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2 Diversity Rules Magazine September 2014 My Two Cents By Jim Koury, Editor Inside is Issue (partial listing) Keep Up Now .................................................. Page 3 Feature Interview: Luke O'Donovan .............. Page 4 Tarringo Vaughnl .............................................Page 7 Billy Glover. ..................................................... Page 8 Grydscaen: War............................................... Page 10 Amazon Trail ................................................... Page 11 inQUEERies ................................................... Page 14 Day Tripper ..................................................... Page 16 Visiting Las Vegas ........................................... Page 17 Remedies ......................................................... Page 19 Resources and Diversions .................................Page 22 Welcome to the September issue of Diversity Rules Magazine. It is in- credibly hard to believe that the sum- mer has flown by already. e year is flying by as well. Time waits for no one. Live for the day! is month's feature is one that I am very excited about. Diversity Rules Magazine is honored to be able to pub- licize the plight of Luke O'Donovan. Luke is a gay male in Georgia that was the victim of a hate crime. However instead of arresting those that com- mitted this heinous crime, the police arrested Luke instead for assault be- cause he defended himself. After his court trial Luke was sen- tenced to two years in prison along with 8 years of probation banned from the state of Georgia with the ex- ception of a very small judicial district located in the southernmost part of Georgia. A member of Luke's support team, Spencer Gould, was graciouis enough to do the interview with Diversity Rules Magazine to publicize Luke's plight and to undertake a public cam- paign to help convince the judge to abdicate his harsh and very arcane probation sentence. In this day and age we hear about hate crimes and cases like Luke's almost every week, where homophobia runs rampant. Hate crimes are committed against people whose only crime is be- ing themselves. is has got to stop. Enough is enough. I would encourage you to visit Luke's support page and make a donation to help Luke with basic necessities dur- ing his two years in prison. I would also encourage you to write to the judge in the case and ask him to abdi- cate his harsh and very punitive pro- bration sentence. Luke will apprecitate it. Diversity Rules Magazine PO Box 72 Oneonta, NY 13820 James R. Koury, Publisher 607.435.1587 Website www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Blog www.diversityrulesmagazine.blogspot.com E-Mail generalinfo@diversityrulesmagazine.com Copyright 2014 Diversity Rules Magazine All Rights Reserved Disclaimers If you have a question 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 sub- mission are always welcome too! All submissions become the property of Diversity Rules Magazine. However, origi- nating authors reserve all rights to their creative 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 advertise 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 notify Diversity Rules Magazine immedi- ately. Materials in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without writ- ten permission from the publisher.

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