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Domestic abuse occurs in approximately 30 to 40% of GLBT relationships, which is the same percentage of violence that occurs in straight relationships.

It is a myth that same-sex couples don't batter each other, or if they do; they are just "fighting" or it is "mutual abuse.
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Come out to Stir Lounge on April 25, 2009 at 9 pm.


Be one of many to dance, sha… Continue

Quotations from The Narrative of Y.T. Kholi, A Former Poet Turned Slave
Most things are easier said than done.
Not you.
For you, new love,
Are a combination of quiet thoughts
Clotted in an unwillingly closed throat.
Coating, caustic, to my insides,
You are a grey and yellow blinding haze,
A thick purple brain fog,
An opiate,
An immediate loss of talent.
You are my shame.
Too easily appeased,
I am no longer in touch
With the person who once said,
“I do not write love poems
Just poems about being… Continue

I cannot blame
hold grudge against you
for your inability to accept
a gift you never asked for
though i have tried.
an eve has fallen
frosted with bitterness
an aching cracking
blanket of love
wishing to be fed
a blaze
smouldering under weight of
the dead.
our wishes unmet.
hurts
u… Continue

... from what may someday be a poem ... maybe ... ::shrugs shoulders::



...it is probably best
we do not come
with manuals
i actually want no one educated
on
the best and most efficients ways
to use me ....


...as i script like sustenance
prose lines to my father-
who will not find solitude
of concrete box as
comforting as i find my bed-
i remember
the tables are forever turning...

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Sooo ... I know ... this mass messaging is a lil OD.

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