Poem: The Saddest Day Of Our Lives By Orville Lloyd Douglas

It was a Friday evening, the cloak of darkness could not conceal our anger.

Wrapped in this charade, was this duplicity, this circle of unhappiness.

A vortex of shame surrounded us.

This was not  reconciliation, or an apology, it was an acceptance of veracity.

I was cognizant that being locked in a closet is not happiness.

You can remain a prisoner to your world but I must be free.

Liberty, equality, and  fraternity, are the proclamations I live by.

Although I am a Libra, this imbalance of doom provides no equilibrium.

A little bit past 11:00pm, your irrational venomous  words stabbed into my heart like a 10 inch knife.

I remained composed, trying with all my might not to die.

I stumbled, listened to this explosion, this rage, this contempt, feeling somnambulistic.

Your eyes are like a lion, ready to rip apart the prey.

There are three sides to every fable.

Pandora’s box must remain locked forever.

The autumn leaves crumbled as the kaleidoscope of reason splashed across the concrete.

Sometimes in life, no matter how much we want something it just wasn’t meant to be.

Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova Both Eliminated In The First Round Of The Madrid Masters.

Aravane Rezai of France, scored a huge upset today in the first round of the Madrid Masters she defeated Justine Henin of Belgium 4-6 7-5 6-0.

I am shocked that Justine lost the third set 6-0 this is just bizarre! Justine is a fighter, but maybe Rezai just played awesome tennis?

The loss is surprising, because Justine won a clay court event in Germany  last week.

However, Justine is injured, she has a broken finger and she is not 100% .  Rezai is a solid player, she pushed Serena Williams in the Sydney International earlier this year.

Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic, she dumped former world number one Maria Sharapova of Russia 6-4 6-3 in straight sets.

The Madrid Masters is Maria Sharapova’s first event since March she is returning from an injury. I am wondering can Maria reach the top of women’s tennis again?

Meanwhile, Venus Williams of the United States she advanced with an easy victory over Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland 6-4 6-2.

Miami Times Article: Anti Gay Activist Caught With 20 Year Old Male Prostitute!

Photo by Brandon K. Thorp

George Rekers and “Lucien” at MIA.

By Miami Times Staff

The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs once a day in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the “long stroke” — a complicated caress “across his penis, thigh… and his anus over the butt cheeks,” as the escort puts it. “Rekers liked to be rubbed down there,” he says.

In his first interview since New Times broke the story Tuesday, the 20-year-old escort, who prefers to go by the name Lucien, contradicts Rekers’s contentions that he hired the escort to help carry his luggage and that he was trying to save the soul of a lost sinner.

Although Rekers does have physical ailments that make it difficult for him to haul suitcases, Lucien wasn’t hired to carry luggage on their European vacation, the escort says.

“It’s a situation where he’s going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual,” Lucien says. (When New Times called seeking comment, Rekers had turned his phone off. An email was not returned. He has termed the New Times article “slanderous” on his website.)

Lucien was interviewed late last night in the Fort Lauderdale house where he was laying low for the evening. The townhome he rents in a west Miami suburb has been inundated by uninvited guests since Unzipped revealed Lucien’s identity first (link NSFW).

Rekers’s trip with Lucien has grabbed worldwide headlines and been the subject of monologues by Steven Colbert and Jay Leno.

Lucien decided to speak out after a heart-to-heart with a friend, Michael, who alerted him to the grim realities of his client’s anti-gay activities. Lucien, who had originally declined to speak about the trip, now says he can do little good by protecting his erstwhile, fundamentalist client.

In the past 24 hours, Rekers, a board member at the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and cofounder of the Family Research Council, has claimed he took Lucien to Europe to inspire him to accept Jesus into his heart and renounce his homosexuality.

Lucien now offers Rekers a counterproposal: “In all honesty, he should disassociate himself from these [anti-gay] groups.”

New Times spent more than three hours with Lucien in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Check back this afternoon for stories detailing the trip, the document Rekers asked Lucien to prepare in the hopes of preventing any future disclosures, and a character sketch of what we think is a brave kid — one who dawdled for less than 24 hours before opting to tell an exceptionally painful story.

— Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp

Check Out Edward Ulzen`s New Play Man 2 Man! Performances Start On June 18th 2010 In Toronto!

I have some exciting news for the readers of my blog! My friend Edward Ulzen`s  first play “Man 2 Man“ performances start on June 18th 2010 at the Buddies & Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. There are three performances here is the info. Get your tickets now, spread the word and tell all your friends!

1) First performance on June 18th at 8:00pm  the doors open at 7:30pm at Buddies & Bad Times Theatre.

2) Second performance is on June 19th at 2:30pm doors open at 2:00pm at Buddies & Bad Times Theatre.

3) The third performance is on June 19th at 8:00pm doors open at 7:30pm at Buddies & Bad Times Theatre.

Here is the info to purchase tickets to see Edward`s play:

http://www.ticketweb.ca/snl/Search.action?query=man+2+man+by+kwame+stephens