Another Birthday Without My BFF

A little while ago I went on the FB page of the niece of my best friend.

I rarely visit her page even though we're FB friends. Next to her name was "Bonach" something I and others always called Bill.

Seeing his nickname caused my eyes to well up and are still as I write this.

Last August while I sat in the recliner in the livingroom waiting for the ambulance to come when I was having a heart attack, I looked at the photo of Bill and I taken back in the 90's in the backyard of my house.

I looked at Bill and I said ... "I'm may be joining you soon ... be waiting at the gate".

Today I celebrate my 59th birthday, that's six birthdays without Bill and six very long years.

A day doesn't go by I don't think about him, the fights we had, the laughs we shared and as close to being brothers as two guys can be.

My Dad always called Bill his adopted son, and Bill always said he was the good son while I was the bad.

We were supposed to grow old together like two grumpy old men.

That wasn't meant to be.

But we had almost forty years of friendship, that's a long time to commit undying friendship to someone.

Best friends forever shouldn't be abbreviated because the true meaning is anything but short and lives on even when one passes before the other.

The memories I have will never leave and I believe we'll be together again one day.

Birthdays are suppose to be happy days.

Now they're just another day to mark his passing.

Thanks for being my Best Friend Forever.

M to Donkey OK ... M 2 M Not So OK

As this is Sunday perhaps I better go to church after this posting.

So it is down under in Aussieland the Australian Classification Board approved the viewing of a documentary about bestiality in particular in Columbia where it seems for some to be a right of passage to screw a donkey to gain sexual experience and among other things "prevent homosexuality".

You can close your mouth now.

Please someone pass the smelling salts to that fella over there who just fell out of his chair.

The odd thing about this (only one ???) is that two years ago the same board refused to grant a certificate to a documentary about gay men as it showed scenes of men .. well you know.

However it appears it is okay to show males having sex with de donkey.

After you watch the video of the documentary .. presuming you're still breathing you can read all about this homophobic silliness and pro-screw the pooch mentality of the Australian Certification Board.

Jeff Lewis GLAAD Is Over Sensitive

Ah another voice of common sense has spoken.

Jeff Lewis of the Bravo shows Flipping Out and Interior Therapy was threaten by GLAAD if he did not apologize for his description of a transgendered person as a he/she and crack addict they would "disassociate" him from the org.

Lewis refused and he was booted from the often overbearing and zealous "how dare you" group and "protector" of all things gay.

This happened in 2011 but is making the rounds again thanks to an interview Lewis did with Larry King.

In the rehash article from On Top magazine, Lewis is quoted as saying towards the end of the interview with King, and just like the smell of napalm in the morning I love this, “I feel like some people are unnecessarily attacked by GLAAD. And I think they're a bit overdramatic and oversensitive. And I think that alienates people. And I think that negates the cause.”

A 9/11 Story ... Mark Bingham

There were many heroes on that fateful day in September 2001.

Firemen, policemen, EMTs and co-workers many of whom gave their life to help others.

And we’ve heard the stories of the brave and selfless act of many aboard United Flight 93 who must have known they were doomed whether they remained in their seats or acted as they did to overcome the terrorists who commandeered that plane which was speculated on it’s way to Washington, DC to create more mayhem and kill more innocents.

One of those heroes was Mark Bingham, a man who happened to be gay.

The fact that Bingham was gay doesn’t lessen nor elevate his status as a hero.

It does prove that anyone, on any given day, at any given time and in any given circumstance can rise above personal risk to themselves and act with great personal sacrifice to protect others regardless of who or what they are.

Mark Bingham’s mother Alice Hoagland was interviewed by Aliene Voisin for an article in The Sacremento Bee in 2011 as she reflected on her son, the causes she now fights for and that day in September.

“On Aug. 27, 1991, Mark mumbled a bunch of words, then told me he was gay. As a parent, of course, that’s never easy to hear. But you love who you love, and I would support Mark no matter what, so that (gay rights) is one of my causes.”

In a day when so many look for inspiration from those in the LGBT community who are comfortable with who they are for all the world to see, they need look no further than Mark Bingham, hero and gay man.