CATCH A FALLING STAR Chapter Four, "If Pain Persists", Part 2
has been updated. You now find out about the visitor that has
broken into Matson's hotel room and is watching him take a shower (and
it ain't Norman Bates).
August 15, 2010 - Chapter Four, "If Pain Persists", Part 1 is updated.
Updated 6/5/2009
All of chapter 3 is now online. You find out what Beef Matson finds in
his search for hidden mobster rooms, you learn all about the "creature"
and much more. There's some interesting color illustrations and a comic
strip version of part of the chapter as well!
The masculine
San Francisco gay detective who sleeps with a teddy bear is back in a
new adventure called "Catch A Falling Star" which is a prequel to "A
Person In A Position Of Trust". This adventure has a science fiction
theme and has our detective hero involved with political intrigue,
mysterious murders and a journey on a luxury trans continental train.
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Adam
And Andy A comic strip featuring the adventures
of a gay male couple.
Gilbert
Baker Meet
the man who created the rainbow flag.
Belasco
Comix
Homo afro erotic artist. Author of 'Brothers of New Essex', creator of
character 'A Brutha Named Boo'
Zack
Blank Australian
artist and photographer Zack Blank.
ButchBoyStudios
From San Francisco, the art of Joel Hoyer and Martin Freeman
Capitol
Hillbillies Comic
strip adventures of gay guys in Seattle. "Because sodomy is funny."
Daniel
Cool Auf Deutsch and in English.
"My pictures stand for friendship, partnership and love."
Zane
Maxwell Gay erotic art paintings,
drawings and illustrations for sexy men and male nude in watercolors.
His artwork is simple, unique, and provocative to stimulate intellect
and humor.
Beau
To Beau Publishing The writings of BK Wright. "All persons are
entitled to unconditional acceptance." These fictional stories of romance
(with happy endings) help to convey the message that gay men can find
a significant other with whom to share their lives.
Buff's
Tufftalk
Exploring man to man relationships from a top man's perspective.For top
men who care about their relationships. Setting a responsible example
while pursuing our gay identity.
LGBT
Minute
Newsy commentary about the latest community issues by a delightful, positive
soul named Bonnie.
The
Male Vagabondage Italiano.
Un viaggio attraverso una cultura tutta al maschile nel tentativo di scoprire
e riscoprire nuovi e vecchi orizzonti artistici. L'obiettivo primario
di questo blog é quello di analizzare, principalmente attraverso le immagini,
l'eros maschile in tutte le sue possibili espressioni artistiche.
Truth
Wins Out
Fighting anti-gay lies and the ex-gay myth.
The
Unbearable Truth…Fear Eats The Soul True
life stories of a man who learned that "A life lived in fear is a life
half-lived…". (A very literate, sensitive and entertaining blog.)
Hombre - acrylic on panel mounted illustration board A
holster wearing mustached cowboy out on the range. This painting
is on illlustration board, yet mounted on a panel and varnished so no
mats or glass are needed, just a frame you can get at any arts and
crafts store.
Click on image to go to Purchase
Gallery Page.
Blond Moon - acrylic on canvas board A deep blue moonlit sky and a blond cowboy makes for a dramatic painting.
Click on image to go to Purchase
Gallery Page.
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Just a note to let everyone know, my paintings
are NOT computer generated images. I do my paintings the traditional
way, by hand and start with a pencil sketch and work my way to the
finished painting. So what you are getting is a product of my skill
and not a software program.
During these rough times…
I know things are kind of
rough out there for a lot of folks
and the only magic I have to share with you is through my art and my
little web site. If you are having bumpy day, I'd like to share my
Affirmations page with you. It's one of the oldest pages on
rickchris.com. Maybe you can use that page to build a little magic,
gather a little grace and get the strength to help you through your
trials. "Where is the night luster? Past my trials…" Click here.
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keep my little web site going. If you enjoy the various features on
rickchris.com, please help support this web site through a donation.
Any amount is helpful. Many thanks! - Rick Chris
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Putting the spotlight on those who add
value to the gay community through their creativity, talent and
achievement. The Shout Out column is open to any gay creative type,
performer, writer, artist, etc. I know how challenging it can be for
gay creative types, so this is my small way of trying to lend a helping
hand by offering a little publicity. Just send an email
(rickchris@rickchris.com) about yourself or someone you would like to
be spotlighted. The cost? You only have to promise that you're going to
try to be rich, famous and successful. I also accept news releases for
shows, benefits and events.
Note:
if you send in information about an event or individual I will be glad
to list it for you free of charge - however, in your email, please
state that you are requesting a listing under the Shout Out banner and
I would also like to know who is making the request (the name of a
contact person) so I know the information about the person or event is
"authorized".
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Project Life Vest
Teen Driven from Home for Going Gay to Prom Founds Support Group
Richmond, CA – “Thanks to the kindness of strangers I survived
abandonment for the ‘crime’ of being gay and young,” said Derrick
Martin, announcing the launch of a new organization to help LGBTQ
youths. When Martin decided to go to take another male as date to his
high school prom in Cochran, Georgia last year. “If I have anything to
say about it, no one else will ever have to go through what I did.
Project LifeVest is my ‘give back’ for the critical help caring people
around the country extended to me when I needed it.
“I believe there are kids out there like me who need the help, and I
now know there are people who will come to the rescue when called.
Project LifeVest (http://www.projectlifevest.org) will put those in need together with those who can help.”
The new organization, to be based in Statesboro, Georgia, will
concentrate on helping young people who are experiencing, or in fear
of, discrimination because of sexual orientation get whatever resources
they need to cope with the challenges they face. That help may range
from making sure a closeted youngster has somebody to talk with
confidentially to get through a lonely night or an intimidating social
situation, to re-locating someone who can’t stay where they’ve been
living any longer because they face physical or psychological abuse, to
making sure that kids have access to information about HIV or drug
abuse prevention.
The plight Derrick Martin found himself in when he decided to invite
his boyfriend to his senior prom at Bleckley County High School in the
town of Cochran, Georgia, could happen almost anywhere in America. In
the end, it was not the school which refused to sanction Derrick’s
choice of a date, but his own parents. Their moral convictions prompted
them to inflict the very punishment LGBTQ children too often live in
fear of from the moment they recognize their same-gender attraction or
traditional-gender non-conformity; parental condemnation, rejection and
expulsion – loss of family, just at the time when a teenager’s sense of
personal identity is apt to feel most at risk.
But once the conflict became public, Derrick found himself in the midst
of a national crusade, nearly overwhelmed by media coverage, positive
and negative, but buoyed up by the messages of respect and support he
received from around the country. The prom went off virtually without a
hitch and is now part of LGBTQ history, becoming not only a lesson in
tolerance for a community, but a blueprint for LGBTQ young people to
stand up for themselves and get help in overcoming obstacles to living
open and honest lives.
An alphabet soup of LGBTQ-supportive organizations rode in like the
cavalry, from PFLAG to HRC, offering resources and expertise, along
with encouragement which came from individuals, such as Art Beeche and
David Higdon, a married couple, who came to Derrick’s graduation and
welcomed him into their home to meet their 13 year-old son and spend
the summer with their family in Richmond, California. The Gay and
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) proved invaluable in
rallying support and handling the media. The result was that Derrick
Martin found himself an unexpected spokesperson for the unmet needs of
young LGBTQ people throughout the United States and much of the world,
and an example of how homophobic challenges can be defeated with
candor, courage – and connections. He now wants to be one of those
connections, funneling his renown as a living success story through a
support organization run by and for young LGBTQ men and
women.
“My situation and the attention it has drawn have provided me a unique
perspective and opportunity that I feel I cannot pass up”, Martin
noted. “Young people who, like myself, have been disadvantaged because
of discrimination, hate, or ignorance need somewhere to turn for help.
GLAAD was my life vest, and I plan to be a life vest to as many others
as I can. I only want those who face obstacles like mine to know that
they are not alone, for everyone has the right to love regardless of
sexual orientation.”
Project LifeVest’s mission is simple: “To be a helping hand, a life
vest, to as many LGBT teens and adults as possible. We will carry out
this mission through the establishment of safe places in as many cities
as possible; through a call center with a qualified team of counselors
who can give advice where needed; through screening a network of
families who can, when need arises, host rejected teens while they
finish schooling or find a new home.”
Gilbert
Baker - Six Or Eight Rainbow Stripes?
Meet the man who created
the rainbow flag. He's produced new designs that bring back the original
eight stripe format. Click here.
Out Radio
Out Radio
is a production of JD Doyle. You can find links on the Out Radio site
to his other radio shows as well as an email link to JD. www.outradio.com
JD Doyle writes:
"I'm very
pleased to announce that I've started a new radio show, called
OutRadio. This is a companion show to Queer Music Heritage, and like
QMH it will be a monthly multi-part show, but it will focus on new and
recent music by GLBT artists. There is just so much new music I want to
share and this will be my way to do that. It starts at
www.OutRadio.com."
Queer Music Heritage and Out Radio
host, JD Doyle
JD
Doyle
writes: OutRadio for September includes Four, I think, very interesting
interviews…with Kevin Wong, Avi Wisnia, Linq and Mama’s Black Sheep.
And then there’s Part 3, which starts with “Freedom” and ends with “The
Climb,” with lots of music I admire in between, some you’ll probably
hear nowhere else.
Out Radio is a
new show produced by JD Doyle in addition to his Queer Music Heritage
shows.
QUEER MUSIC HERITAGE
Queer Music
Heritage For August - Troy Walker Interview, and much more
Includes Johnnie Ray, Jewell Akens, Eleventh Hour, Thelma Houston, Paul Lynde, more.
JD
Doyle
writes: "Troy Walker is the subject of my special feature interview
this month. One thing that makes it special is that I love to share
with you the actual voices of our pioneers, and this one started
recording about fifty years ago, and he’s still performing. And you’ll
hear him talk about many of the folks he’s worked with, like Jerry Lee
Lewis, Leon Russell, Timi Yuro, Johnnie Ray, Cher, and Phil Spector,
among others".
You
can stream or download the show anytime athttp://www.queermusicheritage.com/aug2010.html
Queer Music
Heritage For September - Lesbians on cassette, Part II
JD
Doyle
writes: "How DOES he do it? Three hours of obscure lesbian music from
1975 through 1996. I can just see folks lining up to hear this one! The
criteria was that an artist's recording could ONLY have been released
on cassette tape, Not on vinyl or CD, or later reissued on CD. So this
is entirely the releases of independent artists, and most of these
releases never had a prayer of getting played on the radio. And, no I
didn’t learn my lesson…this is actually the second edition of “Lesbians
on Cassette”…did it the first time in November of 2008. So this is
another show overflowing with history.".
You
can stream or download the show anytime athttp://www.queermusicheritage.com/sep2010loc.html
Co-producer of Audiofile,
the monthly radio review of CDs of interest to the GLBT communities,
airing on over 175 stations around the world on This Way Out.
The Audiofile site is at www.Audiofile.org and all past Audiofile
segments are archived at http://www.queermusicheritage.com/af.html
Also co-host of Queer Voices on KPFT, Monday nights from 9-11 pm,
www.kpft.org and at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jddoyle
Rick Chris very much
recommends the Queer Music Heritage web site. If you are at all
into music and would like to see how much gay performers have
contributed to the music scene over the years, this site is a MUST SEE.
For those of us who love music, JD Doyle has catalogued an
incredible amount of information on gay artists and albums including
some incredible rare stuff. A fun site to visit and JD has done a great
service for the gay community by preserving the history and memory of
these artists and recordings. QMH is also a radio show on KPFT
radio in Houston, Texas and is also netcast. JD writes:
"Queer
Music Heritage" is both a radio show and a website, and the goal of
both is to preserve and share the music of our culture, because I just
don't think gay & lesbian music of the past should be forgotten. I
also believe our music culture is a visual as well as an audial
experience, so I try to share the images of this music…photos of the
artists and recordings, and to pack in as much information as possible,
while still trying to entertain.
There
are also many extra sections, such as a page of Gay Marriage Songs
(with free downloads), a page of songs about Matthew Shepard, a section
on Gay Musicals, lots of info about drag artists, a page listing songs
about AIDS, etc, etc."
Take
Back Pride
In response to the current political environment and in the interest of
unifying the work of LGBT Organizations around the country, Take Back
Pride is a new campaign aimed towards educating our community and the
citizens of the United States on the many inequalities we currently
face.
If you would
like to leave a tip in the Rick Chris cookie jar:
PEOPLE CARE
ABOUT YOU!
National Suicide
Hotline
1-800-suicide (784-2433)
Rick Chris says:
"Take care of yourself. You've got to, because you're
the only one of you we've got. They just ain't making anymore just like
you."
The Trevor Helpline
An around-the-clock (24/7) crisis and suicide prevention helpline for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. 1-866-488-7386
Do we have a gay
saint watching out for us? If you have an issue, it wouldn't hurt to
send a prayer his way and see what happens. Click here.
"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those
things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can
always do it later." - Harvey Fierstein
"Never place a period where God has placed a comma." -
Gracie Allen
Robert
Reich Informative commentary about
politics and the economy by Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at
the University of California at Berkeley, Served in three national
administrations and as Secretary Of Labor. Truthout An alternative
to big media news.
Classic Top Forty rock and roll radio by
the master.
Queer Music Heritage An internet music museum site
and radio show devoted to GLBT music hosted by the cognoscenti of gay
music, JD Doyle.
Below are some of Rick Chris's favorite Live365 radio
stations. The following listed stations can also be accessed through
the Live365 widget below.
WGAY 365
Fun and upbeat original Classic Disco
and Dance with extended plays and special mixes plus lounge tunes
including Streisand, Garland and Minelli. Stereo, 32
kbps.
Gay
Bar Music Hi-NRG tracks heard in gay bars and clubs, Current
and classic hits. 32kbps
Mark's
Dance Party
The most eclectic dance station on Live365. Wide variety of tracks from
60's to present. You won't get bored. Low band width! 16kbps.
Easy Boy
Friend Home of the future ex-boyfriend of the
week.
Gay Gamer
For boys who like boys who like joysticks.
Gay Heroes Singer Jay Spear's totally
excellent site highlighting gay historical figures.
HomoRodeo Interested in gay cowboys and
gay rodeo events? This site's for you, a matrix of information for gay
rodeo fans.
JoeHerzenberg.org
- a site devoted to the life of the first
openly gay elected official in the former Confederacy.
Leonard Matlovich.com
To inform and inspire. Awarded a Purple Heart for being wounded
by a land mine, Sgt. Leonard Matlovich was the first to volunteer to
fight the military's ban on gays.
Miracomovan
En Español. Hombres
para Hombres. Dibujos y Pinturas de hombres de todas las épocas del
arte. Site contains images of nude and homoerotic art.
Not Kansas
A personal memoir and reflections on gay history and popular culture
from the post-World War II years to the early Nineties. An alternative
to politically correct history.
Truth
Wins Out Fighting
Right Wing Lies and the Ex-Gay Fraud.
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