STRAIGHT INTO GAY AMERICA:
MY UNICYCLE JOURNEY FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
by Lars Clausen

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From anti-gay preacher Jerry Falwell to the gay-rights directors of HRC, PFLAG, and Soulforce, Clausen’s personal journey as a Lutheran pastor forces difficult choices between the exclusionary status quo of his church and the inclusive commitment of Jesus.

In Straight Into Gay America people share their lives with the Guinness World Record-holding pastor who unicycles 1,000 miles for equal rights. Through roadside encounters and overnight stays, this is the story of everyday people living through the most polarizing political and religious battles of our times.

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A word from Soulforce:
“Lars Clausen shares Soulforce’s commitment to ending Spiritual Violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered people. Straight Into Gay America will bring our churches and our nation another step closer to the day of Equal Rights.”
Mel White: Soulforce.org

I’ve now decided to put my entire existence out online for friendly interest… (Actually, to save a little postage and a bunch of burned DVDs for my family!

Please check out my new little family video presentation, with my amusing little videos about my family (that I’ve also posted with my flash videos in the sidebar for the amusement of a few!)… at www.humanewebsites.com/gustavson

If you see this and think, “Wow — what a cool little website! How could I do that?!”, I can also be of some assistance — I’ve been crazily busy, and alongside my new book publisher and record company (www.bloomingtwigbooks.com and www.ninetyandninerecords.com), I have also put together a grand new little site to create flash presentations, e-cards, websites, and html websites, blogs, podcasts and the whole shabang! If you are interested, and reading my blog, contact me at 1-866-389-1482, and I’ll hook you up with a great website at a friend rate (because you are, after all, taking time out of your day to read my rants, and possibly view my family folklore:)…

I hope all are well in this early spring! Blessings.

Dear Friends,

I hope this finds all of you well.

I proposed to my girlfriend of nearly 5 years about two weeks ago and she said yes! (No, not after two weeks of writing the pros and cons of our relationship — I just haven’t had time to write to you about it yet!)…

I proposed in a clever, cute and some might say, stupid, way — with a scavenger hunt. She fell for it… Well, almost:)

Anyway — click here to see my short film (and nominate me for an oscar:)… please…)

Or, there is a list of all my short movies on the sidebar — the one called “K and K Engagement” is the one I recommend first!

My mother, the wonderful poet Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson, created another podcast yesterday — one that really takes me back to my childhood.

She wrote an incredible children’s epic poem called “The Ballad of the Rag Man” — it’s extraordinary, and you should listen. I’m neck deep in making my mother a new website, and she digs about 15 books out of the closet every day that she hasn’t published! She’s a great writer, truly.

Check out her podcast here:
cynthiagustavson.com/podcast

Or listen in here:

The Ballad of the Rag Man

And check out her website at cynthiagustavson.com for a bunch of free stuff, and for the radio I built into her site with some special music.

I’m offering free music, because I’m totally giddy from the release of the brand new googlepages.com sites! Go design yourself a webpage for no cost, no trouble… Here’s the webpage, where I uploaded about 30MB or more of music in about 3 minutes, and it is now available for you to download and check out…

Hopefully, you’ll become both a convert to googlepages and a convert to my music!!

Free mp3s available on my new website:

http://free.music.free.googlepages.com
Please check them out — they’ll only be available for a limited time! These are full length mp3s of my music only available because I’m exhausted, and have gone insane because of the new release of literally gajillions of gigabyte megabyte gigantibytes of webspace — for free — no advertising, no nothing!

Makes me feel foolish for paying for it!!

Anyway — check it out for yourself:

How to sign up for Google Pages at googlepages.com:

1) Either sign in to your gmail, or sign up for a gmail account (if you don’t have one, I’d be happy to give you one).

2) Go to www.googlepages.com

3) Follow the extremely easy instructions, and then use the template changes in the upper right corner of your screen to easily change web layouts. Easier than any web-building software on the market!! Idiot proof!!

4) And then click publish, and you can have yourself a site with pictures, many pages (mine just has one) and mp3s — for free! And if you get sick of your first one, create an odd little one like my: http://free.music.free.googlepages.com

5) I really like this, but at the same time, something feels strange about it — it’s like Santa Claus — when I was a kid I didn’t understand why I got something for nothing:)

Yet another entry, deep into the morning, the night after (I just couldn’t sleep I was so intrigued) I found out about googlepages.com — The world hasn’t found out yet!!

Google has now ended the battle of webspace. Webspace is now as valuable only as what exists on its bytes.

Kent’s New Google Webpage is on Googlepages.com at: http://kgustavson.googlepages.com/home

Here’s my amusing attempt at a webpage, that amateurs will be happy to hear, took only about 10 minutes to create. A little different than the hours and hours that have gone into my design of my most recent pages, designed for my PhD advisor and my mother: www.peterwinklermusic.com, www.dorotheacook.com, www.silkenrags.com, and www.cynthiagustavson.com

It almost makes me feel dirty to think that I spent all those hours, when there is such a simple alternative out there now! It doesn’t look all that bad, and if the capability to tweak with the style sheet comes around, or more templates, this is the new ‘blog’ of the next half-generation! Everyone and their third-cousin will have a website!! I don’t know if that’s good, or if it’s bad. And I don’t know what to do when I think that every gmail account that I have now has a potential 100MB of space attached to it.

Google has now ended the battle of webspace. Webspace is now as valuable only as what exists on its bytes.