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A work in progress Gulf, Before and After A commentary on my earliest trip to the Gulf of Mexico Declaration of Independence ... The Cause ... Our cause is our youth
Make your voices heard. Don't let life happen to you. Create the life you want and change the world while you're at it. The movement is in the hands of the young and they won't be denied. Our straight friends and allies have stood up to be counted. Their voices are minimized by the powers that be, but their presence is monumental as we march toward a united nation of peace seeking brothers and sisters. There is no reason to hate anyone and the momentum is with us. Realize life isn't about stuff. It's about us, the people. If we want to be first class citizens, we need to work toward it. Resist the need for greed. Take seriously our challenges. Create the better gay nation we seek. Why be in a hurry to follow a belief in greed that's bankrupting a society too fond of war and too quick to hate. Hatred corrupts the heart. See the Middle East. Is that what we aspire to become? When AIDS struck, our government and society turned its back on 'the gay.' LGBT people united, figured out what needed to be done, made a plan, setting up free services to feed, cloth, house, and get medical attention for those in need. We didn't hesitate to take action. Society ignored AIDS for 5 years, content to watch gay men die. We took a massive deadly problem and tamed it, keeping it in manageable terms to allow as many of us to stay alive as possible. No, everyone wasn't saved, but without the LGBT nation, double or triple the number would have died. How heroic was that? Celebrate our past, present, our future. Give one day a month to help homeless gay kids survive. Devote a day's pay a month to create a better place to be for you and the rest of the gay nation. Renounce greed and embrace brotherhood. This will serve us all. You don't know how? Follow the young. They've just survived the most dangerous period in any gay person's life, when gay youth are killing themselves in record numbers. They are cruely handled because they are able to love in a society too fond of hatred and war. We can make suicide less likely if we give the young a vision of a gay nation that cares and is in touch with the love we share. Let society fight over who gets the last crumbs, as we take care of each other. We aren't merely a people. We are a movement. The movement will succeed when we refuse to be ignored. Tarheel Writer, Awesome Dude, Gay Authors, Author's Haunt, all figure into the many ways there are to be gay. I am a single writer, writing to tell you of things that are and of things that can be. Before we can succeed we must have some idea of who we are and of where we want to go. I do my best to give you a view of all the ways to be gay I know about. I'm one source among endless sources, all speaking of the many ways to be gay. Seek other writers out, search the identities for one closest to your own in a world that's at your fingertips. If none of the stories speak for you, write your own. Tell us how you feel. Each story is a milestone, making it more difficult to see us as anything but the beautiful creative diverse people we are. We have nothing to be ashamed of. The shame is in those who can't love and hate us because we can. They deserve our pity not our hate. Love & Peace Rick Beck
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