Comments on: FEEDBACK: Cancel DMN subscriptions, Saving Easter in the Park, Tell TCA what you think

By: James Simmons

James Simmons — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:56:32 +0000

@Joe Ball: cancelling a DMN subscription will have little effect. Mainstream print media operations (i. e. magazines and newspapers) typically derive very little of their income from subscriptions. Their bread and butter is display advertising. If you really want to hit them in the pocketbook, then keep your subscription and instead take your issues to the DMN’s advertisers. They’re the ones who pay the bills, and the people who make all those ludicrous decisions you refer to in your letter.

By: Daniel Shipman

Daniel Shipman — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:54:23 +0000

Phyllis, how right you are. Sounds as if it’s just glorification of the facts, but it all started when a cop pushed a transvestite and she turned and hit him on the head with her purse. Pennies and bottles began to fly after that and the rest is HERstory, HIStory, and OURstory it is the truth of our birth. It was another woman was being taken to a paddy wagon that called us to action that night; no one knows her name but she gave birth to us all. She is only described as “a dyke—stone butch”, while being beaten on the head by a cop with a bully club for asking that her handcuffs be loosened, she screamed at the crowd, “Why don’t you guys do something?” It is her loan voice that still echoes through time to us today, sometimes softly, sometimes loudly asking, “Why don’t you guys do something?” I couldn’t be there that night of June 27, 1969 in New York’s Greenwich Village, I was’t alive, but on Easter I will answer her call by showing up. I encourage everyone to do the same. I will be there looking as gay as possible, just like Michael, and will silently answer her question by doing what we do best – being ourselves – being the kind, loving, compassionate, affectionate and always resilient people we are.

By: Phyllis Guest

Phyllis Guest — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:04:37 +0000

Re: Daniel Shipman’s “Tell TCA What You Think”

I love your reminding us that the real action at Stonewall in 1969 began when a cop tried to push a trannie into a paddy wagon. And she hit him. With her purse.

By: michael cowan

michael cowan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:24:57 +0000

Re: Michael Amonett’s “Saving Easter in The Park”

Michael, I don’t know if you will win the “most gay” contest (So much competition!!!), but you do win BEST LETTER! Your comments were spot-on. Called several of my friends to make sure they caught your response to the Easter “cloning” by TCA! Thank you!!!