A-LISTS fruit fly by angelica osborne “Thank God I’m Gay”...I heard my BFF
say after I announced to him “Octo-Mom” had announced she felt she was ready to get back into the dating scene. He said it with complete aloofness. However, it spoke such truth to me. Talk about be- ing grateful for who you are…even if it means more difficulty may come your way. If you truly love who you are, as you should, then your sexuality is a blessing. If you could snap your fingers and make yourself hetero, would you? Or change who you are and become what THEY want you to? I hope not, because you are perfect AS YOU ARE! There are churches out there that
share this idea. The Episcopal Church just officially approved gay marriages! Here is their statement “There are no second class members of the Body of Christ. We are of equal value in the eyes of God and any one of us may be called by the Holy Spirit into holy relationships.” Change is a-coming and change is gaining momentum. You hear people say all the time, “I’m comfortable with my sexuality,” but why not be thrilled with it? Because someone has told you that you can’t? The best revenge is a happy life, you know? All this got me thinking. I called John Castignini, the creator of the Thank God
I...books, which is a book series of true stories of gratitude for adverse situations such as rape, death, divorce, cancer, alco- holism, etc. I am one of the authors in the next book to come out in the book series
called Thank God I am a Powerful Woman!
In the book are some mind-blowing
THANK GOD I’M GAY
“If you have a story to tell about your personal struggle or how you rose above the hatred or may- be even how you just barely made it through but are glad you did, then you can be an author.”
humanizing stories, such as “Thank God I was Raped” which take the worst tragedy in this woman’s life and shows her gratitude for the changes it brought about in her and those around her. My story is “Thank God I found My Orgasm!” which is about my battle with frigidity and how I learned to over-cum it! John and I talked about the incredible struggles of being gay in a straight-favored world and felt there should be another col- lection of stories under, Thank God I’m Gay! If you have a story to tell about your personal struggle or how you rose above the hatred or maybe even how you just barely made it through but are glad you did, then you can be an author. Even if you have never written an essay before, you know your life and what it is inside of you that got you where you are today. It’s your story, so only YOU can write it. Their mission statement is to “inspire and empower people to experience their brilliance and honor the inherent perfection
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made me “ME” and I am rather spectacular, I must say. I have a great talent of compas- sion, patience and understanding for people in pain because I have experienced that deep level of angst and despair, so I recognize it in others. I wouldn’t trade my life with anybody, especially the normal people! They scare me the most...(shiver) If you would like to tell your story and be one of the authors in the Thank God I’m Gay! book you can write to
alisonanail@gmail.com, No one else can tell your story, because no one else is the custom made, unique freak that you are!
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already present in their lives, beyond any circumstances that might be convincing them otherwise.” Sound about right? It makes me think of an interview with
Michael J. Fox. Struck with Parkinson’s Disease, he went from movie star to the Poster Boy for PD and a life of constant painful twitching. Here’s an excerpt from the interview. “Could you have imagined you would be such a positive person before you were diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease?” Michael’s reply, “I don’t think I could have imagined the other things that have come into place. If I didn’t have Parkinson’s then my life would have been more of the same —acting, traveling and being away from my family. My illness forced me to spend time with my family, to build my founda- tion I started to find a cure, and my life is so much richer because of it. It’s altered my reality in such a positive way.” Michael is not only okay with it; he can
recognize the wonderful things that happened as a result. Sometimes you have to mourn the loss of what life has taken from you before you can rejoice in the fruits that the loss produces. In my first years of therapy I was bitter and resentful of my childhood sexual abuse at the hands of my grandfather. I would constantly think, “What if I was NORMAL?” Maybe I would have been more trusting, or better in relationships or even, smarter? All of that might be true, but after working with and through my issues I know now I wouldn’t change anything about my life because it has
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