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2 Diversity Rules Magazine June 2016 Inside is Issue (partial listing) A PTSD Memoir ............................................. Page 3 Living Right ..................................................... Page 4 Passtion In Our Hearts ..................................... Page 6 Moving Beyond Duality ................................... Page 8 Pride Celebrations Listing ................................ Page 10 Amazon Trail .................................................... Page 11 So Happy .......................................................... Page 16 Royal Caribbean Coming Out .......................... Page 17 Resources and Diversions .................................. Page 22 Welcome to the June issue of Di- versity Rules Magazine. It's hard to believe June is upon us and with it comes pride season! It's always exciting to see the many differnt pride celebrations happening all across New York, the country and the world! ere is a rather disturbing trend beginning with many pride cel- ebrations in that many are being subverted by corporate run queer media and advocacy organizations that seem to want to filter the cel- ebrations in a very antiseptic fash- ion with an attempt to squelch and hide the more colorful elements of our big queer tent. We must resist that effort, and maintain and enhance our indi- viduality and reject this artificial control by the corporate run queer media and advocacy agencies. We must celebrate our vitality and di- versity, as well as respect the whole range of individuals under this big rainbow tent of ours. Do not allow the corporate media and PC rid- den advocacy groups to shove the more colorful people of our com- munity into the shadows. ey are the ones that took charge on that hot summer night in 1969 and catapulted the modern gay rights movement into existence. Being the Editor/Publisher of an independent gay press I say shame on those that have allowed, and actually have supported the co- opting of the gay rights movement by this artificial vision of who we are and have succumbed to the sanitizing of the gay culture that once was the true lifeblood -- the fire -- of the gay rights movement. We must never abandon pride cel- ebrations. Given the many advancements that have occurred over the years and the greater acceptance of Two Cents - Con't on page 15 Diversity Rules Magazine PO Box 72 Oneonta, NY 13820 James R. Koury, Editor/Publisher 607.435.1587 Website www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Blog www.diversityrulesmagazine.blogspot.com E-Mail generalinfo@diversityrulesmagazine.com Copyright 2016 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. Jim Koury Editor/Publisher Diversity Rules Magazine

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