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While in Portland, we decided to use the MAX trains to get from our hotel into the downtown area. It would be easier than driving in, fighting the traffic, and then hunting for parking; plus, once in the city, you can hop on the light rail to get to different areas. It was perfect.

We were shuttled from the hotel to a transit center, found the correct line, and waited for the train. We easily found a seat when the train arrived and settled down for the short trip. At one stop, a young girl got on, walked by me and sat down two seats away. A young man was sitting across from her, his skateboard on the floor, when the young girl snorted a wad of phlegm into her throat and then spit it on the kid’s board.

The kid went nuts, screaming at her, and demanded that she use her shirt to wipe the loogie from his board. The two began screaming at one another and I turned to Carlos and whispered:

“At the next stop, run for the doors.”

“I can’t see the doors.”

“Run to your right, then right again, and through the doors.

“I can’t see the doors.”

“Okay then. I’m gonna run. Text me when you get to safety.”

Good times.

PS The girl cleaned the loogie and the boarder got off at the next stop.

This one goes back to March 2011. Shortly after the arrival of Consuelo:

“Consuelo Roca Jones: #11 of 1500

When we adopted Miss Jones, they gave us a small bag of cat food, and this toy. It has a ball that runs through a channel, and lights up as it does so, with a scratch pad in the center.

Little Miss Jones loves to bat the ball around and watch it light up.

We also bought another scratching tool for her, but Tuxedo has taken to it most of all. he loves to sit in it, play under, lay atop it, but, most of all, guard it from the other cats.

That's my boy!”

I love how Tuxedo is not using it as a scratching post, but is just sitting there daring Consuelo to try and come on it. It was, and still is in many ways, Tuxedo’s world.

This is what common sense looks like … students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax on people who earn more than $1 million after voters passed a constitutional amendment for that additional 4% state income tax on wealthy people.

PS 4% is $40,000; a drop in the bucket to feed children.

After Jason Aldean released his bigoted, gun-toting anthem to hillbillies and toothless cousin fuckers—a song that roared to the top of the charts and then dropped just as quickly—fellow country singer Chris Houseman showed Aldean how it’s done with his song, “Blueneck”:

Grew up with cornfields in every direction

That's where I learned all of my lessons

About life and living without fences

In the land of the free to have opinions

 If you work a job, you oughta make a livin'

George Straight or George Gay, there's no difference

People need help and I think that we should listen

 Three chords and my truth is

I'm a good ole boy with a bleeding heart

Just a homegrown hick with a hybrid car

I think y'all means all and I know we all

Just wanna know that we belong

There's a lot more color in the mix

When you're loud and proud out in the sticks

I am what I am, you get what you get

 Yeah, I guess I'm a red state Blueneck

My American dream is wide open spaces

Plenty of room for us all to be safe in

Yeah, that's a future that I'm chasin'

So I'm gonna go make it

 And that’s the America I believe in …

As I said on Tuesday of this week, first thing in the morning:

“I wonder just how drunk Rudy Giuliani is right now.”

And I laughed. From America’s Mayor to America’s Drunk Criminally Indicted Uncle in twenty years.

Last January, Abigail Zwerner was shot in her classroom at Richneck Elementary  by a 6-year-old student and is now suing the school district for $40 million.

Now, I found that a bit excessive until I read that the school district is arguing that Zwerner is only entitled to file a worker’s compensation claim because the injury she sustained from the shooting is a “workplace injury,” and that the shooting was a hazard of the job.

Yes, they want to set a precedent that a teacher should expect that getting shot is one of the dangers of her job and therefore she cannot sue.

Now I want her to sue for $400 million.

Speaking of guns, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat of course, approved a measure that would allow firearm retailers or manufacturers to be sued for marketing guns to people under 18 and promoting other improper marketing ploys geared toward the sale of weapons.

The law also allows civil action against the firearms businesses if they’re found to have marketed guns for unlawful paramilitary or private militia-related activities.

Good first step. Now, ban all assault weapons.

Tomás González, a Chilean Olympic gymnast, a bendy little nugget, has come out in his autobiography, "Champion: Lessons, Triumphs and Talls of an Olympic Gymnast":

"I suppose it is no longer an issue, but yes, I am gay. And if it is about making it public, I prefer to do it in this book.”

González realized he was gay when he 24, but coming from a traditional family did not make it easy to be openly gay; it also didn’t help that he experienced abuse in the sport where “machismo and homophobia are problems that exist in society and in the gym as well."  But the better news is Tomás González has been in a relationship for six years and hopes to marry and have a family:

"We all work, pay taxes, have a role in society. So, I want to have the same rights as any citizen. Regardless of any sexual orientation, we all have to have the same rights."

Welcome Out, Tomás, and please accept as our gift, from HOMO HQ, the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven and a copy of The Gay Agenda.

Welcome Out.

And here we have dancer and model Josh Fine, also bendy, and maybe a little fine, too, but the real question is: Would You Hit It?

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The other day Carlos asked me to find a piece of music for him on the computer so he could buy it and play it on his trumpet. Well, we searched and searched and couldn’t find exactly what he was looking for and then he suggested we could try a music store where he has gotten oil for his trumpet. But then he remembered another music store he goes to and asked me if we could go there. I asked where that one was and he said:

“It’s by that restaurant where we eat.”

“That restaurant? We only eat at one restaurant?”

“You know the one. By that deli we like.”

When I told him I had no idea what he was talking about he asked me to look for it on Google. I searched and searched for “music store by that restaurant we like by the deli” and couldn’t find it.

Here are the late greats, MaxGoldberg and Tuxedo, BFFs for life … from October 2010

“Just For Giggles

I saw this:

And then I saw this:

Coinkydink?”

Those two boys were the best of friends from the first day they met.

Kevin Maxen, an associate strength coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars, os the first male coach in a major U.S.-based professional league to come out as gay:

"I don't want to feel like I have to think about it anymore. I don't want to feel like I have to lie about who I am seeing, or why I am living with someone else. I want to be vocal in support of people living how they want to live, but I also want to just live and not feel fear about how people will react. You have other coaches who have significant others, and they're talking about their significant others, and I felt guilty that I couldn't do the same thing, that I was letting myself down."

Not any longer, Kevin.

Welcome Out and please accept as our gift from HOMO HQ the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven™ and your own copy of The Gay Agenda.

Welcome out.

An all-male panel of anti-abortion religious leaders from around the country have met at an event hosted by Operation Save America—an anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim group—that wants Americans to follow “God’s law” and their interpretation of the Christian gospel. So, they decided that a woman who chooses abortion should be put to death.

They say they’re pro-life but don’t see the hypocrisy.

Elon Musk’s has rebranded Twitter as X because he thinks it’ll turn the site profitable again, when the reason it loses money is not because of the name but because of the asshat owner.

X marks the spot where Twitter died.

A man walks into a bar and there, perched atop the bar, is an antique oil lamp. And he asks the bartender:

“What’s this?”

“I dunno. Maybe the last guy left it?”

The man looks at the lamp, notices a couples of spots on it, and begins rubbing it with his shirt sleeve to clean it when … Poof! A cloud of smoke and a genie appears. And like all genies he offers the man Three Wishes. The man thinks for a moment and then says:

“Turn Texas Governor Greg Abbott into a pregnant woman living in a small house with no power and no air conditioning and no working fridge due to our power grid failing on a 104-degree day.”

The genie smiles and says:

“This one’s on me.”

My kinda genie.

Remember Senator Tommy Tuberville saying White Nationalists aren’t racists? Well, because he’s an ignorant twazcock, people began digging into his past and found that the stories Tommy tells about his father’s military service aren’t exactly truthful.

Tuberville claims that his daddy, Charles Tuberville Jr., lied about his age to join the army, that he was a tank commander, that he earned five Bronze Stars, and that he participated in the D-Day landing. But, an examination of army histories, newspaper reports and other materials show that Big Daddy Tuberville joined the army at 18, never got any Bronze Stars, and was never a tank commander but he might have been there on D-Day.

Let’s see, Republican who thinks White Nationalists aren’t racists is also a liar. Yeah, business as usual.

John Halls is six-foot-tall, 41-year-old former footballer turned model, and the question is: Would You Hit It?

Bryan Ruby Comes Out

It’s hard for a professional baseball player to come out as gay while playing; it’s just as difficult for a country music singer to announce their queerness to the world. Both professions are not known to be full of the love for The Openly Gay.

But imagine you’re Bryan Ruby, who made history as the only active pro baseball player—for the minor league Salem-Keizer Volcanoes—and a country western singer trying to make a name for himself while coming out while released a new song, “Christmas With You,” dedicated to his boyfriend:

♪ ♫ I don’t wanna sing carols, hang stockings by the fire;

If I said I wanna go shopping, I’d be a stone-cold liar.

 I don’t care about decorating or all the holiday food.

All I wanna do is spend my Christmas with you. ♫ ♪

When he came out, Ruby acknowledged that he’s on a minor league team and “not a hot-shot prospect” for the major league, but maybe by taking this step, he’ll make it easier for the next gay ball player, or country singer, to come out.

“I kept thinking about the little 14-year-old me, who was scared because I’m a baseball player who loved country music. Those are worlds where people like me are told they can’t belong. I want to help create a world where future generations ... don’t have to sacrifice authenticity or who they really are.”

Welcome out, Bryan, and please accept as our gift, from HOMO HQ, the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven and a copy of The Gay Agenda.

On a personal note, please accept my invitation to join the Husband In My Head Club … just saying.

Welcome out.

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Nora J.S. Reichardt Comes Out As Trans ... In Iowa ... On The TV News

Last week a Des Moines, Iowa news station, Local 5, aired a segment introducing one of the newest members of their team, although this person wasn’t really all that new, as reporter Stephanie Angleson noted when she introduced the segment:

“Today is special. You have welcomed her into your homes for the past year… Tonight, Local 5’s Nora Reichardt wants you to meet the real Nora, her true self.”

And with that, the viewing audience met Nora J.S. Reichardt, one of the stations reporters who has worked there for a little more than a year, and who was now talking about being transgender:

In a nearly 16-minute segment, Local 5 allowed Nora to celebrate her transition and her to share her story. She talked about dealing with depression and anxiety and about her fears there wouldn’t be a place for her on the news if she came out. She talks of feeling suicidal as she struggled with her gender identity, and about her year-long medical transition and even shares photos of her transformation. She is shown filing the paperwork to have her name legally changed, and Reichardt showed her “Transition To Do List,” which included figuring out her dress size, drafting Coming Out posts for social media, planning how to come out at work, and vocal training. And she explained how happy she was not to have to hide her identity at work any longer:

“People who feel like they have a personal relationship with a trans person, it’s understandable that it can feel like a loss, but the way I would ask people to reframe that is, you’re getting someone better. You’re getting someone that that person is so much happier being.”

She also emphasized that she is still the person she was before, the person who knows too many Spiderman facts, plays too many video games, and can often be found reading at the coffee shops with the only difference being that now she’s a “little happier “ when she does it.

Welcome Out, Nora, and please accept as our gift from HOMO HQ the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven™ and a copy of The Gay Agenda, though it seems you have that part down:

“It really in many ways feels like that for the first time in just over 24 years my life is really, truly mine to do whatever I want with. It feels like it’s really just starting to become the life that I want to have and I’m so excited to live it.”

Welcome Out. And thanks for helping to light the way ...

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