20230821 Deteriorating situation in my city, Dallas, we are part of a global fraternity, mobilizing to fight homophobic Christianity.
Time to take off the gloves to fight homophobic Christianity. Yes, I am thinking about homophobic Islam. New vaccines to get. A Youtube channel Gay Art.
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No artists to showcase this week.
I have been reaching out. If you know of a good artist, tell them about my effort to showcase artists. I am going to work on putting links to all the showcases in one post. That way you can just review the works of many Gay artists at once.
Really busy with local Dallas issues. How to become a voice in your community.
The community here in Dallas, Texas here is under attack. The LGBTQXYZ leadership isn’t doing much of anything.
I am reporting on developments here that the LGBTQXYZ isn’t reporting on. I have 198 subscribers and they are people who are serious about the issues in the community.
You have an opportunity to be an influence in your community by starting a Substack newsletter for your area and reporting on what the local Gay establishment won’t. You will need to be prepared to work with a broad range of people in the community and not be ideological.
A world-wide fraternity
I know there are Gays who loath the fact that in the Gay community that there are other Gays who aren’t members of what they feel are their elite groups.
In Dallas, Texas there were Gay groups Arete and Elita, which you had to interview to be accepted as a member. This article at North Texas University archives gives an indication of what a snotty bunch the some of the Dallas Gays were who imagined themselves too special for the rest of the Gay community thought they were.
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc947403/
I on the other hand love the fact that we live in a world-wide fraternity that is truly global. I love the fact that you meet people from all walks of life and segments of society. I think it is one of the great benefits of Gay life.
This Gay person is living his best life in Nepal. Those are the Himalayan mountains in the background. He lives in a house with grass roofs. He is full of joy and enthusiasm. The short video made me realize the wonderous aspect of being Gay of being in a world-wide community. Our community stretches to the ends of the earth. (Click on them to see the video I intend to show in this newsletter post. Ticktoks previews run and then go to some default viewing.)
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This is another video. That is his house, I think.
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Sometimes people in the neighborhood participate as backup dancers. I only show the solo performances. Nepal is Hindu so there isn’t some religious group out to get Gays.
For the Pic Me Gays, don’t worry about what your straight friends here in the United States will think about this Gay person in Nepal.
I do understand that there will be differences between me and the dancer. However, if there is a place locally where Gays congregate, likely we would be showing up at the same time and we would have some common understandings that the straight people he lives with would not.
Sooner or later a Gay person on a hookup app is going to find themselves arrested under state laws for sending a “dick pic.”
This “Gay” transman is discussing how he didn’t like getting dick pics, but now does like them. That itself isn’t so much a problem, but entering a Gay space and expecting to set norms or complaining about the norms that exist is a problem.
But I do think there is a risk that some Gay transman will be filing a charge with the police. A lot of the Gay transmen are very upset with Gays on apps since they won’t have sex with them and that Gays on the apps speak frankly and not within ideological limits. Getting an unsolicited dick pic might provide an opportunity for revenge.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/15tr32i/feeling_differently_about_dick_pics_now/
Homophobic Christians refuse mRNA vaccination. Our strategic advantage. Two mRNA vaccines to get at the end of August. Also get your flu shot.
They recently have released an RSV vaccine. It is a viral infection that previously didn’t have a vaccine. It is recommended for 60 and older so your health might not cover it if you are younger. People die of it. Don’t be one of them.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/rsv.html
Upcoming is an updated Covid vaccine for release at the end of August. The number of Covid cases is increasing.
Recommendation for flu shot.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm
Moderna is working on a flu shot mRNA vaccine which will target more variations of the flu and further can be developed closer to the flu season to target what is mostly likely to be the dominant strains.
Also, they have a combination Covid, RSV and flu shot under development. Moderna is working on cancer vaccines and vaccines for many diseases, and I don’t think people are going to want to take too many shots.
Our local church in Dallas County which calls for the execution of Gays also refuses vaccines. A lot of homophobic Christians are also anti-vaxxers.
This is an easy to do strategic advantage. We get vaccinated and save our lives and they don’t and die.
The Gay community already seems is over 90 percent getting vaccinated for Covid. I want to keep emphasizing this topic to keep the percentage high and work to keep or make it high for all vaccines. Though for RSV it is recommended for those over 60 years of age and it would just be for that group.
As for Gay anti-vaxxers, I think you need to ask them whether they have gotten vaccinated for Hepatitis A & B and will they get the HIV vaccine when it comes out.
Fighting homophobic Christianity. Taking the gloves off.
I am Just tired of the abuse Gays get.
A couple years back, I said to myself, this religious abuse of Gays needs to stop, and it needs to stop now. One of my first observation is that we aren’t really adopting serious, tough tactics to stop religious attacks on Gays.
The LGBTQXYZ establishment won’t since that would upset the Democrats who would fear it would alienate voters and generally the LGBTQXYZ is immersed in sentimentality.
I want to see different segments of the Gay community to have stronger, more aggressive, and more effective tactics against homophobic Christians.
I want to see Gay Christians have more aggressive tactics.
I want to see Gay atheists have more aggressive tactics.
I want to see Gays in the spirituality segment get organized and have more aggressive tactics.
My personal religious beliefs are not important at all relative to the security of the Gay community. Even though I am agnostic, I am going to try to get some type of organizing for the Gays who are part of the spirituality segment since I think that would be useful. Also, they seem to be fun people.
I wonder why we don’t have militant Buddhists among Gay Buddhists in America.
I don’t want to drive any groups out of the Gay community.
Though I am criticizing SOME tactics of SOME Gay Christians, and I am harsh, I also want to reach out to Gay Christians as to what they might do. (See section on Gay Christians)
I also realize that what Gay Christians are doing now is a rational action for their interests. It is just that the interests of a segment of the Gay community isn’t necessarily the interest of all Gays and there needs to be some thinking as to whether these actions might be modified and what the negative impacts might be.
I am NOT expecting the Gay community to become atheist nor am I am arguing that they do. Nor do I think Gays will or should be all one religion. One of the annoying things you encounter in the Gay community is some part of it thinking that they are the true path for the Gay community.
Thus, I have been mobilizing Gay Pagan/Witches/New Agers here.
I have been trying to get Gay atheists do more than just post memes on Facebook here.
I have been trying to see if there are militant Gay Buddhists and when I visit Thailand, I hope to meet up with them.
I would like to see some type of militant Gay Christian mobilization. I am not the person to do it, hopefully that person comes along.
I did this post for the Gay atheists. Notice it is narrowly focused on homophobic Christians. Notice that I ask that if a religious group is NOT anti-Gay don’t bother them. I am revising it a lot. I have added in a section about working with Gay Christians.
I am thinking of how to get Gay Christians onboard with this.
Before getting into this topic, I would like to see a more militant version of Gay Christians mobilize. I don’t believe in running segments of the Gay community out. I have pointed out that the arguments Gay Christian use, might be the appropriate arguments for themselves, the problem is when they are assumed to be the appropriate arguments for Gays in general and when Gay Christians don’t recognize the limitations and problems with their arguments.
I am thinking that the program for aggressively fighting back against homophobic Christianity is going to have to be involving different segments of the Gay community and be multiprong.
Also, I think that when Gay atheists and pagans are running strong campaigns, it might provide Gay Christians an opportunity to speak to their co-religionists to do better.
I am not sure there is a Gay reason to get this vaccine or whether it is a health issue in temperate regions of the globe.
However, there have been this year so far, a few cases of malaria in the United States that weren’t from people returning from travel to tropical nations.
Further mpox (monkey pox) hadn’t been targeting men who have sex with men at the places of its origin.
I suppose I could come up for some rationalization that this is a Gay thing, like you might get a mosquito bite at a Gay parade or something.
I am going to just have the link to this article so you know in advance about malaria vaccines. If it becomes a Gay issue, you will be informed and ahead of the game.
I think you might be interested if you are planning to visit a tropical location for a vacation. I am not an expert though.
Essay on being Gay, whether it was my whole personality or not.
https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/is-being-gay-my-whole-personality
r/gaytransguys
Want the men’s bathrooms in Gay bars redesigned so they can hide that they are trans. The concern is that they want to be stealth. They don’t consider it inclusive if it doesn’t accommodate being stealth.
Finds out that stealth doesn’t work and wastes his time and other people’s time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/15o6ups/is_this_funny_or_lame/
The response to this person’s question is revealing. Gays “are obsessed with d*ck issues” and they don’t want “non-traditional meat & two veg issues.” They see it as the need for Gays to change their sexual orientation, not that their ideas of what Gay is not reality.
On Gay apps and was previously upset to get dick pics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/15tr32i/feeling_differently_about_dick_pics_now/
Discovers Gay apps aren’t a world of heterosexual courtship.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/15u4qt0/are_dating_apps_a_dead_end/
This trans person knows the difference between carob and chocolate.
Weight Loss Tips
My weight this morning was 198.2, I started at 224. The biggest way I can improve my health is to lose weight.
I am 71 years old. My father is 96 years old. The single most thing I can do to make sure my life-span is long and give me time for writing is to lose weight.
To avoid food boredom, I decided on a change for my oatmeal instead of the usual dried cranberries. I have been getting Wincrest Dried Mixed Berries from Walmart. It is a mixture of dried blueberries, strawberries, cranberries and cherries. So some mornings I have this mix and other mornings just cranberries.
Cooking frozen ground turkey. The three pounds of frozen ground turkey at Walmart is cheap, but it doesn’t have much flavor and when it cooks there is a lot of water generated. I have tried mixing the ground turkey with two bags of instant mashed potatoes, but it isn’t such a low-calorie thing.
I came up with a formula: 3 lbs. frozen ground turkey, 1 cup dehydrated bell pepper flakes, half-cup tomato powder, lots of dehydrated chives, minced onions, some black pepper, cayenne red pepper, parsley, and emptied out the remaining black garlic in a jar of it which I bought. Mixed well. Spread out on sheet with aluminum foil and backed about 30 minutes at 375. My oven is real old so those temps and time may not apply to you. I forgot to add in chopped sundried tomatoes.
The basic idea is that the large quantity of water given off by the turkey will hydrate the dehydrated material you add to it, so you have a turkey-vegetable product. Lots of spice give it flavor.
My next experimental food will be frozen ground turkey mixed in with a dehydrated soup mix and lots of spices.
Adding beef bullion gives a lot of flavor, but they all have high levels of salt, so if you use beef bullion you can’t add in anything else using salt.
Sun dried tomatoes. Get the dried ones not packed in oil and not with salt. The oil adds lots of calories, the ones dried with salt have a lot of salt. Sun dried tomatoes have a rich flavor and added into food add a lot and don’t have much calories.
Walmart has powdered lemongrass online.
In Dallas at least, you can’t get lemongrass unless you go drive to a store which has lots of Vietnamese customers. 99Ranch and Weee don’t have it online. You can pack a lot of lemony flavor with lemongrass powder.