CNN Covers "Flexisexuality" (link to video)

Loved that fluidity was defended! 

Check out the video!
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/showbiz/2011/03/31/sbt.celebs.flexisexuality.hln.html

I'm in the US Census LGBT Outreach Campaign Video!

Look it was pretty hot in Dallas ok? Interestingly enough when I was in that FX Networks reality show, Black. White. I got caught on camera hellsa ASHY. Obviously, I need someone devoted to my moisture. Hmm...take that as you may!

happiness is self-motivated too

It felt powerful to speak, to agree with others that my life indeed had been a flaming horrible fucked up mess but I was better now, seemed stable and actually was. Enough to hold up a life, strong enough to carry a job; firm and rooted enough to want to. Still, wish I had said something louder and more often about my own dark times before I knew a person whose death was self motivated.

Kudos to whoever came up with that one, folks are like “We need a better name for suicide, how about self-motivated death?” What a good way to look committed in the end. To help us feel better perhaps, though as callous as it is to discuss a life lived and ended, suicide remains a self motivated act. It is a decision. Wrong or right, it's motivated by a self. Today, we had a good LA Bi Center event and took a moment to light some candles in front of a picture of T, a valued member who killed himself almost 2 weeks ago. Only a few weeks after we had planned today’s party with him taking the notes, even though he said he wouldn’t be making the event. T ‘s minutes usually got emailed after our meetings, and we forgot who was supposed to do what, or bring what and it was kind of funny because we'd been so focused on operating tactics and leadership, the seemingly "important" stuff. Then T was dead and there were no minutes, written or otherwise from him.

Today we planned a bit for the upcoming year, after taking a moment to pass around literature about mental health/suicide resources and share a bit. I felt a powerful grace being able to share the utter despair I had seen and blinked furious tears past. How come I forgot to talk more targeted and specific, how come I’ve not been writing the sad and only focusing on the funny, why did I not ever aim for both? Even the Wii agrees, my balance sucks. I wish I had said something more to the weird funny guy who always seemed out of place with the out of placers. The guy who brought me a bumper sticker, “Sorry I missed church I was practicing Witchcraft and becoming a Lesbian!” The guy whose stories I looked forward to, a person I hoped to get to know better. But not so much.

As we met and mixed this rainy afternoon, the candles burned the wax down. Then the candles lit afire and I smiled and giggled at the flames. Turns out you don’t toss water on a candle fire! After the smoke, coughing and giant ball of fire, we were exhilarated and so excited, TO BE ALIVE. And...I could swear I heard T’s lil belly laugh that was one part snarky and one part adorable. Candles out and his framed photo remained pristine, a snapshot in front of ancient ruins on a recent trip where he had told me...”I was so happy there, it changed my life and now I am so happy; I just want to be there all the time but I can't”. At the time I felt selfish for not wanting him to move, 'cause I thought he was really cool and quite frankly the most enjoyable member of the LA Bisexual community...so I just went, “Well, it's always nice to have a favorite place to visit right”? Unfortunately, you just can't visit suicide.

Packing?
National Hopeline Network (U.S.A.) - http://www.hopeline.com - 1-800-SUICIDE
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network – http://www.rainn.org - 1-800-656-HOPE
Source: To Write Love On Her Arms, http://www.twloha.com/

Tom Dekker from Sarah Connor Chronicles and the new Nightmare on Elm Street, Such A Nice Guy!

Walking by the best music shop in the world, Hollywood. Tall, lanky boy comes our wearing the best eff me boots I've seen since Comic Con. He smiles at his DVD at puts his RPatz like sunglasses on. We share a stop light as the walk continues and I grin at him, thinking, dude you are effin FINE. Then I blush because it's John Connor folks, and it's the young John Connor -- gawd, I'm turning into such a damn cougar in the making.

I ask for a photo and he agrees, takes a 2nd one just to make sure it's good. He says he's in the new Nightmare on Elm Street and Jackie Earl Haley is amazing, it's a must see. Nice guys in Hollywood, fo real.

P.S.
He's taller than me, perhaps just under 6 feet.

Read my article on HRC's website!

In 2004, Diane Finnerty, co-director of the Raíces (Roots) project at the University of Iowa wrote an open letter beseeching her white Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender sisters and brothers to recognize the danger of being “enlisted knowingly or unknowingly in [a] racist agenda.” Finnerty advocated against making “statements that diminish the impact of racism” like “I’m surprised that you, as a person of color, wouldn’t understand this is a civil rights issue.” While marriage equality has become a dominating issue for LGBT Americans, according to the Human Rights Campaign’s new study, “At The Intersection: Race, Sexuality and Gender,” LGBT people of color still experience more discrimination due to race than because of sexual orientation. Shedding light on everyday experiences of LGBT people of color, “At the Intersection” exposes a collective truth outside of just anecdotal evidence while suggesting key talking points for discussing social justice across lines we have too long used to define.

- Read the rest on the Human Rights Campaign website, http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2009/08/equality-forward-faith-cheltenham/

Faith Performing @ UCLA, 5/22/09 7-10pm

Outloud is a celebration. An intoxicating night of antics and hijinks, boisterous humor, erotic turbulations, and nostalgic ramifications. We pay homage to those who fought for our rights through a collective expression of dissenting gender,sexualities and opinions!

Come explore the mind fuck, gender queer, ferocious attitude of the queer community.

Scheduled performances:
Drag Kings
Tahitian inspirations.
Queer minded films
Loquacious Speakers.
QueerLesque
Comical Divos
Interpretive dancers.
Live music
AND MUCH MORE!

AND FAITH IS MC!

DIRECTIONS

UCLA De Neve Auditorium
351 Charles E Young Dr W
Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Parking for De Neve Auditorium:
Go to the parking and information kiosk on Westwood Blvd, near its intersection with Strathmore Ave (near the Ackerman turnaround). Purchase a parking pass there. I think it's $9 for the whole day, so you can come in and out. You might be able to park by the hour, but I'm not sure. Tell the folks there you want to park in Lot DD (Dykstra/De Neve).
Drive up Strathmore, under the tunnel and away from the campus. Make a right at the first light (Charles E Young Dr W) and at the first light make a left. Drive past the building that says DE NEVE and the DD parking lot/structure will be on your right.

Directions to De Neve Auditorium:
Once you leave the parking lot, walk into the building that says DE NEVE across the top. There will be friendly people at the front desk to answer any questions you have. You'll see a flight of stairs in front of you. Walk up the stairs, and you'll be directly in front of DE NEVE AUDITORIUM.