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Today Is: National Coming Out Day

“Coming Out Day is rooted in the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights with its AIDS Quilt display. That event is widely regarded as pivotal for the gay community, bringing together and politicizing lesbian and gay men and turning the tide on treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS. Rob Eichberg [...]

Rebuilding Hope

It is so easy to get lost in all that is wrong in the world. There is so much work to be done that it can be absolutely overwhelming. It can also be easy to give up and sink into the “What can one person do?” trap. The problem is this thinking creates a self [...]

Activist Guilt

admittedly i feel relatively new to activism. for many reasons that i will not go into in this blog post i was seriously burnt out on taking an active community role which included significant baggage in the shape of fear that reengaging would bring me back to a place where my activism would consume my [...]

Dan Savage at Sam Adams Rally

I wanted to be there, but had another engagement. I am so proud of Portland for showing up in numbers to say, “it is nobodies damn business what we do in our bedrooms.” My favorite part of this video is where Dan Savage states that for most of us if our deepest darkest secrets were [...]

Hell Yes . . .

seriously, watch the whole thing. there is a sweet political message at the end

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