Screaming Tom

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Blades: Commercial Closet abruptly closes, dismisses director

Wilke was harchered!

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re: USAToday: Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong

Question: Can people in civil partnerships visit their partner in the hospital and have the same right to information as married couples?
Answer: Yes, by going to your expensive lawyer and paying him/her to draw up papers - however, a quickie marriage in Vegas (or elsewhere) grants you that right plus over 1,100 benefits under the Constitution in a country where you pay state and US taxes - just pay the Elvis preacher a small fee. Also, that "quickie" marriage will be recognized in all 50 states under the "full faith and credit act" under the Constitution instantly. Current same-sex marriages are not afforded those rights and none cannot file jointly on there income taxes - which they pay.
Tom Dempsey
--- In QueerSouthernCalifornia@yahoogroups.com, Kathy L wrote:
>
> not to sound ignorant, but can people in civil partnerships visit their partner in the hospital and have the same right to information as married couples?

> > --- On Wed, 11/12/08, Tom Dempsey wrote:
> From: Tom Dempsey
> Subject: [QueerSouthernCalifornia] USAToday: Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong (+ comment)
> To: "QueerAlabama" , "QueerAtlanta" , "QueerFlorida" , "QueerGeorgia" , "QueerGulfCoast" , "QueerLouisiana" , "QueerMississippi" , "QueerNewYork" , "QueerSouthernCalifornia" , "QueerSouthFlorida"
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6:34 PM

> > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Elton! Not helping! Separate but equal doesn't work for me.
> > Tom Dempsey

> Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong
> > > > NEW YORK — Sir Elton John, accompanied by his longtime partner David Furnish, had some choice words about California's Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage that passed on Nov. 4.
> In December 2005, John and Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, England. But, clarified the singer, "We're not married. Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage."
> ...
> "I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership," said John. "The word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."
> > more...
> http://www.usatoday .com/life/ people/2008- 11-12-elton- john_N.htm
>

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Tom Dempsey wrote:

Thanks, Elton! Not helping! Separate but equal doesn't work for me.

Tom Dempsey

Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong

NEW YORK — Sir Elton John, accompanied by his longtime partner David Furnish, had some choice words about California's Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage that passed on Nov. 4.
In December 2005, John and Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, England. But, clarified the singer, "We're not married. Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage."

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Re: Atlanta Marriage Protest Saturday questions

I have heard there will be a candle-light vigil later this day near
Blake's. I have to wonder why anyone would plan a vigil on a minor
corner in Midtown (which is no longer the gay center of town).

I would consider the following:

1 - Mormom Family History Center across from Woodruff Park.

2 - 14th and Peachtree - a much more visible corner of Atlanta.

3 - Buford Highway and Cheshire Bridge/Lenox corner - much, much more
visible.

4 - Peachtree and Lenox Road intersection - great spot for media and
very busy.

5 - Ebenezer Baptist Church - symbolic!

5 - East Hill, Decatur, ...

So why hide a vigil on a minor "commercial" corner???

Labels: greed, promotion, shameless, vigil

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Re: Separate but Equal?

--- In QueerColorado@yahoogroups.com, "coffeeaugur"
wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QSxpkLe2aA&feature=related
Now here's a question I would really like to here the answer to.

--- End forwarded message ---

I, for one, believe it is time to stop being sheeple. Why vote for a candidate who doesn't openly support gay rights? Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney do.

And you have to wonder if President Obama will be better - he has Sam Nunn of Georgia who killed ENDA in the 90's sitting behind him in many press conferences. Nunn may be either Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State. Not good tidings for us gays. (Howdy, neighbor!)

I believe President Clinton supported gays in the military but lost that battle. The LGB community already serves in the military when it suits the government while we sit and watch other major countries openly allow military service by the gay community. The US let transgender people serve in TV's MASH as a joke.

If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, don't be a patsy to the 2 party system we have. Stop voting for candidates who do not support our rights and let them know it is time to be taken seriously. A mass non-vote would send a strong message.

If the inch-by-inch approach is to be appreciated, don't forget the changes for the better under the last 8 year Republican administration. Sodomy laws repealed and gay marriage in three states. No Gay Holocaust here unless you count HRC's tactics.

We are on the way and I believe we will reach many goals in the next 10-15 years.

The video was unbelievably on the point and asked a great question. It also got me thinking - maybe we should start calling the anti-LGBT laws Jane Crow laws! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws)

The similarities are chilling.

So let's start working on ending the Jane Crow laws with the Gay Civil Rights Act of 20??.

These are some of the laws the Jim Crow era had to deal with:

The following examples of segregation are excerpts from examples of Jim Crow laws shown at the National Park Service website. The examples include anti-miscegenation laws. Although sometimes counted among the "Jim Crow laws" of the South, those laws also were passed by other states for many years. Anti-miscegenation laws were not repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1] but were declared unconstitutional in the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia.
Alabama
"All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races."
Alaska
1923: Voting [Statute] In April 1925 the seventh Alaska Territorial Legislature enacted into law a measure requiring that voters in territorial elections be able to read and write the English language.

Arizona
"The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void."
Arkansas
Various laws from 1884 to 1947 prohibited marriage or relations between whites and blacks or mulattoes, providing for specific fines and imprisonment of up to three years.[17]
Various laws from 1891 to 1959 segregated rail travel, streetcars, buses, all public carriers, race tracks, gaming establishments, polling places, washrooms in mines, tuberculosis hospitals, public schools and teachers' colleges.
A poll tax was first imposed in the 1890s.
Arizona
1865: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriages between whites with "Negroes, mulattoes, Indians, Mongolians" were declared illegal and void. The word "Descendants" does not appear in the statute.
1901: Miscegenation [Statute] Revision of the 1865 statute which added the word "descendants" to the list of minority groups. The revised statutes also stated that marriages would be valid if legal where they were contracted, but noted that Arizona residents could not evade the law by going to another state to perform the ceremony.
1909: Education [Statute] School district trustees were given the authority to segregate black students from white children only where there were more than eight Negro pupils in the school district. The legislature passed the law over a veto by the governor.
1911-1962: Segregation, miscegenation, voting [Statute] Passed six segregation laws: four against miscegenation and two school segregation statutes, and a voting rights statute that required electors to pass a literacy test. The state's miscegenation laws prohibited blacks as well as Indians and Asians from marrying whites, and were not repealed until 1962.
1912: Voting rights [Statute] Required voters to be able to read the U.S Constitution in English "in such manner as to show he is neither prompted nor reciting from memory, and to write his name."
1912: Voting [Statute] Arizona passed a statute in 1912 stating that voters must be able to "read the Constitution of the United States in the English language in such manner as to show he is neither prompted nor reciting from memory, and to write his name."
1927: Education [Statute] In areas with 25 or more black high school students, an election would be called to determine if these pupils should be segregated in separate but equal facilities.
1928: Miscegenation [State Code] Forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.
1956: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage of person of "Caucasian blood with Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu void." Native Americans were originally included in an earlier statute, but were deleted by a 1942 amendment.
California
1866: Voting [Statute] The 1866 California registry act required electors to complete voter registration three months before a general election. Naturalized citizens were required to present original court-sealed naturalization papers.An 1878 act applying to San Francisco required each voter to register in person before every general election. Voters had to register in their own elector precinct. Because precincts were very small, if a voter moved he was required to re-register.In 1894, California passed a constitutional amendment that disfranchised any "person who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his name." An advisory referendum indicated that nearly 80% of voters supported an educational requirement. A similar amendment was again passed in 1911.From 1879 to 1926, California's constitution stated that "no native of China" shall ever exercise the privileges of an elector in the state." Similar provisions appeared in the constitutions of Oregon and Idaho.
1866: Voter rights [Statute] Required electors to complete voter registration three months before a general election. Naturalized citizens were required to present original court-sealed naturalization papers.
1866-1947: Segregation, voting [Statute] Enacted 17 Jim Crow laws between 1866 and 1947 in the areas of miscegenation (6) and education (2), employment (1) and a residential ordinance passed by the city of San Francisco that required all Chinese inhabitants to live in one area of the city. Four voting restriction laws were passed that targeted foreign born inhabitants, particularly the Chinese. Although school segregation was banned by 1880, this law was overturned in 1902, and included Asian children as candidates for separate schools. Similarly, a miscegenation law passed in 1901 broadened an 1850 law, adding that it was unlawful for white persons to marry "Mongolians."
The legislation reflects the dominant society's growing anxiety over the steady numbers of Asians immigrating to California by the early twentieth century. An 1893 statute barred public accommodation segregation, with seven additional civil rights laws passed by 1955.
1870: Education [Statute] African and Indian children must attend separate schools. A separate school would be established upon the written request by the parents of ten such children. "A less number may be provided for in separate schools in any other manner."
1872: Alcohol sales [Statute] Prohibited the sale of liquor to Indians. The act remained legal until its repeal in 1920.
1878: Voter rights [City Ordinance] The city of San Francisco required each voter to register in person before each general election in their own elector precinct. Because precincts were very small, if a voter moved he was required to reregister.
1879: Voter rights [Constitution] "No native of China" would ever have the right to vote in the state of
California. Repealed in 1926.
1879: Employment [Constitution] Prohibited public bodies from employing Chinese and called upon the
legislature to protect "the state…from the burdens and evils arising from"
their presence. A statewide anti-Chinese referendum was passed by 99.4
percent of voters in 1879.
1880: Miscegenation [Statute] Made it illegal for white persons to marry a "Negro, mulatto, or
Mongolian."
1890: Residential [City Ordinance] The city of San Francisco ordered all Chinese inhabitants to move into a
certain area of the city within six months or face imprisonment. The
Bingham Ordinance was later found to be unconstitutional by a federal
court.
1891: Residential [Statute] Required all Chinese to carry with them at all times a "certificate of
residence." Without it, a Chinese immigrant could be arrested and jailed.
1894: Voter rights [Constitution] Any person who could not read the Constitution in English or write his name
would be disfranchised. An advisory referendum indicated that nearly 80
percent of voters supported an educational requirement.
1901: Miscegenation [Statute] The 1850 law prohibiting marriage between white persons and Negroes or
mulattoes was amended, adding "Mongolian."
1909: Miscegenation [Statute] Persons of Japanese descent were added to the list of undesirable marriage
partners of white Californians as noted in the earlier 1880 statute.
1913: Property [Statute] Known as the "Alien Land Laws," Asian immigrants were prohibited from
owning or leasing property. The constitutionality of the land laws were
upheld by the United State Supreme Court in 1923 and 1925. The laws were
justified as a means of protecting white farmers. The California Supreme
Court struck down the Alien Land Laws in 1952.
1931: Miscegenation [State Code] Prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.
1933: Miscegenation [Statute] Broadened earlier miscegenation statute to also prohibit marriages between
whites and Malays.
1945: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between whites and "Negroes, mulattos, Mongolians and
Malays."
1947: Miscegenation [Statute] Subjected U.S. servicemen and Japanese women who wanted to marry to
rigorous background checks. Barred the marriage of Japanese women to white
servicemen if they were employed in undesirable occupations.

Colorado
1864: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage between Negroes and mulattoes, and white persons "absolutely
void." Penalty: Fine between $50 and $500, or imprisonment between three
months and two years, or both.
1864-1908: [Statute] Passed three Jim Crow laws between 1864 and 1908, all concerning
miscegenation. School segregation was barred in 1876, followed by
segregation of public facilities in 1885. Four laws protecting civil
liberties were passed between 1930 and 1957, when the antimiscegenation
statute was repealed.
1876: Voting rights [Statute] Gave the General Assembly the authority to prescribe educational
qualifications for electors, but laws could not take effect before 1890. An
1891 statute provided for assistance to any voter who could not read or
write. Interpreters were provided for non-English speakers.
1908: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage between Negroes and mulattoes, and whites prohibited. Penalties:
Punishable by imprisonment from three months to two years, or a fine of
between $50 to $500, or both. Performing a marriage ceremony punishable by
a fine of $50 to $500, or three months to two years' imprisonment, or both.
1930: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation declared a misdemeanor.

Connecticut
1879: Military [Statute] Authorized state to organize four independent companies of infantry of
"colored men." Companies were to receive same pay as other companies,
including one company parade in the Spring and one in September.
1908: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited intermarriage between white persons and those persons having
one-eighth or more Negro blood. Penalty: Performing such a ceremony subject
to a fine between $100 to $1,000. If the white person knows the other is of
Negro or mixed blood, subject to a fine between $100 and $1,000. Could be
imprisoned in state prison between one and ten years.
1925: Antidefamation [Statute] Prohibited motion picture theaters from showing any film which ridiculed
the Negro race.
1933: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation declared a felony.
1935: Education [Statute] Upheld school segregation as originally authorized by statute of 1869.

Florida
"All marriages between a white person and a Negro, or between a white person and a person of Negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited."
"Any Negro man and white woman, or any white man and Negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars."
"The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately."

Georgia
"All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license."
"It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race."
Idaho
Passed four laws prohibiting miscegenation and a statute that prevented
Native Americans who had not severed their tribal relations from voting [18] . An
1889 constitutional amendment barred segregation in Idaho schools. The
miscegenation statute was repealed in 1959.
1867: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between white persons and Negroes or mulattoes.
1887: Miscegenation [Statute] A restatement of the law passed in 1867.
1889: Voter rights [Constitution] "Indians not taxed, who have not severed their tribal relations and adopted
the habits of civilization" were excluded from voting.
1908: Miscegenation [Statute] Intermarriage prohibited between Negroes and white persons. A marriage
valid where consummated outside the state would be valid in Idaho.
1932: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

Illinois
1927: Housing [Municipal Code] Chicago adopted racially restrictive housing covenants beginning in 1927[19] ,
although other tactics had been used in earlier years to maintain a
segregated city. At one time, as much as 80 percent of the city may have
been covered by restrictive covenants. In 1924, Nathan MacChesney, a
prominent Chicago attorney and a member of the Chicago Planning Commission,
drafted an addition to the Code of Ethics of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards that "forbade realtors to introduce members of any race
or nationality" into neighborhoods where their presence would damage
property values. In 1927, MacChesney drafted a model racial restrictive
covenant for the Chicago Real Estate Board, solely targeting African
Americans. The Chicago Real Estate Board promoted the covenant to YMCAs,
churches, women's clubs, PTAs, Kiwanis clubs, chambers of commerce and
property owners' associations. Hyde Park, Woodlawn, Park Manor, South
Shore, and other neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side adjacent to the so-
called "black belt," responded as well as outlying Chicago neighborhoods
and suburbs. Additionally, the University of Chicago was a strong supporter
of the covenant campaign in Washington Park, although they denied their
affiliation for many years. In 1948, the United States Supreme Court ruled
that enforcement of racial restrictive covenants was unconstitutional. The
Supreme Court's ruling, however, did not put an end to the problem of
blacks finding adequate housing. Homeowner associations continued to push
for segregation. Shortly after the court decision, the Woodlawn Property
Owners wrote:
If the colored people are convinced that life in Woodlawn would be
unbearable, they would not want to come in. There must be ways and means to
keep whites from selling, causing colored not to want to come in because
life here would be unbearable. We are going to save Woodlawn for ourselves
and our children! (Deeds of Mistrust: Race, Housing, and Restrictive Covenants in Chicago,
1900-1950)

1953: Housing [Municipal Code] In August 1953, the first black family to move into Trumbull Park, an all-
white project of the Chicago Housing Authority, came under attack by nearly
fifty teenagers who hurled stones, bricks and racial slurs at their
apartment. Venturing outside of their home was equally frightening, and
required a police escort. Additionally, blacks traveling through the area
now became targets of violence. As more black families moved into the
project, they, too, were harassed daily. When blacks received a permit to
organize a baseball game at the neighborhood park, tensions intensified. A
hostile crowd gathered at the park. When a firecracker tossed from the
crowd hit a player, the police sat motionless. A player who went to
retrieve a foul ball was attacked by the crowd and a fight broke out. When
the police arrested the white who started the fight, the crowd quickly
turned their frustrations on the police. Reactions intensified after the
fight and there was talk among whites to "burn the dirty bastards out."
Another disturbing incident occurred in July 1954 when three black women
attended mass at a local Catholic church. After the mass the women waited
until most of the crowd had left and exited from a side door. A crowd of
about thirty awaited the women as they left the church. One white woman was
so incensed that she attacked the black women with her umbrella. Father
Michael Commins, the rector of the church, reproached his parishioners in a
bulletin later that month, saying, "Hissing, hooting and assaulting anyone
for going to Mass is very un-Christian like." Although there was much less
violence within Trumbull Park by the early 1960s, anti-black sentiments
were still firmly in place. Neighborhood taverns featured Members Only
signs, African Americans stayed away from the park, the public swimming
pool and local churches. As Arnold R. Hirsch wrote in a journal article
published on Trumbull Park, "The decade of resistance that prevented all
but a token of African American presence maintained South Deering as a
white domain even as King negotiated the desegregation of Birmingham,
Alabama." (Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago,
1953-1966, The Journal of American History, Sept. 1995)

Indiana
Enacted seven Jim Crow laws in the areas of education and miscegenation
between 1869 and 1952[20] . Persons who violated the miscegenation law could be
imprisoned between one and ten years. The state barred school segregation
in 1877, followed by a law giving equal access to public facilities in
1885.
1869: Education [Statute] Separate schools to be provided for black children. If not a sufficient
number of students to organize a separate school, trustees were to find
other means of educating black children.

1905: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation prohibited.
1952: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage between whites and Negroes void.
1955: Adoption [Statute] Required that due regard be given to race on adoption petitions.
Kansas
1905: Education [Statute] Schools in Kansas City, Kansas, may organize and maintain separate schools
for education of white and colored children, including high schools; "but
no discrimination on account of color shall be made in high schools, except
as provided herein." [21]

Kentucky
"The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other."
Louisiana
"Any person who shall rent any part of any such building to a Negro person or a Negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a Negro person or Negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court."
Maine
1795 law prohibiting intermarriage between whites and blacks repealed.
1893: Voter rights [Constitution] Required an elector to be able to read the Constitution in English and write his name.
1893: Voting [State Code] A Constitutional amendment was passed in 1893 requiring electors to be able to read the Constitution in English and write his name.
Massachusetts
1892: Voting rights [Statute] Required voters to be able to read state Constitution in English and write
their name.

Maryland
"All railroad companies and corporations, and all persons running or operating cars or coaches by steam on any railroad line or track in the State of Maryland, for the transportation of passengers, are hereby required to provide separate cars or coaches for the travel and transportation of the white and colored passengers."
Michigan
1957: Adoption [Statute] required that race be used as a consideration in
adoption petitions.
Mississippi
"Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favor of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and Negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine not exceeding five hundred (500.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both."
Missouri
"Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school."

Montana
Four Jim Crow laws were enacted in Montana between 1871 and 1921. The
school segregation act was repealed in 1895. A 1909 miscegenation law
prohibited marriage between Caucasians and blacks as well as Chinese and
Japanese.
1871: Education [Statute] Children of African descent would be provided separate schools.
1897: Voting rights [Statute] Excluded "any person living on an Indian or military reservation" from
residency, unless that person had acquired a residence in a county of the
state and is in the employment of the government while living on a
reservation. Without residency, a person could not vote.
1897: Residency [Statute] An 1897 statute excluded "any person living on an Indian or military
reservation" from residency, unless that person had acquired a residence in
a county of MT and is in the employ of the government while living on a
reservation."
1909: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited intermarriage between whites and Negroes, Chinese and Japanese.
Penalty: Misdemeanor, carrying a fine of $500 or imprisonment of one month,
or both.
1921: Miscegenation [State Code] Miscegenation prohibited. Nullified interracial marriages if parties went
to another jurisdiction where legal. Also prohibited marriages between
persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.

Nebraska
1865: Miscegenation [Statute] Declared marriage between whites and a Negro or mulatto as illegal.
Penalty: Misdemeanor, with a fine up to $100, or imprisonment in the county
jail up to six months, or both.
1911: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriages between a white and colored person declared illegal. Also noted
that marriages between whites and those persons with one-quarter or more
Negro blood were void.
1929: Miscegenation [Statute] Forbid marriages between persons of the Caucasian race and those persons
with one eighth or more Asian blood.
1943: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage of whites with anyone with one-eighth or more Negro,
Japanese or Chinese blood.
Nevada
Enacted four miscegenation laws and a school segregation statute between
1865 and 1957. The education statute declared that blacks, Asians and
Indians were prohibited from attending public schools, and that a separate
school would be established for them if "deemed advisable." The state's
miscegenation law offered an extensive list of inappropriate marriage
candidates by race and color for Caucasians, including blacks, "Malay or
brown race, Mongolian or yellow race, or Indian or red race." The
miscegenation statute was repealed in 1959.
1865: Education [Statute] Negroes, Asians, and Indians prohibited from attending public schools. The
Board of Trustees of any district could establish a separate school for
educating Negroes, Asians, and Indians, if deemed advisable.
1912: Miscegenation [Statute] Unlawful for a white person to intermarry with any person of "Ethiopian or
black race, Malay or brown race, Mongolian or yellow race, or Indian or red
race, within the State." Penalty: Misdemeanor for participants and the
minister who performs such a ceremony. White persons found to be living
with the above mentioned groups would be fined between $100 and $500, or
confined in the county jail from six months to one year, or both.
1929: Miscegenaion [Statute] Miscegenation declared a misdemeanor. Also forbid marriages between persons
of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.
1955: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation illegal. Penalty: $500 to $1,000 and/or six months to one
year imprisonment.
1957: Miscegenation [Statute] Gross misdemeanor for white to marry person of black, brown, or yellow
race.

New Hampshire
1902: Voting [Constitution] A constitutional amendment passed in 1902 required voters to be able to
read the constitution in English and to write. Exceptions made for those
currently enfranchised; those 60 years old and those with physical
disabilities.

1910: Voting [Constitution] 1910 constitutional amendment excluded Indians not taxed from voting.
1955: Adoption [Statute] Race to be considered in adoption petitions.

New Mexico
"Separate rooms [shall] be provided for the teaching of pupils of African descent, and [when] said rooms are so provided, such pupils may not be admitted to the school rooms occupied and used by pupils of Caucasian or other descent."
New York
1908: Voting [State Code] In 1908 New York City held voter registration on the Jewish Sabbath and on
the Yom Kippur holiday.

1921: Voting rights [Constitution] Required electors to be able to read and write in English. Did not apply to
those with physical disabilities that prevented them from reading or
writing, or those who were electors prior to January 1922. Prospective
voters had to pass a stringent literacy reading and writing test or present
evidence that they had at least an 8th grade education in an approved
school. This statute had the potential to disfranchise countless foreign-
born Jews who spoke Yiddish. The law was backed overwhelmingly by upstate
voters and received a majority in New York City.
1930: Education [Statute] Trustees of a school district had the authority to establish separate
schools.

1947: Housing [Municipal Code] William Levitt, the developer of the nation's first modern-day suburb of
tract housing in Long Island, NY, believed that segregation was good for
business and used restrictive covenants to maintain racial homogeneity.
Following the Federal Housing Administration's lead which recommended
against "inharmonious racial or nationality groups," he used the following
covenant in 1947 to create a segregated community:
The tenant agrees not to permit the premises to be used or occupied by any
person other than members of the Caucasian race. But the employment and
maintenance of other than Caucasian domestic servants shall be permitted. Although Levitt eliminated the racial covenants after the 1948 Supreme
Court decision declaring such provisions as "unenforceable and contrary to
public policy," he continued to practice discrimination in his housing
developments in New Jersey and Maryland. The original Levittown never had
more than a handful of black families well into the 1980s, and remains 97
percent white today. Ironically, though Levitt was the grandson of a rabbi,
he also agreed to use restrictive covenants to ban Jews from his early developments. In his mind, it was strictly business. (LI History)

North Carolina
"Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. "
"The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals."
North Dakota
The state passed three Jim Crow laws. A 1943 statute barring miscegenation
was repealed in 1955. An 1899 Constitutional amendment gave the legislature
authority to implement educational qualificaitons for electors.
1899: Voting rights [Constitution] Gave legislature authority to establish an educational qualifying test for
electors.
1899: Voting [Constitution] In 1899, a constitutional amendment passed declaring "The legislature
shall, by law, establish an educational test as a qualifier for suffrage
should such a measure be deemed necessary." (Legislature declined to do
so.)
1933: Education [Statute] Law stated that "it would not be expeident to have the Indian children
mingle with the white children in our educational institutions by reason of
the vastly different temperament and mode of living and other differences
and difficulties of the two races.
1943: Miscegenation [State Code] Cohabitation between blacks and whites prohibited. Penalty: 30 days to one
year imprisonment, or $100 to $500 fine.
Ohio
Enacted a miscegenation statute in 1877 and a school segregation law in
1878. Segregation of public facilities was barred in 1884, and the earlier
miscegenation and school segregation laws were overturned in 1887. However,
in 1953, the state enacted a law requiring that race be considered in
adoption decisions.
1877: Miscegenation [Statute] Unlawful for a person of "pure white blood, who intermarries, or has
illicit carnal intercourse, with any Negro or person having a distinct and
visible admixture of African blood." Penalty: Fined up to $100, or
imprisoned up to three months, or both. Any person who knowingly officiates
such a marriage charged with misdemeanor and fined up to $100 or imprisoned
in three months, or both.
1878: Education [Statute] School districts given discretion to organize separate schools for colored
children if "in their judgment it may be for the advantage of the district
to do so."

1953: Adoption [Statute] Race to be taken into account on adoption petitions.

Oklahoma
"The [Conservation] Commission shall have the right to make segregation of the white and colored races as to the exercise of rights of fishing, boating and bathing."
"The baths and lockers for the negroes shall be separate from the white race, but may be in the same building."
"The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority to require telephone companies... to maintain separate booths for white and colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. That the Corporation Commission shall determine the necessity for said separate booths only upon complaint of the people in the town and vicinity to be served after due hearing as now provided by law in other complaints filed with the Corporation Commission."
1903: Mining-bath facilities [Statute] "The baths and lockers for the Negroes shall be separate from the white
race, but may be in the same building." (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)
1904: Education-Teaching [Statute] "Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where
members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils
for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor
more than fifty dollars for each offense." (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)
1907: Voting [Constitution] In 1907, an amendment passed requiring electors to read and write any
section of the state constitution. Exempted were those who were
enfranchised on Jan. 1, 1866, and lineal descendants of such persons.
(Declared unconstitutional in 1915; however, the provision for literacy was
upheld.)
Persons of Indian descent allowed to vote as noted in 1907 amendment.
1907: Funerals [Statute] Blacks were not allowed to use the same hearse as whites.
1908: Voting [State Code] In 1907, inmates of institutions were excluded from voting. "Any person
kept in a poorhouse at public expense, except federal, Confederate, and
Spanish-American ex-soldiers or sailors."
1928: Recreation--Fishing, Boating, and Bathing [Statute] "The [Conservation] Commission shall have the right to make segregation of
the white and colored races as to the exercise of rights of fishing,
boating and bathing." (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)
1937: Telephone Booths [Statute] "The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority to
require telephone companies...to maintain separate booths for white and
colored patrons when there is a demand for such separate booths. That the
Corporation Commission shall determine the necessity for said separate
booths only upon complaint of the people in the town and vicinity to be
served after due hearing as now provided by law in other complaints filed
with the Corporation Commission." (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)

Oregon
Enacted two miscegenation laws in 1867 and 1930 prohibiting intermarriage
between whites and blacks, Chinese, Kanaka (Indian tribe) or any person
having more than one half Indian blood. A 1953 statute required that
adoption petitions note the race of prospective adopting parents. A 1924
statute required electors to read the Constitution in English.
1867: Miscegenation [Statute] Unlawful for any white person to intermarry with any "Negro, Chinese, or
any person having one-quarter or more Negro, Chinese or kanaka blood, or
any person having more than one-half Indian blood." Penalty: Imprisonment
in the penitentiary or the county jail for between three months and one
year. Those who licensed or performed such a ceremony could be jailed for
three months to one year, or fined between $100 and $1,000.
1924: Voting rights [State Code] Required electors to read the Constitution in English and write their name.
1924: Voting [Statute] Statute and constitutional amendment passed in 1924 required electors to
read the constitution in English and write their name.
1930: Miscegenation [State Code] Miscegenation declared a felony. Also forbid marriages between persons of
the Caucasian race and those persons with one fourth or more Chinese or
Kanaka blood.
1953: Adoption [Statute] Adoption petition must state race or color of adopting parents.

Pennsylvania
1869: Education [Statute] Black children prohibited from attending Pittsburgh schools.

1956: Adoption [Statute] Petition must state race or color of adopting parents.
Rhode Island
1872: Miscegenation [State Code] Prohibited intermarriage. Penalty: $1,000 fine, or up to six months'
imprisonment.

1960: Voting [Statute] Not until 1928 did Rhode Island permit men and women who did not own
property to vote in city elections.

South Carolina
"No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter."
"It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro."
South Dakota
Enacted three miscegenation laws between 1809 and 1913, and a 1952 statute
that required adoption petitions to state the race of both the petitioner
and child. A 1913 miscegenation law broadened the list of races
unacceptable as marriage partners for whites to include persons belonging
to the "African, Korean, Malayan, or Mongolian race." This law reflected
the nation's growing tension over the massive waves of immigrants entering
the country during the early twentieth century. The miscegenation law was
repealed in 1957.
1909: Miscegenation [Statute] Intermarriage or illicit cohabitation forbidden between blacks and whites.
Penalty: Felony, punishable by a fine up to $1,000, or by imprisonment up
to ten years, or both.
1913: Miscegenation [Statute] Law expanded to prohibit marriage between whites and persons belonging to
the "African, Corean, [Korean] Malayan, or Mongolian race." Penalty:
Felony, punishable by a fine up to $1,000, or by imprisonment in state
prison up to ten years, or both.
1929: Miscegenation [Statute] Miscegenation declared a felony. Also forbid marriages between persons of
the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.
1952: Adoption [State Code] Adoption petitions must state race of petitioner and child.

Texas
Twenty-seven Jim Crow laws were passed in the Lone Star state from 1866 to 1958. Some examples include:
1950: Separate facilities required for white and black citizens in state parks
1953: Public carriers to be segregated
1958: No child compelled to attend schools that are racially mixed. No desegregation unless approved by election. Governor may close schools where troops used on federal authority.
Utah
Four miscegenation laws were passed in Utah between 1888 and 1953,
prohibiting intermarriage between whites and those of African or Asian
descent. School segregation was barred in 1895. The state's miscegenation
law was repealed in 1963.
1888: Miscegenation [Statute] Intermarriage prohibited between a Negro and a white person, and between a
"Mongolian" and a white person.

1907: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage laws amended, with earlier intermarriage provision remaining the
same.
1933: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriages between persons of the Caucasian and Asian races.
1953: Miscegenation [State Code] Marriage between "white and Negro, Malayan, mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon
void."
Virginia
"Every person... operating... any public hall, theater, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race and shall set apart and designate... certain seats therein to be occupied by white persons and a portion thereof, or certain seats therein, to be occupied by colored persons."
"The conductors or managers on all such railroads shall have power, and are hereby required, to assign to each white or colored passenger his or her respective car, coach or compartment. If the passenger fails to disclose his race, the conductor and managers, acting in good faith, shall be the sole judges of his race."
Washington
Enacted a miscegenation statute in 1866 forbidding marriage between whites
and Negroes or Indians. This law was repealed in 1887. Six civil rights
laws barring segregation were passed between 1890 and 1956.
1866: Miscegenation [Statute] Prohibited marriage between white persons and Negroes, Indians, or a person
of half or more Negro or Indian blood.
1887: Barred anti-miscegenation [Statute] Repealed anti-miscegenation law.
1896: Voting rights [Constitution] "Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise."
1896: Voting [Constitution] A constitutional amendment passed in 1896 requiring electors to read and
speak English. In 1912 a statute was passed noting, "If naturalized, must
furnish satisfactory evidence that he is capable of reading and speaking
the English language so as to comprehend the meaning of ordinary English
prose."
1920: Restrictive Housing Covenants [Municipal Code] Beginning in the 1920s, Seattle realtors frequently discriminated against
minorities. In November 1927 the Capitol Hill development used a covenant
that read: "The parties...agree each with the others that no part of the
lands owned by them shall ever be used or occupied by or sold, conveyed,
leased, rented or given to Negroes or any person of Negro blood." An April
1928 covenant for the Broadmoor subdivision read: "No part of said property
hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or any person
of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race..." (History Link)
Until 1950, Article 34 of the Code of Ethics for realtors in Seattle
included the following clause: "A Realtor should never be instrumental in
introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy,
members of any race or nationality, or any individual whose presence will
clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood." Voluntary
agreements between realtors and homeowners continued well into the 1960s.
In 1964, Seattle voters rejected a referendum that prohibited housing
discrimination. In April 1968, the city council passed an open housing
ordinance, making restrictive covenants illegal. (History Link)

West Virginia
"White and colored persons shall not be taught in the same school."
This point-blank requirement for segregated schools was proclaimed in West Virginia's State Constitution as Article XII Section 8. In a remarkable show of the persistence of such attitudes extending to the highest levels of state government, numerous attempts to remove this from the constitution were defeated in the state legislature until it was finally repealed on Nov 8, 1994.

An African American drinks from a segregated water cooler designated for colored patrons in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City.
Wisconsin
1893: Voting rights [Statute] Voting rights were to include "any civilized person being a descendant of
the Chippewa's of Lake Superior, or any other Indian tribe, who does not
reside on an Indian reservation and who shall subscribe to an oath…that he
is not a member of any Indian tribe, and has no claim upon the U.S. for aid
and assistance and he relinquishes all tribal relation, and right to
receive any aid from the United States."
Wyoming
"All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void."
1887: Education [Statute] Separate schools could be provided for colored children when there were
fifteen or more colored children within any school district.
1889: Voting rights [Constitution] Required electors to read the state Constitution.
1908: Intermarriage [Statute] All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattos, Mongolians, or
Malaya hereafter contracted in the State of Wyoming are and shall be
illegal and void. (Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS)
1931: Education [Statute] Schools to be segregated only when fifteen or more colored children were in
a district.
1931: Miscegenation [Statute] Declared miscegenation a misdemeanor. Also prohibited marriages between
persons of the Caucasian, Asian and Malay races.
1945: Miscegenation [Statute] Marriage of whites to Negroes, mulattoes, Mongolians, Malayans void.
Penalty: $100 to $1,000 and/or one to five years imprisonment.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

HRCF: Wake me up before you go-go (+ major comment from TDD)

Dear friends,

Let's be absolutely clear - there are TWO organizations working in Florida against Amendment 2 - and the main one is Florida Red & Blue (SayNo2.com). HRC is working with Freedom for All Families (VoteNo2.com) but Flordia Red & Blue (SayNo2.com) was (?) given some money (?) in HRC's name. Very confusing...

HRC works with Freedom for All Families (FFAF) and Nadine Smith/Equality Florida. And as usual - they don't like the competition.

I have been somewhat working with FFAF but they do not have a volunteer office in Pensacola listed below - most likely due to our close relationship with Derek Newton and Florida Red & Blue. (Michael Greene is doing a great job up here in Panama City 40 miles away.) Derek Newton has visited Pensacola and really got people motivated - not to mention the great work he does across the state of Florida. Pensacola's greatest achievement is geting Gulf Coast Tide, Northwest Florida ACLU and the University of West Flordia's GSA 100-member group energized and ready to work.

What is shameful is the multiple emails I have received from HRC lately asking for money. That money will not go to Florida to fight Amendment 2 and HRC should be ashamed.

If you are giving money for the fight, please send to Flordia Red & Blue (SayNo2.com). They have the local grassroots initiatives in place as well as television adversing.

There is also Florida Red & Blue election party sponsored by Tom Gerrard and Mario Duhon November 4, 2008 at Paradidio del Mar in Manalapn, FL (7-midnight). The contact number is (561) 601-2280.

So don't be fooled! HRC is trying to put their blue-and-yellow equality stamp on ALL the good work being done in Florida - and HRC is "helping" - but to push the other group aside with confusing emails on support - and then try to steal money for HRC National in unforgiviable - but I have come to expect this of HRCF.

Pensacola will have phone banking in the next week and we will be holding rallies on the street corners on election day against Amendment 2. All our bars and universities are promoting SayNo2.com at all events as well as chuches. We even had a political rally last week with many local candidates speaking out against Amendment 2. We will also be getting newspaper and TV coverage soon with Derek Newton/Flroda Red & Blue (to complement the coverage last spring) - and not like the love letter Southern Voice sent Nadine Smith the other week.

FFAF may have written us off but we perservere!

So remember - Florida Red & Blue (SayNo2.com)!

So remember - Florida Red & Blue (SayNo2.com)!

So remember - Florida Red & Blue (SayNo2.com)!

Tom Dempsey

PS But if your options are limited please volunteer with the Freedom for All Families people. We are all in this together (unless you work at HRCF).

HRC email on link

Labels: Amendment 2, Florida, HRC, SayNo2

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Will Gay Games move to Cleveland in 2014? (+ comment)

[As I said previously, Boston is favored for the 2014 Games. Miami is hard to get around and pretentious and Cleveland - ???- you go, girl! (The Drew Carey Show comes to mind.) I guess 3.5 times is not a charm for Atlanta considering many of the members remember the 2006 bid disaster (thanks, Ray Hom & Margie Archer, et al).

I am still a strong supporter of the Gay Games and have years of experience in the bidding process. I even approached two cities in the South this year (not Atlanta) to bid and they both rejected the event as unfeasible due to financial projections. In other words, they would not touch it. I also felt some gay bias in the process. I really enjoyed Amsterdam in 1998 and came back working to get Atlanta as a host by starting the Atlanta 2006 bid. It didn't happen. Atlanta has one or two members with the Federation now and needs to heal the rift and shame caused by Harcher. Atlanta needs to start sending quality people to get involved with the Federation - and I believe 2044 could be in the bag.

The Gay Games is an example in the world where positive events are possibly - and it brings people together. We need more events like this - but maybe on a smaller scale.

Good luck to all the bidding cities - you are going to need it.

Tom Dempsey]

Will Gay Games move to Cleveland in 2014?
Oct 15th, 2008
by Matt Hennie.

Let the bidding wars begin. Gay sports enthusiasts in Cleveland are expected to announce their intentions today to bid on Gay Games IX in 2014. Under the banner of the Cleveland Synergy Foundation, the backers of the bid are scheduled to make the decision public during a press conference and enter a competition also expected to include Boston and Miami.

The new foundation is an effort to “measurably enhance the economy, image and quality of life in the greater Cleveland GLBT and Straight community by attracting and creating significant cultural, athletic and benevolent events and festivals,” according to its web site. The group is partnering with the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission and Positively Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau on the bid.

Representatives from both of those organizations as well as the city and Douglas Anderson and Brian Tavolier of Cleveland Synergy are scheduled to speak at the press conference. Anderson and Tavolier are partners in Triad Event Management, and were elected to the Cleveland Pride board last year. Anderson is also President and League Commissioner for the North Coast Athletics Volleyball, which runs the gay volleyball program in Cleveland, and Tavolier is the Executive Secretary and league Secretary and Treasurer for NCAV.

Cleveland is expected to compete with bids from Boston and Miami for the 2014 event. For the first time in the bidding process, bidding organizations are able to propose new sports.

The Federation of Gay Games, which meets this weekend in South Africa, is expected to select a host city in 2009 during their annual meeting in Cologne, Germany. The German city hosts the Gay Games in 2010.

“We are very excited to start this round of the bidding cycle,” Darl Schaaff, Site Selection Officer, says in a prepared statement. “Several organisations have contacted us and we are looking forward to working with them and with any other interested groups during the next two years. The additional flexibility introduced into the sports program will encourage even more exciting proposals from cities throughout the world.”
Matt Hennie blogs on Atlanta’s gay sports scene at Gaytlsports.com.

Friday, September 26, 2008

SoVo Letters (+ mostly my comments)

http://www.sovo.com/2008/9-26/view/letters/9222.cfm

Comments by Tom Dempsey:

The SoVo letters were pretty interesting this week but I wanted to add some personal observations:

Log Cabin Endorsement - While I agree the next administration will see 2-3 appointments to the Supreme Court, this is a country of checks and balances. McCain or Obama cannot force an appointee since they must get approval of Congress. Plus the country is changing so who is to say any one person would be for or against gay and lesbian rights.

Many of the positive changes for the LGBT community have occurred under the last Bush administration. The sodomy laws were overturned, same-sex marriage is breaking out all over the country and DADT is routinely ignored in the military (though still a problem if you go on 60 Minutes) - so the last eight years have not been the "Gay Holocaust" many were predicting in 2000. There are rumors of gays and lesbians serving in the current administration - and many Republican families have gay/lesbian children.

I applaud the existence of LCR to promote gay and lesbian rights in the Republican party although I don't agree with them.

I cannot support a candidate that doesn't stand up for my rights - and neither Democrats or Republicans do so openly. So neither will get my presidential vote and they shouldn't get your's. Don't be another token group.

Cotillion - This was another black eye for Atlanta and I totally support Laura Douglas-Brown in her editorial. I do fault AID Atlanta on this issue by continuing to stay involved with Cotillion and taking their money. This showed a major disrespect and lack of understanding of the lesbian community. Not even the black-tie HRC Dinner requires dresses.

My suggestion is if Cotillion is an annual event hold a competing event next year with the proceeds going to a more respectful organization (like AIDS Survival Project) who need the money.

As a gay man who toured the world over the years promoting Atlanta (for the Gay Games) I was surprised when I was asked if we were still lynched in the streets (yes, but that happens everywhere) - and if we wore shoes and ate dirt. Many in the world still think of Atlanta as the Old South.

Orange - Yes, Ben Elliot is scum and deserves to be in jail - especially for killing Hoedowns - but I went to Clemson University and LOVE the color orange so stop dissing the orange! Orange is very visible so I can see why prisons use it (and some use pink now to degrade prisoners!) but I would like to see the retro black and white stripes come back.

Pride - I do not know Deirdre Heffernan but do know it can be tough talking to the press sometimes ("People can be so mean" was my horrible quote years ago in Southern Voice talking about Donna Narducci) but that "Russian roulette" thing was just bad and made little sense. Unfortunately, we can't go back and change the print.

I do wonder about anyone on the Pride board since I know from experience how Donna Narducci only allowed her friends and supporters (cronyism) to be "elected" and wonder who is in charge of Pride now. Non-profits are not democracies and usually have the same power plays and struggles of any organization. We cannot vote change in these groups and normally wait till they fail for new leadership - or they go away like Hotlanta Raft Race.

But Pride is important and the LGBT community in Atlanta needs to come together and demand non-partisan change and oversight. The fact that Narducci was in charge for over 15 years in unbelievable since most organizations put term limits on leadership to encourage change and growth. There experience is valued but new blood is always good. Atlanta Pride is suppose to represent the community but issues like the Coors controversy and summer vs fall scheduling were largely unanswered by entrenched leaders like Narducci.

It's time to come together and take back Pride. Instead of a lottery, we should demand the city look at the number of participants and award the park according to those numbers. I'm not sure if Pride or the Dogwood festival is larger, but cannot see Screen on the Green given the park over Pride. (Doesn't Screen on the Green run all summer?) And Peachtree Road Race can easily move without little impact.

Tom Dempsey

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Memorandum: Charles Tolbert: La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri

My best friend died 15 years ago this week and I found this passage to describe my feelings.

A day doesn't go by when I think of him - his name was Charles "Chuck" Tolbert from Columbia, South Carolina & Atlanta, Georgia. I hope others remember him as I do. He really made an impression on my life.

I will miss him always.

Tom Dempsey

PS He called me Scooter.

In that book which is
My memory...
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words...
Here begins a new life.

La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri

Labels: chuck

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Note to Self: November 4, 2008

Remember this email on November 4, 2008...

McCain will beat Obama due to decisions this week.

Tom Dempsey