After several weeks of writing ARTicles for this site, I've been asked more than once, «Shouldn't your writing be more gay since you are writing for the Gay News Bureau?» The question keeps popping up in my mind while I've been painting nonstop for an upcoming show.

I feel that most folks gay or straight, do what they do whether it is writing, painting, cooking, or working their everyday jobs with little thought of their sexual orientation. When I'm scrubbing the bathtub or watering the plants I don't do it in a gay frame of mind.

Does art created by a homosexual make it gay art? At times it might when the subject matter is homoerotic but for the most part it is not. When viewing artwork can one tell whether the artist is gay or straight? Of all the paintings that I've done in the past two years perhaps only one has homoerotic overtones.

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Eureka Springs City Clerk MJ Sell issued the 100th Domestic Partnership Registry (DPR) certificate on Friday, August 24th. The happy 100th couple from North Little Rock, AR joined partners from 11 states* who have added their names to the DPR since the registry opened on June 22.

We've been waiting to report this milestone because we wanted to see if the total collapse of civilization predicted by DPR opponents would materialize.

Sure enough, a judge in Iowa suddenly decided that gays and lesbians are American citizens who are equally deserving of civil rights. Americans belatedly realized that loudly-homophobic politicians solicit gay sex in public restrooms. (Right. We know. Surprise, surprise.)

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