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About Me

Welcome to my page!
I am President and Co-Founder of Fight OUT Loud , a national non-profit organization dedicated to empowering LGBT individuals, and their allies, to fight discrimination and hate. My partner and I were inspired to get involved in activism and create Fight OUT Loud as a result of an eye-opening experience of discrimination (read about it HERE or just ask me).
I am a vocal community activist and LGBT rights advocate. Besides my non-profit work, I also work as political consultant specializing in web-based action, social networking, and youth outreach. I am also on the Editorial Team for The Bilerico Project , the nation's leading LGBTQ blog forum, the Managing Editor of The Bilerico Project Florida Edition , and a political columnist for the online magazine GaySoFla.com .
I have been happily partnered for 6 years with my amazing husband Anthony Niedwiecki, a law professor and administrator at Nova Southeastern University (and running for Mayor of Oakland Park in 2009! Woo-Hoo!). We received our civil union from Vermont and are registered domestic partners in Broward County, where we live with our two wonderful dogs. We also recently got married in San Francisco!! We are also is the proud foster parents of a now college-aged son.
When I'm not completely immersed in advocacy work, I somehow manage to have a good time and truly enjoy life. The most important things to me are just to be happy, live life to its fullest, and help others do the same.
All in all, I am trying to do my best to make the world around me better. I am also someone who is always looking to talk and get to know new, quality people. I am always looking to expand my group of friends and hang out buddies. So feel free to say hello!
Please check out Fight OUT Loud, our national non-profit organization! Click here:
I am also on the Editorial Team for The Bilerico Project, the nation's leading LGBT blog forum! Check it out:
And I'm the Managing Editor for Bilerico's new Florida-based site- The Bilerico Project Florida !
You can also check out my personal blog by clicking here:

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Anyone and everyone! I love making new friends, especially since I travel all over for work and like knowing people in the towns I go to. I wouldn't mind some cool South Florida folks either! So talk away, new random friends!

Please check out my non-profit organization's website! Click here: http://www.fightoutloud.org

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My Blog

Speaking Washington's Language: Money and Media

It seems the silence from the Obama Administration might be coming to end. Maybe. Well, at least they're being forced to respond. After the increasing outrage from all sides in the LGBT communi...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:58:00 GMT

Let's Homosexualize! Humor as a Tool for Change

There are few things I enjoy more in life than making fun of the Far Right. And trust, me they sometimes make it way too easy. From the fun of talking about "Homosexualizing" and "Transgenderizi...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:16:00 GMT

U.S. State Department Condemns Anti-Gay Violence in Iraq

Yesterday, the United States officially condemned the increasing violence towards the gay community in Iraq, which has spiked since the beginning of the Iraq War. The US Embassy in Baghdad has als...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:37:00 GMT

Really, Right-wing? "Homosexualizing"?

It's not the first time I've seen it, but for some reason it jumped out at me in a recent press release I was reading from some nutty, fundie, right-wing group (insert some combination of "America"...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:57:00 GMT

I Don't Care What You Do in the Privacy of Your Own Home...

I'm just sick of them rubbing it my face. I don't "hate" them, I just don't want to see it. They can do it in the privacy of their own home, but stop forcing it down my throat. Familiar argume...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 10:09:00 GMT

You've Got (Hate) Mail

Like any good online geek, I stumbled out of bed this morning and went straight for the computer to check my email, Twitter, and Facebook. Green tea in hand, I opened my computer and started scrolli...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 12:41:00 GMT

California's Prop 8: Limited Edition Married Gays, Still Separate and NOT EQUAL

My head is spinning. After the long wait, the decision on Prop 8 has come. It was something my husband and I were watching very closely, since we are 1 of the 18,000 couples married in California ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Sins of the Father

Thirteen years. Nearly half of the 30 years I have been on this earth. That's how long it has been since I've spoken to my father. 13 years of silence, of therapy, of anger, of making peace, of...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 15:25:00 GMT

End Discrimination at Miami Hospital

Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami says they dont have to allow their patients visitors  Janice Langbehn and Lisa Pond, together 18 years, were about to depart from Miami on a family crui...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:00 GMT

Only Rich Christians Should Marry?

The folks who brought us Florida's horrific Amendment 2 are back in the business of interfering with people's private lives... again. John Stemberger, head of the Florida Family Policy Council and t...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:21:00 GMT