Growing Up Gay and Amish

A Book By James Schwartz© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine and James Schwartz.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com James Schwartz is a poet and slam performer striving for the simplicity of Cavafy mixed with modern gay wordplay and elements.  Schwartz’s poetry/slam material dialougues of queer issues and affirmations of gay (night) life and love.  He was born February […]

My Two Cents

By Jim Koury, Editor, Diversity Rules Magazinewww.diversityrulesmagazine.com Welcome to the December issue of Diversity Rules Magazine.  It is hard to believe the year is almost gone!  It has been a gratifying year; a year of growth and evolution, not only for Diversity Rules, but for me personally as well.  I look forward to the new […]

Keep Up Now

By Terry Ludwig© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine and Terry Ludwig.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Terry’s brother Rob died of AIDS in 2004 and left her his writings of which Keep Up Now is the result.  Terry can be reached at keepupnow@gmail.com.  Check out Terry’s website to find out how to manifest happiness and abundance. Relationships are […]

To Love A Woman

A Book By Fire De Ville© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Fire De Ville is a captivating new voice on the LGBT writing scene. Her love of freedom, coupled with her passionate concern for the environment as well as her dedication to the civil rights of the LGBT community, ignites her writing with […]

Coming Out In New York

A Book by DLuis Meyer© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com DLuis Meyer is a  true European with friends in London, Barcelona, Paris, and Buenos Aires.  He used to live in London for 8 years and moved to New York 3 years agol  He currently works in finance and always wanted to live in […]

Leslie-Lohman Museum

By Steve Deitsch, Reverberate! Marketing Communications© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Even well after the cultural wars of the mid 1980’s, the representation of sexual difference in art has been aggressively policed. And America’s museums, with few notable exceptions, have been silent in the face of what is now the most vocal contemporary […]

EastSiders

Indie dark comedy attracts established TV stars© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com ”As the World Turns” star Van Hansis and “Happy Endings” star Stephen Guarino have joined the cast of the new web series “EastSiders,” which is scheduled to premiere on Friday, Dec. 14th. Hansis, who was nominated for three Daytime Emmies for […]

The Amazon Trail: Happy Dance

By Lee Lynch© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine and Lee Lynch.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Lee Lynch wrote the classic novels The Swashbuckler and Toothpick House. The most recent of her 14 books, Sweet Creek and Beggar of Love, were published by Bold Strokes Books. She lives in rural Florida with her wife and their furry ruffians. […]

Inqueeries

By Milton Wendland© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine and Milton Wendland.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Milton Wendland is a licensed attorney and a professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses in LGBT cultures, sexuality and law, and queer theory. Dear Milton – I wanna come out because I […]

Anointed

A Film By Nerva Augustin© 2012 Diversity Rules Magazine.  All Rights Reserved.www.diversityrulesmagazine.com Nerva Augustin was born and raised in Queens New York. He is one of four children born from Haitian immigrant parents. Nerva holds a Bachelors Degree in English Literature and has a Masters in Fine Arts with a focus in Directing for film. […]