I have no words. Just watch until the end. You will understand.

The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is the best movie about high schoolers ever. As I am watching it here for the umpteenth time yet again, I'm still realizing just how on point it really is. If you haven't seen it. Go watch it. Seriously, drop whatever you are doing and go watch it. Every single second is a point that you are sucked into the film. One of the first true films from a kids point of view.Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Embrace The Magic

Time and time again it seems like people forget about the magic of a book. Not an e-book, kindle, or whatever else has come about in our new age of electronics. I'm talking about the  magic that exists between the words on the pages. Worlds unfold, new ideas begin, and beautiful places are created. Experiencing them is all different for each of us. Up to our own interpretation every page opens a new door. A door to anywhere and everywhere. Holding a new world in our hands, each tattered page and blurred word for repetitious reading starts to become apart of us. Apart of our own story.

Ugandans Both Proud and Brave

 Activists attended Gay Pride events this weekend in Uganda despite the country’s antigay climate, and their bravery earned the admiration of many worldwide.

While the Anti-Homosexuality Bill from David Bahati languishes in Uganda’s Parliament, LGBT activists dared to declare their pride in public events this weekend.

After months of preparation, and despite arrests, Uganda’s gay community concluded all its planned Pride events, including a beach parade, parties and a film festival. All were well attended by a courageous LGBTI community, considering that Uganda is a country that criminalizes homosexual sex acts and seeks legislation to kill its gays for “aggravated homosexuality” with long prison terms for so-called “promotion of homosexuality.”

Adding to the country’s antigay climate, the Ugandan Minister of Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo faces a court clash with gay rights activists for breaking up a legal meeting at a private hotel resort in Entebbe earlier this year. And the government of Uganda was recently embarrassed by unwarranted arrests of foreign visitors at a meeting held at a private resort to discuss human rights issues.

The international community has shown its support for sexual orientation as a human right with examples such as  United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Uganda this past week, when she paid tribute and gave an award to a coalition of human rights defenders for their LGBT advocacy.

The importance of this Pride event cannot be understated. The fact that these brave activists could pull this off in this milieu of persecution is a great victory for the community. Visibility like this notes the ongoing legacy of late activist David Kato, it defies the export of American Evangelical hate, and it helps ensure defeat of the Bahati Bill. It shows leadership for all of Africa, and above all it shows that the LGBT people of Uganda simply refuse to give up their right to exist and to live their natural born sexual orientation.

So in the words of world renowned, award-winning gay activist, Frank Mugisha who proudly attended the weekend Pride: “We did not have a chance to thank the pride organizers, the entire committee and the grand marshal. Thumbs up to you all who made this happen. Next time we begin the march from the police station.”

Everyone is going to..

I wish I could say this is not true, but it is. Every person you let into your life will eventually hurt you or let you down. You just have to find those that it is worth. Not the ones that might be- those that for sure are. People come and go, they are the little pieces that make up who we are. Each teach us a lesson, make an impact, or have a memory. 

remember...

Teenage Years.

1. Keep your friends close and you enemies closer

2. Do what makes you happy, screw everyone else

3. Don't bother with relationships unless they are really special

4. Live with an open mind and an open heart

5. Remember.. people change; it will always get better; dance when you don't know what to do.

6. Music will always save you.

7. Do something daring

8. Think before you speak

9. Listen to you parents, they have been there before

10. Be a good friend and an even better person

11. It is better to be weird than popular