Saturday Shade.. What they do in the dark!

Daring

How daring of you to love me with a lie,

How dare you laugh at my pain, How dare you delight in my heartache.
How dare you tell me I was the lead actor, when I was really the support cast...
How dare you enter my world, and allow me entrance into yours, when you knew there was no intention to stay,

How daring, you loved me with a lie...

How dare you listen to my past, pretend to be my future and revel in my present,
How dare you tell me " I'm all" when I was only a part,
How dare you let me open up, close down and open up again...

How daring, you loved me with a lie...

How dare u let me vision you, understand you, and respect what you said was you...
How dare you think we call us friends, when your knife wound still burns my spine,
How dare you paint new colors for me, create new worlds, open new doors...
How dare you cleverly get inside me, slither through me, nestling warmly behind the safety of my walls,

How daring, you loved me with a lie...

How dare you stay in my head, How dare you burn images in my mind,
How dare you become so routine,
How dare you leave me to make love to "why", to embrace "did I" or " was I",
How dare you give me the illusion of us...
How dare you say my short comings were invisible, when in your reality they beat down your door...

HOW...DARE.... YOU... HOW... DARE.... YOU...HOW DARE YOU...

How ... dare I, be so ready to fill myself with another,
how dare I, still adore you... to still want to understand...
the audacity of me to cover my pain and not flush out its bitter taste...
How dare I... not fully accept your coldness... for believing, and thinking that I had finally found the one... How dare I, even think there was a "one"...

How daring, of me... for simply... wanting to be loved...

The Friday Featured Face!

A Poem of Tribute

Homophobia- Author Unknown

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag everyday.

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the woman who died when the EMTs stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didnt have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am a warrior for my country serving proud, but can't be my true self because gays aren't allowed in the military.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends I'm a lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.

I am the boy tied to a fence, beaten to a bloody pulp and left to die because two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson."

I am the branch from a tree with a thosand limbs, and a million roots; painted all the brightest colors of the rainbow.

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Big Brother 8, it's on!

HOT DAMN!!!! Its back with a vengance...and I cant wait.. BIG BROTHER 8.. whooo weeeee! In reviewing the contestants this year.... looks like we have the dumb blondes with the college girl side dish, the jock, the gay, the black, the old fart/married person.. the rock/goth/weirdo and the undercover sneak! All the makings of what hopefully will be a season of great reality TV. If your a fan, you will know there is always a twist with BB, their modo of "expect the unexpected" rings true each season... this year the guest will apparently have to share the house with someone unwanted from their past. Imagine that!

I have been a fan since season one and baby I live for this damn show. This was one of the original reality shows that laid the foudation. I will definately be giving commentary on all the good stuff this season.. so stay tuned and lets enjoy the sparks... I know they are going to fly. Big Brother 8.. CBS check your local listings for times.

Thursday "T"... 50 and Ciara.. .have u heard?

Are Ciara and 50 Cent Secret Lovers?

Last week it was Diddy, and now this weekTwo Quarters 50 Cent is the latest hip-hop celeb to be caught creepin'. However, in this case, Fiddy isn't allegedly cheating on his baby mama...but he is robbing the cradle. It is being rumored that the MC has been dating the 21-year-old singer and VIBE covergirl Ciara on the low. The Crunk 'n' B songstress worked with 50 on a track on her latest CD Ciara: The Evolution, and it sounds as if a clandestine personal relationship has evolved from their professional pairing.If this rumor is true, then Ciara has gotten over ex-boyfriend Bow Wow in a major way. However, young Ciara would want to watch her step with good old Curtis. If you ask Vivica, he's famous for putting people's business in the street.

Courtesy of VIBE.com

The New York Daily News reported that Ciara and 50 Cent were hanging out together last week. According to the report the pair was "looking like a couple trying not to look like a couple." Now, 50 did work with Ciara on a song called "Can't Leave 'Em" and Ciara was in the backseat avoiding the press. I though he had guns the size of Lil' Bow Wow, not girls the size of Lil' Bow Wow's girls. Ciara's totally grown up and moved on now, if this is true.

Courtesy of Media4i.com

*NOTE*

*Ciara has denied the relationship but the "couple" is still getting spottted... hmmmm.. it will come to light!

Black Women... are u seeing their beauty!

Do Clothes Make the Man?

Stripper Man... Stripper Man...

John Legend Celebrating... Happy 4th!

Is he "excited" or what?

Amerie... is back.. ya think?

Tuesday Tush

T.I vs T.I.P.. he's back!

Ghetto Rat, gets da Cheddah!

Congrats,

The newly crowned winner of Vh1 "Charm School" with head mistress Mo'Nique, is Saaphyri... After a sneaky plot to gain herself a position in the finals, Saaphyri belted out tear jerking sob story of how she had to struggle all her life and was now homeless, which took her to the top and landed her the winner of the $50,000.00 grand prize. I guess it does pay to be hoodrat material!

No hate, keep doing what you gotta do playette!

Nicole Richie.. Preggers!

Grandpa Lionel.. watch out!

Usher..a baby daddy... Lawd!

Im sure by now you've heard and seen the "Fiance" of Mr. Usher Raymond. Well the new word on the street is they are expecting their first child this fall! Imagine that... the things folks will do to keep that "discreetly closeted" door shut, hmmmm...