Blog(s)

I have a new one. Not that this one is going anywhere, but a lot of my subject matter over the last few months (sparse as updates may have been) have outgrown the random thoughts that this started as. And honestly, A Toast to Toast is not the thing to make into a serious blog.

Instead, I am now fathering two blogs. The new one is called OutVoiced Albany and it centers around Brian and I. The first post was originally written here. You can find OutVoiced Albany at out-voiced-albany.blogspot.com.

Of course, it isn't hard to see that New York losing out on gay marriage was the inspiration for branching off. All of a sudden, things got much more serious. As I said yesterday, I am torn between wanting to just move somewhere else that is more accepting, or staying here and fighting for the acceptance that I can see every day is all over Albany. And most likely all over New York State just waiting for our leaders to catch up. My choice, at least for now until I have the option to move somewhere else, is to stay and do my part.

[Also, yes, I do see the irony in my earlier post being called "Progress" yesterday, hours before NY chose not to progress. I don't want to talk about it.]

However, there is very little I can do. As I bitch about all the time in this blog, I have very little free time. So this is my way of doing what little I can. I can't organize, join a committee or really even attend any protests. What I can do is sit at my desk at work and write.

So much of the serious conversations about gay rights and gay experiences and being a gay couple in Albany will move there. The lighter stuff will stay here. As well as the political stuff that doesn't involve this issue. It will go back to being a toast to toast instead of a toast to Brian and I.

But Brian and I still like toast and are sticking around. :) And please, join us anytime at out-voiced-albany.blogspot.com!