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The Book of Lamentations: a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct. Thanks, Jeremiah, for this piece. One correction: The patrol t-shirts did not say "Bash Bask" on them. We were not a vigilante group, going out for justice. Our presence was the deterrent. I don't recognize the event.

The white arm-band is significant, but I can't recall what it was for. It dwindled throughand lingered in name for a few years before liquidating the few assets it had. Chris, thanks for the corrections. The full photo explains it gay it was one of the Julio Rivera march in Queens. I was wearing the arm-band because I was one of the marshals for the march.

The photo below the march photo in which I appear is not Matt Foreman, who is white. I think it's then bias-unit Inspector Paul Sanderson. Matt Foreman is in the other photo, speaking at a microphone, identified as Sanderson. Yay, Pink Panthers! I guess I have a good memory, because I remember them rather well, but a lot people don't seem to recall it with ease when I bring it up.

I think they should make a comeback As well as Socialites for Human Rights, another gay activist group that I helped found. We sure as hell bar socialites, but socialist and social we were. And all are dead but me. I met friends there who are still friends today -- Mark, Patrick, Davora, Jarret, etc.

We altered weekends between patrolling the East and West Village. I still have mine. I vividly remember learning self-defense moves -- me and a bunch of other young male Panthers -- from panther Panthers who were bigger and tougher than us. I remember walking the streets in the dead of winter -- feeling scared to death and like I was freezing to death.

When gays and Panthers were united

But in time I felt comfortable and secure patrolling among friends. I had an ulterior motive for joining the Panthers. Not revealing my motive, I hung out at the Angels headquarters for a day, and I thought I'd do the same with the Panthers. Except with the Panthers, I stayed with the group even after my Master's Project was finished.