Hi Spiro and welcome. Tell any friends about this place. We have a few regulars, but not alot going on. I try to post interesting news articles, jokes, etc. occassionally.

Maybe one of these days we can set up a chat night. Anyone else interested in that? Let me know what nights and times are good for everyone!

Hellooo im here!

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain

Amsterdam gay Christmas features same-sex Nativity
By The Associated Press
12.08.2008 1:53pm EST



(Amsterdam, Netherlands) A Dutch gay group said Monday it has planned a “Pink Christmas” festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys.

Other attractions in the 10-day festival include parties, an open-air market, gay-themed films, an ice skating rink and religious services on Dec. 25.

ProGay group chairman Frank van Dalen said Monday the event is intended to increase the choices for homosexual men and women during the Christmas holiday week.

“Right now, there’s not much to do,” he said.

The festival will also encourage people to think about homosexuality and religion, Van Dalen added.

Some Christian groups protested. The organization Christians for Truth said the idea “mocks the core concepts of Evangelism.”

“By putting Joseph and Mary down as homosexuals, a cracked human fantasy is being tacked on to history from the Bible,” the organization said in a statement urging the city and organizers to cancel the event.

The manger, with actors playing the parts of Joseph and Mary, goes on display Dec. 21.

Van Dalen said it was not intended to be offensive, but was meant as a “wink” at heterosexual assumptions.

“Christmas is about more than religion, it’s also about love and families, not to mention shopping,” he said. “Two men or two women can form a family too these days, even one with a child.”

Gay marriage was legalized in the Netherlands in 2001, and adoption rules are the same here for gay or straight couples.

Van Dalen said the Pink Christmas initiative was also intended to help promote Amsterdam as a gay capital after a decline in its reputation in recent years.

A study last month found that homophobia is an ingrained problem in the city despite the Dutch reputation for tolerance, and physical attacks on gay men are a weekly affair.

~http://www.365gay.com/news/amsterdam-gay-christmas-features-same-sex-nativity/

Good Evening all

So how much action does this thread see on a nightly basis?

Hiya everyone

I dont think theres anyone here coffee

Yes it is oddly quiet isnt it?

Very quiet....eerie

Drives me batty lol

Skipping through to say hi to everyone and hope you guys are having a wonderful evening

hiya merle

Woohoo I got a job without even an interview. They hired me just from lookin at my resume. It's only a temp position and doesn't pay much, but IT'S A JOB!!!

hey..im bored...anyone here...

YAY! IM HAPPY FOR YOU!

That's so Gay!!!

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Lesbian named to Obama environment team

By 365gay Newscenter Staff
12.16.2008 9:10am EST

(Washington) President-elect Barack Obama has made it official, naming Nancy Sutley to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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Sutley is the first prominent member of the LGBT community to earn a senior role in the Democrat’s new administration. Speculation began circulating a week ago that she would be named to the post.

Sutley, 46, holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell University and a master’s in public policy from Harvard.

From 1999-2003 she was a special assistant to EPA administrator Carol Browner.

Following that, she served until 2005 as deputy secretary for policy and intergovernmental relations at the California Environmental Protection Agency and energy adviser to Gov. Gray Davis.

Currently Sutley is a Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles for Energy and Environment and a board member for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Sutley supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic primary and was a member of her LGBT steering committee.

“President-elect Obama’s nomination of Nancy Sutley is another step toward full equality for gay Americans,” Chuck Wolfe, president of the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute, said in a statement.

“It sends a signal to young people that they can participate in their government at its highest levels, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender or ethnicity.”

Obama also announced the other members of his Environmental and Energy team.

He said he will nominate Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado to run the Interior Department. Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu will be energy secretary, and Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey’s environmental department, will head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Carol Browner, a confidante of former Vice President Al Gore, will lead a White House council on energy and climate. Browner headed the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton administration.

In making the announcments Obama made clear he plans take energy policy in a sharply different direction from President George W. Bush, promising aggressive moves to address global warming and support research into alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and biofuels.

“America must develop new forms of energy and new ways of using it,” he said.

Obama said the dangers of being too heavily dependent on foreign oil “are eclipsed only by the long-term threat of climate change which, unless we act, will lead to drought and famine abroad, devastating weather patterns and terrible storms on our shores, and disappearance of our coastline at home.”

http://www.365gay.com/news/lesbian-named-to-obama-environment-team/

so excited you found a job!! I hopes you like it....will miss you being on here in the day time tho!! elephant shoes! can't wait for our dinner date tonight!!