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

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.

(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.

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.

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.

I look so butch with short hair!

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

US Soldiers Arrest Teenager Who Made Fun of Them

Tonight – Manhattan:

• Paul P. at Daniel Reich (308 West 21st Street)
  
• Weenie roast for “Rendered” at Sara Meltzer
  
• “Photography as Model” at Wallspace</p>

Thursday – Manhattan:

• Assume Vivid Astro Focus at Deitch Projects</p>

Friday – Williamsburg:

• “School is Out” at SouthFirst
  
• “Summer Reading” by Eyewash @ Schroeder Romero
  
• Party/performance for the Blinky show at Foxy Productions, mentioned earlier by me
  
• “Summer Show.03” at *sixtyseven
  
• Mireille Loup/Paul Pouvreau at Roebling Hall</p>

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Updated: James just wrote about Paul P.