Post Break Up: Rebounding Relationships
So two Sundays ago I broke it off with that guy I told you all about. Three days later he found someone else, and now they’re in a relationship. My feelings for wanting to be in a relationship with him are gone, what I’m upset and confused about is the fact that he got over me so quickly. Then, he still wants to be my friend. I’m all for friendship, but he expects me to pick up everytime he calls. And that doesn’t rock with me. I pick up when I feel and lately I do not feel that need. He’s getting the clue now though, because he hasn’t been calling or texting as often.
Now, I’m not one to pry but I had to investigate this new relationship. I uncovered some nasty tracks too! They’re both in rebound relationships. And they both claim, according to their myspace comments, that they’re in love. What the hell? We were together 6 weeks! And you’re love with dude you was only with for three days? What the hell? I just hope that guy can provide as much comfort in him as I have, because I know I treated him good. He too treated me well. That’s why as much as I want to I can’t call him nasty names or speak terribly about him. I broke it off with him two times before the last. Both times he took me back. The third break up was the definite last.
I’ll call him when I’m ready. It make take a few days, perhaps a few weeks, perhaps a few months, I’m not going to call someone who’s feelings for me melted as fast as they came {no pun intended}. I still have this feeling though that he still belongs in my life, like his part of my life story isn’t over.
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Black Gay Teen Victim of Hate Crime
I’m speechless.
FORT LAUDERDALE – The shooting death of a gay teenage boy who was dressed in women’s clothing is being investigated as a possible hate crime, while detectives try to determine whether he was targeted because of his sexual orientation.
Simmie Williams Jr., 17, was attacked on the 1000 block of Sistrunk Boulevard by two young men who wore dark clothing and might live in the neighborhood, police said. Williams, who was wearing a dress and was known in the area by his first name or as “Chris” or “Beyonce,” was shot about 12:45 a.m. Friday and soon afterward died at Broward General Medical Center, police said.It’s unclear what Williams was doing in the area, about four miles from his house, but police are investigating whether he was working as a prostitute, officials said.
Williams’ mother said her son was openly gay, but she didn’t know what he did when he went out at night, and she didn’t know he wore women’s clothes.
“I gave him $2 for the bus and he never came back,” said Denise King, who lived with her son west of Fort Lauderdale. “He was a quiet person, kept to himself. He had a lot of friends. He wasn’t a troubled child. He was a happy person.”
At the same time, being black, gay and dressing in women’s clothing made Williams “a minority within a minority within a minority,” said Grant Lynn Ford, dean of Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale, a church that ministers to gays, lesbians and their families.
Sometimes people picked on Williams, but he knew how to brush it off, his mother said.
Williams had signed up Wednesday for Job Corps, a federal government program designed to teach students vocational skills. He planned to get his GED and then go to culinary school, his mother said.
“That’s what he really wanted to do. That’s all he talked about,” said King. “He spent the whole day with me yesterday, played with his nephew and cooked dinner.”
Then he left the house Thursday night to go to Sistrunk, where the family lived at one point, she said. A few hours later, he was dead.
“We’re looking into the possibility of a hate crime. There were some words exchanged prior to the shooting,” said Detective Katherine Collins, spokeswoman for Fort Lauderdale police. She would not elaborate on what was said before Williams was killed.
Any case where investigators or prosecutors determine that a victim was targeted based on race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, mental or physical disability or advanced age can be deemed a hate crime. The label adds extra time to criminal sentences, upon conviction.
The corner where Williams was found is a popular hang-out for transgender prostitutes, police and residents said.
Sharia Ranson said she has noticed them from her home in the Oak Park apartments at Sistrunk Boulevard and Northwest 10th Avenue, where she has lived for two years.
Wearing dresses and makeup, they often stood in groups of three to five, Ranson said.
However, they are usually older than Williams, police said.
“Most of the time you see adults,” said Detective Brice Brittenum, Fort Lauderdale police liaison to the gay and lesbian community.
In January 2003, about a half mile from where Williams was shot, a transgender prostitute was killed in the 500 block of Northwest 21st Avenue.
Timothy Broadus, 21, who also went by “Cinnamon” and wore women’s clothing and a blond wig, was shot several times by a driver he had approached, police said at the time.
The case remains unsolved.
link: Sun Sentinel
Thanks to Darian of loldarian.com for reporting the story.
Christopher Street the series looking for Production Assistants
Christopher Street the series, is looking for production assistants to assist crew members and actors on set this Sunday. There is no pay but Production Assistants will recieve food, transportation reimbursement, as well as credit in the film. Filming will take place in Brooklyn, NY. And will last 7 hours.
Please email steven@christopherstreettv.com if interested.
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Lets get it together
Last weekend I was appalled by the language I heard spewing out of the tongues of these two little boys, around 10 years old, on the train during my visit to NYC. It was disgusting. It disgusted me because they were so young using the n word, do they know the history of this word? And if not, why hasn’t anyone taught them it? “Nigger this, nigga that.” The gentlemen, who appeared to be their brother and around 20 years old just sat in silence as the young boys used these words to drown themselves into embarrassment. I was embarrassed for them. If they were my younger siblings, my children, my nieces or nephews, you can rest to fucking sure that I would have popped them in their mouths. I can’t even grasp why a child much less an adult can use this word. I feel sorry for you if you’re an adult using the n word in whatever context you use it. We, the leaders of the now, need to teach the next generation of young Americans, the leaders of tomorrow, who could so easily take their rightful place now, to stop using a word that was use to belittle and eradicate an entire race. People who know the history of this word and continue to use it is stupid. Flat out. Stupid.
Lies This Person Unmasked
My friend Eric started a blog recently. And the paragraph below, of his first posting, touched my soul.
“I can’t get over certain that has traumatized me until this day. It hurts to talk about this until this day, 10 years ago the inevitable happen…..The day i was molested. Which was a dark and very cold moment of my sorted past that will always, always be apart of me. Which fucking hurts … So much because i am allowing it to get under my skin and force me to not let anyone in and not trust anyone after so many people i gave my fucking all to and it went no where. I wish i wasn’t like this, under the image of being a “Socialite” and the many drinks…..Lies this person unmasked, who is tormented by his demons and fears of getting hurt once more.”
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Thank You NG!
NG posted this report card of the media coveage surrounding the murder of a 15 year old gay student who was a target of a hate crime. The story failed to get little attention in the gay media. Shyt the mainstream covered it more! Thank you NG.
Link: http://nlsngrc.blogspot.com/2008/02/lawrence-king-update-report-card.html
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15 Year old Gay Male Target of Hate Crime
This upsets me. I’m pissed. I want to personally say fuck you to every mainstream organization, queer blogger, queer medium, and queer organization who knew about this story but did not report it.
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14-year-old is charged in shooting of Oxnard classmate
By Catherine Saillant and Amanda Covarrubias, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 15, 2008
Ventura County prosecutors charged a 14-year-old boy with the shooting death of a classmate Thursday and said the killing in an Oxnard classroom was a premeditated hate crime.
Senior Deputy Dist. Atty. Maeve Fox declined to discuss a motive in the shooting or why prosecutors added the special allegation of a hate crime against Brandon McInerney, who was charged as an adult.
But classmates of the slain boy, Lawrence King, said he recently had started to wear makeup and jewelry and had proclaimed himself gay. Several students said King and a group of boys, including the defendant, had a verbal confrontation concerning King’s sexual orientation a day before the killing.
King, 15, was declared brain-dead and was expected to be taken off a ventilator late Thursday so organs could be removed for donation, said Craig Stevens, senior county deputy medical examiner.
King was shot in the head early Tuesday in a classroom full of students at E.O. Green Junior High School. Police said the suspect fled and was apprehended a few blocks away.
McInerney’s family was in a Ventura courtroom Thursday as the adolescent was brought into a holding chamber to face charges.
His arraignment was delayed to give his attorney time to review the police investigation before entering a plea.
McInerney was charged with premeditated murder with enhancements of use of a firearm and a hate crime.
Because he is a minor, McInerney will remain in Juvenile Hall and be taken to the Ventura courtroom for court appearances, Fox said. He is being held in lieu of $770,000 bail.
If convicted, McInerney could face 50 years to life. The hate crime enhancement would add another one to three years to his sentence.
“In Ventura County, we’ve never had a violent shooting like this,” Fox said. “It’s very tragic.”
The defendant’s family declined to talk to reporters, rushing out of the courthouse after a short hearing. But his attorney, Brian Vogel, said McInerney and the boy’s family also were hurting.
“Both Brandon and the family are terribly sad to learn [King] is brain-dead,” he said.
Vogel declined to discuss the case but said he would ask the court to move it back into the juvenile system. McInerney had no criminal history and was generally a good student at E.O. Green, where he was an eighth-grader.
Vogel said the boy turned 14, the legal cutoff for charging an adolescent as an adult, on Jan. 24. Voters gave prosecutors the option of charging teenage suspects as adults under 2002’s Proposition 21.
Details on the backgrounds of both boys began to emerge Thursday. King was a foster child living at Casa Pacifica, a shelter for abused and troubled children in Camarillo.
Steven Elson, executive director at Casa Pacifica, said he could not discuss how long King had lived there or the circumstances involving his removal from his family.
But Elson said King had made many friends on the sprawling residential campus and that many of the children were grieving his loss.
“It’s been a sad couple of days here,” Elson said.
King’s father, who lives in Oxnard, declined to comment.
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LINK: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-oxnard15feb15,1,1414535.story?page=2
Person of the Week- La Shawn Barber
La Shawn Barber is my new favorite blogger. She’s the first person I crowned as Person of the Week. She’s a Black republican with a biting tongue and I’m hooked on what she has to say. Check out her blog.
P.S. She doesn’t agree with the “homosexual lifestyle” {that’s what she calls it}, so perhaps her blog isn’t for everyone.
P.S.2. If you’re a Black radical maybe you shouldn’t go on her website, in a published article in The Nation Black Republican Association magazine she writes, “poor blacks aren’t poor because of white racism; they are caught up in the culture of failure, and the currect crop of black leaders help perpetuate the cycle”. Yikes!
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Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s day is steadly approaching.
Tell us about your first Valentine.
I Heart Steven
My buddy Steven {another one!} has returned back to blogging. You will all love Steven. I promise you. He’s very witty. And with all these Black Queer republicans in the blogsphere we can all use some refreshing wit.
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