This month I am celebrating 17 years in recovery from an addiction to alcohol and cocaine that many of you who were around back then will remember lasted 16 years. It feels good to have now been in my right mind (and body) for longer than I ever was out of it. Proud of myself, and happy to be here.

Thank you to everyone who has allowed me to become something new in these nearly 2 decades since. You know who you are and I love you all.

Portugal. The Man The Wine and Portugal. The Man The Beer — both 100% fundraisers for Rare Disease Month — are officially launched into the world!

Thank you to everyone in Portland who showed out for the party tonight in support of Frances Changed My Life and Cure DHDDS, and HUGE thanks to our partners at AVP Wine and StormBreaker Brewing for being so generous and fun to work with.

We love y’all and are so grateful for your support! Cheers.

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Hello mister government sir I am Queer and proud and I am not afraid.

This bootlicker scare tactic shit didn’t work on me as a Gay child growing up in the 1980s; it didn’t work on me as a street kid watching my community die around me in the 1990s; it didn’t do anything but radicalize me in the 2000s; and it sure as hell isn’t going to work on me or any of my friends and family now, a quarter of a century later.

I am exhausted but you will have to kill me to ever shut me up. And I promise you, then the Queer and Trans voices will just get louder. There is simply no closet big enough. You cannot kill us all. There have always been LGBTQ+ people and there ALWAYS will be.

And to my sweet community, I see you. I am here with you and I’m so sorry this is still happening. I will always fight for you. For us. For our love. ❤️ Read the rest of this entry »