The suit Harvey Milk was murdered in
LGBT Historical Society Archives on temporary display at 18th and Castro
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The sewing machine used for first rainbow flag
By Gil Baker. The GLBT Historical Archives are showing at the corner of 18th and Castro. Amazing stuff.
Etta Perkins and Cora Latz’s 1974 commitment ceremony pics have me all ferklempt. Cora is wearing a tallis (Jewish prayer shawl)
I’ve never really imagined lesbians in the style and moment of the photos from my youngest years. It’s shocking.
"The great work begins…"
The first production of Angels in America, one of my great inspirations.
Greatness begins small.
video: Cynthia Levin is my favourite comic you should have heard of. Here's why.
Cynthia is able to do Gilda Radner heart over head sweet, vulnerable stuff as well as hard-hitting and bitter and fantastic comedy without a sound.
She is part of the all-star line-up I have for the Heather Gold Show at SF Sketchfest on Jan 19th as we discuss Comedians on Depression with everyone. there’s may be tasty treats if you show me your meds “Let’s Make a Deal” style.
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But does it scale?
When people ask me about how I scale intimacy when I’m speaking about How to Tummel (Design for Conversation) what they’re asking is “how can I make money?”
Although I’m showing how intimacy does scale. I’m interested in this unarticulated, but intended question.
When you ask “how can I make money?” before “how can I bring value?” (or it’s seed: “”what delights both me and you?”) then you are building from fear.
My biggest problem can be seen in a speech I’ve seen Guy Kawasaki give would-be entrepreneurs “How can I take your money and get it into my pocket,” he says.
Then you’re on a habitraille you can’t get off until you change your very first underlying question. The fear breaks down to an assumption that what matters to me doesn’t matter to you. Therefore I must make stuff that “scales” that everyone else will love NOT what makes sense to me. The emotional basis of this is “I can’t be myself and be loved.” That’s what the market is built on…what we create from our assumptions.
It’s just hard to believe that what we love and how we naturally are could be loved by others as well. Solution: day jobs we hate, alcohol and hockey stick graphs on start-up Powerpoints. It either sucks, or it’s a HUGE HIT.
Sustainable, happy living. An honest living (coincidentally the title of my work memoir in progress) is not either or thinking. You can have both. The answer to most either or questions is both. It’s a major mindset shift but once you make it, everything in your life looks different. And social media gives us the opportunity to connect more easily with more people. The barriers to approaching people are much lower. The barriers to being personal and genuine are culturally (and technologically) dissolving. And when you’re authentic, in public the opportunities that come are different. You can be filtered differently and you will filter differently.
You will see others for who they really and and you will be seen and feel seen. You will share what you genuinely care about and you’ll connect with others about the pieces of that that are valued by others too. Social media gives you that opportunity dozens of times a day. That gives you lots of feedback by which to observe the places of genuine intersection.
I want to keep exploring those places. That’s why I involve multiple guests on the Heather Gold Show and involve the whole room. More lines of thought and caring, more possibilities for intersection. Those nodes, they scale in a big way. But they are naturally the creation of many people. That’s how we find them collectively.
I’m not sure what to call them yet, but I’ve got a couple of contenders: truth and love.
Equality camp begins! We are so ready to set the homosexual agenda #eqcampsf
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Nothing says "I love my baby" like a KFC portrait
This was on the wall of a KFC by a highway in the Midwest. Finger lickin’ memories.
Please don't divorce us.
thanks to the Courage Campaign for organizing this Flickr set Send yours to pleasedontdivorce[at]couragecampaign.org
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