The DOMA Project

This week I contributed a short essay about my life with Jan in Sweden to The DOMA Project, a campaign focused on changing US immigration policy with regard to binational LGBT couples. Click here to read my personal story and those of others - and please share them. The more people become aware of the unfairness of US policy, the sooner it will be corrected.

Impressive impasto

So Jan and I were taking a lovely Sunday walk around town, and we walked past a gallery that I usually don't particularly like.

But it currently has a show that literally stopped my in my tracks - we had to go in to get a closer look. Here's one example from the gallery's website:

Or this one:

But what you can't really tell from these images is that you have to get right up to it, like this:

Crazy, amazingly controlled impasto! Robert Terry is the artist, an American who lives and works in New York (*sigh*).

And I'm such a sucker for fall scenes.

I took a few of my own pictures with my cell phone, but I lost the darn cord that lets you upload pics to the computer...so, yeah. Maybe I'll update this post later, if I ever resolve that issue.

Anyway, truly stunning artwork, and if I had 10,000-some bucks lying around, I would totally be tempted to buy. So Stockholmers: get thee to Lars Bohman Gallery (before November 5th).

Fireside gchat

So, remember how I recently directed y'all to a new blog by Francis Strand?

Well, he honored me with inclusion into the site - an IM interview about Gay America. It's fun and short, in line with the rest of the site's content.

Good times!

Extra, extra!

Today's Guardian includes an article on homophobia in which Yours Truly is quoted, and Gay America gets a mention. Read it here!

Cult figures

My good friend Francis Strand has a terrific new blog, full of fascinating nuggets of queer trivia.

Check it out!

Graffiti in Norway

Jan and I recently visited our close friends in Oslo, who are expecting a baby on Christmas Day (a girl!).

A few hours before leaving, I slapped up a quick mural on the recently-painted baby room's wall...

Bombs Away!

A friend forwarded me this adorable photo...

...and my immediate reaction was: OMG! That's Jack!

See?

Although I wasn't aware of it at the time that I came up with the cover, this phenomenon has a name: "photobombing." Like for everything these days, there's a website for it, and I'm particularly impressed that it's got celebrity practitioners like Michael Cera and Will Ferrell.