Re-Activation

As evident from the one and only post thus far, I started this blog (originally under another title: The View from a Gay) to voice my opinions concerning the world in which we live, from a homosexual's perspective. I began with eager intentions to review, rebut, and remark on the political goings-on in the United States, as well as the world at large. But, as any person with a wavering ego, trepidation soon set in, asking me: "Who are you to speak for the homosexuals in this world?" At the time, I couldn't answer that question without sounding pompous and full of myself (as well as shit), so I chickened out and let the blog, my views and my voice, lay dormant: until now.

Why have I waked at this moment in time? Well, I think many of us have finally. What with the fevered pitch of politics and religion today (gay marriage, DADT, DOMA, Obama, racism, escalating hate-crimes, ENDA, etc.), I have found it unbearable on the sidelines. While I may not have the solutions to all these issues, silence certainly doesn't help. That old slogan from the AIDS era (as if that era has ended): Silence=Death, still holds all too true, even in our, supposedly, advanced society.

To speak one's truth is to live. So, I reawaken to life today, with my voice raised high and proud and eager, once again, to join the fray in hopes of shedding some light upon the dark and ugly aspects of our country with the goal of making the world a better place to live for all of us.

Jeffrey