I just realized yesterday that Alex is blogging again over at One Gay Date at a Time. I’ve missed his posts. Here’s an example why:

“You understand now what I mean, by the fact that I’m ninety percent straight and only like to sleep with men.” My reply is simple. “Dude, you just blew me, a few times, we’re so not having this conversation.” He smiles and leaves to go back to queens, his wife and soon to be child. I go back to bed wondering how best to Blog about my experience.

Jen commented in an email that it’s things like this news story that make her lose all faith in people. Today I found a reason to keep the faith: FlowerPower.

Since February 2003, FlowerPower has “collected over $1,200,000 of donated flowers, re-assembled and given them to those who rarely receive such gifts of hope.”

FlowerPower began as a New York City nonprofit (they now also serve Los Angeles) shortly after Nancy Lawlor, who was a clerical temp at the time, convinced a Waldorf-Astoria manager to give her $2,000 worth of pink roses, which would have been thrown out when new flowers arrived for the hotel’s lobby, to deliver to patients of Lenox Hill Hospital. Nancy Lawlor is featured on Page 44 of February’s O Magazine.

Quick, jot this down: Every lesbian writer hates The L Word’s Jenny.

It’s “New Jersey: Come See for Yourself.” Doesn’t that make you want to run there for your next vacation?

365Gay.com: (London) Police have dropped hate speech charges against a man who called a mounted policeman’s horse gay. Sam Brown, a senior at Oxford, made the remark to the officer when the student was on his way home after a night of partying with friends celebrating the end of exams last May. He allegedly approached the officer and said, “Excuse me, do you realize your horse is gay?” A few moment later two police cars approached and he was charged with making “homophobic comments” under the Public Order Act. Brown refused to pay a fine of about $140 and the Crown Prosecutor prepared for trial. But Wednesday in court, the charges were dropped.

About twenty New Jersey strippers (who were joined by 400 more people), fearful of the affect New Jersey’s new indoor smoking ban will have on business, came together in front of the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton yesterday to protest the ban. One dancer commented: “I feel that instead of customers coming to the bar, they’ll stay home to smoke their cigarettes.” Yea, if you’re gonna go to their homes and take your clothes off. Something tells me she doesn’t really get why people go to strip clubs.

Meanwhile, a completely different group of twenty women (not joined by 400, or even ten, more people), upset at EchoStar for “preventing viewers from gaining access to important issues like domestic violence and health,” showed up at Denver’s Civic Center Park to protest against the satellite service for removing two Lifetime channels from their Dish Network.

If you want tomatoes on a Wendy’s sandwich (like one from their 99-cent menu, for example), you’re gonna have to ask for them. Wendy’s spokesman Bob Bertini says the “restaurants” had to adopt a new tomato policy in late December because of crop damage due to Florida hurricanes. Wendy’s “hasn’t been able to secure tomatoes with the quality and quantity” they would like.

Is anyone else as amused by this as I am?

Agape Press: According to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more women are experimenting with homosexual activity. The report was based on data collected in 2002 in the National Survey of Family Growth. It found 11 percent of women said they had had a sexual experience with another woman. That is compared to 4 percent of women who said the same thing in a 1992 survey.

The Village Voice reports that this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, which began yesterday and ends on January 26th, includes “Keep Not Silent: Ortho-Dykes.”

Description from Women Make Movies: In KEEP NOT SILENT, Alexander boldly documents the secret struggle of three lesbian women fighting for their right to live and love within their beloved Orthodox communities in Jerusalem. All three are pious, religiously committed women. And all three are members of a secret support group called “Ortho-Dykes.”

Family. They just want what’s best for you (that’s code for they don’t give a shit about you unless you obey them).

MEERUT: Chafed by her family’s opposition to her same sex marriage, an 18-year-old girl today attempted suicide by consuming insecticide and was admitted at a nursing home in Kankerkhera here.

The two, who have grown up in the same locality and known each other for several years, ’solemnised’ the marriage at a Shiva temple in Kankerkhera after which the girl brought her 20-year-old ‘bride’ with ‘Sindoor’ (Vermillion) on her head to live in her Jawaharpuri house on Tuesday evening.

The family, however, disapproved of the Union and sent the bride back to her house in Badam Mandi.

The ‘groom’ was then locked inside a room where she allegedly consumed some insecticide.

She was rushed to a private nursing home where her stomach was flushed out.

Doctors attending on her said she was out of danger but kept under observation.

The girl told reporters at the nursing home that the two had made a choice and would continue to live together. She said they had been “living as husband and wife” for the last five years.

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