Dinner with Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

Former Governor Lowell P. Weicker. Jr.

Last night, Sean and I went to our favorite Italian pizza place, Alforno’s, and were seated next to the former Governor, Lowell Weicker and his wife, Claudia. We have seen him before at Alforno’s, since it is a popular place on the shoreline for great Italian food.

The seating at Alforno’s is very conducive to conversation and eventually Sean thanked the Governor for campaign advice he had gotten through a mutual friend and Sean’s campaign manager from the Governor. The advice was: “shake more hands than your competitor does”. Sean told the Governor, that he shook fewer hands and got creamed. They laughed and Claudia said “You must have run against ---.” She had named his opponent exactly correctly. Amazing!

Then she turned to me and asked what I do. I said that currently I am disabled, but that I used to work for Bristol-Myers Squibb. She asked what I did for them. I answered that I was a clinical research manager and I worked on the approvals for Taxol in ovarian and breast cancers, as well as in Kaposi’s sarcoma, and Videx in pediatric and adult AIDS in the US and Canada which was only the second drug approved after AZT. Sean mentioned that I managed an expanded access program to over 30,000 patients in the US and traveled all over the country visiting AIDS clinics.

Lowell conveyed a story at that point at the time in the late 80’s when he was a Republican Senator for Connecticut and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The night before he brought the budget to the floor for consideration, he had a phone call from an AIDS patient who told him about a new drug, AZT that was promising in AIDS patients but clinical trials were not being funded. He had never heard of it, so he called Anthony Fauci at the NIH about it to see if it was the real deal.

Anthony Fauci, M.D.

When Dr. Fauci said that it was, Lowell asked how much money would be needed for clinical trials. Dr. Fauci said it would cost $46 million to bring the drug to FDA for approval. Lowell said he immediately called his assistant to have a bill written up to get the funds needed for the trials allocated and bring the bill to the Senate floor - on a day that Jesse Helms would not be there, because ultra conservative Helms would kill it for sure.

He said “When I was growing up, you never asked someone how they got ill. You just found out how to make them better.”

What can you say to a man like Lowell Weicker? We tried to say it all.

A year or so later he was defeated by Democrat Joe Leiberman and two years later ran for Governor as an Independent and won.

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Seduction Tip from BIE

Since Scott says that he is ALL about sharing, I thought he wouldn't mind if I ripped off this post he wrote about his favorite way to handle a man.

"You get to rub all against the front of him while manhandling his package and then sliiiiiding down past the hard dick and testi-clees, through the legs to the butt. Then, as this young man Fredrik is doing, you spread one cheek with one hand and with the other gently rub his hot, quivering little hole with your index or middle finger.

"Eventually of course, you want to make a big production of slowly licking that finger — so there's no doubt in his mind what you intend to do with it — and then slipping it slowly into his hole as far as it'll go.

"A nice touch is to pull it slowly out after a while and on the pretext of lubing it up a bit more and slowly licking the finger all over — or having him lick it for you –before returning it and as much of the rest of your hand as you can fit back inside his butt.

"The prerequisite is that he munch on your neck as is being displayed here. Or, better still, your nipple all the while grinding his ass into your hand.

"Yum!"

Gee, thanks for the tip Scott! And if you haven't yet read Bill in Exile, the link is in the side bar and I recommend it highly.

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Okay everybody! It is time to wake up for Saturday Brunch! The coffee maker is heating up. I've brought the bagels. Whose got the cream cheese and lox? Oh. Wait. Looks like we need a Mohel too.

I Would Rather Be At The Folsom Street Fair

Yup, today is the day of the Folsome Street Fair in San Fransisco! Oh to be there! Joe.My.God is there (but he is way cool). I never would have known what this was without Joe.


I've even got my leather hat to wear, just like the one this strapping young lad is wearing in the photo below. Doesn't he look sharp in his? What is up with that leather harness thingy? Me likey! Isn't he devilshly handsome in it? He must lift weights or something.


These cool dudes below look like they are enjoying each other's company. One of them is even wearing that leather harness thingy again! Just old friends having a good ol' time.


I just want to hang out at the Fair and see the sights. But, maybe not this badly.


I wonder if this young man would mind if I put my hand in his pants. He looks very nice and is smiling. I mean, his pants are open and his hand is already down there, so why would he care? I just love his the ink on his abdomen and the stubble on his face. Woof!

Photo courtesy of Matt

Yes, I would really rather be in San Fran today at the Fair. Would you care to join me? How much fun could we have?

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there.

Hot Time in the Sauna

The LOML and I belong to the local YMCA in our rural area.

Some years ago, the LOML went to the Y alone for a swim. He swam this way.

Then he swam that way.

Then, his work out complete, he got out of the pool.

Afterward his workout he decided to have a sauna. On his way there, the LOML said “hey” to some guy in the locker room, since the LOML is a friendly kind of guy, and then proceeded into the empty sauna wearing his Speedo and sat up on a bench. The guy he said “hey” to, came in naked, moved in front of him and placed his hands on the LOML’s thighs.
The LOML was shocked, stood and said, “Excuse me!? That will not happen again, will it?”

The guy responded, ‘Sorry!”, and left completely embarrassed, never to be seen or heard from again. [Of course I volunteered to defend my man’s honor by punching this “hey” guy in the nose, but what self respecting girl wouldn’t?]

The LOML did not report the incident at that time, because he didn’t think it was such a big deal and was worried that he had led the guy on by saying “hey”. I told him that blaming himself was just bullshit and that it is always okay to be friendly.

But, later he felt traumatized, even victimized and taken advantage of. He said that he understood how women feel when they are sexually harassed. He pressed me for the norms of men’s locker rooms where there are many gay men since I have all of this acquaintance with the gay world and its locker rooms (yeah right – snuck into one just the other day, subject for another post, hahaha). He found himself being hyper vigilant in the locker room and did not go into the sauna for some time.

Recently the LOML got into a conversation with one of the female swim guards about such incidents at the Y (I guess they had an old male flasher who remembered the good old days when the Y was all nude – right – that’s as good an excuse as any I guess) and the LOML told her about this one. She said that he definitely should have reported it when it happened.

LOML has been a Y member for almost all of his life and this type of thing has never happened before. Any advice for the LOML?

First Brush with Gay Life

It was 1989 and I was sent by my employer, a pharmaceutical drug company, to the Castro to visit an HIV clinic. We were conducting an expanded access drug trial of a novel antiretroviral drug. I was assigned to direct audits of 100 clinics in the US assisted by 8 other employees, 30 clinics of which I would audit myself.

So, there I was in the Castro, at the very first clinic, waiting, when I noticed a bulletin board covered with cheese cake photos. Hot guys wearing nil to nothing, posing seductively. Tanned, luscious, sweating, tousled hair, hot. Naturally, I stopped to admire the amazing view. Then it hit me; I was the only female in the entire office. That thought turned my world on its head, upside down, inside out. Stunned was the word for it.

It was a turning point in my life; I had met gay lifestyle head on. I guess that analytically I understood that gay men liked men, but I never got that they would enjoy looking at men too. Homer Simpson moment: Doh. In retrospect, I think, geez, these guys have a lot in common with me. We all like dick.