and she kinda stared at me for a bit and said, “you know, it was a lot. and it was big and it did feel revolutionary. but also at that time i was mainly focused on getting my heart broken in a bar.”

and because of that, i think it’s important to remember the dumb drama, and the first loves, and the first heartbreaks over beer. i think it’s important to go to rallies and vigils, and also dive bars and game nights.

Happy Pride Month 2022!!!

It’s ok if you’re tired.

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride.🏳️‍🌈

I've had AIDS for 33 years and am grateful for life.

And more of my fellow first-on-the-new-drugs loved ones who went undetectable should still be here with us, with me, but...

I'm 61 years old, more of us should have made it, and as you said so well, they were all so loved and cherished and their lives meant something, each one.

My cohort mourned far too much for far too many, far too young, and I cauterized my ability to grieve so that the grief wouldn't kill me before HIV did.

When I see this damned Quilt, I'm filled with rage, not grief, because so many of us died without reason while Reagan, our murderer, turned his back.

Your words have brought me peace and repose tonight, because you saw the beauty of our lives through your own rage and sadness, and were moved to write about it here.

I say along with you, with thanks:

At least there is this.

At least there is this

Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if they’d reopen at all.

The lifeline in question is called Bookshop. 

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters Local 174 is outrageous—valuing property over workers’ rights. But it could have been much worse.

Unions still have the right to strike. Employers still can’t generally sue unions in state court for losses caused by strikes. But the decision does open the door to whittling away those rights more in the future. [Emphasis added.]

The practical impact of the Court’s decision is that employers will be suing unions more often for alleged property damage caused by strikes—and that therefore unions (and their attorneys) are likely to be more cautious.

But the Court did not do what many had feared it would do in this case: overrule longstanding precedent that employers generally cannot sue unions in state court over activities—like strikes—covered by the National Labor Relations Act.

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It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn't take it down. They were unapologetic and didn't try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.