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Dear Anthology Authors,

I would like to thank you very much for the heartfelt and superior poetry, letters, essays, narratives, articles, and quotes. Each of you submitted remarkable pieces that reflect your creativity and compassion toward a cause that affects us all personally or as a society. I’m positive that Step Into My Shoes: Expressions from the LGBTQ Community will be a voice that speaks coherently and compellingly to an audience around the world. Your words will adjust some negative attitudes, fortify some timorous spirits, clarify some confusing thoughts, ignite some indifferent banter, and arouse some interesting dialogue.

                                                                                                            Tonja

RABBI DAVID HOROWITZ         Louie Crew

LAURA MARTINELLI                  ISAAC HERNANDEZ

JASON MURPHY                           SHEBA

ADITYA BONDYOPADHYAY       LAUREN MARIE WARD

RAJEEV MASAND                         TWOCUPS2000

ASHLEY NIEDZWIECKI               CATLISTENING

SAMIR WARTAK                           DANA LE PAGE

DIVINE DEVIL                                SANJAY N. LULLA

T  RAVIS                                            DEREK FOX

HARISH IYER                                 HEATHER TRAHAN

KIRK SUNDERMAN                      L. J. BLEVINS

LEA JEFFIRE                                 JOHN OF ALLFAITH

JEREMY HALINEN                       SCOTT FARROW

TONJA DUDLEY BAGWELL       CHIMNESE DAVIDS

TREY MALICOAT                         NANCY SQUIRES

ALENA SCOTT                               SAM THOMAS

HAZEL SMITH                               DAVEY WAVEY

JEANNE ANGEL ST. CYR            MIKE

WRITER L. BUSH                          STEPHANIE FRYE

DEEP                                                YVAN J. HUTIN

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December 18

Me Time
It is almost 9:00pm on Sunday, December 18, 2011 and I have been busy with “Me” all day. The weekends are usually my Me days since Monday through Friday are days I dedicate to others. Around midweek, I spoke to a client who was desperate to complete required therapy sessions. I was empathetic to his predicament [...]

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September 11

Remembering the LGBTQ of 9/11
Please visit an online memorial and add a flower. This page is dedicated to all of the heroes with no distinction to sexual orientation, gender, age, race, culture, or religion. http://www.9-11heroes.us/ When this country was under attack, terrorists were not thinking about gay or straight. They were thinking Americans and their aim was to kill [...]

7:16 AM GMT  |  Read comments(0)

September 04

Arranged Marriage, Planned Parenthood or Manufactured Procreation?
Hooray for an unorthodox way to acknowledge and accept gays and lesbians while engendering life! Rabbi Arele Harel has taken a page out of my mental book of how to make the best out of anything in life. This rabbi is clearly a mutineer considering, “Most rabbis encourage gays to suppress their attractions, abstain from gay sex or undergo [...]

1:23 PM GMT  |  Read comments(2)

September 01

Saying “I Do” when others think “I Don’t…”
My daughter picks up free copies of USA Today and Washington Post at her school and brings them home, so I peruse these newspapers on occasion. Most of my news is obtained online through various newswire services or from postings on Facebook and Twitter, but I still enjoy getting my fingers stained with ink from an [...]

8:33 PM GMT  |  Read comments(0)

July 19

India’s Gay Pride
Several of the anthology contributors live in India. The LGBTQ issues and laws in the USA are slightly different from those in India. The struggles, the bullying, the discrimination, the hate crimes, the stigma, and the HIV problems are quite similar. However, some people may say that American gays have a slight advantage. When you step into the shoes of a [...]

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