I fight for LGBT rights. I also believe strongly in racial equality, gender equality, and basically the equality of all people. I think that we are founded upon a simple idea based on French Humanist thought: that we are ALL created equal. Two-hundred plus years after that idea was made a main foundation-stone of our national identity -- why ( Read more... )

It has been an interesting summer for me. I feel like I have grown a lot in this last month or so, and anticipate the growth to continue throughout the summer. I have no idea where it will take me, or what I will be when it ends, but I am enjoying the ride so far ( Read more... )

This last weekend I went to my local Pride celebration. For me that weekend is always one that I look forward to all year and that leaves me glowing for weeks after I come back to my mundane world ( Read more... )

I am writing this sitting in my room in a hotel in Chicago. Why am I here? Kind of a strange place to find myself, especially in my situation ( Read more... )

Behind Those Eyes ( Read more... )

I just wish ( Read more... )

Last night I went walking ( Read more... )

The other day I was at my favourite coffee shop sitting with a friend and talking over a cup of coffee. We were outside enjoying the beautiful spring weather and the courtyard of the coffee shop was full of the young and the old, the usual eclectic crowd found in midtown Sacramento ( Read more... )

I am going to broach a difficult subject. It's as difficult to write as it is to read I'm sure, but it seems it needs to be addressed. The issue is suicide in the transgender community ( Read more... )

Yesterday at 6.30 I received the phone call that my father had died. What followed for me was a complicated blend of emotions that I couldn't process right away. So, as there was a bar-b-que and party at our complex that night, I proceeded to imbibe to the point where I ended up face-down passed-out on my living room carpet ( Read more... )