Its Complicated: SATURDAY MARCH 24: DID IT(the story of Jerry Runin) author wil be at 4: at in a discussion of Jerry and the book .he wil be joined by Paul Krassner via skype

Some of you may know I was a founding member of Yippies. I was out in the left anti-war movement prior to the Stonewall Rebellion.  Homophobia was as virulent in the left as it was with the Right ..from the FBI to the Communist Party USA,  I, as some of you know do not like to be nostalgic ... or live in the past .. But I do think experience matters .. and the role of the elder to the youth is to be honest and not  romantic: to tell what we did and what I learned from those experiences, 

here is a little facebook chat that happened today Pat Thomas had asked me it I would join him and Paul Krassner  (who is one of my personal heroes) in the chat. I said yes. He said he would include me in the promotion of the event. But life went on after we agreed. the Parkland shootings took place and the KIDS stood up and shouted STOP IT! WE OPPOSE GUN VIOLENCE AND WANT A BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS, I decide to go to DC and support them instead of being at the book event.Here is a portion of the discussion that took place in a public stream on Facebook. I don't think you have to know all the references to understand the essence of the discussion

Pat Thomas Jim, please come and talk !

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Jim Fouratt To be honest Pat .. I gave considerable thought to what I would sat when I accepted your invitation to join you and Paul. After reading your book more closely. I realized that everything I said, that I thought was important to me that was critical about Jerry and Stew Albert and Judy Gumbo was left out of your book,,.. (absolutely your right !).. I realized that if I would talk about those things that it might rain on the Yippie spirit of the book.. . I asked myself what my role would be in the discussion. Since what I would say.wasn't in the book, so what. But it was only when the kids called for the demo against gun violence, that I decide to go to DC... I have been active in Gays Against Guns .. a direct action group that is inclusive of people who share our goals .. since it was formed right after the Pulse nightclub massacre.... We are marching in support of the kids and against gun violence and assault weapons. I trust it will be a fun reading

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Pat Thomas Jim, Judy Gumbo wasn’t left out of my book - not only was she interviewed in detail - she’s got a few pages that are specifically about her life story !

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Jim Fouratt Pat: i did not say Judy was left out .. far from it She is fully represented as I am not. If I was not clear .. let me be clear. I realized that everything I said to you,  that I thought was important to me that was critical about Jerry and Stew and Judy was left out of your book. I gave you a very long and detailed interview as one of the founders of YIPPIE. I talked of my experience of Jerry and Abbie and Stew and Judy.. I was critical of the role Jerry played and his homophobia. Stew and Judy were the same .. Jerry's use of speed/Ritalin etc. As to Judy ..she has been ruthless in her attacks on me. Her homophobia was worse than Jerry and Stew's and I feel has colored her reaction to me right up until current times. I choose to talk to you about this and other things I have learned from that time and centered my critique around Jerrym Stew and Judy ... I spoke of what  Emmet Grogan thought of them ..and of Abbie.. and then there was the breaking into my loft and the stealing of the Communication' Company's 'Gestetner machine.. It was a very long time ago but I have not forgotten. . I hope you will make clear that Dana Beal was NEVER a Yippie. Abbie and I and others never trusted him. In response Dana was a founding member of the ZIPPIES .. the politics of pot and cocaine dealing and its impact on the politics of Yippie and the spirit of Yippie.have yet to be talked about . . the relationship between Dana and Tom Forcade. The value sellout by Forcade, that implicated Wavey to Warner Brothers. I did describe to you what I saw in the park a the Convention in Miami,, I respect and like you Pat. I think you have a romantic idea of your cousin. It happens in families. Your book on many levels is important and the format is quite in the Yippie Spirit. But I am not in favor of the building of false myths .. I rather talk about the humanness of the people involved and their contradictions. We all tried to make a radical change.. My legacy I hope will be to tell my truth. Not to be romantic I owe that to the kids of today.

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AI is far more dangerous than any other social media app.. or why to landstack on MARS now!  this is not science fiction .. it is a reality check

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Ah yes there are many other stories to tell. I have mine ... what is yours???

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Was it the sizzle or the steak—the fashions or the music, the images or the sounds—that made a tiny dive bar’s influence expand and persist in such an out sized way, even today? Was the abrupt shift in rock music styles in the late seventies and early eighties merely an idea whose time had come? Or was it, instead, individual, unique creative efforts—by members of the likes of Television, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, and the Ramones—that made all the difference?





Ah yes there are many other stories to tell. I have mine ... what is yours???

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GATES, SANDERS,,Ta-Nehisi Coates are some of the live streams I want to share with you ...each could generate a conversation I would love to have with you

Let me share with you some of the things I went to at SXSW during the Tech and Film tracks. Watch when you have time .,.and lets sit down face to face and talk about the ideas expressed.. This is why UI still attend SXSW  and Yes the vision that Roland, Nick and Louis had is still very present ...and today more important than ever

Jack Tepper in conversation with Bernie Sanders 

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Memories of 26v Bond St. my loff and .jackie Curtis, and a community of now recognizable namess

History Alert: Bond Street  where East met West  a memory from my life

26 Bond Street ..where I lived 1966-69. 2 floors, garden with trees, french windows, marble fireplaces. $200 a month. Where the Underground Press Syndicate was housed for a year, where the Communications Company/NYC was published. Where I hosted a LSD bad trip rescue mission, where I lived with lovers Howard Weinstein  (RIP) painter,(blue-eyed, black curly haired Jewish angel,his sister was Marcia Weinstein aka later Annie Flanders founder of DETAILS magazine) 








followed by Robert McLane,  (RIP AIDS)  Broadway actor . 

Jim Fouratt and Robert McClane (aka Robert Joel) (cc)  Diane Dadornik 

R0 bert had appeared on Broadway and was the lead in A Very Natural Thing  (first gay narrative film to be reviewed by NYT

NY TIMES REVIEW )   We met one afternoon in the Egyptology room of the Met Museum. He did not knwo who I was publicly nor did I know about his professional career .we just clicked .Later we moved to Hollywood ,lived at the legendary Fontenoy   on Whitley. And later we moved to the Yamashiro apartments . By them I had a Bassett hound named Sabastian.

26 . Bibd Stree : Where Yippie Meetings were held. Where I asked David Hockney to leave a party because the mother of the 15-year-old beauty who he was hitting on complained .. I spoke to David twice and finally had to ask him to go ..he did. Where Jackie Curtis brought a blond boy from Long Island on his first night in NYC, Introing Jimmy to me saying " Meet Candy Darling." I just gave him a new name. I want him to know where to come if he gets in trouble..that your loft is a safe space." Where Abby Hoffman and Robin Morgan broke in and stole the Village Voice Gestetner Mineo machine that Howard Smith had donated to me so I could publish the Communication Company/NYC..Stolen because Allan Ginsberg and I had raised questions about how Chicago Democratic Convention response was being organized.Where Diane Arbus lugged a HUGE camera in one day to do a shoot ..and when our eyes locked we both recognized we had a very intimate secret, Where my down-the-street neighbor Sam Wagstaff and I used to sit in my garden and discussed art, photography, and boys before he went to Detroit and Harford museums positions. When Sam's mother finally died, he came into the family fortune. Robert M. cashed in and took him to the dark side. Where L.M.Kit Carson shot the first footage of his unfinished film "Pyote Starlight " with Jim McBride directing me playing me. Where Kit brought Edie Sedgwick when she was escaping Bob Neuwirth and needed a place to hid. Kit and she were having an affair. She left her makeup kit when she and Kit moved, . It was full of expensive tools that created the cinematic Edie look. They stayed about two months. Where "Wisdom and Folly" a hippie fashion collective of three gay male designers from LA camped out and created hand made clothes  One day Jimi Hendrix  was visiting me and I introduced him to the "Wisdom and Folly" boys . They made him the clothes he wore when he performed  at Woodstock  I had a brief affair with Denins the full blooded Native  American folly member. He was beautiful, gentle and left a stain on my heart still there. All three died of AIDS in LA.  Where the Process (the extreme arm of Scientology placed two designer dressed (grey uniforms)  outside the entrance to 26 Bond St daily for 6 months trying to recruit me They also had a beatiful Great Dane with them ,,He was grey also....(the Process had "converted" Charlie Manson) Many many more memories to follow from the place Joe Ragone had rented to me with a ten-year lease. .. when I left over a broken heart (imagine) I turned it over to Brice Marden, painter and than Robert Rauschenberg assistant and his gorgeous wife Helen beauties who were neither famous nor rich yet,,, just talented. beauties.

The Vilalge was different back then.

It was a different village then ...