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New GLBTQQIA Community	[10 Aug 2008\|10:33pm]
FEEL FREE TO DELETE IF INAPPROPRIATE.Hi All!I just created a community at glbtq_disabled. It's for members of the GLBTQQIA community to make friends and discuss being gay as it relates to being disabled in any way, be it physical, mental, learning, etc. Anyone, gay or straight or anything in between, is welcome to check it out and join. Be sure to tell your friends!Thanks,Caitlin
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insight on coming out!! really important!	[28 Jul 2008\|04:20pm]
[ mood \| touched ] Hi Guys! I just watched the most important film I’ve watched all year called Coming Out Stories. Its a documentary made by Logo, the LGBT channel, and it follows several different people as they come out to the most important people in their lives. I was really glad I saw it and finally understood what my sister went through. I found the DVD for rental from this site - http://www.logoonline.com/netflix.
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insight on coming out!! really important!

[28 Jul 2008|04:20pm]

[ mood** | touched ] Hi Guys! I just watched the most important film I’ve watched all year called Coming Out Stories. Its a documentary made by Logo, the LGBT channel, and it follows several different people as they come out to the most important people in their lives. I was really glad I saw it and finally understood what my sister went through. I found the DVD for rental from this site - http://www.logoonline.com/netflix.**

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	[26 Jun 2008\|04:32pm]
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition is pleased to announce the release of its 2008 GENIUS Survey in partnership with Ernst & Young. GenderPAC works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow and succeed. The Gender Equality National Index for Universities & Schools (GENIUS), GenderPAC’s most recent effort to end discrimination and promote awareness, encourages colleges and universities to recognize the benefits of a GenderSAFEtm campus - supportive equitable and protective for all students. Choosing to participate in GENUIS sends a strong public statement that bullying or discriminating based on the race, sex or gender of a student, faculty, or staff member is not tolerated at your institution Fill out the survey at: www.gpac.org/GENIUS2008survey, and make sure that we have data for as many schools as possible. Your voice will help us continue to work towards a safe and welcoming environment for every student. While we greatly appreciate the interest taken in GENIUS by students, staff and faculty at academic institutions outside of the United States, at this time GENIUS is only able to track schools based in the United States.
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[26 Jun 2008|04:32pm]

The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition is pleased to announce the release of its 2008 GENIUS Survey in partnership with Ernst & Young. GenderPAC works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow and succeed. The Gender Equality National Index for Universities & Schools (GENIUS), GenderPAC’s most recent effort to end discrimination and promote awareness, encourages colleges and universities to recognize the benefits of a GenderSAFEtm campus - supportive equitable and protective for all students. Choosing to participate in GENUIS sends a strong public statement that bullying or discriminating based on the race, sex or gender of a student, faculty, or staff member is not tolerated at your institution Fill out the survey at: www.gpac.org/GENIUS2008survey, and make sure that we have data for as many schools as possible. Your voice will help us continue to work towards a safe and welcoming environment for every student. While we greatly appreciate the interest taken in GENIUS by students, staff and faculty at academic institutions outside of the United States, at this time GENIUS is only able to track schools based in the United States.

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Pretty Please?	[29 Apr 2008\|02:49am]
Just asking you to take this survey ... only take 10 minutes of your time.Click here to take the survey nowIt is for my term paper related to "homosexuality" for my Abnormal Psychology Online course.It is a multiple choice type of survey, and all of your results will be confidential. Please make sure that you read each statement carefully and be honest with your responses.Let me know if you have any questions, feedbacks or comments about it. :) Also, feel free to forward this to anyone who would be willing to take this survey.Many Thanks! Peace....
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Pretty Please?

[29 Apr 2008|02:49am]

Just asking you to take this survey ... only take 10 minutes of your time.Click here to take the survey nowIt is for my term paper related to "homosexuality" for my Abnormal Psychology Online course.It is a multiple choice type of survey, and all of your results will be confidential. Please make sure that you read each statement carefully and be honest with your responses.Let me know if you have any questions, feedbacks or comments about it. :) Also, feel free to forward this to anyone who would be willing to take this survey.Many Thanks! Peace....

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	[28 Apr 2008\|07:39pm]
In response to heat they're getting from the American Family Association, P&G is conducting a phone poll to see if people are for or against the Luke/Noah storyline on As The World Turns. Even if you don't watch the show, please consider taking a quick moment to support boy kissing and thwart homophobic bigotry. The poll is completely automated. You don't have to talk to anyone. And it really does take all of a second to register your opinion.Just call 1-800-331-3774 and press #2 to get to the ATWT poll, then press #1 to continue the storyline.Please spread the word if you're so inclined.
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[28 Apr 2008|07:39pm]

In response to heat they're getting from the American Family Association, P&G is conducting a phone poll to see if people are for or against the Luke/Noah storyline on As The World Turns. Even if you don't watch the show, please consider taking a quick moment to support boy kissing and thwart homophobic bigotry. The poll is completely automated. You don't have to talk to anyone. And it really does take all of a second to register your opinion.Just call 1-800-331-3774 and press #2 to get to the ATWT poll, then press #1 to continue the storyline.Please spread the word if you're so inclined.

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	[24 Apr 2007\|01:48am]
So I usually lurk in this community, but I made a video and would love for you guys to check it out- it features the idea of love without gender/sexual orientation constraints.
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	[17 Mar 2007\|01:02am]
Hey allI thought there might be some interest in my new community here...elegantagonyEver find yourself in a situation that's so perfect that it hurts? Ever find irony that makes the elegant degradation of your soul so much more bittersweet? Elegantagony is a place you may call home.elegantagonythanks!
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	[08 Mar 2007\|10:42pm]
Coming out is an intense and personal process that millions of people have gone through.Everyday people try to make the people around them understand their sexual and gender identities and orientations. Whether you are gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, a 6 on the Kinsey scale, a crossdressing female, a genderfucked lesbian, or a pansexual tap-dancing monkey I want to hear your story. Whether you have a story about coming out to friends or family, or a story about why you choose not to or can't, I want to hear it.I want you to bear your hearts to me, so I can bear them to the world.I'm working to compile hundreds of stories of coming out, so as to take a few and make monologues of them. These will then hopefully be combined into a performance theatre piece, along the lines of the vagina monologues.Let the world hear our stories :)You can send me your story, whether it be a few sentences or a few pages, to this post on livejournal (you do not need an account, you can simply post anonymously).Here is the link to that entry:http://gaysthenewblack.livejournal.com/103881.htmlAll comments are screened to ensure the privacy of posters.Any and all help is appreciated :)[If this is inappropriate just ask and I will delete it a.s.a.p.]
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[08 Mar 2007|10:42pm]

**Coming out is an intense and personal process that millions of people have gone through.**Everyday people try to make the people around them understand their sexual and gender identities and orientations. Whether you are gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, a 6 on the Kinsey scale, a crossdressing female, a genderfucked lesbian, or a pansexual tap-dancing monkey I want to hear your story. Whether you have a story about coming out to friends or family, or a story about why you choose not to or can't, I want to hear it.I want you to bear your hearts to me, so I can bear them to the world.I'm working to compile hundreds of stories of coming out, so as to take a few and make monologues of them. These will then hopefully be combined into a performance theatre piece, along the lines of the vagina monologues.Let the world hear our stories :)**You can send me your story, whether it be a few sentences or a few pages, to this post on livejournal (you do not need an account, you can simply post anonymously).**Here is the link to that entry:http://gaysthenewblack.livejournal.com/103881.htmlAll comments are screened to ensure the privacy of posters.Any and all help is appreciated :)[If this is inappropriate just ask and I will delete it a.s.a.p.]

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New Gay Fiction	[09 Mar 2007\|06:50am]
Hello, First off, I'm sorry if this is a duplicate message for you. I'm sending this to a few communities. There's a Live Journal that some members of this community may be interested in. The entries are from an unpublished Gay Fiction book. In order to get it published the story needed to be destroyed so rather than give in, I'm publishing it here for free. The first chapter is public and further chapters are friends only. Every weekday a few pages are posted. Right now its in the beginning of chapter 3. The journal is here losing_jason...and here's the story synopsis Jason and Garrett were best friends since before they could crawl. Born a few months apart to sets of parents, themselves best friends, their bond was unusually strong. Right before Jason's sixteenth birthday he was diagnosed with an inoperable cancer that wouldn't respond well to chemotherapy. Jason is given only a few months to live and he takes that time to live his entire life to the fullest, without fear, without trepidation but with a clock. Without Jason, Garrett’s world would fall apart and it does fall apart once he learns of Jason's illness. For years Jason held a secret love for Garrett and after learning of his death sentence, finally expresses that love to Garrett. Garrett also had feelings for Jason but buried them so deep he didn't realize they were there until Jason pulls them up to the surface all at once. Though they lament that they kept their shared secret hidden for so long, Garrett and Jason make the best of the short time they have left together as friends and lovers. Garrett begins to realize that he would soon have to face the world without Jason and at the same time face the world as a homosexual. Its Jason's wish to tell his family and friends about his feelings but he promised he would wait until Garrett was ready. Garrett struggles with coming out of the closet and, as opportunities come and go, Garrett lets each pass. Jason meanwhile with a clock ticking in his head grows impatient. As Jason's illness sets in Garrett avoids coming to terms with not only the closet but Jason's illness and he does all he can to hide from all if it. Garrett avoids the inevitable pain, real and imagined all while alienating everyone around him, most of all Jason.
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New Gay Fiction

[09 Mar 2007|06:50am]

Hello, First off, I'm sorry if this is a duplicate message for you. I'm sending this to a few communities. There's a Live Journal that some members of this community may be interested in. The entries are from an unpublished Gay Fiction book. In order to get it published the story needed to be destroyed so rather than give in, I'm publishing it here for free. The first chapter is public and further chapters are friends only. Every weekday a few pages are posted. Right now its in the beginning of chapter 3. The journal is here

losing_jason...and here's the story synopsis Jason and Garrett were best friends since before they could crawl. Born a few months apart to sets of parents, themselves best friends, their bond was unusually strong. Right before Jason's sixteenth birthday he was diagnosed with an inoperable cancer that wouldn't respond well to chemotherapy. Jason is given only a few months to live and he takes that time to live his entire life to the fullest, without fear, without trepidation but with a clock. Without Jason, Garrett’s world would fall apart and it does fall apart once he learns of Jason's illness. For years Jason held a secret love for Garrett and after learning of his death sentence, finally expresses that love to Garrett. Garrett also had feelings for Jason but buried them so deep he didn't realize they were there until Jason pulls them up to the surface all at once. Though they lament that they kept their shared secret hidden for so long, Garrett and Jason make the best of the short time they have left together as friends and lovers. Garrett begins to realize that he would soon have to face the world without Jason and at the same time face the world as a homosexual. Its Jason's wish to tell his family and friends about his feelings but he promised he would wait until Garrett was ready. Garrett struggles with coming out of the closet and, as opportunities come and go, Garrett lets each pass. Jason meanwhile with a clock ticking in his head grows impatient. As Jason's illness sets in Garrett avoids coming to terms with not only the closet but Jason's illness and he does all he can to hide from all if it. Garrett avoids the inevitable pain, real and imagined all while alienating everyone around him, most of all Jason.

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Your Contribution Can Make a Big Difference!	[14 Dec 2006\|01:53am]
[ mood \| grateful ] I'm posting here because I truly believe that together we can make a difference to the quality of our lives and the world around us!"No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind" - Napoleon Hill Our goals, intentions, desires, and dreams can manifest easily and gracefully through the alliance of two or more people joining together in the spirit of clarity, contribution, gratitude, joy and serenity. ( Read more Collapse )
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Your Contribution Can Make a Big Difference!

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grateful ] I'm posting here because I truly believe that together we can make a difference to the quality of our lives and the world around us!"No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind" - Napoleon Hill Our goals, intentions, desires, and dreams can manifest easily and gracefully through the alliance of two or more people joining together in the spirit of clarity, contribution, gratitude, joy and serenity. ( Read more Collapse )

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	[13 Aug 2006\|09:36pm]
Hi everyone...The name is JamesI am eighteen from New YorkI'm bisexual a little more gay than straight but just barely 4.5 on the klein gridI have a question about the gay community ...what ever exists and everything.I have been reading on some boards devoted to asperger's which I have that gays( used to describe all LGBT) are more tolerant of quirks/oddness/ and introversionI also read that the GLBT are more likely to have some form of mental illness.What does everyone think???Crossposted to some other places...
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[13 Aug 2006|09:36pm]

Hi everyone...The name is JamesI am eighteen from New YorkI'm bisexual a little more gay than straight but just barely 4.5 on the klein gridI have a question about the gay community ...what ever exists and everything.I have been reading on some boards devoted to asperger's which I have that gays( used to describe all LGBT) are more tolerant of quirks/oddness/ and introversionI also read that the GLBT are more likely to have some form of mental illness.What does everyone think???Crossposted to some other places...

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	[08 Aug 2006\|10:15pm]
[ mood \| verbose and pretentious ] Sometimes I wonder what I'm really looking for when ask "who am I?" In the jumbled pop-culture of postmodernism in which I was raised I find it easy to loose track of clear definitions, making the already difficult task of personal identity practically insurmountable. Homosexuality, I fear, has become a convenient placeholder for me; "I'm here, I'm queer, I'm choosing not to examine the existential implications of these statements." For awhile, being gay was enough, but when faced with the fundamental mysteries of my meaning, shouting "I'm gay" into the void of meaninglessness is even more futile than trying to explain to my Grandmother why I <3 cock. I guess what I'm saying is that my identity is more complicated then just any definition I could give to stave off the harsh words of those who claim I am mental invalid or curable sexual anomaly; that we homosexuals on the whole should not allow ourselves to define ourselves in a philosophically incomplete way simply because others with more complex (if slightly less coherent) epistemological systems declare our nonexistence (or define us in a way that is antithetical to our being). We must create a philosophic perspective that we can all feel is valid. Of course this is all just opinionated conjecture; what do I know?
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[08 Aug 2006|10:15pm]

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verbose and pretentious ] Sometimes I wonder what I'm really looking for when ask "who am I?" In the jumbled pop-culture of postmodernism in which I was raised I find it easy to loose track of clear definitions, making the already difficult task of personal identity practically insurmountable. Homosexuality, I fear, has become a convenient placeholder for me; "I'm here, I'm queer, I'm choosing not to examine the existential implications of these statements." For awhile, being gay was enough, but when faced with the fundamental mysteries of my meaning, shouting "I'm gay" into the void of meaninglessness is even more futile than trying to explain to my Grandmother why I <3 cock. I guess what I'm saying is that my identity is more complicated then just any definition I could give to stave off the harsh words of those who claim I am mental invalid or curable sexual anomaly; that we homosexuals on the whole should not allow ourselves to define ourselves in a philosophically incomplete way simply because others with more complex (if slightly less coherent) epistemological systems declare our nonexistence (or define us in a way that is antithetical to our being). We must create a philosophic perspective that we can all feel is valid. Of course this is all just opinionated conjecture; what do I know?

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	[16 Jul 2006\|10:48pm]
Im still not brave enough to come out, but ive come to a conclusion. The world needs us gay people. You see the world is becoming over populated. With more gay couples we can stop the "rapid" population growth and gay coupls can adopt children that nee homes, its that simple. Im starting to believe we were made the way we were for this bigger purpose.
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Happy_Gay_Life	[10 Jun 2006\|02:22am]
Hi, come and join a brand-new homo/bi friendly community: happy_gay_lifeThis is a community dedicated to building a positive homo/bi image by sharing joyful and uplifting experiences of being homo/bi. Ever wonder why there are so few homo/bi stories/movies with happy endings? I did. I figure out that it has to come from us. We've got to count our blessings and share these lovely moments with each other: the special moments that bring smiles to our faces, that make our hearts sing, that tickle us, that move us to tears of joy ... on a daily basis.Every time you share a line of joy, you're contributing to building a positive homo/bi image. Come! Join us and have some fun!
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Happy_Gay_Life

[10 Jun 2006|02:22am]

Hi, come and join a brand-new homo/bi friendly community:

happy_gay_lifeThis is a community dedicated to building a positive homo/bi image by sharing joyful and uplifting experiences of being homo/bi. Ever wonder why there are so few homo/bi stories/movies with happy endings? I did. I figure out that it has to come from us. We've got to count our blessings and share these lovely moments with each other: the special moments that bring smiles to our faces, that make our hearts sing, that tickle us, that move us to tears of joy ... on a daily basis.Every time you share a line of joy, you're contributing to building a positive homo/bi image. Come! Join us and have some fun!

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I Need Your Help!	[02 Apr 2006\|12:11pm]
My name is Erica Baltezore, and I am a graduate student in the counseling program at Humboldt State University. I am collecting data for my thesis, and I need your help. I am conducting a study that is examining parental relationships following disclosure of non-heterosexual orientation. If you are gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and you are at least 18 years of age, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete my questionnaire.You can complete this questionnaire online, and all the information and instructions will be given on the website. The website address is: http://www.humboldt.edu/~pssurvey/paq/.I would like to assure you that your information will be kept confidential and does not require you to identify yourself anywhere on the study. Thank you in advance for taking the time to assist me in collecting information for my thesis.Erica BaltezoreGraduate Student in Psychology
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I Need Your Help!

[02 Apr 2006|12:11pm]

My name is Erica Baltezore, and I am a graduate student in the counseling program at Humboldt State University. I am collecting data for my thesis, and I need your help. I am conducting a study that is examining parental relationships following disclosure of non-heterosexual orientation. If you are gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and you are at least 18 years of age, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete my questionnaire.You can complete this questionnaire online, and all the information and instructions will be given on the website. The website address is: http://www.humboldt.edu/~pssurvey/paq/.I would like to assure you that your information will be kept confidential and does not require you to identify yourself anywhere on the study. Thank you in advance for taking the time to assist me in collecting information for my thesis.Erica BaltezoreGraduate Student in Psychology

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