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2 Diversity Rules Magazine February 2014 My Two Cents By Jim Koury, Editor Inside is Issue (partial listing) Keep Up Now .................................................. Page 3 Feature Interview: Barb Morrison .................. Page 4 I Am Me .......................................................... Page 8 Amazon Trail ................................................... Page 11 inQUEERies ................................................... Page 14 e Gay Advocate ........................................... Page 15 It's Mardi Gras ................................................ Page 16 Visiting Seattle ................................................ Page 17 Remedies ......................................................... Page 19 Events Listing ................................................. Page 20 Resources and Diversions .................................Page 22 Welcome to the February issue of Di- versity Rules Magazine! e issue is full of great stuff and there is a couple new and exciting things debuting in the issue. Diversity Rules Magazine welcomes Barb Morrison as its February guest feature. Barb, who identifies as bisex- ual, is an American recording artist, Top 5 Billboard dance chart songwrit- er, and Gold record producer. She is best known as a producer for nu- merous artists such as Blondie, Rufus Wainwright, L.P. and as one half of the production duo Super Buddha. Barb was born in Schenectady, New York. After beginning piano at age 7 and saxophone at age 9, Barb joined her first punk band as a drummer at age 14. She bought her first guitar for $15.00 at the age of 17 and moved to New York City later that year to pur- sue a career in music. Barb is currently producing records and film scores in her Brooklyn, New York studio. Recent projects include upcoming releases by Blondie and e Cliks, as well as a number of songs featuring Grammy-nominated mixer Tony Maserati. I am also excited to welcome Dov Tre- iman to the Diversity Rules Magazine family. He will be writing a column about legal issues facing the gay com- munity. Doubly exciting is the debut of Di- versity Rules Magazine on the Air! Yes, Diversity Rules Magazine is en- tering broadcast media with a weekly radio podcast under the umbrella of the Free Spirit Network on Blog Talk Radio. e show debuts on February 5th and will continue every Wednes- day evening beginning at 7:00 PM. You do NOT want to miss this. See you all soon and keep forging ahead with your destiny. Diversity Rules Magazine PO Box 72 Oneonta, NY 13820 James R. Koury, Publisher 607.432.1179 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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