Tilting At Windmills & A Rose For Ryan!

For those of you old enough to remember classic Broadway and movie musicals the title to today's post refers to The Man of La Mancha which is the story of Don Quixote in musical format and the movie poster always had a picture of Don Quixote holding a lance gazing at a windmill. This was to imply the futility of our efforts in fighting for lost causes. It is a rather romanticized fable whose moral, to me, is to not give up the fight. Being the hopeless romantic with (I hope) some wit, I can see myself as Don Quixote trying to spear the windmill on my lance. I the fearless homosexual trying to hoist the religious right on its own petard so to speak. In this vein there is an excellent article at Ex Gay Watch written by Autumn Sandeen on the furor the Focus on the Family types are whirling around AMC's new trans gender character Zarf. Ms Sandeen is herself transgendered and so speaks from been there, done that, got the T-shirt. You can read her article here. I absolutely feel the transgendered are the bravest people in our community for the simple fact that they face ever so much more discrimination than the average gay person, even among we ourselves as gays. Read the article and support all our brothers and sisters no matter what our gender identity or orientation.

As long as we are tilting at windmills, I have upload to Pando, a video of Jon Stewart skewering Bill Bennett on the issue of Gay Marriage. The clip is hilarious in the way Jon makes this conservative pundit out to be the idiot that he is, however, Mr Bennett does in the end admit that the conservatives have lost the fight on Gay Marriage, it is just a matter of time. The Pando button is below and also at the bottom of the page.

You Tube has finally finished whatever it was doing and I could finally access my account and upload videos. I created a channel where you can watch some of all of my videos and all of my favorites created by others. I created a video with another soundtrack by Guns N Roses called November Rain which is presented here for your enjoyment as well as creating a Pando button if you would like to download it to your hard drive, the Pando button is at the bottom of the page.

I would like to extend a a word of thanks and much love to Ryan over at Boys Are Ugly But So Cute who is a warm, funny, compassionate guy who is totally in love with Mikey, yet still has plenty of love to share with the world. He provide me with some much needed comfort and has a big shoulder that he allowed me to cry on when I needed it. You guys should read of his and Mikey's adventures and I am sure you will come to love him as I do. This rose is for you, Ryan.

You will notice in the sidebar that I have posted the pictures that you have to choose from as the new banner for Nichevo. Right below the pictures is an on line poll to make it easy for you to cast your vote. Of course you can always post a comment or email me with your vote, but I thought I would make it easy for you. The balloting will be open until December 31 and the winner will be posted up top shortly thereafter.

If you guys have not discovered Kendall over at The Way I See It, you should check his post for today as he sent me 10 questions and I sent him the 10 answers and you can learn a little more about Uncle Gerry from there as well as enjoy a really well written blog with some studly "and finally" guys on a regular basis. Thank you for the kind words, Kendall, love to you.

I guess I am through ranting and raving for the day. It has been a so much better day today than yesterday, thanks to my dear readers and their kind words and support. Remember you can subscribe to Nichevo and get all this in your in box every morning through Feed Blitz in the side bar by the clock. Post a comment and let me know how I am doing. Until next time as always, Enjoy!