Tess Sharpe

My crush on Jack Black (and of course, the ever fabulous Margaret Cho and Neil Patrick Harris) just got way bigger:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones

No shrimp cocktails! :P

Everyone needs to listen to this: http://www.victoryfund.org/files/listening.html

Shame on Sally Kern. She is a psychotic homophobic woman who has no idea what she's TALKING about. Who is so deeply entrenched in her hate that it's astonishing and frightening and pretty depressing.

The phrases homosexual agenda and gay lifestyle get thrown around a lot by homophobic people, especially anti-gay politicians. They like to make people think that every gay man and woman are drug users, partiers, promiscuous, out to convert children to their evil gay ways.

This pisses me off. Makes me even more determined to finish Bashed and get it out there.

I am a woman who is proud to have gay, lesbian and bisexual friends. I am proud and incredibly grateful to count three of the best men (gay or straight) I know as part of my family.

I leave you with this, which is something I wrote awhile ago for Bashed. Peter's response to a homophobic student at school who tells him that God wants him to change because the gay lifestyle is wrong:

“There is no gay lifestyle!” Peter is yelling and he doesn’t care if people are beginning to stare. “You can’t pigeonhole people like that. We’re human. We live and we hurt and good and bad things happen to us and we get scared and we go to school and work. And we have to deal with assholes like you who tell us how we feel is wrong and sick. If there’s one thing all of us queers have in common, it’s having to worry about coming across assholes like you who threaten us and beat us up and try to kill us because of who we sleep with. Do you understand how ridiculous that is? How it is none of your business? It doesn’t matter if I’m gay or straight, it matters if I’m a good person. And you know what?” he gets out of his wheelchair and looms over Ryan. “I might not be perfect, but I’m a helluva lot better than you, because I don’t hate people just because they don’t fit into some cookie cutter mold that some book describes.”

That's what I have to say.

What about you?

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Tess Sharpe