HAYYYYY!! OK ........ You may or may not have seen the video on You Tube, where a man is walking home from the Twin Cities Pride Parade / Celebration in Minneapolis. While the man is on his journey, a group of pre-teen and teenage Somalian boys ask the man if he is gay, and then begin to follow and verbally harass the guy. For some reason, a passerby or the man's friend was able to tape this interaction.

The boys state that they "hate gay people" or "*F* gay people." At one point during the verbal comments, two police officers walk past the man and boys without any reaction! Since this video has begun to circle the internet, the Minneapolis Police Department has issued a statement that these "officers" are not part of their department, and that the MPD does not tolerate such behavior.

Watching this video brought forth so many emotions .. anger, fear, dread, complacency, and overall distrust [and the re-occurring thought, "why don't you back to Somalia?"]. However, I was amazed at the reactions from the guy who was simply walking home from a Pride event. He laughed at the boys and kept moving.

Therefore, in order to end today's blog entry on as more positive note, I have posted the video of Diana and Micheal performing "Upside Down." This is taken from Diana's 1980 tv special "diana," when she was at the ultimate peak of her popularity [3 top 10 singles in one year, including "Upside Down," which stayed at #1 for four weeks], and Michael had put out OFF THE WALL and was heading for super stardom. Diana just looks so happy in this video!

And once again, the man walking home from Pride laughed at the boys.

Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice ........