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WORDS TO LIVE BY

The Good 'ol Days

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

―Theodore Roosevelt

WORLD PRIDE

Decided to do a reading for Pride with my animal cards and got a very interesting message I wanted to share...

"Eagle soars high enough to see the grand panorama of life,and yet has vision keen enough to spot a fish a mile away. How's your vision? Are you seeing the big picture or have you gotten so lost in the trees you've forgotten the forest. Eagle is asking you to take a step back so you can once again see the whole."

What this meant to me is that we may not share the same blood, but we are all held to this Earth by the same gravity and the Air that keeps us alive. In all of our distinct colours and individual cultures, we are united under the same light of the Sun.

Words for the day

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

―Eckhart Tolle

One for the team

I was reminded of an incident today that happened while I was an assistant manager at Walmart.
One of my coworkers, an older gentleman that worked in the sporting goods department, wanted to know if he could ask me a personal question. I agreed.
He said, "So...are you really queer?"
I replied, "O yeah! Queerer than a $2 bill."
Looking confused, he said, "You mean a $3 bill."
I said, "No. I mean a $2 bill."
Quickly coming back, he said, "But you can find a $2 bill almost anywhere."
I said, "Exactly!", and walked away.

Crafty Queer

Wanted a different look for the summer, so I made myself a fitted bedspread and shams. Kinda diggin it. ;-P

MOM

“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”

― Robert Brault

IMPORTANT MSG FOR ALL!

“Don't be too hard on yourself. There are plenty of people willing to do that for you. Do your best and surrender the rest. Tell yourself, "I am doing the best I can with what I have in this moment. That is all I can ever expect of anyone, including me." Love yourself and be proud of everything you do, even your mistakes, because your mistakes mean you're trying.

If you feel like others are not treating you with love and respect, check your price tag. Perhaps you subconsciously marked yourself down. Because it's YOU who tells others what you're worth by showing them what you are willing to accept for your time and attention. So get off the clearance rack. If you don't value and respect yourself, wholeheartedly, no one else will either.”

ASK THE BIG QUESTIONS!

The BIG question for 2014!!?? We are always hearing about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money? What's interesting, the first group worked and paid for their money... the second didn't!!

LOVED

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. ~Taylor Caldwell

Xmas Eve Delusions

CHRISTMAS QUOTE

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~Andy Rooney

Gonna be a long night!

In this season of barren woodlands and naked branches upraised to grey-veiled sky,
family...chosen and born...provide the warmth of color and heart.

Happy Solstice!

Latter Gays!

Yay! I want the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to sing my wedding march.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4482703/

4 & 20 Blackbirds Fall from the Sky!

OMG!  You have to watch this video.  This has got to be some of the most ridiculous news I've seen in awhile.  It reminds me of all the Jack Van Impe end-times crap my mom used to make me watch.  It amazes me that this 21st century world still has time for this kind of medieval superstitious rambling.  Tell me, Cindy...do you suppose global warming is an answer to the antagonistic and frostbitten hearts of you and your sheeple?
btw...I'm surprised that 500 leopards didn't fall dead from envy after seeing that Wilma Flinstone ensemble.

You can read the transcript of the video here.
4 & 20 blackbirds fall from the sky!

3 o'clock High

I was reading this article this morning, and it brought back some memories.  It's amazing how this kind of subtle hate can gauge popular mindset.
Read through the article and then see if you agree...
It reminds me of high school, with the Republicans as the preps and jocks and the Democrats as the band geeks and artsy theater kids.  We all know that kids can be cruel.  As gay people, we've heard that statement incessantly.  What alot of people fail to see is the motivation behind those hateful comments.  Most likely, it was either to establish or maintain popularity.  Making derogatory remarks strikes something in our funny bone...ask any successful comedian.  It also provides something to rally behind, allbeit a bad cause.
What I'm trying to say is that the modern political climate seems to be nothing more than a high school popularity contest.  What alot of people don't realize is that as gay adults, we are not as easily isolated as we were in high school.  We really are everywhere.  We are the jocks, the preps, the band geeks, the artsy theater kids.  Beware the Revenge of the Nerds scenario, America, and find a cause with some worth and value to everyone.  This Trojan Horse has opened and released its gay soldiers in your midst, and they are poised to fly their rainbow banners from shore to shore.
To close, someone at work once asked me if I was gay.  I replied, "O yeah!  Queerer than a two dollar bill."  He said, "Don't you mean a three dollar bill?  You can find a two dollar bill anywhere."  As I was leaving, I turned and said, "Exactly."

Namaste, my friends.

For The Emo Gays...

Wow!  We're now a commodity!  Tee-Hee.


Gay Coffins


I think my favorite passage from this article had to be:  "We believe you should be able to have a coffin that lets you embark on your last journey in a way that reflects how you lived your life," said undertaker Thomas Brandl.


Honey!  We all wish we we got to spend our gay years in the perpetual presence of naked, young men!  I ain't sayin nothin...I'm just sayin.

Brain-Fart! WTF

Acceptance? Really, Mary?  Jeebus!  How much longer will it take for you people to figure this out?!

Listen very carefully, dear folks.  I'm going to try and put this as simply as possible.  Acceptance and familial attitudes are going to decrease harmful behavior in your children, regardless of whether they are gay, straight, bisexual, transgender or still figuring it out.  If a child knows that they are loved and are encouraged to express themselves in whatever positive way they choose, you are providing a supportive environment.  Good parenting, people...it starts with you.  Namaste.

Study finds that family acceptance could save LGBT youths

By Brooke Johnson, 365gay.com
12.06.2010 11:00am EST

For the very first time, researchers have established a clear link between accepting familial attitudes and behaviors toward their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children and a significantly decreased risk and better overall health in adulthood.

The California Endowment funded study, “Family Acceptance in Adolescence and the Health of LGBT Young Adults,” is published in theJournal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing and has successfully explored a world of study that no other researcher has yet pursued.

The study, authored by Dr. Caitlin Ryan and her team from the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University, has critical implications for changing how families relate to their LGBT children and how LGBT youth are served by a wide range of providers across disciplines and systems of care, including custodial care systems such as foster care.

The study shows that specific parental and caregiver behaviors – likestanding up for their children when they are mistreated because of their LGBT identity or supporting their gender expression – help to prevent depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in early adulthood.

In addition, LGBT youth with highly accepting families have shown significantly higher levels of self-esteem and social support in young adulthood.

“At a time when the media and families are becoming acutely aware of the risk that many LGBT youth experience, our findings that family acceptance protects against suicidal thoughts and behaviors, depression and substance abuse offer a gateway to hope for LGBT youth and families that struggle with how to balance deeply held religious and personal values with love for their LGBT children,” said Dr. Caitlin Ryan, PhD, Director of the Family Acceptance Project.

“Times have changed,” said Stephen Russell, PhD, President Elect of the Society for Research on Adolescence and a consultant to the Family Acceptance Project.

“More and more families want to be accepting of their children. Yet, many families still struggle when a child comes out as LGBT. It’s essential to have research like this to deeply understand the ways that families show their acceptance, so that we can identify how to support families,” he said.

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Ryan and her team at the Family Acceptance Project are currently developing a new evidence-based family model of wellness, prevention and care for LGBT adolescents. This model uses a behavioral approach to help ethnically and religiously diverse families decrease rejection behaviors and increase support for their LGBT children–reducing the risk for suicide, depression, substance abuse, homelessness and placement in custodial care and HIV.

This systems-level approach helps communities and providers to engage diverse families as allies in decreasing their LGBT children’s risk, increasing their well-being and while respecting the family’s deeply held values. This work is being conducted in English, Spanish and Chinese with families from all ethnic backgrounds, including immigrant and very low income families, and out-of-home children (those in foster care or juvenile justice facilities).

The existing approach to serving LGBT adolescents by pediatricians, nurses, social workers, school counselors and others has focused almost exclusively on serving LGBT youth alone and through peer support, rather than in the context of their families.

The current approach has not considered the impact of family reactions on the adolescent’s health and well-being, which, as this study shows, is proven to be a crucial element in an effective evaluation and treatment.

In addition to providing direct services for families with LGBT children and working with communities in the U.S., the Family Acceptance Project is collaborating with organizations, providers, advocates and families to develop an international movement of familial acceptance to promote wellness and healthy futures for LGBT children, youth and young adults.

Major Research Findings:

·Family accepting behaviors towards LGBT youth during adolescence protect against suicide, depression and substance abuse.

·LGBT young adults who reported high levels of family acceptance during adolescence had significantly higher levels of self-esteem, social support and general health, compared to peers with low levels of family acceptance.

·LGBT young adults who reported low levels of family rejection during adolescence were over three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts and to report suicide attempts, compared to those with high levels of family acceptance.

·High religious involvement in families was strongly associated with low acceptance of LGBT children.

Today's Funny

This was on the bathroom wall in one of the more illustrious gay bars in Pgh. I thought it was hysterical. It's kinda hard to read, but it says:

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$.50

with lipstick

$.75

with teeth marks

$1.00

without teeth

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