www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFIZos_oMI Source: ResearchChannel / Runtime: 29:00 Bernard Duncan Mayes recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system in his book “Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest”. He speaks about his life as a priest, journalist, university teacher and administrator, and gay rights activist. Mayes, originally from England, not only took part in the creation of the Parsonage, an Episcopalian ministry in San Francisco, but also played a major role in the organization of PBS and NPR. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pridedepot.com%2Fmodules%2Fwordpress%2F%3Fp%3D737777'; addthis_title = 'Video+Soapbox+-+Escaping+God%26%238217%3Bs+Closet%3A+Revelations+of+a+Queer+Priest'; addthis_pub = ''; ...

rich and well to do suburbanites think their 'solitude' is so much more important than addressing pressing needs for improved civic infrastructure. sudbury, ma residents are fighting the conversion of an old railroad into a bike trail. the bullshit-laden tantrums from grown adults is just hysterical:Looking out at a lushly wooded area beyond a stone wall on her 100-acre estate, Carole Wolfe's face darkened. There, in the distance, she said, nervously pointing a finger, stretches a former rail corridor that, if some have their way, could bring trouble upon this town where her family's roots date to Colonial times."Instead ...

There are also...I took these photographs on Thursday. I bought ET some icecream and we went for a stroll around Swanpool. It's a pity the weather hasn't continued like it was, for now the rain seems set in for the weekend. It's a particularly heavy rain with a strong wind, so I won't be going out and about with the camera. But, thank goodness, that means I won't have to do any gardening this weekend either (we did an awful lot of back-breaking work last week). ...

Ah, the summer holidays. For those of us lucky enough, it also means trips to the beach. From where I live in Brooklyn, I'm only ten miles from the Atlantic ocean and Ms. K and I have been traveling frequently to Jacob Riis beach in the Rockaways. It's not very crowded and clean. Well usually.There was something about Thursday. Maybe it was the pre-holiday vibe of everyone wanting to get out of the city for the 4th of July, but it seemed like people were extra crazy. When Ms. K got to the beach (after a minor accident involving an ...

I don’t know many other dumb-asses who would elect to visit family in Phoenix in the middle of July, but that just makes the plane less full for me anyway. Am I making any sense? Probably not - most people don’t really make any sense here. You can’t make too much sense living in the desert, and then all that heat soaks into you brain and you start acting a little slow and sloppy, just like me. So far, I’ve especially enjoyed eating snacks (that are supposed to be for the party) like hummus and pita chips, green olives, and potato ...

   Well, Tomorrow is the wedding. I'm at home with skyrose and working on putting the finishing touches on the cake, which she was kind enough to make. I'm airing my dress and attempting to not be nervous. I am also attempting to not be cranky about a few things that have happened, but it seems I will have this bitter taste in my throat for some time. I'm nervous. I'm sitting here looking at my dress, which Rob has yet to see, thankfully. Wondering if I am goign to trip over the veil or anything dumb like that. The ...

Random question: can anyone tell me about either the Oaks Card Room or the Casino San Pablo? Both are Bay Area poker rooms, and I’ll likely be spending some time there in the near future. ...

Last night I saw Thurgood. It was excellent. Today I gave Obama $100. We're about to go out into the close, overcast day and get the makings of a big old fry-up for breakfast. Happy Fourth!Comment ...

have fun at your bbqs and your day off in general!(oh and bye.) ...

1. Oh Hell No!It is often claimed that gay men and lesbians don't know what marriage is. See, if we only knew that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman, we would know that only a man and a woman could get married.Thankfully, some members of our Congress who really know what marriage is all about are sponsoring a Marriage Protection Amendment that lays it all out: "Marriage in the US shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman."This language was surprising to me.See, when I saw who two of the ...

Jen and I are celebrating our 5 year anniversary today. It doesn't seem like that long ago that we met...but my life before seems a long time ago, like when I was a kid. Before, I lived somewhere but I didn't have a home. I wasn't lonely, but I wasn't in love. This way is better. I love you Jen. You help me be a better person. You help me learn more about myself and the world around me. You let me love you even though I am clumsy sometimes, or silly or wrong. Your skin is from a fairytale, ...

Richard Stallman writes for the BBC in It's not the Gates, it's the bars: "Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he helped create remain, for now".... ...

Hoch oben in meinem Kitty-Hunter Redaktionsturm habe ich einen wunderbaren Überblick über so manches was da unten um den Feuersee so wedelt und weht. In den letzten Tagen waren dies allerhand Fahnen und Flaggen. Nicht nur die Nationalfahne zur EM, nein, mein Nachbarhaus hatte seine halbe Front mit Wimpeln und Fähnchen aller Herren Länder behängt um seiner Fußballeuphorie Ausdruck zu verleihen.... ...

As I finished work early yesterday, I headed on down to Swanpool before picking ET up from work. It was a beautiful afternoon and I took lots of photographs (these, I will show at a later date). It was so nice that, when I did eventually pick ET up, I offered to buy us both an icecream and go for a stroll around the lake.We ate our 99s (icecream in a cone with a flake bar) and enjoyed the sunshine. At the east side of the lake, we came across a family of swans: quite fitting to have swans at ...

This is the photograph I wanted to show you yesterday.Gyllingvase first thing in the morning: only the occassional dogwalker, a man and his son throwing a frisbie, some people getting the beach cafe ready for a fresh day of trading; the sea, lazy in its gentle movement, caressed the warm sand as the tide came in; a song thrush singing in the Gyllingvase nature park. Beauty doesn't come more freely than this. ...

…must I be such a social misfit? You’d think I’d never talked to a guy I was interested in, the way I run off at the mouth, or in this case, at the fingers. ARGH, does anyone have a spare rock I can crawl under? ...

From Thursday’s Irish Times Letters page… FF and Civil Partnership Bill Madam, - David Carroll’s vitriolic attack on Senator Jim Walsh (July 1st, 2008) was a good demonstration of liberal intolerance. Senator Walsh is absolutely right to be concerned about the proposed Civil Partnerships Bill and his concern mirror that of a majority of the Irish people, despite what Mr Carroll would have us believe. This Bill, if enacted, will fundamentally undermine the institution of marriage. Marriage enjoys the special protection of the State principally because it has proven benefits for society. The same cannot be said of same-sex unions. If ...

Senator Jim Walsh has been busy this week putting forward a motion to his parliamentary party concerning the proposed Civil Partnership legislation going too far. He has been busy saying he wasn’t being homophobic and saying his party colleagues who supported the motion (25 of them) weren’t homophobic. It’s clear from the silence that not all members of his parliamentary party agree with his proclamations. Especially in Wexford. I seem to remember before the last general election a bit of toing and froing (understatement) over the FF nominations in the Wexford constituency. Now it seems the temperature is hotting ...