Feb 28, 2014

¨OUT MAN¨ JASON COLLINS WEARS #98: Our hero, a LGBTI hero who honors the memory of our Episcopalian brother Matthew Sheppard!

DENVER — Jason Collins had plenty of gifts for Matthew Shepard’s parents: a basket, a blowout, an autographed No. 98 jersey that he wears in honor of their son.

They also shared some laughs.

Collins played the final eight minutes of the Brooklyn Nets’ 112-89 romp over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night, and although his three points and four fouls weren’t much to look at in the boxscore, rarely has the 35-year-old center been this proud of a performance.

David Zalubowski, AP
Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins acknowledges the cheers from his teammates after Collins hit a basket against the Denver Nuggets late in the fourth quarter of the Nets’ 112-89 victory in an NBA basketball game in Denver on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014.

David Zalubowski, AP
Fan holds up a sign in support of Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins as he plays against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014.

“I got them a bucket,” the center said.

After his cameo in Brooklyn’s recovery from a 44-point loss against the Trail Blazers 24 hours earlier, Collins, the first openly gay athlete in America’s four major sports, met with the parents of the slain Wyoming college student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 because he was gay.

Collins, who signed a 10-day contract with the Nets on Sunday, said the chance to meet Dennis and Judy Shepard was “one of those cool treats in life.”

He gave them a signed black and white jersey — although not a game-worn one.

“I did not want to give them a sweaty jersey, so this is a backup,” he said with a laugh.

More laughter could be heard throughout their meeting in a room between the teams’ locker rooms that lasted about 10 minutes before Collins got on the team bus.

“It was delightful. We were happy to finally have the opportunity to meet,” said Judy Shepard, who had spoken with Collins by phone last year after Collins announced he was gay and wore No. 98 because of her son.

Her husband said he hopes the day quickly comes when someone’s sexuality is a non-issue...¨ please read it all,

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/02/jason-collins-who-wears-98-in-honor-of-their-son-meets-matthew-shepards-parents/

Thanks to Arnie Stapleton/Associated Press
Thanks to Jason Collins
Thanks to Judy and Dennis Sheppard
Thanks to The Brooklyn Nets

UPDATE!

Great news today for Jason Collins, the first active openly-gay player in NBA history: after signing him to two consecutive ten-day contracts, the Brooklyn Nets have decided to retain him for the rest of the season.

http://www.bilerico.com/2014/03/brooklyn_nets_keeping_jason_collins.php

Feb 25, 2014

HIS DUMPTRUCK RUNNETH OVER: Ugandan President Museveni declared ‘Gay sex gives you worms and all gay people are prostitutes’

WAIT A MINUTE BUSTER!

President Museveni of Uganda, dangerous and deadly to fellow citizens

¨Gay sex gives you worms and all gay people are prostitutes¨
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/02/24/gay-sex-gives-you-worms-and-all-gay-people-are-prostitutes/

AN OPEN LETTER TO BIGOTS REGARDING BLOCKHEAD STUPIDITY, GRANDSTANDING, $$$ and SLANDER!

The TRUTH is out of focus in Uganda (on purpose $$$)

We, LGBT people, our families, our friends, all-around the World are to sit quietly, behave prayerfully and turn more of our lifetimes over to the firing/spewing squad as dangerous and corrupt political/religiouslike people (to call them leaders would be pathetic) spread lies, filth, myths and free-for-all-slander about us?

Her Spitefullness, The ¨Graceless¨ Speaker of the Ugandan Paliament

I don't think so.

I believe that the God who created me also wants me to be the authentic person that I was created to be...not some rearranged version to please greed/pride stricken, very Scripturally selective, Bibletwisted, Bibletwisters like you!

The look of Americas ($$$) hate-the-Gay evangelical Christian love

Yes, God wants me to be authentic in all areas of my life. Period. Accountable, responsible and honest when participating in my everyday life. Truth matters to the God of my understanding.

Not a prostitute (yet), wormless, happy as a clam, me!

The God that I know wants me to be me (and you to keep a sharp eye on your own personal character and behavior).

Being me doesn't happen to include any of the poisoness nonsense, filth and everyday slander that bigots and thieves in Uganda/beyond attribute to people like me.

No dice. No soap. No go! Nada! Go fishing elsewhere!

A notable monster amongst the self-serving/opportunists LGBT-haters at the Anglican Communion,
Henry Luke Orombi, former Primate of Uganda.

Glaring examples of intentionally harming, demeaning and demonizing people like me exist and come more into light of reality daily...none more viciously and dishonestly (or plain stupidly) demonstrated at the moment than with nasty (I would say ¨vile¨) words coming from President Museveni of Uganda and his emotionally/spiritually warped/grasping wife, Janet Museveni.

Spewing LGBT hate, Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda

Janet, is a bleedingheart hatemonger who spouts off in UGANDA/beyond that LGBT citizens are cursed and evilposessed. MP and Mrs. ¨first lady¨ Museveni wants to be the next president of Uganda...how low will she go to achieve that goal? How many people will die so this vicious soul can try to fly high and be addressed as Madame President?

http://leonardoricardosanto.blogspot.com/2012/12/enough-with-self-serving-hate-mongers.html

Thanks to Pink News/Europe, sidebar

Feb 24, 2014

FROM GUATEMALA WITH PASSION: Ricardo Arjona - Fuiste tu feat - Gaby Moreno

Thanks to Irene Saletan
Thanks to You Tube
Thanks to Ricardo Arjona
Thanks to Gaby Moreno
Thanks to Guatemala

Feb 23, 2014

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ALICE HERZ-SOMMER HAS DIED: "We all came to believe that she would just never die,"

Herz-Sommer, her husband and her son were sent from Prague in 1943 to a concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin — Theresienstadt in German

LONDON (AP) — Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, died at age 110 on Sunday, a family member said. The accomplished pianist's death came just a week before her extraordinary story of surviving two years in a Nazi prison camp through devotion to music and her son is up for an Oscar.

Herz-Sommer died in a hospital after being admitted Friday with health problems, daughter-in-law Genevieve Sommer said.

"We all came to believe that she would just never die," said Frederic Bohbot, producer of the documentary "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life." ''There was no question in my mind, 'would she ever see the Oscars.'"

The film, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Malcolm Clarke, has been nominated for best short documentary at the Academy Awards next Sunday.

Herz-Sommer, her husband and her son were sent from Prague in 1943 to a concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin — Theresienstadt in German — where inmates were allowed to stage concerts in which she frequently starred.

An estimated 140,000 Jews were sent to Terezin and 33,430 died there. About 88,000 were moved on to Auschwitz and other death camps, where most of them were killed. Herz-Sommer and her son, Stephan, were among fewer than 20,000 who were freed when the notorious camp was liberated by the Soviet army in May 1945.

Yet she remembered herself as "always laughing" during her time in Terezin, where the joy of making music kept them going.

"These concerts, the people are sitting there, old people, desolated and ill, and they came to the concerts and this music was for them our food. Music was our food. Through making music we were kept alive," she once recalled.

"When we can play it cannot be so terrible."

Though she never learned where her mother died after being rounded up, and her husband died of typhus at Dachau, in her old age she expressed little bitterness.

"We are all the same," she said. "Good, and bad."

Thanks to Yahoo News

Thanks to The Associated Press

http://news.yahoo.com/oldest-known-holocaust-survivor-dies-110-190725943.html