Leslie Becker

YouTube video by Queer Big Apple Corps Band The Queer Big Apple Corps performing Houdini at Queens Pride 2025!

For Pride month I am posting photos and videos of the Queer Big Apple Corps band. At a time when our protections are being threatened, we must be out loud and proud. Here we are being just that in Queens on Sunday. youtu.be/OF7bmVlDRkY?...

Drumline at Metuchen Pride!

Today is our wedding anniversary. I felt the need to share. ❤️

So, let me get this straight: Marjorie Taylor Greene can heckle the president of the United States during the State of the Union address, but if someone heckles her at some stupid Town Hall with 150 people in attendance, they are tased (yes, tased) and arrested? Who the fuck are we?

Proud of you and proud to be one of your constituents. Jersey Strong!

Yankees win! One down, 161 to go!

Baseball! Let’s go Yankees! (Clap clap clapclapclap!)

Darth Vader cosplayer joining a church procession behind several priests or bishops or something (sorry I don't know how to interpret the different albs and chausibles and regalia).

Meanwhile, in the clergy group chat:

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

This is our vacuum cleaner, or as Chester calls it “The Enemy.” He has bitten through the hose, and the many reapplications of tape that Lindsay has used in a futile attempt to save the suction. He bravely fights the enemy. But if I sneeze too loudly he runs and hides. That’s Chester!

In spite of congestion pricing, I do still need to drive in once or twice a week, and the lady in the map app always tells me that “traffic is heavier than usual on your route…” and since it’s always heavier, I want to know what “usual” is.

While we have been trying to avoid the companies of the billionaires, we do have a number of Alexa devices. And just now now one of them showed me a sausage expert judging sausage. And now I, too, want to be a sausage expert.

I guess the conductor was tired of how loud the quiet car usually is…

St. Pat’s in America. The day before and the day after!

This is very true.

Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!

The Trump Gang just had the USDA cancel $1.1B in local food purchases for schools and food banks. Farmers lose $, and food insecure children lose meals. Tell me, please, how this makes us great. It doesn’t. It makes us horrible and heartless.

When Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware was misgendered during a hearing, she shot back by calling him “Madam Chair.” And while I appreciate Rep. Keating’s interruption demanding that Rep. Self correct it, I would have liked to see the reaction to the “Madam Chair” comment. Bc fuck that guy.

The latest in the mandate that federal workers must return to the office: many of the office leases have not been renewed by order of the department of government not exactly efficient. What a shit show we have become as a nation.

Drumline at today’s St. Pat’s for All parade in Sunnyside, Queens, New York. Where diversity, equality and inclusion are good things.

I’m not buying anything but I don’t know if it will actually make a difference at all. But I’ll do it!

Heartbreaking. And scary. Fuck these people.

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots

The FDA cancelled an upcoming meeting of experts scheduled to discuss next year’s flu shots, stoking fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

A black-and-white photo of Gene Hackman. Text reads: "1930-2025. Gene Hackman. Photo credit: Evening Standard/Getty Images"

Breaking News: Gene Hackman, the two-time Oscar winner who gave nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” died at 95. nyti.ms/4h8iyJa

Fuck that guy.

Time to cancel your Washington Post subscription if you haven’t already. I did last month. Now I need to break loose from Amazon, a far harder endeavor.

No, they don’t.

Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say (Gift Article) At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.

We have vaccines for a reason. This child should not have died.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Let’s count the days before we see Medicaid and Medicare slashed. So happy for the tax cuts for the 2%.

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88 Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and o...

Another artist gone apnews.com/article/robe...