Welcome!
Hello and welcome to "A Picture For A Thousand Voices!"Through all the constant talk about the gay marriage amendments across the country, I feel like there has been very little conversation about why...
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Holding Hands
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."- Maxim Gorky Even though holding hands is such an innocent and...
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Pride
"What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen whenone lifetime is joined to another."- Harold KushnerYesterday was the Gay Pride Parade in New York City, and it was my first Pride event. Up...
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Love On the Scales of Justice
"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate."- Franklin D. RooseveltMy illustration is about trying to quantify and weigh an abstraction like love. How can the law say that a...
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Perseverance
"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome." -André GideEquality is achievable if we keep our hopes alive, because the minutewe back down is the minute they'll think they've...
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I Wonder
“One of the hardest things in life is having wordsin your heart that you can’t utter.”-James Earl JonesI grew up in a suburban town full of traditional, right-leaning people. I came out to my friends...
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"I can't reach you..."
“All men are created equal.”-Thomas JeffersonFor two people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to not have their union recognized by the highest authority in the land is a breach of civil rights...
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Understanding
"To understand everything makes one tolerant."-Germaine de StaelIn 1986, at sixteen, I had my first experience working with a therapist. I told him I was there because I thought I was gay and didn’t...
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"I will sing that they shall hear"
"Equality has to become more than just a word."-Staceyann ChinThe National Equality March: October 11, 2009This past Sunday, October 11, 2009, was the National Equality March: A march on the Capitol in...
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A Helping Hand
“You understood that we must stand against crimes that are meant not only to break bones, but to break spirits — not only to inflict harm, but to instill fear. You understand that the rights afforded...
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Normal
“Normality is the capacity to express your feelings. From the momentthat you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person.”-Paul CoelhoI hope that, one day, when I decide to start a family and...
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Stereotype
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."-EuripidesI have recently been discussing with my parents the importance for equal rights. My parents have always been very supportive of me and any...
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Change
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."-Wayne DyerMy family and I are headed to Pittsburgh (go Steelers!) in about two months for a family function and my brother...
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The Heart Has No Borders
"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know."-Blaise PascalWhen you draw lines in the heart it breaks.When the heart breaks, it cries.These tears water the hope that we can have love without...
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Valentine's Day
“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the heartsof others to your own.”-Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen you open your heart and show someone a piece of your soul, you have the power to open...
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American Dream
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting theother man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.”-Clarence DarrowProposition 8 was an amendment to the California Constitution...
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I Love You
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has noright to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function ofrights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by...
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Freedom
“I love Steven so much. If people or the world can not give me the chance and the freedom to continue living with him as my lover, then I am better off to die here in prison. Freedom without him is...
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Seattle Gay Pride
More from my trip with Dalvero to the West Coast! Our first three days were in Seattle, which happened to coincide with Seattle's gay pride parade! I was very excited to be able to do a reportage of...
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Gay Marriage New York!
Today was the first day for gay marriage in the state of New York, and I went down to the City Clerk's office in Lower Manhattan to draw the event. An hour and a half before the office opened, the line...
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