Gay cry
National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in LGBTQIA Non-Fiction
Prejudice tried to cover the door on his potential. Talent, hard work, and leadership pushed that door wide open.
When schools first integrated in the s, Geoffrey Newman became one of the few Black children in an all-white school. His teachers told him he was destined for failure, for no reason other than the color of his skin. Geoffrey Newman proved them all wrong.
Better to Cry Now chronicles Geoffrey’s road to success in arts education, from discovering his artistic talent while also succeeding academically, to pioneering a theater program for an up-and-coming college, to becoming chair of the drama department for Howard University, to ultimately serving as dean for the entire arts program at Montclair State University, nurturing many stars along the way. In sharing his story, Geoffrey also shares the challenges of persevering despite racial prejudice and coming out to the world as a gay man in a loving, committed relationship.
With this insightful memoir, Geoffrey shows us the grit and grace needed to forge our
4 Reasons Why This Video Made so Many Gay Men Cry
If you didn&#;t catch the &#;It&#;s time&#; video below at the end of , you were probably in the minority.
The video produced by Australian Marriage Equality went viral after its launch and now has over 16 million views on YouTube.
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This video deeply touched the hearts of many gay men. I heard many of my clients and members of our gay groups say how moving they found the 2-minute video that brought many of them to tears.
This got me thinking, what is it about this video that is so powerful that it made so many gay men cry?
On reflection, it touches gay men on many levels, but these are the ones that stand out to me:
#1 It taps into the longings that gay men have to be in deep and connected relationships
As human beings, we are wired for connection with others. This is an innate longing and an important part of good mental health in any individual. But for gay men, I think this longing is even stronger.
As gay men, many of us have experienced loneliness, shame and sometimes trauma throug
Concannon, who previously held positions at the English colleges of Royal Holloway and Goldsmiths, published a paper in July that explored why mental illness had endured among gay men despite social progress. Drawing on research from others, Concannon points to a destructive competitiveness within the gay community and its various subcultures, each of which prizes alternative forms of capital to settle one’s status. Most obviously, that includes one’s physique and appearance — the emphasis on which has only worsened, Concannon believes, because of social media — but it can also contain things like race, income, and even HIV status. He notes one American gay man who was quoted in a HuffPost piece on gay loneliness: “The bullied kids of our youth grew up and became bullies themselves.”
Concannon, 61, experienced the pressure of one of these forms of social currency — age — during a seven-year period, from to , that he spent living in Sitges, Spain.
Surrounded by young, tanned surfers, he was called fat and antique on more than one occasion. So he did something to his hair that soun
Whereas the title of this manual is “The Gay Child’s Cry” to his/her mother and father, it is also a howl to the teacher, CEO’s, community, military and all others, but especially to the church. My heart is heavy even as I write this book. I am fighting back tears because it grieves my heart and goes beyond my understanding how any parent, especially Christian parents, could throw away the kid that was conceived by them, simply because they are gay. On the other hand, who am I to talk about parents like these when I used to be one of them myself? But there has been a great change in me. You will later comprehend how and why that adjust took place. Take a verb with me at how animalistic humans have become: In the animal world, some mothers will reject their young if they are different from their siblings. She will refuse to grant them to nurse her and will throw them out to die. Isn’t that what we, as parents, do to our children just because they are gay? What if God would reject us just because we are not like our siblings and didn’t turn out as he wanted us to be? We, as humans ha