• My goodness

    I don’t know if it’s because of Pride Weekend or the Supreme Court, but Chelsea certainly is a friendly neighborhood today. A muscled latin Chelsea boy just held the door for me and smacked his lips as I was leaving the gym.

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  • Is Bush gay?

    Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian — so close to Jesus, the other members of the Trinity refer to her as “Yoko Bowers” — asks, “is Bush gay”?

    She even provides a handy e-mail form for contacting the White House.

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  • Get Busy. Get Equal.

    On the heels of the Supreme Court decision killing sodomy laws, the ACLU isn’t going to just celebrate and party, like most homosexuals. They realize the fight isn’t over and they’re “getting busy”. I like the play on words.

    Get Busy. Get Equal.

    From the site:

    After this decision, it is unconstitutional for states to make same-sex relationships a crime. That does not mean that governments, businesses and other institutions have to treat LGBT people and LGBT relationships equally. But it does mean that the law no longer gives them an excuse to refuse.

    That means we are in a better position than we have ever been before to insist that governments, business and schools treat us with dignity and respect, and give us equal treatment in day to day life.

    This website provides tools to: 1) get better treatment for same-sex relationships; 2) get safe schools; 3) get civil rights/discrimination policies that include LGBT people. The tools include simple but important steps that will take only a few minutes–like sending an electronic message to your representatives in Congress supporting a law to protect LGBT people from discrimination. The tools also include more ambitious things, like a step-by-step guide showing how to get a an anti-harassment policy from your school district or a domestic partnership policy in your town or your workplace. There are also tools to help you protect your own relationship, or to get a gay/straight alliance at your school. And more.

    No one who cares about equality and dignity for LGBT people should let the opportunity this Supreme Court decision has given us pass without doing something to bring us a step closer to equality. So go to the tools. Take the easy steps, and check out the rest.

    Equality is up to us.

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  • A really big show

    I expect this show to be the highlight of the summer in Chelsea.

    D'Amelio Terras invitation

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  • We attacked Iraq to free them from oppression?

    US Soldiers Arrest Teenager Who Made Fun of Them

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  • Openings/happenings to attend

    Tonight – Manhattan:

    • Paul P. at Daniel Reich (308 West 21st Street)

    • Weenie roast for “Rendered” at Sara Meltzer

    • “Photography as Model” at Wallspace

    Thursday – Manhattan:

    Friday – Williamsburg:

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    Updated: James just wrote about Paul P.

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  • Imperialism is not about our moral superiority

    … or about helping the Iraqis in any meaningful way.

    I was struck by the photo when I saw it, not knowing any background.

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    Mon Jun 23, 5:09 PM ET
    U.S. military policeman Sgt. 1st Class Brian Pacholski, left, comforts his hometown friend, U.S. military policeman Sgt. David J. Borell, right, both from Toledo, Ohio, at the entrance of the U.S. military base in Balad, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Friday, June 13, 2003. Borell broke down after seeing three Iraqi children who were injured while playing with explosive materials. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

    Now the story of that photo is out. Borell broke down after an army doctor refused to treat the children.

    On a scorching afternoon, while on duty at an Army airfield, Sgt. David J. Borell was approached by an Iraqi who pleaded for help for his three children, burned when they set fire to a bag containing explosive powder left over from war in Iraq.

    Borell immediately called for assistance. But the two Army doctors who arrived about an hour later refused to help the children because their injuries were not life-threatening and had not been inflicted by U.S. troops.

    Now the two girls and a boy are covered with scabs and the boy cannot use his right leg. And Borell is shattered.

    “I have never seen in almost 14 years of Army experience anything that callous,” said Borell, who recounted the June 13 incident to The Associated Press.

    A U.S. military spokesman said the children’s condition did not fall into a category that requires Army physicians to treat them — and that there was no inappropriate response on the part of the doctors.

    I wasn’t aware that doctors renounced the Hippocratic Oath when they entered the military.

    [via Anees]

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  • Arrests at gallery openings

    I guess the whole terrorism thing is “taken care of,” if the police have time to ticket people for having beers on the sidewalk at gallery openings. This is the same block where I have to walk by SUVs parked on the damn sidewalk every time I go to the galleries.
    [via Gawker]

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  • New Yorkers Against the RNC

    A friend just set up a Yahoo group meant to be “a catch-all discussion group for people interested in organizing protests against the Republicans when they come to New York in September of 2004.”

    I just subscribed.

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  • Tyler from Modern Art Notes has some suggestions for those visiting Dia: Beacon.

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