Hatred In God’s Name

Seeing it felt like a blow to my gut. My eyes immediately stung with tears, the kind that grip the corners of my eyes, refusing to fall. I came across it while researching the Internet for information on Matthew Shepard. There wavering on my screen was an image of Matthew Shepard’s disembodied face frozen in a sad expression engulfed in animated flames. The words jumped off my monitor: “Matthew Shepard has been in hell for 838 days. Eternity — 838 days = Eternity.”... Read More

Sally Ride And The Glass Closet: Did She Break It Soon Enough?

Shattering Ceilings, Even In Death In the past week, a quiet announcement of an astronaut’s death brought the world a first: Sally Ride, once lauded as the first American woman in space, has also been illuminated in her obituary as the first astronaut to have been publicly outed as having a same-sex relationship. Read More  Read More

Transparency

People often congratulate me regarding my willingness to live my life as openly as I do.  I was (marginally) in the closet at the workplace when I served in the military, and ever since my discharge I have sworn to be painfully honest about who Ian Awesome really is.  Whether it’s my experience being poz or my understanding of life as seen through the eyes of a meth addict, I have been as transparent as possible. The reasons for this are multiple.  The first and loftiest... Read More

I *heart* Portia De Rossi even more now

h/t to Towleroad.  Watch Portia De Rossi talk about her coming-out process on Oprah.   Read More  Read More

"It Get's Better."

My dad found out I was gay when I was thirteen. Read More  Read More