Comments on: The Daily Agenda for Monday, December 17

By: Soren456

Soren456 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:53:21 +0000

Thanks for the Cadmus segment.

I think it’s worthwhile to note that his style is not confined to that shown in the examples above.

For my graduation, an uncle gave me a small Cadmus work from 1933. It is ink brushed on paper about the size of a typing sheet. It is of Jared French, Cadmus’ lover at the time. It is quietly beautiful and very serene; if you didn’t know otherwise, if you knew only his more raucous style, you’d never guess that it is a Cadmus.

I love it to death.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:35:32 +0000

Sorry, Donny. Damn spell check and dyslexia ain’t pretty.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:34:28 +0000

Don’t, I agree. Things have always gotten better when we speak as ourselves, for ourselves.

We lost prop8 when we should have and could have won, but for a deeply closeted in mentality campaign that could only mumble about civil rights and being nice.

We did a lot better in the recent election because for the first time, we were allowed to speak for ourselves, show ourselves, and show our lives. Not as much as we could have and should have, but still vastly better.

And we won.

By: Donny D.

Donny D. — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:34:23 +0000

Ugh, that news story brings back memories of how the media was about us in the 60s and early 70s, almost none of it good. We called it “the straight media”, and that’s what the mainstream media was then, and has never entirely stopped being. But I remember when the gay liberation movement started in the early 70s. If not for it, none of this would have changed for the better.