Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So every day, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.
Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So every day, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.
Yesterday, I was reorganizing some of my vinyl record collection when I came upon this album I bought as a young man...
And as I held this 40 year old album in my hands, I was transported back in time, not to 1984, but to the spring of 2007 when I played it for the beloved one on a lazy Sunday afternoon such as this one. It was in those days that we were both leaning into the early phases of getting to know one another and realizing that we had fallen in love.
Yesterday, almost unable to stop myself, I laid the record upon the turntable. I thought I wanted to hear a song from my youth and be reminded of that happy day with him that came so much later. But as I lifted the tone arm from its resting place my hand began to tremble with emotion, and I could not lay the needle into the groove... I realized almost too late that doing so would pierce my wounded heart yet again. And so, like my love for him, I returned the record to the sleeve, and the sleeve to the album cover and the album to the farthest corner of the lowest cabinet... it's still precious and dear to me... but also perhaps never to be seen by my eyes again, like him who it now reminds me of.
I am always remembering...
And my greatest fear is that I may not live long enough to forget.
Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So every day, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.
Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.
“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven’t. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”
Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So every day, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.
