Diversity Rules Magazine

2 Diversity Rules Magazine March 2015 My Two Cents By Jim Koury, Editor Inside is Issue (partial listing) Calvin's Head ................................................... Page 3 Feature Interview: Tegan James ...................... Page 4 Lover's Game ...................................................Page 8 Amazon Trail ................................................... Page 11 Rubyfruit Jungle .............................................. Page 13 HETravel ......................................................... Page 14 Robert Saldarini .............................................. Page 16 Let's Go to Portland, OR ................................ Page 17 VA Denies Benefits ......................................... Page 19 Resources and Diversions .................................Page 22 Welcome to the March issue of Diversity Rules Magazine. What a winter it has been here in the Northeast! Hopefully with March's arrival spring is only a short time away! Let's hope it comes with teh calendar this year too. is month's issue has a lot of great information and feature articles in- cluding our cover feature intervie- wee Tegan James. Tegan James is the founder & editor of GALA Magazine | LGBT Art- ists. Tegan is a visual artist whose artistic focus is primarily through the use of tile art and canvas paint- ings. Tegan considers his work to be mostly abstract expressionism. To add to the diversity, Tegan is transgender, and interested in see- ing how his gender identity will come out in his art. It is Tegan's intention to share the wide range and depth of his emo- tions –whether raw or lighthearted — on canvas or tile art pieces; and it is his hope that you will exam- ine each piece, each swirl, each stroke, each scrape and be moved, be touched, be inspired — to go on and create in your own unique way. Diversity Rules Magazine is al- ways looking for new writers with a uniquely interesting perspective. If you would like to contribute content please contact the editor using the contact information to the left. Additionally, as you know, the print version of Diveristy Rules is still on hiatus. I am continually working to get it back. Stay tuned! Have a great March! 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 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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