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Advice from Patric King

Almost all of my posts are in the Queer category lately. Go figure.

The inimitable Patric King has a beautiful post filled with advice for the newly out.

Sam's pride photos

Go check out Sam’s photos of pride weekend, including great photos of the Dyke March.

Gay pride in the 'City of Joy'

These people are heroes — photos from the gay pride march in Calcutta. About 35 men marched yesterday. Thanks to the British Empire-era laws, homosexuality is illegal in India. I’ve seen some articles, such as the 365gay.com one, say it’s the first one, but I have seen an older report from 1999.

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(both photos: AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The 1999 article has a link to an interview with Indian gay activist Ashok Row Kavi by Perry Brass.

Williamsburg with fabulous Canadians

James and I spent Friday evening with Paul P. and Scott Treleaven in Williamsburg, showing them the scene. We went to openings at Pierogi 2000, SouthFirst, Schroeder Romero, *sixtyseven, and Roebling Hall. We also visited Foxy Productions, but we missed the performance by Paper Rad.

I think the highlight of the evening was the Pierogi show. Make sure you see the “exquisite corpse” project that Dawn Clements did with another artist, hanging in the office area. It was so hot at most of the galleries that we need to go back to make any kind of aesthetic decisions.

We had a lovely time, including a late dinner at Relish, and made it back home around 2am.

What do they look like?

Here is a picture of me (on the left) and James at the opening of Schroeder Romero’s “”http://www.schroederromero.com/past/decade.html">Decade</a>" show in April, courtesy of the gallery and the photographer, Robert Boyd. We’re standing in front of an image by Kathe Burkhart.

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I look so butch with short hair!