Monthly Archives: July 2011

(Community Matters) Last night with Shawn Sides, Graham Reynolds and Steven. Graham considers it the best Ethiopian in the US. The lentil sambusa was the best I’ve ever had. We all loved it – including our very cool waiter Michael, who served with such graceful hospitality. Also like that you can byob for a corking fee.

photo a stock image

(Community Matters) Joaquin doesn’t represent a threat to Lloyd, he represents a win.

What was most notable was the enthusiasm, the attentiveness, the lack of fidgeting while Joaquin spoke – in the middle of 105F heat– in the courtyard of Juan in a Million. We’d (the host committee) expected 60 to 80 attendees. I tried but couldn’t really count the fish in a bowl, but it was somewhere near 200.

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(Community Matters) Tonight we celebrated Adrienne Donato’s birthday at Fonda San Miguel. What a treasured friend to me & Steven . . . and to so many Obama supporters in Texas. Much fun with Adrienne, Mary Pharris, Lynn Meredith, Kim Taylor, Bev Reeves and Steven.

(Community Matters) Pres Obama and the Dept of Justice just went way beyond not defending DOMA. On behalf of the US government, they’ve just admitted institutional discrimination, supporting our major legal arguments for the last decade.

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(Community Matters) Judge Robert Pitman

(Community Matters) Of course I’m on the waitlist

(Community Matters) from Mike Allen’s Playbook:

DRIVING THE WEEK — “Back-channel talks set up week ahead,” by David Rogers: “Senior Republican and Democratic staff, who worked closely with one another to avert a government shutdown in April, are again central … Obama and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) met Sunday at the White House. … Continue reading →

(Community Matters) Pres. Obama insisted that the effort include not only cuts in government spending but also tax increases for the wealthy and narrowed loopholes for oil companies – here

(Community Matters) update to previous posting:

 As I mentioned to KT – I didn’t intend for this conversation to go anti-anyone. Hoping to have a pro-Castro conversation. I’ve supported Lloyd Doggett in the past for his many contributions. I’m supporting Joaquin in the future for his vision, energy, given the demographics of the new district, and because I believe the future of our state rests in the hands of his generation – we’ve got to promote tomorrow’s most capable leaders

He’s exactly the type of political leader we should be promoting in Texas to turn this state blue, to engage younger and Hispanic voters.

(Community Matters) Nice write up about activism, insiders and perspectives in LGBT equality

lessons learned:

• Rules are created by those in power to keep power, not to create change. BREAK ALL THE RULES, UNTIL WE ARE EQUAL.
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(Community Matters) Bradley Manning Army of One, in the New Yorker. How a lonely, five-foot-two, gender-questioning soldier became a WikiLeaks hero, a traitor to the U.S., and one of the most unusual revolutionaries in American history.

(Community Matters) Happy July 4th.

Pics from our Aldridge Place July 4th party

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Steven, mine & Brent’s contribution was the pinata – adding a bit of multicultural tradition to July 4th