Ever since that young woman with pigtails and ruby slippers clicked her heels and uttered those five magic words “There’s no place like home”, we as a community have been obsessed with the idea of finding ours… All right maybe not the whole community… Some of us… Alright, me… I have been obsessed with the […]
Millions of LGBT men and women never got the chance to stand in front of their peers, or their families for that matter, and profess their love publicly…
The picture you’re looking was sent to me by a friend back east… It’s me in my junior year of high school way back in 1979 (I was 16). Now, after the initial shock of the hairdo wore off, there I was, all of a sudden, being bitch-slapped by a flood of emotions caused by […]
There are certain goodbyes that, regardless of how prepared we think we are, push us to the point of breaking… It’s as as if a hole the size of the Grand Canyon has been ripped into our souls… Grief comes in waves and at times we feel like drowning would be a welcome relief from […]
Birthdays are an interesting animal. Unlike most, I don’t dread the day (I live in LA), I actually rather enjoy it. In fact, the older I get the more I enjoy them… And it’s not because of the “party” aspect either (truth be told, I much prefer celebrating someone else’s birthday)… It’s because of the […]
I believe most of us have lived a moment (for some, self included, probably more like moments… Many, many moments.) where life becomes a bit painful. And, if we are grown-up enough, we can admit to ourselves that our pain is completely self-induced. And I say that because some of us have the propensity to […]
I have been profoundly struck by the rise in hate-motivated assaults directed at the LGBT Community over the past months. In fact, I was in the middle of a rant filled post about the blind ignorance of some of the people in this world… You know type. The ones who are so filled with self-loathing […]
I think we can agree that we’ve all experienced pain and that there were circumstances in our childhood that caused emotional trauma, which as adults, we learn to heal from, and move on in spite of (hopefully). Dysfunctional home life and bulling just to name a few… But the older I get the more I […]
I have spent a great deal of my life feeling as if I don’t belong… And for some strange reason the older I get the stronger that feeling, at times, can become… I’m not a big drinker (and in all honesty, drunk people tend to get on my nerves). I don’t do drugs (although in […]
Why are so many of us so hesitant to utter this four letter word? Is it because we believe it shows weakness? Or because we are stubborn and believe we can do everything ourselves? Or maybe it’s because we don’t want to feel beholden to someone else? Whatever the reason, one thing is for sure… […]
There is no greater gift than that of a friend’s trust. Cherish it with everything you are. Michael Foley