We, as a "community", are in stagnant waters. Yes, the tonic has gone flat and it's last call to proposition decency amoung the masses of Drag Queens and your average everyday homosexual. We listen to it all the time, "Gay Rights", "Equality". BOO HOO HOO....Oh please stop the BS. Let me make this point clear. The Gay community will never gain equal rights until we begin to treat each other equally. Don't pretend to not know what I'm talking about, because we are all guilty of this social stigmatism. We see so many lying, cheating, stealing, backstabbing, gossiping cliques within this world that it's almost laughable (stand aside Erica Cane, there's a bigger bitch in town).
All over the place I hear "Gay Rights Right Now", and those same people will later make complete and total fools out of themselves by getting sloshed in some bar somewhere and shove their hands down some boy's pants and puke in someones sink or floor. "But that's what GAY is all about Mary". It makes me wonder why we really need equal rights in the first place, I mean, what's the poin in having legally recognized marriages anyways? Or is it that you want the legal right to divorce and get alimony and become a statistic?
If someone ever had the mental break down to video record the life of the average Homosexual, trust me, daytime television would have a rival. "Gays or our lives" would replace "All My Children".
One friend told me that a Gay is a person who would tell you what they think of you to your face, but a "Fag" will be your best friend, laugh with you and party all night with you, but as soon as you turn your back, they will become the most viscious queens. Does this sound like someone you know? Does this sound like you? Go to one club and feel at home, go to another and feel underdressed by the crowd of fashion fags that won't give you the time of day unless you wear a name brand and drive a $20,000 or more car.
Another problem witnessed by me over the past nine years, is the fact that so many of us can't seem to get out of the bars. When someone passes away from illness or accident, the majority of the people find out in the bars. Mostly because that person was known in the community because he or she worked or entertained in a club of some sort. Shouldn't there be more to our "Culture" than barstools and cocktails? Can't Gay Art have less nudity? Can't we at least attempt to demonstrate some sort of ideal moral that will prove to the world that we can be expressinve without being sexual? We are in a rut and can't get out of it because we are either too stupid, drunk or too self involved to really care.
We need to change before we can ask for changes in how others view us, we need to prove to ourselves that we are worth of equal treatment. Most importantly, we need to get out and be more involved with the rest of the world than just our little cobweb in the corner. Only be being in the masses, can we be a part of them. Silence may equal death, but constant screaming just makes you annoying.
I recently read that Dr. Laura stated that "Men have a penis and women have a vagina (no duh)and that they are for the purpose of reproduction (and she got a degree with this understanding). To find yourselve at odds with being attracted to the opposite sex is an error". OK, lets break this down. 1. Dr. Laura Schlesinger is a child psychologist, she does not have the education or the degree to determine what is and what is not "normal" for adulthood.
2. Bigotry in the new Millenium is a sure fire way to make yourself famous and lose a career (take Anita Bryant, Guns and Roses, Poison, Rick Astley, and now Eminem). One bad mistake of opening your mouth about your intollerance for gays and your career goes down the drain.
Now, lets look at this....Paramount is going to give her a TV show and the ratings will drop, you know what anti-gay legislation did to Colorado (boycot). Fred Phelps actually protested Proctor & Gamble just because they did not want to advertise on Dr. Laura's Show.....Dear Mrs. Schlesinger, look who's backing you. Fred Phelps, the man who has the disgusting habit of protesting funerals....I believe they should pass a law, and the next time he protests a funeral, arrest him on the charges of "Public Indecency".
So, now it's your turn to make a stand, get these people off the air before they turn your own children against you by making them believe that you are in the wrong because you choose to be comfortable with yourself and your heart. Do you really want the embarrassment of having your children go to your neighbors homes thumping bibles? Goddess save the Montrose District in Houston. I say this to Fred Phelps and Dr. Laura Schlesinger...."If you want save people, please save a couple of bad boys for Rigel7 and I".
So, what features would you like to see with a brand new operating system? How about a built in media player that plays ALL formats without having to download any plug ins. Or maybe a better multilanguage support that will allow the computer to talk back to you in a language different than english (ok, that's going to take a second CD rom), but will be free to purchasers.
All I need to do is get the VB compiler, experiment and learn and then get my butt busy. Yes, my basic shell programs make my system better, but it's using Windows...I need something better, we all do and I'm really interested in doing this so that I can stop yanking out my blonde hair on a daily (yeah right, HOURLY) basis. This is going to be fun...and watching Bill Gates give birth to a whole brick mansion will be even more fun. Suggestion to the courts, and this is where I'm really EVIL....Sentence GateZilla to work as a low payed employee of LINUX. Better yet, put him on the Technical Support phones where he can listen to people bitch, gripe and complain constantly....like me.
I promise, I won't get myself into too much trouble, and to make it easy on other companies that produce software, I will give them access to the code so that they can become a part of it and make improvements where I might fail. Hey, I'm not into this for the purpose of taking over the world, I reserve that for a different venue, but I am into this to help those who have as many or more problems than I with Windows.
Well, that's it for me this week, Brett will be updates soon, I hope, I need more input from him and the bar scene is where the comedy happens.