Author Archives: tarringovaughan

    Inspired by Lucille Clifton’s poem “sisters”     you and I are brothers. we cry the same.   you and I see eye to eye coming from the same place.   you and I like rhyming our tears and drying up our fears.   you and I try standing up to pain and […]

A heart once mute – tears of silence that at a young age just wouldn’t compute the confusion and delusions hidden within a soul held hostage by fear – for many years, so many words unsaid I just couldn’t find the expressive freedom to let out the emotions rampaging as confused thoughts inside my head. […]

Everlasting memories – those familiar places we have known embrace our soul during times when we feel we are alone even when days are gray and the world turns cold we find our comfort in the places we call home. There are tears out there –journeys of sadness roaming homeless sidewalks thinking no one cares. […]

I write for their eyes as I narrate the loneliness they feel from inside the of hidden identities that have become immersed within the transparent confusion of society’s delusion. Some are brave and stand alone on judgment’s concrete stone afraid to shine their difference in the dampened skies where hateful eyes plagiarize their souls to […]

…and I didn’t belong there, but for that moment, I wasn’t supposed to be anywhere else. We didn’t have much in common except we were men, unattached and seeking companionship. He talked nonsense and I nodded my head as if I actually had interest. But we were there, sharing time because either one of us […]

According to a report by the Hollywood Reporter on October 6, Sunday was a liberating day for Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and physician Dr. Tarek Loubani as both was released from their imprisonment in Cairo. The duo has been held in a Cairo prison since Aug. 16. Both Greyson and Loubani were arrested for coming to the aide […]

The main argument for those against homosexuality is that it is a sin and goes against the teachings of the Bible. But the Bible doesn’t teach hatred and that’s the message the dean of Washington National Cathedralsent out during a weekend of events for gay youth at the church. As the Associated Press reports on October 6, Rev. […]

Singer and songwriter Steve Grand, who took YouTube by storm with the video release of his hit song “All American Boy” is scheduled to perform the song at the GLSEN Respect Awards according to a report by the Hollywood Reporter on October 5. The gay singer rose to broader recognition as the video received 1.5 […]

The world moves faster when there is no place to go.   That statement is not always true until you find yourself moving in slow traffic on a busy street when you have some place to be.  Isn’t it funny how time never waits for us but we are always waiting for time?  Every minute […]

    There are no clouds today as alone in this cold hotel bed I lay   The warmth of my lover is far away but just the thought of him is making my mind feel quite okay   and although I am miles away, in a new place, just minutes away from a new […]