Category: LGBT

• Is Our Destiny Foretold?

  [Is this the world we want? Image source: Google search.] We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. ~~Sheryl Sandberg A year has passed and here I am once again laying in bed with my heavily bandaged right foot propped on a dark red…

  patrickjegan

  February 23, 2025

  Childhood, In Search of Lost Time, LGBT, Melancholy Thoughts, Real Personal History, Religious Intolerance, Silent Political Protest, winter

  #february28economicblackout, #footsurgery, #postopmusingswhilelyinginbed, blogging, books, life, politics, writing

• Cyclones, Sideshows & Mermaids: A Hot Day on Coney Island

  [The Luna Park Face. Source: Google search.] I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. ~~John Lennon My wife was with a man with a mission. We exited the D Train into 87° F heat and enough humidity to drown a fish. It was the…

  patrickjegan

  June 26, 2024

  Food, Home, John Lennon, LGBT, New York City, Oceanography, Real Personal History, seniors, summer, The sea, Travels

  #brooklyncyclonesbaseball, #coneyisland, #coneyislandmermaidparade, #coneyislandsideshow, #hotsummerafternoonsatathebeach, #johnlennon, #mermaids, book-review, mermaid, mermaids, romance, stories

• Truth And Lies-Love And Hate

  You are right from your side, I am right from mine. –Bob Dylan “One Too Many Mornings” I don’t find very many quotes from Dylan that aren’t spot on. 99.999% of his poetry is impossibly true and astoundingly real. They don’t give the Nobel Prize in Literature to just any drifter from Minnesota. But, the…

  patrickjegan

  September 22, 2023

  Bigotry, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Lyrics, Gender Studies, History, LGBT, Religion, Religious Intolerance

  #Debates, #Sexism, #TruthandLies

• The No-Name Motel

  [The motel with no name] Most of the time I can erect a fence to contain the images and imaginations from escaping my brain.  Sometimes a little white picket fence with pink daisies in purple pots are enough to hold back the most innocent and decent imagery that my mind can create.  Then, there are…

  patrickjegan

  July 16, 2019

  Blogging, Creativity, Everyday Events, Ghosts, History, Holding onto the Past, Home, LGBT, marriage, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, North Country Life, seniors, Time, Travels

  Adirondacks, Malone NY, motels

• Lone Ranger and Tonto United in California Civil Ceremony

  Media representatives, Native American leaders, cultural historians, gay rights activists and many cowboys rejoiced yesterday afternoon when two long-time partners against crime were united in a civil ceremony on a dude ranch outside Oxnard, California.  The marriage was held in strict privacy with only several hundred invited guests in attendance.  Reporters hiding in the hills…

  patrickjegan

  April 9, 2015

  Blogging, Creativity, Fame, humor, LGBT, Love, satire, Short Fiction

  California, gay marriage, Silver bullets, The Lone Ranger, Tonto