Day June 11, 2006

Christopher Street West, ANSWER truck

Here’s the ANSWER LA truck/float, one of hundreds of entries in the West Hollywood Christopher Street West parade. Usually, we’re about the only political entry. This year though, there were several. Good! The parade got its name from the Stonewall…

Christopher Street West float

Inspired by, I’m told, Tony Kushner’s award-winning three-part “Angels in America.” The influential New York Times theater critic Frank Rich, for instance, called it “a searching and radical rethinking” of American political drama and “the most extravagant and moving demonstration…

Guantanamo suicides a ‘PR move’

A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a “good PR move to draw attention”. Well…no. They killed themselves out of despair. The US official’s comment however was…