@RyanNewYork
He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.
He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.
Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.
This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.
Bill Clinton’s keynote at CES 2013 this week is something to watch. He covers quite a bit of global ground in just twenty minutes.
Clinton sees the three biggest challenges facing the world as inequality, instability, & climate change. He notes that none of these can be solved unless we commit to a progressive vision.
My favorite part is when Clinton talks (at 13:00) about our “unjustifiable neglect of gun safety” to large applause. He says the he grew up in a hunting culture, but that this is “nuts” because “why does anybody need a 30 round clip for a gun? why does anyone need one of those things that carry 100 bullets?”
Clinton says that half of all mass killings in the United States have happened since the expiration of the assault weapons ban in 2005. That’s a shocking figure.
He goes on to say that the Internet can bring us together to help strengthen gun control. I think he’s right and I think it’s incredibly important we all join in demanding a plan.
A great timeline of progress made for the gay community under Barack Obama. Click for a closer look.
“A young Mitt Romney holds up a placard at a pro-draft demonstration at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in May 1966.”
