The Immorality of the Death Penalty at Home and Abroad
The death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment because it is state sanctioned murder that is immoral simply for that reason. When the state takes the life of a human being for a crime they...
View ArticleGoodbye My Homeland: Immigration From Persecution
The issue of immigration has been a focal point for both Liberals and Conservatives in the United States. Liberals tend to argue that immigration is a positive force we should welcome because it...
View ArticleA History All Our Own: Knowledge Out of the Closet
As a young Gay man there is one thing that deeply troubled me through out my academic career. Often in classes we learned about civil rights heroes of previous movements around the world. We learned...
View Article1,318 Reasons to Stop Uganda
The notion of marrying the man or woman you love and spending the rest of your lives together is a dream shared by many people in the United States and around the world. Civil Marriage as a right...
View ArticleIndifference: The Absence of Empathy to Suffering and Discrimination
Planet earth is a vast stage upon which a diversity of people acts out the scenes of our lives on a daily basis. This diversity sometimes becomes a focal point for intense distrust, animosity, and...
View ArticleMarriage Equality in 2010: Vote in NJ Senate
This past year was highly emotional regarding the issue of Marriage Equality for same-sex couples. We won victories in states through the state legislatures of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The...
View ArticleBreaking: Portugal's Parliament Passes Marriage Equality
Marriage Equality has become a point of contention for the LGBT community across the globe. As we attempt to attain the dignity, equality, and protections under the law still denied to us in most...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Campaigns: The Toll on Human Life
Since 2004 during the Bush-Kerry campaign the United States of America has watched a host of marriage bans enacted by voters in various states across the country from Ohio to Florida. It is this period...
View ArticleLGBT Rights: New Decade, Same Struggle
Over the past year the emotional turmoil LGBT people have gone through has been very intense. There has been the individual state victories and losses of marriage equality as well as the first federal...
View ArticleOpening the Closet Door
It was not too long ago that I made the personal decision to come out to my family as a Gay person. In fact, it was a process that took quite a while, but it made a profoundly positive difference in my...
View ArticleThe Cost of a Gay Rainbow Cake
We should fast forward to a few months from now when the politicians on both the right and the left will be campaigning for votes. It will be compelling to hear the Democrats make the pitch to the LGBT...
View ArticleBreaking: President Silva Ratifying Marriage Bill
This is going to be a short yet sweet diary. The conversation about marriage equality is ongoing in the United States. With the existence of DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) it proves that we have a ways...
View ArticleFrom Hope to Reality: 2010 Midterms
At 21 years old I walked into the voting booth back in 2008 to cast my first vote for President. After 8 years of the Bush administration's failure on a lot of fronts I was energized to vote for a...
View ArticleDying to Be Thin: Scale of Self-Worth
Intense coldness is an uncomfortable feeling for humanity due to the absence of a normal body temperature. There were nights that required me to wear a heating pad as if it were an extension of my...
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