I was presented recently with a very interesting question: "If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?" Damn. That's deep. So, I've spent the better part of several days pondering this question. Here's what I came up with. Bear with me, here.…
Last week, I laid into the Mormons and Brigham Young University for their codified bigotry. I also noted that the Mormon Church is but one villain in this drama, and that Brigham Young University is by no means the only campus where homophobia and abuse of LGBT students is…
There was a very sobering video posted today on the facebook blog page, courtesy of Stop Teenage Suicide and Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook. Sobering because it was a mother telling how her 5-year-old son had been bullied to the point where he wanted to die. Five years old!!! There…
As long as we stand by while discrimination, prejudice, and bigotry are perpetrated on our fellow citizens, we are, by our silence, saying, “That is okay with us. That is not our business.”
Here's the real deal: it is time for people to start speaking up for love, to start speaking up against hate...in all forms. It's the only way we're going to change our culture. It's the only way we're going to start seeing the incidences of bullying, hatred, violence and intolerance towards LGBT teens or anybody perceived to be different.
Immediately their wedding photo popped up on the screen. It was taken by Paul. He caught them just as they had mushed cake all over each others faces. They were so...happy.
Two weeks ago, I posted the tragic story of Martha, which was based on the real world. Here is the same story, which starts the same way, but ends very differently. This version of the story is based on the real world, too, at least the world we devoutly…
As we end women's history month I feel compelled to bring up one of the most influential women in America, whose beliefs and compassion for the poor and uneducated have had a direct affect on how we live today: Margaret Sanger. In 1914, Margaret Sanger launched the magazine The Woman…
Editor's Note: Here's the title and link to part 1 of Emily's story ---> 'Happy' It had been six months since Emily had been found on the doorstep of Pula's Funeral Home. True to his word Paul had set her up with a job as his make up artist. The …
By Jack Cameron I began to do some research for a report that would shed some light, education and awareness on what it really means to be Bisexual. Many heterosexual people and even some homosexual people are unclear and misunderstood on what it truly means to be Bisexual. Sometime later it…