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.
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I swear recently, I’ve talked about politics more than anything else, at home at least. It’s probably because of the upcoming general election. Well, one of the hottest topics right now is Gay Rights. I was surprised to hear David Cameron saying how “We do need good sex and relationship education. That education should teach [...]
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I was reading an article on the election in Maine today, and although it was a fairly positive article in regards to the “No on 1″ campaign, there were a couple sentences that when I read them… they stung. Like a slap in the face. Not gonna lie, I started crying. While the comment itself [...]
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I might not be the most politically intellectual sixteen year-old, but I can tell you I was devastated when I found out Prop-8 was upheld today.
“In addition to rejecting the gay-rights lawyers’ contention that Proposition 8 was an illegal constitutional revision, the court also flatly discarded Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown’s argument that the measure was [...]
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Today on NBC’s The Chris Matthew’s Show, Andrew Sullivan made a prediction regarding same sex marriage. I am almost certain (but can’t check myself as the episode is not yet available for embedding), that Mr. Sullivan, during the “Tell me something I don’t know” section of the show, indicated that though Vermont has been the focus of attention [...]
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Hi. You don’t know me, and judging from your recent public remarks of late, you don’t want to know me. And as I am a fervent member of the gay community, I’d rather not want to know you, either. But, as a senator, you have been charged with the duty of hearing the words of [...]
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My problem is that I don’t feel like less of a person.
Does that make me sick in the head? Perhaps.
Sinful? Perhaps.
But the real issue I have is that, (if a sinner), I have not harmed a soul in this world except my own. If my girlfriend and I ever want to be “married”, (representing [...]
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Over the last several days, tens of thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and their Supporters have taken to the streets of California to show their outrage with the passage of CA Proposition 8. Prop 8 provides for a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage rights. Similar amendments and propositions have been passed in AZ [...]
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I promise you not a moment will be lost as long as I have heart & voice to speak & we will walk again together with a thousand others & a thousand more & on & on until there is no one among us who does not know the truth: there is no future without [...]
