September's Children

September's Children is the name currently given to several young men who committed suicide last September because of anti-gay bullying.

The youngest of these was Seth Walsh, 13. He was bullied relentlessly by fellow students who continously called him a fag, a queer, a homo. He tried to commit suicide by hanging in his backyard. The attempt was unsuccessful and he was discovered. However, enough damage had been done that he lived just 9 days on life support, before finally passing away.

Another was Tyler Clementi, 18. He jumped from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and another "hallmate" at his school released two videos of him in sexual encounters with other men. His body was found a week later.

Billy Lucas, 15, also committed suicide because of anti-gay bullying at his school. He hung himself in his family's barn in Indiana. He had been told that he was nothing and that he should just kill himself.

There are many, too many, young men and women who have been lost to us because they were Homosexual or Bisexual or Transgendered and were bullied. Or bashed. Not all of them have been lost to suicide. Some have been lost to murder or have simply disappeared.

How many children and young adults must turn to suicide before something is done to help? How many of our future leaders, doctors, scientists, actors and liberators have to die before their time for us to realize that we have a real problem?

And who is teaching our children to hate? Who is showing them that violence is the right thing to do? Adults who have no respect for life, who are prejudiced and full of venom. Adults who claim that homosexuals who get married is what will destroy the constitution of marriage. And those same adults who say that are marrying and divorcing and fucking around with people that they aren't married to. But somehow, homosexuality is going to destroy the institution of marriage! Christians, like Pat Robertson, who speak for intolerance and practically preach murder when they speak of homosexuality.

How are they supposed to learn any different? Hate is taught. Hate is learned. We do not come into this world with hate, though we leave this world with it raging through our veins.

In honor of all those who have died during the struggle to be counted as equals.

A Cherry Red Lipstick Kiss

This is a short film written and directed by a friend of mine who goes to school at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. I know I am a little biased, because he is my friend, but this video is truly one of the best student made short films I've ever seen! And I am so happy to present it you today!

It is an interesting twist on the abusive relationship and how far is too far. Often we don't think about abusive relationships in shades of gray. We think of them in black and white, they are wrong. Plain and simple. But Elijah takes things to a whole new level, twisting what is usually so clear into something not so clear.

I am pleased to present, "Cherry Red Lipstick".

What About My Dreams?

This is a song that my friend Phil (THANK YOU!) posted on Facebook specifically for moi and it made me smile!! It is from this year's Eurovision (Yes, I kind of follow it through Phil, because he is addicted :D ) Contest and the lady singing (Kati Wolf) is representing Hungary!

I used to be in a bad relationship where it was kind of a similar thing, I was giving up all my dreams for a guy who didn't care about them. He didn't care that I wanted to have my wedding colors be red, black and white. He wanted them white, black and purple. He didn't care that I wanted to travel the world. He wanted us to get married and never leave where we were, just have children and grow old and die. He didn't care about my dreams.

So, for those of you who are giving up dreams of yours for someone who doesn't care at all, let go. And listen to this song!

World Religion

I was thinking yesterday that I really wanted to try different world religions, just because I think it would be interesting and I feel like I would learn a lot.

I thought I might start off with Catholicism, because it is closest to what I already know, having been a Non-Denominational/Protestant Christian for a long time. I also thought it might be interesting to try to follow the various rules of that religion for a year. I could write blogs about my year as a Catholic, or my year as a Muslim, or my year as a Buddhist. Doesn't that sound interesting?

Of course it is all an effort to learn more about religion in general and to find out more about myself. For example, what do I believe? What do I disbelieve? All in the name of learning and exploration.

Even though I think I would like to follow one religion for a year, I think that might be too difficult to do, depending on the strictness of the religion. For example, if I was to decide to be Muslim (or Hindi) for a year, I would want to follow the strict dress code, as well as the dietary rules and so on.

I'd have to really prepare for those changes and not go into this half-cocked. Shooting from the hip just sounds like a bad idea when it comes to religion.

I think the only "religion" I couldn't do would be Scientology. I apologize to any Scientologists who may stumble across this blog, but I just can't believe in aliens or L. Ron Hubbard, for that matter. Just not something I think I could do for a year. A week, maybe, before I laughed myself to death.

All for now, I'm going to ponder this a little more and see what happens!

Extraterrestrial

I saw the music video for "E.T." by Katy Perry (the version feat. Kanye West, which he sucked, but what do you expect? However, I have to respect someone who interrupts no talent Taylor Swift. End of tangent). It kind of, sort of, blew my fucking mind. I loved it! Of course, the Albino African-American man with the gorgeous ass kind of cinched it for me. He had a really nice ass, just sayin'!

Anyway, Katy transforms into four different "extraterrestrials", and ressurects Mr. Albinism Hotness in this video. One thing I really enjoyed was her eyes, they were constantly changing and she really did look alien. Of course, kudos, as always, to Katy Perry for coming up with something exotic, fun to listen to (fun to dance to as well!) and thought provoking.

For those who are curious as to who Mr. Albinism Hotness is, his name is Shaun Ross and he is a model, part time actor and amateur dancer. He is on Twitter for those of you who actually enjoy that. If you would like to learn more about him you can go to Wikipedia, just type in his name and you should be able to find him. Not that Wiki is always correct, but its a good place to start.

Now, is he not one of the most gorgeous men you've ever seen? Or am I the only one?


Of course, he looks even better as he is about to kiss Katy Perry (as alien #4)


And while we're on the topic of Katy Perry as an alien, doesn't she look spectacular here?


Okay, now that I have teased you with a few pictures from the video, here is "E.T." by Katy Perry feat. Kanye (you kind of suck) West.