Sean Cahill of Gay Mens Health Crisis in New York City sent out an email urging everyone to contact Congress to lift the ban on people with HIV/ AIDS visiting America. Cahill says in his email, "For the past twenty years, the U.S. has been barring non-citizens with HIV from entering the country or becoming eligible for citizenship – with serious and deadly consequences. People have died as a direct consequence of this inhumane policy" Only thirteen other nations have such a travel ban. Nations like Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and China ban such visitors which puts us in great company. Contact your elected representative today to demand an end to the ban or contact GMHC to find out how you can help.

Peter and Kate had Steven and I up to their Hawk Hill home in Jeffersonville on Easter Sunday. Peter build one of his spectacular bonfire's and Kate made some spectacular dessert. Their beloved Hawk Hill will have over a ten page spread in next month's Country Living. Kate is taking her "Art of Cooking" to the web and one can find incredible cooking wares and gifts at www.artofcookingnyc.com .

Speaker Pelosi evidently is becoming a real revolutionary with the radical notion that whoever has the most delegates should win! Now that is a dangerous thought! Seems like twenty major Clinton donors were so upset by such thinking they sent her a letter and threaten to withhold their contributions to Congressional races if she didn't change her mind. Now let me see if I got this right, we would be better off with a Republican Congress if the neutral Speaker Pelosi doesn't tow the Clinton political line?

Progressive CEO Leo Hindery is being honored by the Hispanic Federation in New York City on April 3. I have worked for Leo for years and there is simply not a more progressive, thoughtful and kinder person who deserves this award. Leo has been in the forefront of social change all his life. Congratulations.

You almost have to shake your head in disbelief with this one. The New York Times in a front page story reported that the $300 million Pentagon contract to arm the Afghans was given to a company named AEY, Inc. The Vice President of the company is a licensed masseur and they have an unmarked office in Miami. It seems that the munitions sent to Afghanistan are over forty years old. Even for the Pentagon, this is shocking.

Fighting for disbelief with the Pentagon's contract is President Clinton's latest take on marriage equality on MTV. When pushed by an articulate young Smith student on marriage equality and his DOMA legislation in 1996, the President got very defensive. Finally he justified it all by proclaiming that if other states would be forced to recognize Massachusetts' marriage's that it would lead to gay bashing and harassment. Huh? With that logic, there would have never been any civil rights legislation for African Americans because of whites lynching blacks.

Boy that surge is really working. It appears that Iraq is on the verge of a full fledged civil war. Many of us thought that wouldn't happen until the troops were withdrawn. But hey, the British has pulled back in Basara the source of the most bitter fighting. Now it seems that the President isn't content with our five years of war and is aiming for six years. Ironically while Democrats are talking about Rev. Wright, John McCain continues to push his pro-war agenda.

Speaking of Rev. Wright, Keith Boykin on Huffington Post says Senator Clinton owes Senator Obama an apology. Boykin who worked in the Clinton White House and has been a long time fan of the Clintons wrote: "She [Senator Clinton] ought to be ashamed. A month ago she stoked the fears that Obama might be a Muslim and now she plays on the fears of Pennsylvanians that the Illinois senator is a radical black Christian. I would expect that kind of nonsensical fear mongering from a Republican, but I'm disappointed when it comes from a fellow Democrat"

A dear friend got hit by a small piece of a 240 mm rocket in the Green Zone this week and had a minor injury on his forehead just above the eye. I am thinking of him all the time.

As we focus on Obama's minister, does that mean ever Catholic elected official who has attended Mass with a Priest blasting homosexuals from the pulpit should be responsible for those remarks and forced to leave the church? Or how about a women's right to chose?