I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
What would happen to this world if the real power couple was Oprah and Gayle King, the editor-in-chief at O! magazine and her best friend. It has been speculated for years and the case is just not so, but let’s pretend and see how the world would change.
A big countrified pick-up truck with floodlights across the roll bar came up from behind with it’s bright lights flashing on and off at me, honking their horn as well. I hadn’t heard the horn because of my music but when I saw all the commotion I turned sown the music and heard the sounds. I wasn’t sure what was up and panic had not set in yet. One of the three was standing in the back of the pick-up and motioned for me to roll down my window. Looking back, this is the part that gets me the most about my actions. Matthew Sheppard had been killed only 3 weeks earlier but my God, this was Austin, Texas where I had felt safe my whole adult life since I turned 18. I came out here for Christ’s sake. So…. I rolled down my window and they sped up to my window and tried to spit into it as one they yelled, “We’re going to kill you dyke” and I knew the I was in trouble.
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It was a bright Friday morning, my partner and I were driving to work. When she stopped at a yellow light. The guy behind her was upset that he couldn’t run a red light and get to work a millisecond earlier than he would now get to work. He was yelling and [...]
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From time to time the wife and I receive emails from the all powerful *eyeroll* Joe Solmonese and the HRC. Tonight the wife got an email about a nationwide special that the American Family Association produced called Speechless: Silencing Christians. I will go on and say that I have not read the book they reference [...]
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In Berlin, opposite the monument for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, there is another monument, just across the road, for the gays and lesbians killed in the Nazi-regime because of their sexual orientation. It is a granite cube incorporating a video screen showing a film of two guys kissing (the film is supposed to be changed [...]
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First, I’d like to preface this by saying that I am a sixteen year old Junior in high school, and I came out in early 2007. I was raised Southern Baptist, and one of my earliest memories of homophobia within my own family was when I was around the age of 7. I remember quite [...]
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Lately I’ve wondered what the world will be like when my two year old niece is my age. Just yesterday I was watching her chase bubbles around the back yard without a care in the world. She doesn’t know about discrimination yet, she thinks that money is just more paper she can color on, and [...]
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2. Where do you get your information on politics. What issues are most important to you?
I get my info on politics from MANY sources…. which is the way to go, if you ask me… you get many different standpoints and can break it down to what YOU think really happened…
Issues that are important to me??? [...]
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Like so many others, I was so deeply disappointed last week to learn that the Matthew Shepard Act had been dropped from the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill.
I clearly remember learning about the brutal hate crime that resulted in Matthew’s death. I was a year out of college, planning my wedding, and was [...]
