Occupation:student at the school of hard knocks. I work at Southwest as a customer service slave, and I am a comedian.
Associations/Affiliations/Clubs:Lambda Center for Recovery. Member of Hero, and a loiterer for freedom.
Hometown: Trenton, NJ
Heroes:My mom, Emilea Earhart, Foghorn Leghorn, Martin Luther King Jr, Sojourner A
Arizona
Guilty Pleasure: Cheeze Cake, flirting with women who don't know I'm alive.
The best word to describe me is:passion
Favorite historical movement:Stonewall
My inspiration:My dog Bruno Mally, a belief that things can also get better=Hope.
I Joined the Impact because... (tell us your story!)Read below please.
My favorite stuff
I love to perform comedy in front of folks who tend to laugh. I also just got a bicycle which will propel me to achieving a distance of a city block. I am a sucker for animals of all kinds, with the acception of Jesse Helms. My favorite music ranges from Motown to Bethtoven. I love to dance event in my aging earth suit. I love to write. I can't resist coffee dates. I work for an airline and I am still able to enjoy working for passengers after 9 years. My favorite movies are The Lady in the Water, Five Easy Pieces, Lord of the Rings (all 76 of them), and To kill a Mockingbird.
When did the protesting begin
Because I was raised in a politically active house full of liberals who were Hell bent on changing the universe I became a quick study on voicing my passion against injustice. What I didn't know is that I would become discriminated against on accounta that I was a bonified lezbo. I came out in 1976 and enjoyed being beat up outside of the one women's bar in downtown Trenton, New Jersey. Oh, seems like I lost a voting district worth of friend and my family began looking at me like they found something perverse behind the refridgerator. I got the opportunity to move to Phoenix AZ and left in 1980. I discovered a gay/lesbian community and became involved with constant political activism: marches, rallies, benefits, comedy shows, and theme based pot backyard car wash events to raise money for the cause. The protesting stopped one day and somehow we went to sleep for 25 years or so. I still performed for the gay community as a commedian but the community coma didn't kick back in until president elect Obama appeared. So now I have experienced Hope again, that we are awake and ready to go to work again for all equal rights. I never thought this would happen in my lifetime, but it
I rented both Milk and W this week. Both movies are about leaders, both have made huge statements that changed America. That's where the similarities end. Even with as much that needs to be done now, I don't think anyone would get hurt by finally honoring Harvey Milk. It's one thing to hear by word of mouth that Harvey Milk was an incredible hero and a total gift to learn what the world really looked like in the mid to late 70's. It's almost impossible to watch in awe of the brutal attacks from the police and ugly straight folks to leave that movie and believe it happened, but it did. It reminds me of people who swear on there little bibles that the holocaust didn't happen. We really do have a well deserved Pride day that was once more about a celebration of our history and less about getting profoundly drunk and cloth shopping. It is a miracle to enjoy the freedoms we do have that comes from the work we all doing just by not living with the shame was never ours to carry.We still have young and old people who are terrified to come out. I feel obliged to do all I can to let them know that killing themselves is not an option. Hope. We as GBLTQ people who've been out for long periods (for me, 32 years) of time have a sort of duty to make it clear that coming out is a means for life not death. I have an abundance of problems--being a Lesbian is not one of them. Hope=it is something you wear and live and pass on. Now as for W, well that is an entirely different story making every effort to have Dubya appear a victim. The devastation he created makes caring about him damn near impossible. Poor dubya, the eternal frat boy is more of a man to pity than have compassion for, So how does a man who is more mentally ill than a moron get elected, re-elected by continuing in daddys legacy live to get a movie and a man who really began to define the word "PRIDE" take 30 years to have a movie made about him? I'm outta room
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I rented both Milk and W this week. Both movies are about leaders, both have made huge statements that changed America. That's where the similarities end. Even with as much that needs to be done now, I don't think anyone would get hurt by finally honoring Harvey Milk. It's one thing to hear by word of mouth that Harvey Milk was an incredible hero and a total gift to learn what the world really looked like in the mid to late 70's. It's almost impossible to watch in awe of the brutal attacks from the police and ugly straight folks to leave that movie and believe it happened, but it did. It reminds me of people who swear on there little bibles that the holocaust didn't happen. We really do have a well deserved Pride day that was once more about a celebration of our history and less about getting profoundly drunk and cloth shopping. It is a miracle to enjoy the freedoms we do have that comes from the work we all doing just by not living with the shame was never ours to carry.We still have young and old people who are terrified to come out. I feel obliged to do all I can to let them know that killing themselves is not an option. Hope. We as GBLTQ people who've been out for long periods (for me, 32 years) of time have a sort of duty to make it clear that coming out is a means for life not death. I have an abundance of problems--being a Lesbian is not one of them. Hope=it is something you wear and live and pass on. Now as for W, well that is an entirely different story making every effort to have Dubya appear a victim. The devastation he created makes caring about him damn near impossible. Poor dubya, the eternal frat boy is more of a man to pity than have compassion for, So how does a man who is more mentally ill than a moron get elected, re-elected by continuing in daddys legacy live to get a movie and a man who really began to define the word "PRIDE" take 30 years to have a movie made about him? I'm outta room
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"Nothing ruins your life unless you let it. I care that you do. Please keep writing about that and please get support for your lack of hope. Being Gay isn't a problem, and I've never heard the rumor of Bruce Beckham having a public opinion about anybodys penis. You'll do wonders for your penis if you stop insulting it. And no one is voiceless on the topic of porn stars. I am so glad you posted this because if you stay with Impact you can read about hope, self respect and being a part of the solution. Everyone cares about that."
well bruce beckham is a cruel guy he did say like that on his video interview
i now know why most people hate pornstars
they create stereotypes which ruins lives
might be u r bruce fan
all i can say he is horrible
and only needs big penis from others
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Recently I attended an equal rights meeting when having to go to the bathroom meant more than anything to me. I heard a little fluttering sound behind me as I was about to return to the meeting. Glancing back I saw part of the roll of toilet paper was trailing down the hallway.. Luckily I made it back to the meeting wearing my, "I need to talk incessantly"look. That hasn't happened since last wore dresses....I was trying to impress Columbus.
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now I can answer one question(what is queer anyway?) with my response to this... if you were female in a dress in 1490's you were probably ordinary...but maybe Columbus was gay...in which case if you were MALE in a dress you were probably queer.
Queer is a name given to the broader society of LGBT people to offer a one word definition. It supports trans folks, crossdressers, asexual persons, intersex persons and 'straight' people who live queer(just happen to have partners who are the opposite sex, but who are not necessarily straight) It gets comlplicateder and complicateder(as Alice in Wonderland might say) and so Queer works. I had a hard(sic) time with it myself for a while, but then I realized that my first 'gay' role models were Andy Warhol and David Bowie and it ALL OF A SUDDEN made sense!
Queer and proud. Gay woman and proud...not sure still about 'lesbian'... the word has such heavy feminist history which I know very little about yet so I cannot personally claim it, need more education! laters, Gabrielle
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Love the name of your doggy! my cat is Samson, also Seamus McGee, Sammamish, Samish, Shim Shon Levi and others...Love singing him cat-songs.
We have a couple great comedy venues in little ol' bham, if you ever come up. The Upfront Theatre was set up by Ryan Styles who now makes Whatcom County his home.
Take care, Slique, fun being in touch here and on Recently OUT! Gabrielle
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