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Welcome to My Tyme:
Your Time…Your Voice…
My Tyme aspires to be what human rights groups in America have forgotten to be. We desire to return to the time when the gay rights movement carried a power and fierce indignation. We strive to bring back that militant attitude that says “Half way is never enough!”
We do not accept injustice, and we live by the principal that a couple of voices who refuse to be silent can impact a generation. Those voices are ours voices! This is our time and our generation, and it will be our persistence that will reform the world around us.
Our goal is to meet with the people of our own region. We want to greet them and talk to them one on one, this is why My Tyme values diversity. If one person can’t reach out to a specific sector of society, perhaps the next person can. We desire this personal approach to campaigning because of the simple fact that human rights is not about the fight, IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR.
We will interact with these people on that personal level as well as holding open meeting, rallies, and discussion groups. Picketing, protesting, and petitioning. Running political campaigns, etc… We will fight in the streets of Missouri as well as in the capital. The beginnings of this project may be small, but through our persistence and dedication we will work to make change. This project is built with determined and dedicated people and its members are its strength.
We will draw on new ideas and thought forms. We will pull the best from those who have come before us and those who fight today. The greatest ideals of My Tyme revolve around the attitude of its members. My Tyme members will be involved, militant, and persistent. It was said once in a movie, “Never Give Up, Never Surrender!” At My tyme this is our anthem!
Welcome to something new. Welcome to the reformation. Welcome to what we hope will be the platform for your voice. Welcome to My Tyme!
Mission:
In order to reform both ourselves and the community we represent, to create change in our society, and to better our own circumstances of living, we will come together to promote definite change. We will fight in the capitals and the streets of our own communities. We will achieve freedom, liberty, and justice for all. We will set the standard and be the standard. We are the fight, the struggle, and the solution. This is our time; we will take control of it. This is our voice; we will use it! We are motivated and persistent. We are militant in our efforts and we will persevere. We defend and work for the equal rights and treatment of ourselves and others like us.
Primary Principals:
- We Reform
- We will set the standard
- We will be the standard
- We are the fight, struggle, and solution
- We will let our voices be heard
- We are motivated
- We are persistent
- We are militant
- We will persevere
- We defend
These are the 10 principals of My Tyme and our Mission Statement. These ideals will govern this Organization as a whole. They are our goals, methods, and ethics.

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Inspiration

On October 6th of 1998 two young straight men walked into a bar that was known for catering to homosexuals. They picked a random twenty-one year old boy and convinced him they were gay. They lured this boy to their truck and beat him. After this they drove a mile into private property, where they knew they would not be disturbed. They beat him with a foot long pistol until he was covered in blood. They tied him to a fence… They left him to die… This boy was Matthew Shepard.
This was the last event in our people’s history that caused this nation to actually look at the policies and practices that affected our community. In an instant we had the attention of the entire world turned to us. This was our 9/11. Since then we have forgotten Matthew Shepard and the gay rights movement has died down. We are once more pushed to the margins of society to be ignored.
How did we come to this place? How did our society go from Socrates and Alexander the Great, to the death of a brilliant young man like Matthew?

How is it that we once sparked entire waves of culture through ancient societies and yet now we are removed from the scene entirely? When did we turn this corner?
Gays are the most frowned upon and discriminated against people in the world. We are hated more than Blacks, Hispanics, or Muslims. Our nation, in particular, is the great pretender. America herself allows us a few certain rights while denying us to have others which are of great importance… Yet that which we have been given serves only to distract us from the bigger picture, that which we need!
Yet we have stopped fighting, and those who remain to fight do so in silence. The ACLU fights in the American courts, but who do they really fight for? They defended Shirley Phelps-Roper! The HRC fights big business and politicians, but why don’t we hear them fighting? They are silent!
At one time in American history, a mere forty years ago to be exact, it was punishable by law to be gay. Gay men could be locked away in mental institutions, they were forced to undergo electroshock therapy and pharmaceutical treatment, they were locked in prisons for anywhere from five years to ten or twenty or even life, They were harassed by police, fined, and even castrated! This was the time when people spoke up, when we absolutely had to be heard! Riots broke out in the US, groups like the Mattachine spoke out, men and women protested the unfair treatment of people in our society, and over the course of twenty years we changed a nation!
So why, in the middle of success and mass reform, did we stop? When did we decide that half way was good enough? We are still denied equality in housing and employment. Same-Sex marriages go unrecognized by our own government… who we pay taxes to! The military issues dishonorable discharges to gay men and lesbians who want to serve their nation. Sodomy is still illegal in 18 states, including Missouri, making it unlawful for two men who love each other to be intimate. No federal hate crime laws exist to protect us and even our children are denied safety in their schools!
While all this goes on in an ever perpetuating cycle, our people have become light hearted. They have forgotten their history and they don’t know about the present, nor do they care about the future. Our community has left the fight in favor of going to clubs and bars. They go to Pride fest and they don’t even know the meaning of the word and no matter how many little rainbows they wave they will never understand the story behind our flag!
The G/L/B/T community has left the struggle behind. They assume that life suddenly became easy and neglect the thing that our people once fought for. They assume that everything will work itself out. Yet they do not realize that in America everything is given to those who speak out, and the loudest voice is the one that is heard.
Our enemies are everywhere. They are the WBC, the KKK, the Skin Heads, and the radicals. They are the Segregators, and the uninformed, and those who don’t know that knowledge is power! They are even within our own community, those who do not understand who they are or that their voice matters. They don’t know their own value in a time like this.
Our people need allies and numbers. We need heroes and heroines. We need strong hearts and free minds. And most of all we need a voice.

My Blog

March Newsletter!!!!

My Tyme for a New Year....By J. Michael....There is no doubt that last summer My Tyme Missouri was born to a rocky start. Now, with a newly elected state and federal administration, My Tyme Missouri i...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:27:00 GMT

Committes (FINALIZED LIST)

These are My Tyme's FINALIZED committee lists. No additions will be made without the expressed approval of the Chair, Back Office Administrator, and Committee Head. It is the responsibility of each in...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:01:00 GMT

My Tyme STL Public Meeting

My Tyme Missouri's St. Louis Chapter will host it's first public meeting Wednesday February 25th at the LGBT Community Center in STL's Central West End at 6:30 pm! Discussion topics will include Lobby...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:55:00 GMT

My Tyme Missouri: St. Louis.... The Mineral Area... Etc...

There is no doubt that last summer My Tyme Missouri was born to a rocky start. Now, however, at the begining of a new year, with an equally new state and federal administration, My Tyme Missouri has i...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:55:00 GMT

PROTEST!!! STL!!!

OMG!!!! There is a Protest to fight the ejection of Californias Prop 8 that banned Gay Marriage!!  The protest is from 12 noon to 2 pm tomarrow Sat Nov 15!!! It is in Down town STL on the steps o...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:23:00 GMT

Check out this event: OBAMA AT ARCH THIS SATURDAY!!!

Hosted By: Barack ObamaWhen: Saturday Oct 18, 2008 at 10:00 AMWhere St. Louis ArchThe ArchSt. Louis, Missouri|26 63110United StatesDescription:Barack Obama Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:52:00 GMT

My Tyme Missouri... In Cooperation With J.Michael Ministries!

Disclaimer: My Tyme Missouri is NOT a religious organization. My Tyme Missouri is a political and social discussion/action group.     When I was 17 I became a Christian and I started to lear...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:53:00 GMT

My Tyme Expands and Prepares for Bigger Challanges!

My Tyme Missouri held it's last consolidated meeting in St. Louis tonight (July 24, 2008). Moving forward My Tyme will be split into two chapters, the Rainbow Arch Alliance of the Greater St. Louis Ar...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:25:00 GMT

Preparing for St. Francois County!

My Tyme is now hard at work setting the scene to develop a group in the Farmington / Park Hills area of St, Francois County. This will be My Tyme Missouri's second chapter, working closely with the Ra...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Reorganizing My Tyme!

My Tyme is now equipped with a Tax Id and enough members to make a certain Impact in the state of Mo! We are proud to announce that My Tyme is going to reorganize all initiatives for the 2008 project ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT