My recent interview with Judy Shepard, Matt Shepard's Mom, continues to be quite a guiding force for me.
Here's that interview from Bay Area Reporter in San Francisco:
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=480
I also wrote versions of the Shepard interview for ON Magazine in San Jose CA & Q Notes in North & South Carolina.
My encounter with Judy Shepard's quiet grace & dignity will forever be my role model for dealing with issues that are important
to me. The lack of unity within the LGBT community, the callous disregard that LGBTs
routinely inflict on each other (even when such behavior impedes our fight for equality) continues to be a major bone of contention with me.
I will never again allow myself to express this with anger~~that's what I got from Judy Shepard.
I recently became aquanited with a woman who embodies the very best of what we can be. You may know Molly Mc Kay from her many appearences CNN, MSNBC, etc.
She's a co-founder of Marriage Equality USA, and she's conducted interviews in a wedding dress. It's her shtick, but it works!
Molly doesn't just talk about equality and unity, she lives it. You get no attitude from her. In addition to her activism, she works full time as an attorney~~yet she always has a moment to offer someone a kind word.
In my quest to make things better withn the LGBT community, I interviewed Molly.
Molly's elegant, eloquent words were as wonderfully uplifting and moving as Judy Shepard's.
I'm sorry to say that a man who runs a widely read gay news blog, someone I thought was a friend, now refuses to post either my Judy Shepard or my Molly Mc Kay interviews, because, as he puts it, I'm a bigot.
For daring to speak the truth, for demanding something better, I'm a bigot.
Well, shame on him.
Judy & Molly are putting out messages of love, hope and inclusion~~it's been a long time since I heard these kinds of things spoken of by gay activists who mean it and live it. I don't see how anyone can justify
silencing either of them.
We can't always agree on every talking point, but that shouldn't make enemies: we're all fighting for the same rights and we need each other.
Shutting each other out accomplishes nothing, other than to hold us back.
Last night, Nelson over at NG blog posted my Molly Mc Kay interview.
Though it will appear next month in several print zines, Nelson was the first to publish it. As he put it, we're working towards a common goal.
Right on dude.
Thanks.
Here, from NG Blog, is my interview with Molly Mc Kay:
http://nlsngrc.blogspot.com/2009/10/david-alex-nahmod-molly-mckay-could.html
Erase Hate!
David Alex Nahmod
SF CA
Oct 2009
1 hour ago
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4 comments:
You are a bigot. And a stalker and a slanderer. I wouldn't be surprised if you harassed the blog editor you mention for not kissing your ass and calling you Gay Jesus like you want everybody to do. You've publicly admitted you're not right in the head. Stop acting like a childish psycho and maybe people will listen to you.
The Judy Shepard and Molly Mc Kay interviews were writte by me and published by NG~~and others~~because we're tired of a community where turning against each other is the social norm.
NG & I support the messages of true tolerance & inclusion that Mc Kay & Shepard are putting out.
Comments like the one from "niki", who I suspect is someone I know hiding behind a false identity, only serves to underscore my point.
In the past month, two gay men told me they no longer wish to be part of the gay community, because of the way the community has treated them.
A third gay man, one with full blown AIDS, told me he was taunted within the gay community for his "gross"appearence.
It just goes on and on.
Enough is enough.
I have a question for you, Niki.
Instead of calling me names, why won't you say you're sorry that a gay man wth AIDS was treated so poorly?
Better someone to admit to his own faults than an a unethical cafeteria queer.
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