Michael Loch posted in NKU Common Ground.
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Hey everyone! Thank you for watching "8: The Mormon Proposition" today! Some people were curious about the protest for marriage equality on Saturday morning. It starts at 11 a.m. on Fountain Square. The only place I know where you can park is a paid garage underneath the 5/3 Bank building. NKY Equality Now! will be a sponsor for this and I will be giving a speech as well as Chris Seelbach, the gay candidate for City Council. Our event page is Protest for Marriage Equality at Fountain Square. We will have an NKY Equality Now! Meeting tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in Student Union 302 to prepare for the protest, make signs, etc. in case anyone wants to join in on the sign making. Please come out and voice your demands for equality because it won't be achieved without a force driving it to reality! All of the local news stations will be there and CNN will most likely cover it as well!
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"Many people living with HIV in America today face a unique set of structural and lifestyle challenges, including, but not limited to: poverty, hunger, under- or unemployment, illiteracy, racism, discrimination, immigration issues, homelessness, stigma, previous or current incarceration, sexual or domestic violence, homophobia, substance use, criminalization, addiction, and childcare and mental health issues. Much of what we have learned about fighting HIV has to be reconsidered in light of who is contracting the virus today and why."
Quick; somebody Alert Cincy Chorus, Muse, 2012 World Choir Games, the "Sing Off" & Hometown Boy, Nick!
Quick; somebody Alert Cincy Chorus, Muse, 2012 World Choir Games, the "Sing Off" & Hometown Boy, Nick!
Just a couple days after Halloween, Mainstrasse Village is already decking the streets. Check out a couple photos, courtesy of Noah Kidd, owner of Noah's Art Salon:
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| The Goose Girl Fountain at 6th & Main Streets lit up for the holidays |
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| L-R: Kim Maius (Owner, Ottoman Imports), Kim Blank (Executive Director, MSVA) and Noah Kidd (Owner of Noah's Art Salon)  |
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is based on a talk Gay.net’s Editor in Chief, Rick Andreoli, delivered to the students of Sierra College in Rocklin, CA during their Pride Days event last week.
When we look at gay representation in media today, it looks as though LGBT equality is in our midst. We’ve got Kurt and Blaine on Glee, Rachel Maddow on CNN, Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars, and Adam Lambert selling albums. That’s huge. And yet this was also the year of “It Gets Better” videos, the series Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay. Its goal is to prevent suicide among LGBT youth by having adults convey the message that these teens' lives will improve.
Will they? Have things really gotten better for gays?
When we look at gay representation in media today, it looks as though LGBT equality is in our midst. We’ve got Kurt and Blaine on Glee, Rachel Maddow on CNN, Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars, and Adam Lambert selling albums. That’s huge. And yet this was also the year of “It Gets Better” videos, the series Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay. Its goal is to prevent suicide among LGBT youth by having adults convey the message that these teens' lives will improve.
Will they? Have things really gotten better for gays?
The South Bank HIVe
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
“A Life lived in Fear, Is a Life Half-Lived…”
"HIV is something you Live with every day for The Rest of your Life.
You may never die Of HIV/AIDS, but you will always die with It..."
The Michael W. Connett LIVING Trust
Those of y’all who have known me the longest understand my passion for My Mission. One of the things I’m Proud of is having established a Living Trust that has guided and supported my Life with HIV for the last ten years. I may not always succeed in my attempts to Educate about, Support and Advocate for My CommUNITY (as well as manage My HIVe’s Budget, LOL!); but I’ve done my best and haven’t given up. The People and Places through which My Journey has led me; have shared with, taught me and enriched it more than I can ever repay; Thanks Y’All.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." --Vaclav Havel
The South Bank HIVe Proudly extends an Invitation to join our grass-roots, CommUNITY-Based Network of people to demonstrate that speaking up about HIV and Aids is a point of pride, not a source of shame. –Our strength comes from the members we represent and the alliances we build with other progressive groups, individuals and organizations. We will approach our work by representing the interests of our members and will not engage in back room politics or power brokering that compromises these principles.
The South Bank HIVe adheres to the following principles: The politics of inclusion – We will have equal concern for oppression, stigma, discrimination and fear faced by all disenfranchised people, with a special emphasis on the working poor and those on a low fixed income. We believe that our work must focus on building a broad base of support for “Quality of Life” issues of social justice that includes, but is not limited to, issues important to our HIV community. This means that long term change is of greater significance than any single issue, campaign, or candidate and our educational and political efforts will reflect that priority. We will treat all members of our HIV community and Network with the same dignity and respect.
DEDICATION
When I Look To The Sky
When it rains it pours and opens doors
And floods the floors we thought would always keep us safe and dry
And in the midst of sailing ships we sink our lips into the ones we love
That have to say goodbye
And as I float along this ocean
I can feel you like a notion that won't seem to let me go
Cause when I look to the sky something tells me you're here with me
And you make everything alright
And when I feel like I'm lost something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here
And every word I didn't say that caught up in some busy day
And every dance on the kitchen floor we didn't dance before
And every sunset that we'll miss I'll wrap them all up in a kiss
And pick you up in all of this when I sail away
Whether I am up or down or in or out or just plane overhead
Instead it just feels like it is impossible to fly
But with you I can spread my wings
to see me over everything that life may send me
When I am hoping it won't pass me by
And when I feel like there is no one that will ever know me
there you are to show me
And floods the floors we thought would always keep us safe and dry
And in the midst of sailing ships we sink our lips into the ones we love
That have to say goodbye
And as I float along this ocean
I can feel you like a notion that won't seem to let me go
Cause when I look to the sky something tells me you're here with me
And you make everything alright
And when I feel like I'm lost something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here
And every word I didn't say that caught up in some busy day
And every dance on the kitchen floor we didn't dance before
And every sunset that we'll miss I'll wrap them all up in a kiss
And pick you up in all of this when I sail away
Whether I am up or down or in or out or just plane overhead
Instead it just feels like it is impossible to fly
But with you I can spread my wings
to see me over everything that life may send me
When I am hoping it won't pass me by
And when I feel like there is no one that will ever know me
there you are to show me
For Dora… Bambi, Sue Lee, Ryan, Matthew and ALL those who have gone before us and their time…
Dora's "Giving Tree of Life1"
- Advocacy:
- Education:
- Support:
- OutReach:
- Prevention & Pride
Friday November 4, 2011: 26 Days till December...
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