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Joe Jervis Joe Jervis, author of the popular, award-winning LGBT news and culture blog Joe. God., has been named National Grand Marshal for the 27th annual Greater Palm Springs Pride Parade. Joe has been delivering his unique brand of activism for the global LGBT community for nine years. During this time, his signature voice has increased visibility in the fight for equal rights and justice. One of the top 100 most widely read political blogs in America, Joe. God. focuses on gay rights, LGBT youth, queer culture, and the blog advocates every day to expose anti-gay bigotry and hypocrisy in politics and the media. Kate Buckley recently caught up with Joe to learn more. Joe, you lived in San Francisco for 6 years and are now based in New York. How did you come to be named the National Grand Marshal for the 27th annual Palm Springs Pride Parade? JJ: I have a lot of readers in the Palm Springs area and I guess some of them work for Palm Springs Pride! I hear there’s a good story behind the decision to launch your award-winning blog, Joe. God. Can you share? JJ: I got kicked off a popular gay dating site in 2004 because, instead of a dating profile, I was using the allotted space to write snarky critiques of the entire online hook-up phenomenon. My profile started getting passed around outside of NYC and finally site management wrote me to suggest that I’d be happier if I went somewhere else and started a blog. The next day a friend sat with me in a West Village coffee shop and set up JoeMyGod for me. In 2010, your blog gained national attention for tracing a virulently anti-gay comment posted on the blog to the offices of Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). You then obtained a public apology, how did this come about? JJ: I don’t usually have time to read many of the comments left on my blog, but that day I happened to look at the comments for a post about the battle to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and saw a comment posted saying, “All faggots must die.” The IP for that comment resolved to a server operated for the United States Senate. I posted the information on the blog and within hours the story had been picked up by the mainstream press. Two days later, it was determined that message came from [someone in] the office of Sen. Chambliss, who phoned me personally to apologize—something he also did in a statement to the press. I told him I accepted the apology, but still regret not also pressing him to improve his terrible voting record on LGBT rights. Joe Jervis with television host, political commentator and author, Rachel Maddow Scandal aside, what other blog or activism achievements can you tell me about? JJ: The blog has gotten lots of very nice awards, but I suppose I’m most proud about the fundraising I’ve done on behalf the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth. My readers have been very generous and I’m so grateful for them. And getting “sainted” by the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence was definitely a highlight of last year. And you’ve got the 10th anniversary of your blog (in blogger parlance: “Blog Year 10”) coming up April 2014. Any plans to celebrate? JJ: I don’t have anything definite planned yet for the ten year anniversary, but I’m very sure it will involve a party with the readers and lots of drinking. Where do you see your blog in five years? Ten years? JJ: Well, I never imagined it would go on for ten years, so five more is almost impossible to imagine. Technology is changing so fast—by then we’ll probably be blogging with our minds from our hover-cars. Joe Jervis at the 2012 Democratic National Convention With the repeal of DOMA, LGBT rights have progressed, but, many would argue, still have a long way to go. Can you comment on this, as well as what you’d like to see happen next? JJ: As things continue improve here in America, I see US-based activists increasingly turning our attention to the plight of our LGBT brothers and sisters in other countries. We’ve seen quite a bit that recently with Russia. As for next year, our big task will be to motivate LGBT voters in the midterms to protect the advances made so far and prevent these hard-won victories from being rolled back. You also serve as editor-at-large and senior writer at Pride Magazine, the official national LGBT pride magazine. Can you tell me a bit about that—what do your duties include? JJ: Pride Magazine is the official annual publication of InterPride, the national governing body of gay pride, and the title is distributed at pride event cities all over the country. I work with the editorial team to select the feature stories each year and often write the interview with the cover subjects. When you’re not dedicating your time on the fight to advance LGBT rights, how do you spend your free time? What would a typical weekend look like for you? JJ: My weekends always include at least a few hours of blogging—I haven’t missed a day in over five years. Once that’s out of the way, I often join my friends in Central Park for an afternoon of lounging and gossip on the hill that overlooks the roller-disco rink. I don’t do much clubbing anymore, but I try to get to an afternoon beer bust in the West Village at least a couple of times a month. How will you spend on your visit to Palm Springs (apart, of course, from serving as National Grand Marshall)? I understand you may have a Palm Springs area meet-up for readers of your blog? JJ: I’ve got several good friends and lots of readers in Palm Springs and virtually all of them have offered to show me the town. On the Saturday of Pride Weekend, we’ll be holding a get-together for the blog readers at a local pub, but we haven’t yet picked the location.
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Joe Jervis Seosamh Jervis, údar an tóir, a bhuaigh duaiseanna LGBT nuacht agus cultúr blog Joe.My.God., Tá ainmnithe Náisiúnta Grand Marshal don bliantúil Bród Paráid mó Palm Springs 27ú. Joe Tá a sheachadadh ar a branda uathúil activism don phobal LGBT domhanda ar feadh naoi mbliana. Le linn an ama seo, tá a ghuth sínithe infheictheacht mhéadaithe sa troid ar son cearta comhionanna agus an cheartais. Ceann de na 100 blogs polaitiúla barr léamh an chuid is mó go forleathan i Meiriceá, Joe.My.God. dhíríonn ar chearta aerach, óige LGBT, cultúr queer, agus na abhcóidí bhlag gach lá a nochtadh bigotry frith-aerach agus hypocrisy sa pholaitíocht agus na meáin. Kate Buckley gafa le déanaí suas le Joe níos mó a fhoghlaim. Joe, bhí cónaí ort i San Francisco ar feadh 6 bliana agus tá siad bunaithe anois i Nua-Eabhrac. Conas a tháinig tú a bheith ainmnithe ar an Grand Marshal Náisiúnta don bliantúil Bród Paráid Palm Springs 27 ? JJ: Tá mé a lán de na léitheoirí i gceantar Palm Springs agus buille faoi thuairim mé cuid acu ag obair le haghaidh Palm Springs Pride! Cloisim níl scéal maith taobh thiar an cinneadh a sheoladh le do bhlag a bhuaigh duaiseanna, Joe.My.God. An féidir leat a roinnt? JJ: Fuair kicked mé amach tóir suíomh ag dul aerach i 2004 mar gheall ar, in ionad próifíl dhátú, bhí mé ag baint úsáide as an spás a leithroinneadh a scríobh critiques snarky ar an Hook-suas feiniméan ar fad ar líne. Mo phróifíl thosaigh ag fáil a rith timpeall taobh amuigh de NYC agus ar deireadh scríobh bainistíocht láithreán dom le tuiscint gur mhaith liom a bheith níos sásta má chuaigh mé go áit éigin eile agus thosaigh blog. An lá dár gcionn shuigh cara liom i siopa caife Sráidbhaile Thiar agus arna chur ar bun JoeMyGod dom. I 2010, do bhlag a fuarthas aird náisiúnta as a rianú a comment frith-aerach virulently fáil ar an bhlag do oifigí Seanadóir Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). Fuair tú ansin leithscéal poiblí, conas a raibh sé seo teacht faoi? JJ: Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil de ghnáth am a léamh go leor de na tuairimí fágtha ar mo bhlag, ach an lá sin a tharla mé chun breathnú ar na tuairimí ar phost mar gheall ar an cath a aisghairm "Ná Iarr, Ná Inis," agus chonaic a comment phost ag rá, "Ní mór do gach bhrosna bás." Tá an IP chun na tuairimí a réiteach le freastalaí oibriú do na Stáit Seanad Aontaithe. Phost mé an t-eolas ar an bhlag agus laistigh uair an chloig a bhí an scéal curtha roghnaíodh suas ag an preas príomhshrutha. Dhá lá ina dhiaidh sin, bhí sé a chinneadh tháinig teachtaireacht ó [duine éigin i] oifig Sen Chambliss, a glaoch mé go pearsanta chun leithscéal a ghabháil-rud éigin a rinne sé freisin i ráiteas don phreas. Dúirt mé leis Ghlac mé an leithscéal, ach brón fós ní maith an cnaipe air chun feabhas a chur ar a thaifead vótála uafásach ar chearta LGBT. Joe Jervis le óstach teilifíse, tráchtaire polaitíochta agus údar, Rachel Maddow Scannal leataobh, cén bhlag nó activism éachtaí eile, is féidir leat insint dom faoi? JJ: Tá an bhlag gotten go leor de na dámhachtainí an-deas, ach is dócha go bhfuil mé an chuid is mó bródúil as mar gheall ar an bailithe airgid atá déanta agam thar ceann an FORNEY Ali Center , foscadh gan dídean NYC do LGBT óige. Mo léitheoirí a bheith an-fhlaithiúil agus tá mé chomh buíoch dóibh. Agus ag dul "sainted" ag an Deirfiúr Síor Indulgence bhí cinnte aird a tharraingt ar na bliana seo caite. Agus tá tú comóradh 10 de do bhlag (i parlance Craoladh: "Blag Bliain 10") ag teacht suas Aibreán 2014. Aon phleananna chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh? JJ: Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil aon rud cinnte atá beartaithe go fóill do chomóradh deich mbliana, ach tá mé an-cinnte go Beidh sé ina pháirtí leis na léitheoirí agus go leor de ól. Sa chás go bhfuil tú a fheiceáil do bhlag i gceann cúig bliana? Deich mbliana? JJ: Bhuel, níor cheap mé go mbeadh sé dul ar feadh deich mbliana, agus mar sin cúig níos mó beagnach dodhéanta a shamhlú. Tá teicneolaíocht ag athrú chomh tapaidh-faoin am sin beidh orainn a bheith dócha blogging le ár n-intinn as ár hover-gluaisteáin. Joe Jervis ag 2012 Dhaonlathach Náisiúnta Coinbhinsiún Leis aisghairm Doma, tá cearta LGBT cinn, ach, go leor a bheadh a mhaíomh, tá fós bealach fada chun dul. An féidir leat trácht a dhéanamh ar seo, chomh maith le cad ba mhaith leat a fheiceáil a tharlóidh ansin? JJ: Mar leanúint ar rudaí a fheabhsú anseo i Meiriceá, féach mé gníomhaithe US-bhunaithe níos casadh ár n-aird ar an staid ar ár deartháireacha agus deirfiúracha LGBT i dtíortha eile. Againn atá le feiceáil go leor le beagán a déanaí leis an Rúis. Mar don bhliain seo chugainn, beidh ár tasc mór a chur chun spreagadh vótálaithe LGBT sna midterms a chosaint ar an dul chun cinn a rinneadh go dtí seo agus cosc a chur ar na hOilimpeacha crua-bhuaigh ó á chur i bhfeidhm ar ais. Freastal ort freisin mar eagarthóir-i-mhór agus scríbhneoir sinsearach ag Bród Magazine , an iris oifigiúil bród LGBT náisiúnta. An féidir leat insint dom le beagán faoi sin-cad a áirítear do chuid dualgas? Is é Bród Magazine foilsiú bliantúil oifigiúil InterPride, an comhlacht rialaithe náisiúnta bród aerach, agus is é an teideal a dháileadh ar na cathracha imeacht bród ar fud na tíre: JJ. Tá mé ag obair leis an bhfoireann eagarthóireachta a roghnú na scéalta gné gach bliain agus is minic a scríobh an t-agallamh leis na hábhair a chlúdach. Nuair nach bhfuil tú ag thiomnú do chuid ama ar an troid le cearta LGBT a chur chun cinn, conas a dhéanann tú a chaitheamh do chuid ama saor in aisce? Cad ba mhaith deireadh seachtaine tipiciúil cuma mhaith ar do shon? JJ: I measc mo deireadh seachtaine i gcónaí ar a laghad cúpla uair an chloig de blogging-agam nach bhfuil caillte in aghaidh an lae i níos mó ná cúig bliana. Chomh luath agus go bhfuil amach as an mbealach seo, páirt a ghlacadh mé go minic mo chairde i Lár na Páirce ar tráthnóna lounging agus gossip ar an chnoc a bhreathnaíonn ar an rink sorcóir-dioscó. Ní féidir liom a dhéanamh clubbing i bhfad níos mó, ach déan iarracht mé a fháil ar busta beoir tráthnóna sa Sráidbhaile West ar a laghad cúpla uair in aghaidh na míosa. Conas a bheidh tú a chaitheamh ar do chuairt ar Palm Springs (seachas, ar ndóigh, as fónamh mar Náisiúnta Grand Marshall)? Tuigim féadfaidh tú a bheith Palm Springs limistéar freastal-suas do léitheoirí ar do bhlag? JJ: Tá mé cairde maithe agus arís eile agus go leor de léitheoirí i Palm Springs agus beagnach gach ceann acu a bheith ar fáil chun a thaispeáint dom an bhaile. Ar an Satharn Deireadh Seachtaine Pride, beidh orainn a bheith i seilbh a fháil-chéile do na léitheoirí bhlag ag teach tábhairne áitiúil, ach ní mór dúinn a roghnaíodh go fóill an suíomh.