Here you will find solidarity; here you will find camaraderie and here you will find some of the best writing about LGBTQIA equality every assembled in one location.

What makes this group of posts supportive of LGBTQIA equality different from the norm is that they have all been written by some of the best heterosexual writers in OS.

The Safe_Bet Project is named after my late wife Suzy / Safe_Bet who passed away this last January.   She was always a huge advocate of equality, but at the same time she had so many straight friends that she dearly loved.  Many of them will be represented by their posts here. 

There are a multitude of posts, blogs, etc. where queer folk tell each other about equality, but there are damn few where straight people voice their support.  This one will be all about how equality is perceived through "straight eyes" as opposed to "queer eyes".  I think that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts (posts), especially when great writers are creating them.

If you'd like to participate the guidelines are simple.  You can write about anything you’d like, as long as it supports LGBTQIA equality.  If you want to use a post that you’ve written in the past that is fine, as well. The only real criteria are that they be well written and edited, are 400 – 800 words in length (we could go to 1,000 if it is a FANTASTIC post) and that, as a favor to me because I have a VERY warped sense of humor, no matter how weighty or sober your post might be, I’d like to get to chuckle at least once while reading it. 

Here is a REALLY cool part!  The good  folks at Our Big Gayborhood  are going to let me select a post every month or so to be included on their blog here on OS and on their site, http://www.ourbiggayborhood.com/. (Of course, you will get full credit and all of the corresponding fame and accolades.)

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawless Lawyer - So Which One is the Father?

  Renatta Laundry - A  libation for those our silence killed

Wickswords - When Lesbian Vegetarians Decide to Raise Chickens

Shirl - Why Should This Be?

Mark R. Trost - Hooking Up: It's Always A Question Of Pride

and  A Civil Argument: Gay Marriage

Junk1 - A Fag Hag's Crush on the Queen of the Queers

Joan H. - Beads, Bonding And Capital Pride

  

Caroline Hagood - Some Funny Things About Female Friendship

Dave Rickett - He Was A Colored Boy

marytkelly - A Gay Man Straightens Me Out

Jonathon Wolfman - GAY MARRIAGE-- CIVIL RIGHTS MANDATE OF OUR GENERATION

and  THE HETEROSEXUAL PROBLEM IN AMERICA

Scarlett Sumac - Why I Love Joan Jett

Sally Swift - Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Come Out On AOL *WW VIDEOS!

Ashley F. Miller - Prop 8 Closing Arguments

and McDonald’s Likes the Gays in France, hates them in the US

femme forte - One Dead Gay Guy

Donna Carbone - Gay Adoption-Martin Gill: Let Them Call Me Dad