As lots of you may know when I’m not blogging and performing with the femme show I’m an author and I’m the editor of the Kicked Out athology. I’m sure that you will all be pleased to know that the bedbug situation in our home appears to be completely under control, we’ve had no sightings in over a week and are continuing forward to with all required treatments!

It’s been a huge relief especially since a large amount of my time has been spent working on the new campaign that I have launched called “Come Out, Kicked Out.” www.kicedoutanthology.com is more than just a website for my anthology, it is truly about building a movement to break down the cultural shame and silencing faced by those of us who left home as teens because of our sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

This year for National Coming Out Day (October 11th) the Come Out, Kicked Out campaign is asking you to come out as an ally to current and former homeless queer youth, as a former homeless queer youth, or as a current homeless queer youth. 40% of homeless youth in the United States identify as LGBTQ and our community has a responsibility to fight this epidemic. If you have a video camera *please* make an ally coming out video, or a coming out video, upload it to youtube, and share it with us! All videos made will be posted to www.kickedoutanthology.com and we will be captioning them in both English and Spanish.

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