & upcoming events, & event planning.

* Check Organization’s Website Calendar or your LGBT Center’s Community Calendar for meeting times & dates.


3rd MONTH & All Future Months:


Hours 1 & 2.

* Repeat 2nd Months hours 1 & 2.

Hours 3 & 4

* Volunteer those two hours that you go to the event to an organization at the event or jump get emailing.

- Event Volunteer or Peace Keeper
- Event Planning
- Outreach
- Phone Outreach
- Emailing Congressman, The President, & Companies (Can do fill in letters at most national sites, i.e. ACLU, HRC, MEUSA, EQCA, etc.).

* Meet Other Members of Community
* Ask Questions on what is happening with future Events & Outreach.

You may:

* Have people coming to you to ask what you think about an issue.
* Your Experiences Are Important and may shed light in an area we are struggling with. (Share at your Twitter account or hashtags #4HourPlan #DADT #LGBT or other related topics).

You might:

* Get a date or meet a new friend.
* Find a great new social group.
* Receive a feeling of being an active member for your rights and those of others.