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2 Diversity Rules Magazine February 2020 Inside is Issue (partial listing) Pride Journeys .......................................................... Page 3 Empowering Queer! ................................................ Page 4 Boxers Sports Bar .....................................................Page 7 Amazon Trail ........................................................... Page 11 Stop Censoring Yourself ........................................... Page 13 Best Year Ever .......................................................... Page 18 True Life Crime ....................................................... Page 20 Resources and Diversions ........................................ Page 22 Welcome to the February issue of Diversity Rules Magazine. As usual, we are chugging right along, and the months con nue to pass very quickly. With this issue, I decided once again to write the main feature. I was compelled to express my thoughts on empowerment and how it relates to being queer. The tle of this month's feature is "Empowering Queer." It focus- es not only on LGBTQ individu- als, but on the broader focus, as well, in terms of empowering our queerness and embracing it, in order to help others move for- ward and embrace theirs. Empowerment is one of those catchwords we hear a lot about now. We read and hear about it from many self-help gurus, and others, that we must empower ourselves to achieve great things, and to dig deep within ourselves to find out how. I hope you re- late to my thoughts and like the piece. Your input is always wel- come, and I encourage you to leave comments on the blog at the website. This issue also includes the usual monthly columists including Joey Amato, who takes us on a trip to beau ful Palm Springs, CA. Tony Guadagnino begins a new focus with his column related to gay athletes and how they have empowered others to be- lieve in themselves and acheive great things. The first focus is Greg Louganis, since the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be here before we know it. Lee Lynch provides her usual humor- ous bent on topics of the day, with this month's column being a Amazon Trail Tabloid ar cle. Fun, fun piece! As you can see the concept of empowerment is going to be a recurring theme in subsequent issues, as well. Stay tuned. See you in March! Diversity Rules Magazine PO Box 72 Oneonta, NY 13820 James R. Koury Editor/Publisher 607.435.1587 Website www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Blog diversityrulesmagazine.com/blog E-Mail diversityrulesmagazine@gmail.com Copyright 2020 Diversity Rules Magazine All Rights Reserved Disclaimers If you have a ques on or comment regard- ing this issue or future issues of Diversity Rules Magazine, the publisher would love to hear from you! Feel free to contact Di- versity Rules using the e-mail above or mailing address listed above. Content submission are always welcome too! All submissions become the property of Diversity Rules Magazine. However, origi- na ng authors reserve all rights to their crea ve works. Diversity Rules Magazine's physical offices are located at 189 River Street, Oneonta, NY 13820. Diversity Rules Magazine will not know- ingly publish or adver se text which is fraudulent or misleading. The publisher reserves the right to edit, limit, revise, or reject any text without cause. Diversity Rules Magazine does not assume any fnancial responsibility for typographi- cal errors. If any errors are found, please no fy Diversity Rules Magazine immedi- ately. Materials in this publica on may not be reproduced in any form without writ- ten permission from the publisher. Jim Koury Editor/PublishEr divErsity rulEs magazinE

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