Equality Press

By Anthony Aiken

I love being gay. There may be some people that are not proud of their identity as a GLBTQ individual. I have to say to those people, “Step out on the proud planet of gay and have some fun!” Being out as a gay man, I experience so many things to be proud of, like last night at the solstice bonfire I just felt so proud to be gay. This pride did not come from having thousands of people within a parade, but from knowing Steve and Irene and all of their and my friends were just hanging and being able to be as out as I would like. It is a great feeling to be able to be free to bend my gender category with comfort. To dance on the sand with abandon and enjoy it all. There were four lesbians holding their partners around the fire. The whole of the group was quite mixed and I thank the allied couple that invited us for having such diverse groups of people around them. I also thank myself for being out and comfortable with who I am and the power that gives me to express myself as me, not something that I am not. Let’s “Rock on Sisters.” (more…)

By Andrew Carl

Face it boys, we live in a hedonistic society, a society where we are all driven by our self-indulgent devotion to please ourselves. You might just consider this being selfish, but many of us blame that burning sensation in our pockets on our materialistic needs. I blame my sexuality.

No one has yet been able to explain to me what drives many of us to take our hard earned tip money on weekend trips to trendy urban streets with fashionable brand names and fancy store fronts. However, I can promise you one thing, if you walk down any one of these streets on any given day you will see two cute boys wearing designer labels walking hand in hand with a pile of bags. (more…)

By Aly

I’ve come a long way from the little girl that grew up in New Hampshire. At twenty years old I’ve done so much that is contrary to who I was, and who I want to be. There have been only two life altering decisions made that changed everything. The first was the day I decided to acknowledge the fact that I am a homosexual, no matter what label I put on myself.

The second was the day I decided to enlist.

I’ve never asked anyone to accept me. I’ve demanded and earned the respect I’m given. High school taught me that I could be an individual, free to live as I chose. It also showed me that I would never be able to afford college without massive amounts of assistance, unlike many of my peers. The Marine Corps offered a fifty thousand-dollar college fund, a twenty thousand-dollar GI Bill, free CLEP and DANTES tests, and seventy-five percent tuition assistance. As a lower income class teenager of middling grades, it was the answer to every aspiration I had to go to photography school. All that in exchange for five years of my life; giving up who I am. (more…)