Comments on: Simple Audacity

By: Genevieve Nolet

Genevieve Nolet — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:32:41 +0000

THank god she did!
And thank god for people like us who get it…
May all our ours remain open-
Your writing was moving-
True…
I try to remind myself to give my energy to the light as his negativity will drain into the nothingness of nothingness…

Thanks for that peice of writing…it was great-
Genevieve

By: kayla

kayla — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:38:59 +0000

i think that this is a step forward for gays and lesbians. its just what we need. someone to tell the world that shes not sorry for who she is she not going to hide because of it and in fact she does the opposite. i read melissa’s book about a dozen times actually and there was a passage in there that said that when she went to the grammy’s so long ago she was asked by her manger if he could sit beside her she knew why he was doing it and she let him do it any way. i am very glad that she went from that to thanking her wife on stage if front of everyone. way to go melissa.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:13:52 +0000

I think what Melissa did was wonderful and this comment is coming from a hetero. I think more of “Hollywood” needs to take a stand for who they are, and give their spouse s/o credit like Melissa did. I don’t have a problem that she kissed or thanked her wife, she had every right to do that just like anyone else. They are a beautiful couple and they have beautiful children.

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:15:27 +0000

THANK YOU.

One day… maybe not in our lifetime… none of this will even be an issue. One day the whole world will finally understand that “Love Is Never Wrong”…

In the meantime… Yes, there’s still much to be done.

Angie

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:18:18 +0000

Wow, very touching. It almost brought me to tears reading the part about having the simple audacity to live your life as open as everyone else.

I really applaud you.

Always keep doing what you’re doing and never give up hope.

Paul

By: Katharine

Katharine — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:49:46 +0000

This was a beautiful, moving post: I think it’s one of your best in a while.

It isn’t controversial or subversive: it just goes to show what a complete and total extremist Savage is (not that we didn’t know that).

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:45:35 +0000

Mike could be jealous HIS wife, if he has one, isn’t as beautiful as Melissa’s is.
Or HE might abandon his wife during a cancer treatment, like Newt Gingrich did.

I’ve had my own marital troubles, and hoped I could have what ANYONE whose spouse sticks to their vows would have.
I’ve met Melissa Etheridge, besides such a big raw voice for such a little woman, she is VERY beautiful. The way a rose bloom is…or a songbird.
I couldn’t begrudge anyone such love in their lives as you have Terrence.

It’s SO hard to have it, some of us long for it, never had it…or want back what we once had.
I think it’s an abomination to keep someone from doing all they can when they love someone..and someone loves them back, and wants so badly to care for their children…when so many don’t.
And not reward or respect those who do it, IN SPITE of prejudice against their famiies, such as you do, Terrence.

I have been very moved by the gratitude of gay folks sometimes, like the gay soldiers that have taken a bullet for Mike Savage’s rights in this country.
How awful he doesn’t get the tremendous moral authority behind THAT kind of behavior.
Or give thanks…