Mixner Chicken

This restaurant-fancy chicken recipe can really impresses! The layer of mushrooms and bits of ham in a sauce really adds an extra-special flair. Reminiscent of The Outback's: Alice Springs Chicken, just done with a twist. Dedicated to our LGBT hero David Mixner.

Chicken breasts, mushrooms with ham, and a touch of mustard with white wine. It cooks in just about 30 minutes. One casserole dish to cook in and clean up after.

For the marinade:

½ cup Dijon mustard

½ cup honey

¼ cup mayonnaise

1 cup white wine

For the chicken:

2boneless skinless chicken breast (about 1 1/2 pounds)

2 tablespoons butter

8 ounces mushrooms sliced

1 tablespoon olive oil

½ cup small diced ham

1 cup shredded Colby Jack cheese

2 tablespoons fresh parsley for garnish, optional

In a small bowl, whisk together mustard, honey, mayonnaise, and white wine. Reserve ¼ cup sauce in a covered container and refrigerate until serving time.

Place the breasts into zipper bags with the sauce. Refrigerate for at least

30 minutes or even overnight.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large skillet over medium-high heat

oil and mix in butter.

Add mushrooms and ham bits, sauté until they have released most of their liquid and have started to turn brown, about 5 to 7 minutes. Pour the marinade into the pan with any left-over wine. Cook stirring until mix is reduced.

Sprinkle the crated cheese over the chicken pieces and spoon the mushrooms on top. Cover the baking dish and place in the oven.

Bake until the chicken reaches 160°F when tested with an internal thermometer at the thickest part, about 20 to 25 minutes. 

Slave was also fixing fresh asparagus, so they were trimmed and drizzled with olive oil and placed on a lined tray to roast along side the chicken.

While that cooked a bit of white rice was fixed.

Remove from oven and let sit, still covered, for 8 minutes.

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David Mixner

David Mixner is a civil rights activist and best-selling author. He is best known for his work in anti-war and gay rights advocacy.

Mixner was born in 1946, and grew up in the small town of Elmer in southern New Jersey. Mixner attended Woodstown High School, where he got involved in the Civil Rights Movement, by picketing and sending his own money to Martin Luther King Jr. In his bestselling memoir, Stranger Among Friends, Mixner explains that his parents were "livid" over his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, claiming his activism embarrassed them.

In the fall of 1964, Mixner enrolled at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where he soon became heavily involved in civil rights and anti-war activism. Mixner organized the first of many protests he would organize over the next thirty years.

Mixner also experienced his first same-sex relationship at ASU, with a man whom he refers to as Kit in his memoirs. A year into their relationship, Kit was killed in an automobile accident. Mixner did not attend the funeral, and Kit's parents never discovered that their son was gay.

Soon after Kit's death, Mixner decided to transfer to the University of Maryland in order to be closer to Washington, D.C., where he would be able to get more involved in anti-war protests.

Mixner found more interest in activism than in pursuing a college degree. He dropped out of college and began working for the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy. Mixner and other members of McCarthy's campaign team went to Georgia to help select an alternative delegation to send to the national convention in Chicago, challenging Governor Lestor Maddox's hand-picked delegation.

At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Mixner was beaten by police during the protests held outside the convention center. He soon befriended Doris Kearns Goodwin, who introduced Mixner to Senator Ted Kennedy, who would become a lifelong friend.

In 1976, Mixner began the process of coming out of the closet, and soon thereafter was a founding member of the Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles (MECLA), the nation's first gay and lesbian Political Action Committee. Mixner turned his focus to fighting Proposition 6, an initiative placed on the California ballot by Orange County State Senator John Briggs that would make it illegal for gays and lesbians to be schoolteachers. In creating the “NO on 6” organization to fight it; he would publicly come out of the closet. Mixner and his lover Peter Scott secured a meeting with then-Governor Ronald Reagan, whom they convinced to oppose the initiative publicly. As a result, through his and San Francisco City Councilman Harvey Milk work, Proposition 6 was defeated by over a million votes, the first ballot initiative of its sort to be shot down. 

As a result of this huge success, Mixner and Scott built up a political consulting firm, Mixner/Scott, and were asked by Bill Clinton, then running for governor of Arkansas, to host a reception for Clinton at their Los Angeles home.

In 1985, after helping defeat Proposition 64, a ballot initiative proposed by Lyndon LaRouche that would require quarantining people with AIDS, Mixner learned that his long-time lover and business partner, Peter Scott, had AIDS. Scott would fight the disease for four years; he died on May 13, 1989. 

While Scott fought the disease, Mixner formed an organization that spearheaded legislation that would create a California alternative to the FDA, enabling California to deal more aggressively with the AIDS epidemic than the federal government.

Four years after a fundraiser for the Dukakis campaign told Mixner that Governor Dukakis would not accept the million dollars Mixner and his friends planned to raise for him, Mixner found hope in the candidacy of his old friend, Bill Clinton.

After Clinton promised Mixner that he would support both an end to the ban on gays in the military and increased funds to find a cure for AIDS, Mixner began raising money for Clinton enthusiastically. Clinton's campaign, soon asked Mixner to join the National Executive Committee of the Clinton for President campaign, the first openly gay person to become a public face of a presidential campaign.

After Clinton was elected, Mixner helped with the transition team. Mixner soon thrust himself in the middle of the furor over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy proposed by Clinton, which represented a total betrayal to Mixner and many in the gay community.

When Mixner went on Nightline to complain about Clinton's rapid shift away from allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, his calls to the White House stopped being returned and his consulting business began to tank, as he was no longer perceived as someone who had influence with the new administration.

Mixner organized another march and was very publicly arrested outside the White House, for which he received a great deal of publicity because of his personal relationship with Clinton. Mixner and Clinton later healed the rift, but Clinton never again revisited the policy during his presidency.

In 2006, Mixner moved to Turkey Hollow in Sullivan County, New York, where he lived in a bright yellow house with his two cats, Sheba and Uganda. Three years latter Mixner moved to Hell's Kitchen in New York City. He posted blog entries daily on his website, davidmixner.com.

In 2011, the Theater at Dixon Place announced a one-man show starring Mixner, From the Front Porch. The show is a benefit for Dixon Place and the Ali Forney Center, an organization benefiting LGBT homeless youth.

Mixner released a memoir of his time in Turkey Hollow, At Home with Myself: Stories from the Hills of Turkey Hollow, in September 2011. The memoir is published by Magnus Books.

On October 27, 2014, David Mixner premiered Oh Hell No! at New World Stages at 340 West 50th Street in New York. The autobiographical show, a one-night-only event to benefit the Point Foundation, featured Mixner revealing intensely personal details about the struggles he had faced, including the pain of losing 300 friends to AIDS in the 1980s.

Mixner's original play 1969 was staged at the Florence Gould Hall Theater in New York City on March 6, 2017. In that production, Mixner reveals the deep personal struggle of being a closeted gay man in that time and a blackmail attempt that threatened to out him.

In this last October, Mixner announced that after 60 years of activism, his new play, “You Make Me Sick,”will be his public swan song. And then he’s going to retire, write, travel and “have some David time, “I am going to retire in some way due to a combination of reasons,” Mixner says. “My first action was in June 1959 when I did volunteer work every weekend for John Kennedy. And I’ve been of service for 60 years as of this past June, which is a long time.”

Health is also a major factor. “I’ve had 11 surgeries and eight stays where I was critical in intensive care — some of them pretty brutal — and that’s taken a toll on me and my ability and my energy. And I have some other illnesses that I’m struggling with” he says. “But my voice will still be there and my writing, even though it takes a little longer and it’s a little more difficult to focus.”

“I wake up, I feel 21, laying in bed,” he says. “I move a leg and suddenly I feel 40. I put the legs on the floor, I feel 69. I stand up and I feel 73.”

Mixner does have a problem with the current use of the word “queer,” though — a term he still considers a slur.

However he laughs it off. “This is just a sign of our success. We wanted the right to be who we were and we’d been so successful at it, people are fighting for themselves exactly how they want to be viewed.”

Still, “I will always hate the word ‘queer’ because it was a derogatory term all my life. If people want to embrace it and remove the power from it, more power to them. I’m just not one of them. And I have the same right as everyone else does: I can define myself the way I want to define myself. And it can still be a work in process, even if 73.”

Though not in good health, Mixner says “I’m happy as can be. I’m very spiritual.”

He has written a book with Brad Goldfarb called “From Fear to Dreams” that he hopes to get published next year.

Looking over his long life of activism, he feels his time spent in 2006 in his remote bright yellow house at Turkey Hollow in Sullivan County, N.Y., was crucial. “It was the most important thing I ever did,” Mixner says. “Nature healed me of the trauma of HIV/AIDS, which I hadn’t dealt with in reality. I was able to make the transition from a major fundraiser, which everyone kept insisting that I be, to a writer through the blog.”

But trauma is hard to shake. “I kept a roll of my friends who died and it ran to 308 people,” says Mixner. “I lost the most valuable people in my life. I gave 90 eulogies over those years for young men under 40 because I was a good speaker. So, you can’t come out of that where you literally go from someone’s funeral to visiting someone else in the hospital and not be scarred.”

No, “you don’t ever heal,” Mixner says. “What you do is find a place for the grief so it doesn’t interfere with the rest of your life — whether it’s meditation or spiritual or conversations like this every once in awhile. And writing. All my plays have been done since I’ve been in intensive care.

“So I refused to live in the past,” says retiring activist icon David Mixner. “I refuse to be a victim. The best way to heal is to be into the future, to make things better for other people.”

Mixner Quotes:

I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

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Newsweek once named Mixner the most powerful gay man in America, and he has been a highly regarded leader in American politics and international human rights for over 40 years.

Still with an active eye on politics, in just the last few days Mixner has issued an endorsement for Pete Buttigieg:

“Mayor Pete’s gentleness is his power. His ability to speak many languages and intellect will reestablish our alliances and America’s place around the globe.

“For LGBT(Q) Americans, he has already shattered the glass ceiling. Any young LGBT(Q) person growing up can now hope to run for President of the United States.”