Praying away the gay with Keith Lowell Jensen

Sacramento comedian Keith Lowell Jensen interviewed me at Luna’s this week. Here’s the video. These videos are like herpes: it’s only fun if you share.

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Part 2:

Read my interview on AlterNet!

My friend Sena interviewed me about my experiences in gay-to-straight therapy. As of this second it’s on the front page on AlterNet. Wooo!

http://www.alternet.org/sex/144390/going_undercover_in_the_crazy%2C_tragic_world_of_christian_gay-conversion_therapy

Come to my presentation: What I Learned at Straight Camp

I will give a presentation about my undercover adventures in Christian gay-to-straight programs. Since I’m a lazy bastard here’s a copy-n-paste from the Facebook event page:

Starting in 2007 I went undercover in Christian gay-to-straight therapy programs. This presentation will expose all the wild and weird times I had posing as a gay man trying to become straight — including 48 hours in a “holding touch therapy” camp.

The presentation will include video, music and audience participation. And I’ll need six male volunteers to help with dramatic reenactments.

Facebook RSVP link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199849706292

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

7pm

Sierra 2 Center, Curtis Hall

2791 24th Street

Sacramento, CA

$2 suggested donation to cover building rental.

More SN&R goodness

This week I checked out Jell-O wrestling at an upscale Southern Restaurant:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1318480

Last week I followed-up on Rev. Dr. David Thomspon, past winner of SN&R’s Call to Unity Award:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1314088

And the “Baby Makers” story generated so much mail they added a special letters section to last week’s feedback (Scroll down a bit to read the letters):

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1314573

Lotsa SN&R goodness

Sena and I co-wrote this week’s cover story on the Quiverfull movement, a pro-birth, pro-patriarchy Christian theology:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1304920

Last week I interviewed John Marcotte, the architect of the best political satire in a long time: the 2010 California Protection of Marriage Act:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1300212

(What’s great about Marcotte’s idea is that people don’t get the joke; Check out the letter by Tyler Glimstad  that ran this week: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1304235)

And two weeks ago I wrote a preview on Star Wars in Concert. I scored tickets to attend the show, but it was lame. I’d write more about it, but I’m too high from glue sniffing:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1294662

The Starbucks Via challenge

Starbucks is marketing its new Via instant coffee product. According to this ad campaign, people can’t tell the difference between Via and regular coffee.

In other words: The overpriced Starbucks brews taste just like instant coffee.

Way to go, Starbucks marketing team!

Blonde-on-black dye jobs

Every time I see the blonde-on-black hair dye job popular with the Emo/Scene/short bus crowd, I think: If sewer rats had opposable thumbs and access to peroxide, that’s how they’d dye their fur.

Image stolen from here.

Shit

I’m sitting in a coffee shop writing about my experience at gay-to-straight camp. Sitting at two different tables are two people that I recognize. I’ve interviewed both of them for two separate SN&R articles and I can’t fucking rememer where or why or when I interviewed them. Shit.

Thanks, Huffington Post!

It all started when I submitted a pic here. Then over the next few days I got a buttload of traffic:

Forth and back

The phrase “back and forth” sounds funny to me. Don’t you have to go forth and then come back?

There’s probably some reason why the phrase turns logic around. I’m just too fucking lazy to Google it right now.

In the meantime, I’ll keep heading back and forth to — wherever.