The above entitled painting is from WesHempel.com and is called "Rescue from the Sublime" and I am his newest biggest fan. Some of the stuff looks a bit too gay erotic to put up in Christopher and my home, but the echo from the past with a modern them is simply breathtaking. If you like this kind of art please visit his site at www.weshempel.com (Jeffrey could you please let David and Neil know about this guy, because I have a feeling he will resonate with them)
Rescuing electronic harassment victims from the sublime is what I am all about. This situation in Palm Springs, to be cliche', has definitely gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.
We live in a city where celebrities can be arrested at the drop of a dime and heinous human experimental mind criminals can basically wag a stolen Oscar in the face of it's winner and get away with it for years...if you have the right connection with the right drug dealer.
Is it really such a stretch of the imagination that convicted fugitive Jonathan Mendenhall honestly thought that he could play dead and have his live in former sexual partner bring him back to life cleansed of his crimes if he helped turn in enough people? Is that what Palm Springs has become? Can the torture of innocent gay men be diminished to the point that a single woman drug dealer has more power with a phone call than a Hollywood executive has with his media connections? Is this the message that we want to send to our children? It's more important to be friendly with the police department's drug dealer than it is to be honest because it is safer? Do gay men's lives really mean less in a city that we basically built with our money? Have we really gotten to a place where the gay men stereotype is drugs, illicit sex and disease? Are we really willing to accept one family's agenda over our own? I am sad. You make up your own mind.
Should we scrap this police department and have the sheriff's department police our fair city in the hopes that things will be different? Can we hope that something like I SUGGESTED: a gay police union of openly gay officers start patrolling the gay communities like they do in other cities will work when you still have an administration at this police department that thinks that keeping a lid on electronic harassment will work. Does my story mean that little???
I was once arrested for walking down the street crying...NO LIE. I was crying because of what this family was putting me through and they literally thought that crying and walking down the street was a crime....they said I was on drugs...tests proved that I wasn't...I was frustrated and still am...5 long years later. What was I supposed to say, "I am hearing voices that are torturing me" and hope that the police department wouldn't say I had, "mental issues"? They did anyway...
If the police department wants to know why I am so unhappy with them it is because they treated me worse than a rapist, a child pornographer, a drug dealer, a burglar...they chose an uneducated, immature, selfish crime family to advise them rather than an educated, intelligent, tax paying, concerned citizen...and because I am gay...I am ignored...for now.
This will all make Tracy Johnson and Junior Johnson feel superior...will you?
Should we scrap this police department and have the sheriff's department police our fair city in the hopes that things will be different? Can we hope that something like I SUGGESTED: a gay police union of openly gay officers start patrolling the gay communities like they do in other cities will work when you still have an administration at this police department that thinks that keeping a lid on electronic harassment will work. Does my story mean that little???
I was once arrested for walking down the street crying...NO LIE. I was crying because of what this family was putting me through and they literally thought that crying and walking down the street was a crime....they said I was on drugs...tests proved that I wasn't...I was frustrated and still am...5 long years later. What was I supposed to say, "I am hearing voices that are torturing me" and hope that the police department wouldn't say I had, "mental issues"? They did anyway...
If the police department wants to know why I am so unhappy with them it is because they treated me worse than a rapist, a child pornographer, a drug dealer, a burglar...they chose an uneducated, immature, selfish crime family to advise them rather than an educated, intelligent, tax paying, concerned citizen...and because I am gay...I am ignored...for now.
This will all make Tracy Johnson and Junior Johnson feel superior...will you?
