Sometimes you never know what someone believes about you until you hear it from someone else. Margie Christoffersen, the grande dame of El Coyote was always there with a smile for gay folk, but that isn’t how her Mormon friends saw it. A fellow ward member has posted her views about Margie and El Coyote. And if they reflect Margie’s, I’m ill to think I ever spent a cent there. She opens: I was going to write about the persecution of my friend, Marjorie (Margie) Christofferson, who has been targeted by the gay community for giving 100 bucks to ...

One of the notable attributes of the protests in response to Proposition 8 is that they have for the most part been peaceful. In all reports I have seen, the police worked with the community to minimize conflict and keep peace and the gay and gay-friendly protesters have not rioted or destroyed property. There have been reports of some vandalism in Utah caused by a bb gun and someone sent some white powder to a couple Temples (harmless, it turned out); these incidents may be related to the Proposition 8 and the gay community. And a few folks have stepped ...

I'm excited to be traveling to San Francisco on Wednesday for a conference, as The Castro seems to be the center of a surging gay terrorist network. See how they treat frumpy Christians who proselytize on Castro and 18th Street [via joe.my.god.]: The Castro is a gay neighborhood, through-and-through, and is one of the most friendly and welcoming place I've ever been in America. But that gays who have just seen discrimination against them enshrined in the state constitution should get a little upset when fundamentalist Christians preach conversion or damnation to gaytown is not surprising. Is it loud ...