Letters to the Editor	Letters Archive

Wants back issue info

How is it possible to get articles about certain cities that you most recently have run in your magazine? Could I get them on-line or would I have to order back issues? Specifically Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam and Zurich.

Ken
sacrili@aol.com

Browse www.guidemag.com, and you can get free access to all our recent travel articles on the cities you list (except Barcelona and Madrid, which we haven't covered recently).

Finding The Guide in Fort Lauderdale

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s The Guide still carried at Georgie's Alibi in Fort Lauderdale? I haven't been able to get it since April. Where else is it available here? Is it still complimentary anywhere? I really like it and use it. Keep up the great work!

norranfl@hotmail.com

Shocked by film

Aloha Folks, I thought I knew what to expect from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. It was more shockingly frank than I imagined. If seen by Americans throughout the country, we will make a change in administrations.

William E. Woods
Honolulu, Hawaii

Appreciated 'German History Lessons'

Very striking native of Germany on your July 04 cover [Gerhard Brand of Munich's Cafe Nil]. I work for a large hotel chain. The handsome blue eyed model on July's cover is definitely the type of employee we look for.

The Guide gives much useful gay travel information. I found Jim D'Entremont's Germany's Gay History Lessons [July 04] very interesting. My great-grandfather was in Kaiser Wilhelm's army under General Pershing.

Craig Repchick
Tampa, Florida

Wants pic

Thanks so much for covering the International Mister Leather competition in Chicago. The pictures came out spectacular! I, unfortunately didn't get the opportunity to attend the contest, but my good friend did and took First Runner-up. On page 13 of your July 2004 publication, there are some good pictures of him. I would like very much to get a copy of that particular picture. Could you pass along my email to the right person and let me know who/how/what I need to do to get one? I would even be willing to accept one through email if you would be so kind.

Please continue to keep putting out this great addition to the gay community.

Jay Schodts
jschodts@austin. rr.com
Austin, Texas

Feel free to send pic requests to theguide@guidemag.com; will help when we can.

Praise for Boyd

This refers not just to the Sex History "A Night at the Theatre," but to your whole Boyd McDonald archive. Thank you for making it available. Straight To Hell was a fine resource in darker days. Boyd's frequent remarks about Cardinal Spellman in various issues were remarkably prescient, given the expensive turmoil in Catholicism all over the world in the present day. Boyd had a habit of being right. Just imagine if he was still publishing today?

Years ago I had a slide made of President Raygun in his BVDs which appeared in STH. At Gay Pride London we made over £100 for an AIDS charity by charging for a peep! But what would he have made of President Bush and his UK poodle?

mirkwirk
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Teach a voter to think...

Yes, The Bill of Rights is being suspended. Yes, we use violence to get what we want. Yes, we are being lied to by those leaders who think they represent "God's Will" and have the backing of Fascist Industrialist in our nation. By what method are we going to reverse what is happening? Do we gather together the forces of the liberal minded using violence of our own kind and the wealth of our own kind to force our views on those of the other side? I say not.

I say that leads nowhere. I say we have got to teach bubba how to think not what to think. Bubba is all of us, from the ADD student in junior high school who can barely function to those who can do trig at the drop of a hat, from those who wield power to those who have power wielded upon them.

By what method do we teach us to think? Is it in our schools the places that have become like the muddy Flanders Fields, i.e., WWI trench wastelands? By what methods are we going to reverse what is happening to us? Elect a new President from the other fascist party whose Vice President knows how to win wars in the courtroom? Maybe, but is that going to really help in the long run? Could be just a temporary fix.

We gay people are really in danger of going to the ovens again. How about coming up with a method to teach bubba to think. What would that be, how can we do that, by what method? Hierarchical methods do not work on people who know how to think, do they? Just think what it would be like if every work place, every voting precinct had in it a majority of people who knew how to think. By what method do we get to that place? I think that is the question we need to find an answer to. Then all this misery we live in, all the dangers we face will begin becoming a thing of the past, and fear will be eliminated from the face of the earth. What do you think?

wilddecker

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