Journal Entries for Laura Carrillo
URNA @ Trixies this Saturday Oct. 03
September 28th, 2009 10:52 pm MDT
It is hard to change someone's decision if you yourself have your doubts about something. You lack the enthusiasm to push your idea, you feel jaded and a little funny. I am sure that is how most of the "regulars", who quit going to Trixies have felt since the showbar re-opened a couple months ago. What can a TG bar offer to a bunch of girls who go out everywhere and don't mind the stares of disconcert from the mainstream? Nothing. Yep, that's right. We go to expensive restaurants and eat better than what the kitchen at Trixies offers. We can walk into mostly any bar and get a drink that is cheaper than what Trixies is charging. We don't need the hassle of the occasional admirer and we have seen the showgirls hundreds of times.
Why would I then accept to help Jon and Vicki at the URNA get together this Saturday Oct. 3 then? Got into an argument with Glenn even. He said he wasn't going. I am sure most of the girls I hang out with, will probably be missing. But, I do not think this get together is destined to fail.
Of course, all the guys will be there- that's the only place they will go, but if there are no girls, then their enthusiasm wanes.
Definitely, there is no enthusiasm in the veteran ranks but I have noticed a stir among the part-time girls. Part- time girls do not go to Wilton Manors or South Beach- they rather remain anonymous and Trixies is the perfect spot for them. A couple of girls wrote to me and are delighted to know URNA is sponsoring a party this Saturday. I think back several years and I remember how I lived for the day when I could come out and use the term full time like a signature at the end of my name. There are more girls still in hiding and we live totally oblivious to this fact. Back then, the only place I would dare to go was Trixies. And I find this a very compelling argument to support the "only" TG bar in So Fla. The original owners Carlos and Stan made it a point to make every girl that walked in to feel welcome and comfortable. I told Sean (the new guy) that THAT was what made Trixies. Not the show, not the new lights or the new music system. A girl who rarely came out had the chance to feel the 'I am out' for a few hours, anonymously.
I do not know if the new ownership will understand. But I am going to give Trixies a chance. Maybe I don't feel like I am supporting Sean as much as I am supporting girls who do not have their own voice in the matter. Jon and Vicki have supported us all these years, so yeah I will be there too :-) And if you are coming stop by and say hi, I don't bite :-P
Liberty and Justice for some...
November 11th, 2008 5:49 pm MST
Routine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped
in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed.
I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be
bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't
really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work.
Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop
my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I
don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the
warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my
life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to
retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more
comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There
is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You
remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were
in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or
when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting
traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a
solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good
excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always
a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know
about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite
intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too
long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and
his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of
kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let
go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during
one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked
about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not
fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed
political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he
never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many
decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during
the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also
that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the
Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone
has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed
B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the
truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I
knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But
little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush
and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not
going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority
superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8
and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black
vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex
marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters
followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything
unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a
meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry
against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think
protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's
make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens.
though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could
understand we are being discriminated like they were being
discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall
meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was
in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight
and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this,
cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do
the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good.
We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there
are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the
front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this
month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna
have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It
sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is
a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority
to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all
the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for
a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every
citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the
greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like
Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway,
Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex
marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized
in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not
the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch
up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you
can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing
about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry
about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend
your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are
remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know
what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests
against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to
march, crazy people :-P
Liberty and Justice for some...
November 10th, 2008 9:57 pm MST
Routine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped
in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed.
I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be
bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't
really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work.
Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop
my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I
don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the
warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my
life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to
retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more
comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There
is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You
remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were
in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or
when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting
traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a
solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good
excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always
a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know
about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite
intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too
long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and
his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of
kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let
go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during
one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked
about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not
fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed
political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he
never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many
decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during
the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also
that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the
Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone
has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed
B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the
truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I
knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But
little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush
and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not
going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority
superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8
and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black
vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex
marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters
followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything
unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a
meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry
against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think
protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's
make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens.
though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could
understand we are being discriminated like they were being
discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall
meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was
in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight
and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this,
cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do
the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good.
We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there
are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the
front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this
month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna
have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It
sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is
a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority
to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all
the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for
a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every
citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the
greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like
Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway,
Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex
marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized
in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not
the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch
up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you
can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing
about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry
about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend
your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are
remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know
what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests
against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to
march, crazy people :-P
Liberty and Justice for some...
November 10th, 2008 9:32 pm MST
Routine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped
in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed.
I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be
bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't
really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work.
Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop
my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I
don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the
warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my
life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to
retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more
comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There
is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You
remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were
in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or
when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting
traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a
solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good
excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always
a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know
about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite
intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too
long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and
his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of
kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let
go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during
one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked
about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not
fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed
political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he
never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many
decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during
the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also
that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the
Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone
has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed
B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the
truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I
knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But
little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush
and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not
going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority
superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8
and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black
vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex
marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters
followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything
unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a
meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry
against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think
protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's
make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens.
though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could
understand we are being discriminated like they were being
discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall
meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was
in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight
and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this,
cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do
the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good.
We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there
are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the
front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this
month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna
have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It
sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is
a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority
to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all
the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for
a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every
citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the
greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like
Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway,
Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex
marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized
in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not
the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch
up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you
can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing
about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry
about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend
your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are
remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know
what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests
against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to
march, crazy people :-P
Liberty and Justice for some...
November 10th, 2008 9:30 pm MST
Routine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped
in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed.
I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be
bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't
really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work.
Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop
my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I
don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the
warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my
life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to
retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more
comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There
is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You
remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were
in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or
when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting
traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a
solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good
excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always
a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know
about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite
intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too
long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and
his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of
kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let
go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during
one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked
about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not
fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed
political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he
never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many
decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during
the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also
that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the
Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone
has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed
B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the
truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I
knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But
little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush
and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not
going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority
superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8
and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black
vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex
marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters
followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything
unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a
meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry
against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think
protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's
make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens.
though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could
understand we are being discriminated like they were being
discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall
meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was
in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight
and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this,
cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do
the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good.
We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there
are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the
front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this
month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna
have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It
sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is
a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority
to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all
the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for
a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every
citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the
greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like
Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway,
Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex
marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized
in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not
the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch
up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you
can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing
about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry
about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend
your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are
remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know
what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests
against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to
march, crazy people :-P
Ft Lauderdale Vigil for murdered teenager
February 28th, 2008 11:36 am MST
A memorial service will be held Thursday for Simmie Williams Jr. on the same corner of the Sistrunk neighborhood where the 17-year-old was gunned down last week.The event is to take place at 4:30 p.m. on the 1000 block of Sistrunk Boulevard. A town hall meeting focusing on hate crimes in Florida is scheduled for after the service at 6:30 p.m. at the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of South Florida at 1717 N. Andrews Ave.Equality Florida and the Transgender Equality Rights Initiatives (TERI), two statewide advocacy groups, are sponsoring the event.Police say Williams was attacked Friday by two young men who might live in the neighborhood.Williams was wearing women's clothing when he was shot, authorities say.The death is being investigated as a possible hate crime while detectives try to determine whether Williams was targeted because of his sexual orientation.
While visiting Michigan...
December 29th, 2007 5:42 pm MST
Had a busy day today with my family up here. While dinner was getting done I decided to check my email and found a URNA note from Dan. I looked at my profile and decided to share with URNA the Holiday Pic i have been posting on my other webpages. That would certainly catch Jon's eye ;-P Just wishing the URNA crew a safe and wonderful 2008. Do not work too hard Dan, while Jon's in Miami...Maybe I can catch Jon and Vicki when I get back to Miami on the 3rd.hugsLaura
