clarity

‘FAGGOT’

WAS MY

SLAVE NAME…

AND I DON’T COTTON

TO SLAVE

ANY MORE.

Outside the Box

I AM...

Southern,
big and burly,

free-thinking,
a comic book and sci-fi geek,

more cerebral than physical,
somewhat learned (but no common sense,)
obsessive and compulsive,
depressive,
righteous,
good-intentioned,
a mystery-solver,
a deep thinker,
intuitive,
a movie buff,
a sexual dynamo,
a lover of all cuisines,
eternally searching,
an aficionado of foreplay,
musically inclined --but all thumbs,
coping with arrested development,
drawn to cons and ne'er-do-wells,
rage-filled and passionate, a civil rights warrior,
an animal lover,
emotional,
an artist,
a writer,
gardener,
poet,
a son-- four times over,

100% homosexual,
a survivor,
and a man.

But...

I am not

a label.

Nor am I limited to

the ones you might apply

to me.

I am

the sum of all my parts,

and none of my parts will be

dismissed or regulated.

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Clarity

We spend so much time seeking to stop other

people's assault on our humanity because

of their limited scope and definition of us,

it is easy to get caught up in pigeon-

holing and limiting our lives.

Just a reminder.

Be whole.

Be happy.

Be you.

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and "Georgia Unity" on facebook today!)

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