October Feature: Urban Animals

In 2013, Tony Sawicki and Clover Welsh, aka Clover Honey, created and launched a totally new and completely different magazine format series. The two envisioned a show focusing on pets and animals, a subject which both shared a passion for. The primary mission of Urban Animals is to educate people about animals and to encourage […]

Coming Up In October: Urban Animals

In 2013, Tony Sawicki and Clover Welsh, aka Clover Honey, created and launched a totally new and completely different magazine format series.  The two envisioned a show focusing on pets and animals, a subject which both shared a passion for. “We wanted to do an animal show, but we also wanted to maintain a certain […]

Diversity In The Workplace

At the helm of 360HR, with over 15 years experience in the Staffing/Recruiting industry, Tonie is a Social-Impact Entrepreneur and Chief Diversity JobMingler. During her own search for employment where she could bring her “entire self” to work, 360HR was founded. Her element is educating clients in understanding diversity is ONLY the first step, inclusion […]

Saying Goodbye to Summer

Tony Guadagnino is a marketing consultant. Located in New Jersey, his clients are based across the country, focusing on social media to build their presence on the internet. He studied creative writing in college and is currently working his first novel on the subject of bullying. He lives with his partner Mark. There is a […]

A PTSD Memoir: Another Night of Terror

David-Elijah Nahmod is a film critic and reporter in San Francisco. His articles appear regularly in The Bay Area Reporter and SF Weekly. You can also find him on Facebook and Twitter. David developed Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder (PTSD) after surviving gay conversion therapy as a child and has found that many in the LGBT […]

Ex-Amish Democrat Endorses Hillary Clinton

James Schwartz is a poet and author of the poetry collections The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America, Arrival and Departure and Secular, Satirical & Sacred Meditations. He currently resides in Michigan literaryparty.blogspot.com Twitter: @queeraspoetry As an honorary founding father of LGBT Amish.com, I am used to fundamentalist push back and conservative, […]

My Two Cents

Welcome to the September issue of Diversity Rules Magazine and “My Two Cents.” It is hard to believe the summer has slipped by us so quickly. Fall will be upon us soon and I shudder at what is coming after that. But that’s what living in the Great Northeast is all about. The election is […]

A Chat With Jani Allan

Jani Allan is remembered as South Africa’s first celebrity journalist. She joined the Sunday Times in 1980. Soon, she had the highest readership on the newspaper which had a circulation of some four million. Jani was raised in Johannesburg’s privileged northern suburbs and read Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. As well as […]

Coming Up In September: Jani Allan

Jani Allan is remembered as South Africa’s first celebrity journalist. She joined the Sunday Times in 1980. Soon, she had the highest readership on the newspaper which had a circulation of some four million. Jani was raised in Johannesburg’s privileged northern suburbs and read Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. As well as her writing […]

Mommie Smearest

When JOAN CRAWFORD is stopped at the gate to Hollywood Heaven and ordered to Hell “for reasons well known to her,” she charms (acts) her way past the aspiring-rapper guard and manages to enter Heaven on probation. To get off parole, she must return to Earth to both explain her Mommie Dearest sins and perform […]