social acceptance

One of the things I simultaneously hate the most and love the best about the gay community (or the homosexual community or the LGBTQ community or whatever the hell is PC these days) is their eternal obsession with getting people to be proud of who they are. This may seem like an awesome thing at first, because who doesn't want their friends to be able to be happy and proud of who they are? I've seen too many people who were run down and depressed because they couldn't reconcile who they knew they were with who society told them it was okay to be.

But on the other hand, there are people like me, who preach the doctrine but then feel like a hypocrite when it's time to apply it to my own personal life. I don't like the gay community's eternal obsession with coming out because I'm still not out to the most important people in my life - my family.  Read More »

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"Testify to Love" by Avalon

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"Sweet Sacrifice" by Evanescence  Read More »

Some think that depression and hurt doesn't reach the prosperous, those with unbroken families, those with good grades, those with a significant other... but depression doesn't discriminate. It can attack anyone of any standing at any time. Take a stroll by a junior high sometime... a high school.  Read More »

One of the questions I am most often asked on the campus of the University of South Florida: "What are you?"  Read More »

Amoral. Unethical. Troublesome. I don't usually talk to people about polygamy/gyny/andry/amory, since it tends to draw up pictures of Warren Jeffs and child rape. But I've talked to my parents and my boyfriend about it and neither of them mind that I would want to experiment in polyamory, except no one else wants to experiment. So I just kinda of sit on it and twiddle my thumbs like a silly face.  Read More »