Tom Judson Lives His Life With AIDS

Tom Judson, actor, composer, musician and author has written a post at HuffPost Gay Voices describing his living with, rather than dying from AIDS twenty years after getting "that" call from his doctor.

The gay plague is not the death sentence it was so many years ago but with that being said there is still no cure nor prevention other than abstinence or taking sexual activity precautions.

Judson wrote his book Laid Bare which was published in 2011 based on his life experience as an legitimate actor, musician and yes of course his days as gay porn star Gus Mattox.

The HPGV writing gives one man's perspective who unfortunately far too many gay and bi men can relate to with honesty and thankfulness.

As he concludes in his essay, Sadly, I lost Bruce and most of my friends. I even outlived the World Trade Center. And much to my surprise, I was around to celebrate as the 20th century slipped into history. But I'd have to say that of all the milestones I've passed since that shocking morning two decades ago, the thing that pleases me most is that I lived to see Cats close.

Danica Patrick Wins Pole For 500

This year instead of boggedy boggedy it will be boo-de-aye boo-de-aye as former IRL racer Danica Patrick with the help of her team owned by Tony Stewart captured the pole for this year's running of the Daytona 500.

Of course the emphasis has been on her being the first woman in history to do it, it was enviable that if not Patrick, another woman would eventually get the cherished starting position.

Daytona 500 history is against Patrick as few who start on the pole end up winning the "Super Bowl" of NASCAR.

Patrick vilified by some but loved by many fans has pretty much shut up the nay-sayers when she made her switch from the IRL to the most popular, at least in the US, auto racing venue NASCAR.

So what does all this have to do with all things LGBT ?

To the surprise of some auto racing isn't just for de straight anymore and hasn't been for sometime.

So much so there is a website of several years devoted to de gay and the love of auto racing.

Queers4Gears was started in 2009 by Michael T. Myers and is the go to place for all things racing on wheels. Back in 2010 I guest hosted on the BlogTalkRadio program Gay Agenda with host James Hipps when we interviewed Myers and talked about his website. After several minutes of Hipps going through his regular diatribe of sometimes nonsense, Myers and I got down to business talking about NASCAR and all things racing. I pretty much took over the rest of the 60 minutes long program having covered the Bob Sharp Racing Team back in the 70's when Paul Newman and Sam Posey were the featured drivers. You can listen to that interview by going here.

So congrats to Danica Patrick. Will she get another place in NASCAR history with a win, or as so many pole sitters have done in the past, fall back and watch the rest of the pack go by for much of the race ?

If Tony Stewart has anything to do with it he'll be pushing Patrick to the front and her crew will keep her car in tip-top shape for the 500 miler while she hopefully avoids wrecks.

This will be one race to watch which is already one for the books.

Shoop Shooping The Night Away

As often happens I never plan on putting up a daily post any longer. But something will get the writing juices flowing as is the case with this one.

One of my FB peeps put up a video of Cher singing the Shoop Shoop song from the movie Mermaid done in 1991.

Which brought back alot of happy memories and time spent at the now gone The Brook in Westport, CT.

de gay and in my case de bi always (and still do of course) loved Cher, in my case from the days of Sonny and Cher and I've Got You Babe.

Yeah me and the boys would Shoop Shoop the night away at The Brook and when Cher's version of the song came out it became a popular hit and every night it was asked to be played for us guys.

We'd pretty much stand in two conga lines facing each other and doing the routine in the video. The fun part of course was standing opposite guys you didn't know and eventually "checking out" his kiss. It was all done in harmless fun and nobody ever backed away ... hell we had reputations to uphold as a friendly bunch of guys.

Back in 2010 on another version of FOTR I took a stroll down memory lane as The Brook was closing and gave readers an idea of what it was like to be mostly hidden in the closet in the 70's and 80's. I re-posted the article last year. To take that stroll go here.

Blaming de Gays For Wrestling Woes

As you have probably heard the IOC wants to drop the sport of wrestling starting in 2020.

Already outrage over this decision has the IOC rethinking the announcement with a vote coming later this year in September.

But the madness of this decision isn't the thrust of this posting but what Russian coach Vladimir Uruimagov has said in a report .

You see this homophobic douche bag insists that the woes of Olympic wrestling is caused by de gays.

“If they expel wrestling now, that means that gays will soon run the whole world,” the R-Sport agency quotes Uruimagov as saying.“It turns out this committee is headed by representatives of these minorities.”

Really Uruimagov ?

Wrestling is one of the most watched sports by de gay during the Olympics.

You need to get Greco style with some gays and bis then see who cries Momma !!! .