Authors and artists in distant locations use Holding Me Together to promote gay pride. Gay Pride 2007, and beyond.
Dann Hazel used Reactions to Homophobia, an essay in Click here, as one of the resources for his book Click here. In Australia, Kris Coonan, UQ Union, University of Queensland, used it as a resource for his article Click here. Click here and Click here used it as a resource for the booklet Click here.
“By killing yourself, intentionally or through unsafe sex, you call yourself worthless and expendable. How can you think of a human being that way? Quit punishing yourself for the bigotry in society. Refuse to help the cause of homophobia. Take care of yourself. Learn to love yourself and protect yourself. See yourself and your partner as worth protecting. Treat safer sex as an act of defiance and gay pride, a statement about your love for yourself, a statement about the value of your life. Treat living each day as a tear in the fabric of bigotry.”
That quote comes from Not Worth Dying Over, another essay in Click here. Paul Harris quotes that passage in the book Click here. Minnie Van PileUp (the pseudonym of a writer who lives in Boston) quotes the same passage in Click here
Click here, a reviewer for StoneWall Society, has created animated versions of two poems from Holding. Visit Click here for the software and links. (Note: the poems are earlier versions, and slightly different from how they appear in Holding’s 2nd Edition.)
Just a simple gathering of the Gay & Lesbian Activist Association of New Birch and Sipsboror (GLAABS) and we plunge down a hilarious ride to perdition.
During the 1960's a young soldier struggles with basic training, a bully sergeant and his own inner demons. A tale of struggle, redemption and survival.
Just a simple gathering of the Gay & Lesbian Activist Association of New Birch and Sipsboror (GLAABS) and we plunge down a hilarious ride to perdition.
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