Posts Tagged ‘gay pride’
July 17th, 2018 | 
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For the last decade or so, for the Pride parade in June, the pastors’ van has strewn with helium balloons and other garlands. The junior and senior high kids, along with some adults, arrange the decorations before getting into parade position with some other local Presbyterians.
Someone who watched the festivities noted that the faith community was particularly very well represented this year. I marched, and the Daughter was one of the folks holding the denominational banner.
The route goes from Washington Park; down State Street, past a massive contingent from our church waving us on; across Lark Street, where you can really see the panorama of participants and supporters; bypassing the one guy with a sign and bullhorn telling us we’re all going to hell; up Madison Avenue; then back into Washington Park.
Oddly, the pastors do not drive around regularly with balloons on their vehicle. So once we’ve parked, it becomes incumbent on us to undecorate.
I see one of our number popping the balloons, as she was instructed. I do get why:
All released balloons, including those falsely marketed as “biodegradable latex,” return to Earth as ugly litter. Moreover, once they get loose, they can pose a threat to many animals.
Still, do you know what else balloons facilitate? Making people happy. Two competing schools of thought. I took groups of two or three balloons and offered them to passersby, most of whose faces lit up when I handed them the small bouquets.
I was operating on the slightly irrational theory that people who are savvy about LGBTQ+ rights would be likewise “woke” about environmental issues.
The Daughter took a dozen or so home herself, on a CDTA bus, no less, and the balloons died on the living room floor of natural causes, not stuck inside some bird or tangled in a power line.
For ABC Wednesday
I’m told kitten pictures are allowed if they’re yours. One of these is now ours, this from 3 years ago.
My wife had foot surgery on the morning of July 5. It was not required, but it was suggested if she wanted to maintain her mobility as she gets older. She’s recovering well.
NRA Issues Call for White Supremacy and Armed Insurrection
Fundamentalism, racism, fear and propaganda: An insider explains why rural, Christian white America will never change – I don’t believe people can NEVER change
My Aunt Had a Dinner Party, and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews
John Oliver exposes The Right-Wing Media Empire Taking Over Your Local News
I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
My Life With a Pre-Existing Condition
Three Misunderstood Things, including The Masterpiece Cakeshop case
NOT ME: Bello, dressed in a white medical coat to conceal an AM-15 rifle, spotted Dr. Roger Green on the 16th floor. “Why didn’t you help me out when I was in trouble?” Bello demanded of Green as he pulled his AM-15 assault rifle from its hiding spot and took aim. [Green as not hit, but one was killed and several wounded before the gunman at the Bronx hospital killed himself.]
The Hijacked American Presidency
Internet Wading: Pride in June
Unspoken Funeral Etiquette Rules Every Guest Should Follow
Jaquandor on choosing happiness
A Name for the Micro Generation Born Between 1977-1983
Understand The Difference Between Second Cousins And Cousins Once Removed
Inker Joe Sinnott, inking the Spider-Man strip at 90. He is one of the sweetest men I’ve ever met.
I want to see the production of “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill
C’EST MOI: On Bing …Roger’s got the top search result for Spaulding Krullers; also true on Google
Is Cookie Monster part of the resistance?
In case you need to know, the boxed prunes are next to the raisin in the produce section of the Madison Avenue Market 32, fka Price Chopper.
Now I Know: The Sleep-away Camp That Starts At Night and The Color of Feeling Better and Why (Some) Coins Have Ridges and How Long Would It Take to Count to a Million?
Family Feud: Gilligan’s Island Vs. Batman and Gilligan’s Island Vs. Lost in Space
MUSIC
Moby & The Void Pacific Choir’s “In This Cold Place”
Higher Love – Lilly Winwood and Steve Winwood
K-Chuck Radio: Rock Hits in Early Stereo and Making it on Promo CDs
Someday Baby Blues – SLEEPY JOHN ESTES & HAMMIE NIXON (1935)
Too Darn Hot – Charlie Rosen’s Broadway Big Band with vocalist Alan H. Green
Okie From Muskogee – Phil Ochs (1970/Live At Carnegie Hall)
Paul McCartney Finally Regains Beatles Rights After Near 50-Year-Long Battle
Annie Lennox Has ‘Potential,’ Purported Radio Station Scout Says
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It’s been a very newsworthy period, and I haven’t been able to write about any of the polly ticks of it. I was mourning my friend. I’ve been ill.
So here is a potpourri of stories, some of which I think are interrelated.
I have been told to my face, “Racism will go away, if we would only stop talking about race!” Exhibit #666 to the contrary is Rick Tyler For Congress, a third party candidate from Tennessee, who has an unapologetic racist campaign. He has borrowed Donald Trump’s slogan and “improved” on it. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Congress, Donald Trump, European Union, gay pride, gay rights, gun control, John Lewis, music, news, Orlando shooting, racism, Scotland, terrorism, United Kingdom |
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The First Presbyterian Church in Albany, NY is celebrating 20 years of being a More Light community, which means “seeking the full participation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people of faith in the life, ministry, and witness of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)”
For the service on June 5, our guest preacher, and leader in the adult education class, was Tony De La Rosa, the interim executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency for the denomination.
Tony admitted that he struggled with the recommended readings, or liturgy, for the date. Both 1 Kings 17:17-24 and Luke 7:11-17 involved women seeming to lose their children, only to have Elijah and Jesus, respectively, bring their sons back to life. How would this fit in with a More Light message?
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The New York Times’ prophetic 1983 warning about the NSA, which naturally leads to Glenn Greenwald killed the internet.
My Feelings About the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape in 10 GIFs.
Invisible Disabilities Day is October 24. I have this friend with rather constant neck pain, but she doesn’t LOOK sick, and therefore feels diminished by those who actually don’t believe her. Conversely, The Complexities of Giving: People with Disabilities as Help Objects.
Photos of the worldly goods of inmates at the Willard Asylum. I backed the Kickstarter for this and wrote about it a couple years ago.
“Each week, TIME Magazine designs covers for four markets: the U.S., Europe, Asia and the South Pacific.” Often, America’s cover is quite, well – different. I had noticed this before. I don’t know that it’s “stunning,” but it IS telling.
The Peanuts gang meets The Smiths, in which This Charming Charlie masterfully blends Charles Schulz’ comics with lyrics by The Smiths. Read the rest of this entry »
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