Huge thanks to all 36 bands who donated their music to “Comp 175” – A Benefit for Queer Programs & Services in the Pacific Northwest. I’m deeply moved by this community of generous, talented people and couldn’t be happier with how the record has turned out! It’s EPIC.

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Featuring:
Logan Lynn
Peaches
Scream Club
Matt Alber
God-Des & She
Magic Mouth
Christeene
Tom Goss
Bobby Jo Valentine
Shunda K
Nicky Click
Brett Gleason
Jeremy Gloff
Houston Bernard
Kelly Moe
Atole
Mattachine Social
The Sexbots
Deluxe
Kimono Kops
Jeb Havens
Towering Trees
Noah Daniel Wood
Barbi Crash
Kerry Hallett
Blue Redder
Katrina Skalland
L10
Microfilm
Jana Fisher
A Million Tiny Architects
Matthew Mercer
Stephan Nance
Jonny
Alternate Destination
Marshall J. Pierce

Produced by Logan Lynn.

Pre-Order 11/6/2012.
Releases 11/27/2012.

Charity Info: All profits from this release go directly to Q Center, which operates both the LGBTQ Community Center and the Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) in Portland, Oregon.

For more info on Q Center, visit www.pdxQcenter.org

For more info on SMYRC, visit www.SMYRC.org

About the album title: Section 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 1871 to 1994, making homosexuality a crime. Over 140,000 people were convicted under the law. The Nazis broadened the law in 1935 and thousands died in concentration camps in the prosecutions that followed.

Today, all over the world, the fight for LGBTQ freedom and equality is not yet won. Your purchase of this record helps to ensure that the important work of this vital community resource continues.

Note: My monthly column for Just Out Magazine “In The Trenches” was published today in the October issue. The piece is called “The Curse of Being Old Fashioned” and is about accepting all types of relationships. Unfortunately, the last 2 (very important) paragraphs were accidentally left out of the print version (something that has been making me CRAZY for days, and I’m sure will continue to all month) but the online version is complete. You can check out the original by clicking the cover image below, or just keep reading below.

In The Trenches: “The Curse of Being Old-Fashioned”

Let me start by saying I believe everyone should have the right to love whoever they please, however they please. My choice to love monogamously, and my sharing my thoughts around said loving with you all, is not meant to diminish your thoughts and choices, but rather to offer up yet another queer voice on the matter. I am not making a case for monogamy with this article, but rather a case for acceptance.

In recent days I’ve been reading a lot of articles about love, commitment, and the “M” word, followed by discussions with my fellow queers about said articles, and it’s left me feeling frustrated. I can’t help but wonder, at what point in our queer cultural development did it become acceptable to imply (or say outright) that a person or couple who chooses to be in a monogamous relationship is somehow less evolved than those who do not? I have encountered this view before in my previous dating misadventures, friendships, and relationships … as though my wanting to be with only one man for the rest of my life is buying into a “heteronormative” idea about love and, in so doing, is somehow oppressing you in yours.

It has been my experience that being what some would consider “old fashioned” feels, at times, a bit like a curse for an out, gay man. I have never had anonymous sex. I have never hooked up with anyone off of Craigslist. I have an iPhone but I am not on Grindr or Scruff or Manhunt or whatever other sites people use these days to populate their casual sex lives. In fact, I have never had a very casual sex life. It has always been tied to relationship or a longing for deep connection. My being this way has made it difficult for me to relate to the experience of many of my queer peers, and almost impossible for them to relate to me.

I don’t believe being monogamously in love is the Read the rest of this entry »

The Q Center Concert Series has brought local, national and international queer and allied artists to the stage since its inception in 2010 and now we are going to produce our first ever Compilation record in support of the programs and services offered at Q Center and SMYRC. Acts already signed on include myself, Matt Alber, Scream Club, Peaches, Nicky Click, Jeremy Gloff, Shunda K of Yo Majesty, Atole, Magic Mouth, Towering Trees, Mattachine Social, Bobby Jo Valentine, Tom Goss, Noah Daniel Wood, and many more!

If you are interested in getting your music out there to a larger audience and would like to donate a track to the compilation, please send a hi-quality WAV or AIFF alongside an MP3 of your original work (only one per artist, please) as well as a hi res 300 dpi photo to Logan@pdxQcenter.org – using Dropbox is fine, or you can mail your original on a CD to 4115 N. Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97217.

All submissions are due by November 1st, 2012. Be sure to include the official submission form (found HERE) with your submission.

Spread the word! I look forward to hearing what you do.