"Just In Case You Missed It..."

The last week saw many events I would have covered here except for my brief hiatus...

American Poetess, Dr. Maya Angelou, whose iconic work, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" died May 28th...  The celebrated poet and author was world renowned as one of her generation's most insightful thinkers.

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Time Magazine announces the "Transgender Tipping Point" as Laverne Cox, star of the Netflix original series "Orange Is The New Black" will grace the cover of the June 9th newsstand edition of the iconic magazine.

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UK soul singer, Sam Smith comes out after releasing a same-gender-loving video for his latest work, "Leave Your Lover."  This followed on the heels of considerable discussion about his typically gender-neutral love songs.  

In an interview with the UK's Fader Magazine, he said: “the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn’t love me back.

“I think I’m over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn’t felt love before.

“I told him about it recently, and obviously it was never going to go the way I wanted it to go, because he doesn’t love me. But it was good as a form of closure, to get it off my chest and tell him.

“I am comfortable with myself, and my life is amazing in that respect.

“I’m very comfortable and happy with everything. I just wanted to talk about him and have it out there.

“It’s about a guy and that’s what I wanted people to know – I want to be clear that that’s what it’s about.

“I want to make it a normality because this is a non-issue. People wouldn’t ask a straight person these questions.

“I’ve tried to be clever with this album, because it’s also important to me that my music reaches everybody. 

I’ve made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody – whether it’s a guy, a female or a goat—and everybody can relate to that.

“I’m not in this industry to talk about my personal life unless it’s in a musical form.”

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"Fear Eats the Soul"