John Barrowman - "I Am What I Am"

Thought this would be a great song to introduce to the new generation,
and John's moving intro as to how meaningful it is to him (as well as
his boundless enthusiasm and heart) are the perfect match for this piece.

What a beautiful sentiment, and we don't dwell on it nearly enough.

When we wake up in the morning, wherever we go during the day,
we have to proudly and defiantly proclaim that our lives are worth living,
that our wants are worthwhile, and that our feelings are valid. Be strong!

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Hate Groups Try To Ruin Another Republic

Fight the good fight; oppose evil everywhere!

The Force is With You!

So those Fuck-wads at the "Family Research Council" (the idiot
anti-gay hate group) are protesting and trying to change things at
BioWare, the company that produced the new "Star Wars:The
Old Republic" MMO game.

The new online video game allows players to choose same-sex
relationships or status when creating and picking their fictional
characters. (Yay!) The FRC dolts think everyone thinks like
them--or they're upset because they know we don't--and they're
trying to put the Kabosh on it all.

So, do your part...
sign in to the forums and post an appreciative or supportive
comment for the game and company. Here's the game site;
https://account.swtor.com/user/register

Or just contact the company and let them know your thoughts
in support of the game and the same-sex character existence.

Mailing Address:

BioWare Edmonton
200-4445 Calgary Trail NW
Edmonton AB
Canada T6H 5R7

E-mail: contact@bioware.com
Phone: 780-430-0164
Fax: 780-439-6374


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Due Date Diligence

It's going to be HILARIOUS when--in about

a year from now, maybe on through about

September--all the teens of Conservative

'Christians' are popping up with babies

out-of-wedlock! "But, but, Super-Tightly-

Wound-Jesus-freak-Mom...you SAID the

world was gonna end! I had to know what

sex was all about before I died!" Oy!

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Is it in You?

"Hmmmnnn...The Force is strong

in this one!"

"I think you mean 'The Fierce,' honey....

but I'll take it!

They're both too true!"

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The Lens--and the Viewer--are Flawed

Conservative so-called Xians are always pointing to the supposed

character flaws inherent in gay men as a leading reason why we have

little to offer society. Well, if it's more 'upstanding' types you're looking

for, look to all the gays who are in the middle of--and running--all of

YOUR organizations and churches. All those grand, upstanding pillars

of the community, living a complete and utter lie.

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Why I Love Popeye

He's not worried about fashion.

He's not worried about the fact that he looks different.

He's tough, determined, and courageous.

He doesn't mind taking on a bully three times bigger than him.

He embraces his weirdness.

His motto is "I Am What I Am."

He does his thing and doesn't give a flip what the rest of the
  world thinks, says, or does about it.

YOU GO, POPEYE!

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Unnecessary Evils

When alone,  imagining my closeted brothers and sisters, I sob.

I sob from the depths of my soul and I ache.

The closet is a torture chamber that has no place in the modern world,
and yet I see more and more shutting themselves in; cloistered, dark,
separate, devastated, removed. It is as an epidemic; perhaps the new
epidemic that will destroy our tribe.

The only safety the closet offers is that of illusion and ill-met gains.
Temporary satisfaction. Hollow, seeming victory at the price of self.
It is a tribute to the wants of others, paid for with the loss of one's
own life and happiness.

Especially here in the south, this Biblically-devastated, tortured
strip of land where ignorance reigns supreme, and the dual life is a
cherished commodity. The constant game playing, the refusal of
self, the denial of needs, the self-deprecating belief systems....
it's an unseemly drama of Faustian proportions. This is another
level of Dante's Inferno.

The sharpest knife is the doubly (or is it triply?) fake betrayal
of turning on one's own; that those who could have been the key
of one's release and joy, now become the target of one's bile
and vitriol, all while seeking the grace and mercies of the company
of those who hate us (yes, us!) most.

It is the bitterest of ironies that those super-stars of high achieve-
ment and cunning--who hide their own desires deep--ingratiate
themselves to the establishment which has the power to crush
us all. They rise to positions of power, where in turn they sell
out the rest of us in order to procure their own esteemed seat
of continued well-being.

Over-achievers, desperately seeking compensation and acceptance
for their perilously self-destructive efforts to fit in. Assimilation
and conformity do offer much, sense their attainment requires you
rid yourself of conscience and soul, anyway.

We truly have the power to be anything, in this day and age,
and still we gladly sit in darkness while we are the only ones
who hold the keys to our prison.

Is this what 40+ years of protest and defiance has led to?

Is this the best the evolution of queer men and women can hope for?

Please, somebody prove me wrong.

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