Monday, 23 February 2009

• My last "commie homo-loving suns-of-guns" post

  
  Well I've come to a decision, I'm leaving Xanga. I've decided to stop blogging. I have met so many cool
  people on Xanga and for that I am grateful but it just isn't fun anymore. I'm not having fun anymore.
  To be honest blogging has become more of an obligation then a hobby and obviously that's not what I want.
  What I want is to thank all the people who have and read my blog and left comments. I want to thank all
  the people who gave my blog a second glance or chance and a big thanks to all the people who didn't. I
  had alot of with Canga and I hope all of you continue to without me, hahaha, I'm sure you're struggle
  greatly. But I want to leave on a very high note so I'll leave with these two beautiful, hopeful things.

  
  The Academy Award for Best Actor goes to Sean Penn for his role in Milk as openly gay San Francisco city
  supervisor Harvey Milk. And the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay goes to openly gay writer Dustin Lance Black for his
  screenplay Milk.

  I PROMISE to come back and post pictures of both of them but there just wasn't time right now. EDIT: I didn't think it was g oing to be so hard to find two decent pictures of Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn at the Oscars. I haven't given up though.

  Personally, I think someone should give him an award his perfect and beautiful
  acceptance speech. I can't even remember the last time I cried but when they said his and he gave his
  little speech. But I ignored the dull burning sensation and kept blinking away the tears at the corners
  of my eyes. I bit my bottom lip in an attempt to conceal the huge smile exploding inside me. Maybe it
  wasn't or isn't that big of a deal but it was to me and it still is. I want to leave Xanga with Dustin
  Lance Black's speech. Thanks again guys and a special bye to Dizbiz, Bittersweet Vengeance,
  Creegansgal and Daniele, you guys rock. To everyone,  good night and good luck.

  
  Dustin Lance Black:
  Oh my God. This was, um. This was not an easy film to make. First off, I have to thank Cleve Jones
  and Anne Kronenberg and all the real-life people who shared their stories with me. And, um,
  Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco, and our entire cast,
  my producers, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, everyone at Groundswell and Focus, for taking on the
  challenge of telling this life-saving story. When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and
  my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California and I
  heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life,
  it gave me the hope to one day live my life openly as who I am and that maybe even I could fall
  in love and one day get married.

  (He chokes up, audience begins to applaud.)

  I want to thank my mom who has always loved me for who I am, even when there was pressure not to.
  But most of all, if Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he’d want me to say
  to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than
  by their churches or by the government or by their families that you are beautiful, wonderful
  creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon,
  I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

  (Wild applause from the audience.)

  Thank you, thank you, and thank you God for giving us Harvey Milk.
  

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