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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
It Gets Better: Accountant, Judge, Marine
Some moving testimonies from the It Gets Better Project. The first one particularly resonates with me; as I've blogged about, when I was in the middle of my college career, I thought I wanted to be a CPA, and Ernst & Ernst (as it was then known) was one of the major accounting firms that my university had an internship program with. Like the guys and gals in this video, I too had a dream of making big bucks and even seeing the world by working at their overseas offices. But it was not to be: thirty-five years ago, I couldn't imagine how I would relate to my peers as the solitary (so I thought) queer in the corporate office, so I dropped out, and majored in something totally different.
Which perhaps was for the best, after all; it allowed me to indulge my queerfaggothomoexpressive side a bit more than accounting ever would have. Still, it would have been better not to live in fear and isolation. And to have a choice.
I also at various times thought quite seriously about becoming an attorney, like my father, and about joining the military, ditto. But again, a large part of what held me back was the fear of being different, of not fitting in, of not measuring up - of being shunned, or bullied, or even beaten. And I simply couldn't imagine - had no clue - that there could possibly have been others like me in the same fields, to pal around and find support with. Videos like these might have made a profound difference in the direction my life's course followed.
All water under the bridge now. But I'm so glad the young generation has more and better choices.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
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