Comments on: Ain’t no time to hate http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate If you get confused, listen to the music play. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Tim http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-239 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:50:33 +0000 http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-239 I came out 2 years ago and found it very difficult to relate to the music and lifestyles of my new gay/lesbian friends. They'd gawk at my old tie-dye shirts, stacks of Dead, Zappa, WSP, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, and other "hippie" stuff... I tried to explain to a number of my friends that deadheads believe (in general) in existing in peace with everyone and allowing people to be themselves...it was a bit like banging my head against a brick wall at times...I am gay but very deadicated... Are there more of us out there in Denver??? I'd love to get one of the stickers for my truck... Tim Denver, CO I came out 2 years ago and found it very difficult to relate to the music and lifestyles of my new gay/lesbian friends.
They’d gawk at my old tie-dye shirts, stacks of Dead, Zappa, WSP, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, and other “hippie” stuff…
I tried to explain to a number of my friends that deadheads believe (in general) in existing in peace with everyone and
allowing people to be themselves…it was a bit like banging my head against a brick wall at times…I am gay but very deadicated…

Are there more of us out there in Denver??? I’d love to get one of the stickers for my truck…

Tim
Denver, CO

]]> by: Lee http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-114 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:24:18 +0000 http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-114 Great post Larry. I remember those stickers! I had only been out for a short time and it helped me to know that there were other gay dead heads around as well. I also remember the Radical Faeries. I was at my first SF gay pride parade and at the very end of the parade, here come these dancing hippies banging drums and waving rainbow flags. Then, after them came Jerry's Faeries. I was so psyched I actually jumped in and marched to City Hall Plaza with them!! We really are everywhere! Great post Larry. I remember those stickers! I had only been out for a short time and it helped me to know that there were other gay dead heads around as well.

I also remember the Radical Faeries. I was at my first SF gay pride parade
and at the very end of the parade, here come these dancing hippies banging drums and waving rainbow flags. Then, after them came Jerry’s Faeries. I was so psyched I actually jumped in and marched to City Hall Plaza with them!!

We really are everywhere!

]]> by: Administrator http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-111 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:57:48 +0000 http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-111 The sticker isn't mine -- I'd like to think it's all of ours, and I love that you've got it on your site. I may steal the image, if it's ok with you. :-) Contact information here at the link below. Send me your US Mail address and I'll send some stickers. http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2004/11/01/how-to-contact-me PS: I've been on your site before. It's cool. The sticker isn’t mine — I’d like to think it’s all of ours, and I love that you’ve got it on your site. I may steal the image, if it’s ok with you. :-)

Contact information here at the link below. Send me your US Mail address and I’ll send some stickers.

http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2004/11/01/how-to-contact-me

PS: I’ve been on your site before. It’s cool.

]]> by: RanibowDemon http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-110 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:29:16 +0000 http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-110 WOW... Finally! I feel like I've finally made it Home! See what happens when you google "Ain't No Time To Hate"... I've been looking for years to find some of these stickers, and would be very interested in obtaining some to pass on the message... I've also tried to contact David Gans quite a while back in regard to T-shirts, but to no avail. ...On my website I have an image of the sticker, and I guess I should ask your permission to leave it up. There is a quote accompanying the image from "Skeleton Key: A Dictionary For Deadheads" there also. It Reads: "To be a Deadhead is to live at the boundaries of social convention, and the status of homosexuals in American culture has likewise been that of outlaws. Both Deadheads and queers assert the sovereignty of the individual over society's idea of what it means to be a man or woman, and both are privy to insights about oneself as an evolving spiritual being that come only from viewing one's own culture from the *outside in.* The values which appear fixed and rigid to an unquestioning member of the mainstream culture appear fixed and relative to an outsider. In the instant of seizing the opportunity for personal autonomy, growth, and self- exploration, Deadheads and queers share the transcendent experience of "being in the world but not of it." I can't wait to hear from you, Bro Peace, =RD= WOW… Finally!

I feel like I’ve finally made it Home!
See what happens when you google “Ain’t No Time To Hate”…

I’ve been looking for years to find some of these stickers, and would be very interested in obtaining some to pass on the message…
I’ve also tried to contact David Gans quite a while back in regard to T-shirts, but to no avail.

…On my website I have an image of the sticker, and I guess I should ask your permission to leave it up.
There is a quote accompanying the image from “Skeleton Key: A Dictionary For Deadheads” there also. It Reads:

“To be a Deadhead is to live at the boundaries of social convention, and the status of homosexuals in American culture has likewise been that of outlaws. Both Deadheads and queers assert the sovereignty of the individual over society’s idea of what it means to be a man or woman, and both are privy to insights about oneself as an evolving spiritual being that come only from viewing one’s own culture from the *outside in.* The values which appear fixed and rigid to an unquestioning member of the mainstream culture appear fixed and relative to an outsider. In the instant of seizing the opportunity for personal autonomy, growth, and self- exploration, Deadheads and queers share the transcendent experience of “being in the world but not of it.”

I can’t wait to hear from you, Bro
Peace,
=RD=

]]> by: megan branham http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-101 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:49:28 +0000 http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-101 Hello, I was given one of these stickers at show maybe RFK '93, it was before I came out, but I stuck it one my GEO Metro, when I was 16, it gave my parents a hint, anyway, I would love some more of these stickers if you have them, I would love to pass them again at shows, I live in Denver, if you could mail them I would greatly appreciate it!!! Megan Branham 3119 West 21st Ave Denver, CO 80211 Peace, Megan Hello,
I was given one of these stickers at show maybe RFK ‘93, it was
before I came out, but I stuck it one my GEO Metro, when I was 16, it gave
my parents a hint, anyway, I would love some more of these stickers if
you have them, I would love to pass them again at shows, I live in
Denver, if you could mail them I would greatly appreciate it!!!

Megan Branham
3119 West 21st Ave
Denver, CO 80211

Peace, Megan

]]> by: Dumbek http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-80 Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:57:34 +0000 http://www.larryperson.com/blog/2005/11/29/aint-no-time-to-hate#comment-80 Holy cow. I think I contributed money to help with that billboard. I used to have that t-shirt and I used to hand out those stickers at shows. Small world! I'd love to get a few more of those stickets if you still have any. Holy cow. I think I contributed money to help with that billboard. I used to have that t-shirt and I used to hand out those stickers at shows. Small world!

I’d love to get a few more of those stickets if you still have any.

]]>