Folks:

Some conversations I hear in my fellowship is the problem of absentee investors buying up lots of our housing stock.

I am asking this question here considering that we are mostly like minded and I am a bit afraid of going onto r/investing, which has over 1 million people and that I would be flamed to a crisp.

I wonder if it's okay for us to consider that absentee investors buying up local housing and preventing local ownership is unethical.

Would you agree?

Thank you

Mark Allyn

Bellingham, Washington

Folks:

As a gay man, I would love to meet other gay men at our UU (Bellingham, Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington).

I have been frustrated over the years that although there is a fair number of lesbians at BUF (short for Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship) as well as lesbian couples being formed here; there are virtually no gay men.

I had a vision late one night that a way to solve this problem is to advertise our being open and affirming; putting classified ads in the male gay publications.

Be aware that I am only thinking about this and getting feedback from folks like you; I have not purchased nor placed any advertising yet.

I would like to know if any of you have tried this and what kind of results are you seeing? It it worth it?

Since this is myself doing this with my own money and not that of the fellowship, I ccould only afford classified ads.

Any thoughts?

Thank you

Love

Mark Allyn

Bellingham, Washington

Folks:

I am reading in horror about the Upstairs Lounge Fire in June 1973. The Upstairs Lounge was a gay bar; this fire resulted in 32 deaths; it was the 2nd worse attack on the LGBTQ community after the Pulse gay bar attack in June 2016.

What was very attrocious to me was the fact the no church would welcome a memorial service for the Upstairs Lounge Fire victims.

Several churches who refused to host a memorial were named, but no UU churches were named.

I wonder if the UU church in New Orleans was approached for hosting a memorial and if so, did the UU church refuse to do this like the others?

I have done much internet searching and could not come up with anything.

Are there members of the New Orleans UU Church here who could shed some light?

Thank you

Love

Mark Allyn

Bellingham, Washington