Patrickometry  

A Little About Me...
I grew up in Kentucky, earned a degree from Oberlin, chose Cairo for my first trip abroad, embraced atheism at an early age, love dogs, lived in NYC where I taught high school in The Bronx and now find my life in intermission.

What I'm Looking For...
Some combination of the following: Harvey Milk, Larry Kramer, Gene Robinson, Mel White, Andy Humm, Ann Northrop, Andrew Sullivan, Bil Browning, Evan Wolfson, Michelangelo Signorile, Pam Spaulding, Rachel Maddow, Wayne Besen, Matthew Shephard, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong.

And Now For Something Completely Different...

"The job of the gay community is not to deal with extremists who would castigate us or put us on an island and drop an H-bomb on us. The fact of the matter is that there is a small percentage of people in America who understand the true nature of the homosexual community. There is another small percentage who will never understand us. Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights movement to get prejudiced white people to love us. Our aim was to try to create the kind of America, legislatively, morally, and psychologically, such that even though some whites continued to hate us, they could not openly manifest that hate. Thats our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." ~Bayard Rustin (civil rights activist and gay man who advised MLKjr and organized the 1963 March on Washington)

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself." ~Harvey Fierstein

"Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight." ~Harvey Milk

"If you would Realize, then you must understand how this body came to be and where You were during the days prior to conception. Even more significantly, find what You are when nothing is because that which You truly are now is what You will truly be then." ~Vedanta

 

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