Archive for December, 2006

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

DECEMBER 06:

In October Adam and i moved into a new house, our first real place together .. it’s only taken seven years! but everything has it’s time in it’s time and after a couple of months we’ve well and truely settled in, i really feel it was time for this move .. 2006 has been a year of chaos and change and sickening stress for me, and i felt i was treading water where i was living the last five years, looking back i needed to start making clean breaks both physically and emotionally, so much of the past has anchored me down and it’s time to at least try and move forward. Thanks to Tyson who took this photo of Adam and i last week .. and now on to 2007.

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

SLY:

Just to prove i dont always pick on girls plastic surgery here is a recent ‘stunning’ photo of Sylvester Stallone who i fear is now well on the way to having a ‘melted face’

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

YOU’VE HAD IT COMING BARBIE:

Adam just showed me this website .. hours of fun for the whole family, first we start off with some blended Barbies

Now work your way through the carnage, and remember kiddies, dont try this at home .. unless you’ve called me over.

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

LAMBY:



Heres another early hero of mine, Paul Lynde. Paul was outrageously camp and had the best voice for his many charactors, including voicing a lot of cartoons. I have a very strong memory of being REALLY young and watching Paul on ‘Love American Style’ (when is THAT coming out on dvd?) might be time to start trawling through ebay to see what i can turn up.

This blog is dedicated to my zygot trash sister Marcia, who through the years keeps turning me on to and inspiring me to embrace true quality trash.

Meanwhile check out Paul on Donny and Marie.

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

THE WORD IS LOVE:

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

CALL ME BETTE:


Thanks to a kind friend i just got hold of the dvd reissue of ‘Whatever happend to baby Jane’ i love this movie, it makes me remember the first time i saw it at my friend Donna’s place, i was fresh out of the closet and her flatmate ‘Dee Dee’ decided i needed a little cinematic education, so we hunkered down for an afternoon of camp mayhem as i watched with eyes like saucers as Joan Crawford spun out of control in a wheelchair, and Bette Davis served Joan up rat on a silver platter .. many years later i was amazed to see Dee Dee arrive at a huge party in a wheelchair dressed up as Joan complete with silver platter and rat in her lap! the best thing about this dvd is the bonus feature of Bette Davis singing the theme song from the movie on the Andy Williams show in the early 1960’s

You can watch the clip by clicking the link below.

‘She could walk, she could dance’ ..

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

BEST PHOTO EVER?:



Just look at these wonderous photo’s of Jocelyn!!, she’s had MORE cranio construction and even her dog is recoiling in dismay!.

Click on the link below for the only footage i’ve ever been able to find of Jocelyn, and let me say .. it’s not pretty.

Jocelyn

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

TIME TO CATCH UP:


It’s been a few months, but i’m back to blogging .. if for no one else but myself, i’ve always kept a diary and this blog is my current form of that.

What a roller coaster year it’s been for me, every year has bumps but this year has been a little wilder than usual, i’m convinced as i get older and more ‘aware’ things going on around you are more powerful and intense as evolve, for me blind optomism is being replaced with an internal strugle dealing with how slow and regressive change is, for the first time i have a little maturity and where as about twelve years ago i/we were living in an era .. a time where we felt and appeared to be moving forward, in our work places we were being treated fairly, in relationships gay’s and lesbians had a sense of continuing change in our favour, there were moves towards becoming a republic, and racism appeared to be receding. Now in the short space of ten years that has all come spiraling undone and for me it’s been almost impossible to watch, thats what i’ve had to learn to deal with in the last ten years my incredible disappointment in mankind and how weak and greedy we truely are.

However, being surrounded by this force of rancid imorality i.e ‘Bush and Bonzai’ (you know, Bonzai .. a little Bush) it’s has forced me to concentrate on and seek out good.

Recently i came across a few articles on Coretta Scott King (Martin Luther King’s widow) i had no idea she was such an advocate for Gay righs and equated Gay rights with what was happening with civel rights for blacks in America during the sixties, this was incredibley brave of her and she got a lot of heat from some fellow civel rights leaders and even some of her own children.

If anyone has read this far please take another moment to read some of the articles on this amazingly brave and evolved lady ..

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force mourns the death of Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who died in her sleep overnight at the age of 78. Mrs. King worked tirelessly after her husband’s death in 1968 to carry on his legacy of social justice activism. She was a steadfast ally in the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, and was honored by the Task Force in 1997 for her support of the cause. In addition, Mrs. King was a featured speaker at the Task Force’s Creating Change 2000, where she rallied hundreds of activists gathered for the country’s largest LGBT rights organizing conference. In 2003, her son, Martin Luther King Jr. III, was personally responsible for inviting Task Force Executive Director Matt Foreman to join Mrs. King to speak from the podium at the 40th anniversary of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington.

“Our community has lost a dear and courageous friend, someone who was there for us when virtually no one else was,” Foreman said today.

‘From the beginning, Mrs. King understood that homophobia is hate, and hate has no place in the Beloved Community that she and Dr. King envisioned for our nation and our world.’
— Matt Foreman, executive director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

In 1997, upon receiving the Task Force’s Honoring Our Allies award, Mrs. King told the crowd, “I accept this award as a reaffirmation of my commitment to carry forward the unfinished work of my husband, Martin Luther King Jr. My husband understood that all forms of discrimination and persecution were unjust and unacceptable for a great democracy. He believed that none of us could be free until all of us were free, that a person of conscience had no alternative but to defend the human rights of all people. I want to reaffirm my determination to secure the fullest protection of the law for all working people, regardless of their sexual orientation … it is right, just and good for America.”

At the awards ceremony, Kerry Lobel, then-Task Force executive director, said, “Mrs. King has stood shoulder to shoulder with us as we work to envision and create a world based on social justice. She embraces the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as part of the continued legacy of Dr. King’s brave work. Her progressive vision of peace and justice echoes around the world.”

“Today we deeply mourn the loss of Coretta Scott King, who staunchly stood for the civil rights of all people, including the civil rights of our lesbigaytrans community of all colors, and who consistently challenged our own black community to understand that discrimination is wrong whether based on color or sexual identity. Civil rights is civil rights,” said longtime activist Mandy Carter, executive director and a co-founder of the North Carolina-based group Southerners on New Ground.

“I’ll forever cherish the day that I and Matt Foreman, representing our lesbigaytrans community, got to stand shoulder to shoulder with her on August 23, 2003, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington,” Carter continued. “The 1963 march was organized by Bayard Rustin, a black gay pacifist who was instrumental in introducing Dr. King to concepts of Ghandian nonviolence, the hallmark of the civil rights movement. Thank you so much Mrs. Coretta Scott King. You’ve left an amazing legacy.”

On April 1, 1998 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Mrs. King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia and anti-gay bias. “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood,” King stated. “This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.”

In November 2003 in a speech to at the opening session of the 13th annual Creating Change conference, organized by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Mrs King made her now famous appeal linking the Civil Rights Movement to the LGBT Human Rights Movement: “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people…. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

Mrs. King continued, “It is encouraging that we have seen more gay and lesbian candidates elected to political office. It is important for lesbian and gay officeholders and their constituencies to achieve greater visibility as supporters of laws that benefit the entire community. I think this will help educate the American public that lesbian and gay people seek the same goals of quality education for young people, cleaner air and water, safe streets and better health care that straight people want. We have to work harder for the broader vision of the compassionate and caring society that demands decent living standards for all citizens”.

Mrs. King’s support of Gay Human Rights angered some black pastors. She called her critics “misinformed” and said that Martin Luther King’s message to the world was one of equality and inclusion.

In March 2004, she told a university audience that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue and denounced a proposed amendment to the Constitution ban it.

In her speech King also criticized a group of black pastors in her home state of Georgia for backing a bill to amend that state’s constitution to block gay and lesbian couples from marrying.

On March 23. 2004 Mrs. King is quoted as saying at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, N.J., “gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriage.”

In 2003, she invited the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to take part in observances of the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

It was the first time that an LGBT rights group had been invited to a major event of the African American community.

King said her husband supported the quest for equality by gays and reminded her critics that the 1963 March on Washington was organized by Bayard Rustin, an openly gay man.

Coretta was a supporter of animal rights.

Thanks for reading this far, reading about Mrs King gave me such a lift and reawakend my hope for a better future for all of us, i just have to keep remembering that things go in cycles.