tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post2670046822613271534..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Can a Lefty Gay Man in New York Be Patriotic?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-89741344409260883212010-07-06T06:43:31.051-04:002010-07-06T06:43:31.051-04:00Here is a post from KittKat that Blogger will not ...Here is a post from KittKat that Blogger will not publish for some mysterious reason:<br /><br /><br />Thanks for a great post. At least “America the Beautiful” was written by a lesbian. I wish I had known that when I was forced to sing her song every day while growing up in the Iowa public schools!<br /><br />More info on the illustrious Ms. Bates at:<br /><br />www.gayheroes.comCounterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-66988090429262832302010-07-06T01:53:12.393-04:002010-07-06T01:53:12.393-04:00Thanks for a great post. At least “America the Be...Thanks for a great post. At least “America the Beautiful” was written by a lesbian. I wish I had known that when I was forced to sing her song every day while growing up in the Iowa public schools! <br /><br />More info on the illustrious Ms. Bates at: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.gayheroes.com/bates.shtml" rel="nofollow">www.gayheroes.com</a>Kittredge Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858676733169316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-79452739861799079092010-07-04T18:14:08.263-04:002010-07-04T18:14:08.263-04:00Wonderful post, Doug. Another history lesson.
Oh...Wonderful post, Doug. Another history lesson.<br /><br />Oh the heady days of 2008!<br /><br />I like your analogy about country and family. It works.<br /><br />And Jason, you have it right.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-34341294565561723902010-07-03T07:56:56.682-04:002010-07-03T07:56:56.682-04:00On the one hand, we love our countries like we lov...On the one hand, we love our countries like we love our families, not because they are particularly wonderful (they usually aren't), but because they are ours.<br /><br />On the other hand, I love the Flag like I love the Gospel. I refuse to let either be taken away from me by people who would shit all over them both rather than see people like me make a claim on them.<br /><br />It is indeed about loving the light and not the bulb.<br /><br />And sadly, the brave hope of 2008 does indeed seem so far away now. Leave it to the Dems to alienate the very people who voted them into power in the first place (minorities, women, the young, Latinos, the poor, labor, and their most inconvenient constituency, gay and lesbians).Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-29757302566987518152010-07-02T23:26:09.737-04:002010-07-02T23:26:09.737-04:00More recently, I also really like this: Melissa Et...More recently, I also really like this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNgxdQkDcu8" rel="nofollow">Melissa Etheridge at the 2008 Dem Convention</a><br /><br />Well, it's more recent . . . but doesn't the OPTIMISM of Summer 2008 already seem like ages ago? (Sigh.)JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-75095094284602379122010-07-02T23:17:16.982-04:002010-07-02T23:17:16.982-04:00"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.&quo..."Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." <br /><br />That's my favorite quote by Oscar Wilde, but one night while listening to "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie (especially the later verses), I realized that in the USA it really comes down to celebrating the light as opposed to the light bulb. Fuck the patriotic right - don't concede the love of real freedom to those who would put a wall around it with every chance they got. Thus, on this 4th as always, I'm celebrating the light, and vowing to stay loud and in the face of those who speak of freedom while resisting its advance. Happy Independence Day.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3sJason Chappellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-61857055414202350602010-07-02T22:16:00.909-04:002010-07-02T22:16:00.909-04:00I was looking on YouTube for some kind of patrioti...<i>I was looking on YouTube for some kind of patriotic song</i><br /><br />May I suggest <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk" rel="nofollow">this</a>?JCFnoreply@blogger.com