Holy Heaven I cannot get enough of this gold and diamond ring. It’s not new to the virtual shelves of Love and Pride Lesbian Jewelry but it is positively arresting. You can clearly see why they keep it around. It is wholly unique, while hitting all the right classic notes.

You have the rich yellow 18K gold, with it’s wire wrapped goodness along with the two channels of clear, sparkling diamonds. What more could you possibly ask for? A great price you say? Ding, ding, got that too! Check it out for yourself and you will want to buy it for yourself, like today, or for that special someone in your life. Chances are though you will want it for both of you!

All I can say is go for it and get two, matching rings are romantic. Especially when they are as stylish and sexy as this one.

I met David in 2008. We just seemed to hit it off right at first.
We fell in love very quickly. David was like no other guy I have ever met. We both believed that it was love at first sight. David if fount to be my soul mate. I love him deeply like I have never known it could be like this.
David suffered from Bi-polar disorder. He also was manic depressive.
And very promiscuous.

In the three years we were together David was like a drug for me. When he was away from I hurt and felt so incomplete. I yearned to be by his side at all times. He felt the same way about me.
I would pull out the mattress and put it in front of the fireplace and he would make love to me all night long. I never felt like this in my life.

David took his life last year in September. He made love to me on Friday night and shot himself on Saturday night.
My world ended that night. I never felt so much pain as I did that day and through the following weeks and months.
I never cried so much in my life as I did for the next 6 months.
I had no one to go to, no one to help me out with support.
My life was David and now it seemed to be over.

I still love David so very much it still hurts. But what he did was his choice, not mine/ He lied to me about his actions and his constantly being with other men. But I still loved David and did not want to leave him. He left me.
I do go see him at his grave site. At least I don’t cry when I go see him anymore.

Now I am so afraid to meet anyone. I’m so afraid that this might happen again to me. I could not bare to handle this amount of anguish and pain.
But I need to move on and get my life back in order and find another mate. But I am afraid to do so. I just have become a hermit in my own home now.
Will my life ever get back to a slight resemblance of normalcy?
I just wonder.

It helps to type this. its so hard not to cry while I am typing this.
I still love David and I miss him so bad. I miss him touching me, kissing me, making love to me. I miss his great sense of humour. His silly ways of dealing with time.

Good bye David. I will always love you babe.

Mike

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Los Angeles, CA, April 14, 2012- The National Board of Directors of GLAAD announced that they have named Herndon Graddick as GLAAD’s new President. Herndon is currently serving as the organization’s Vice President of Programs and Communications.

Sheri Fults, National Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, said: “Herndon is already a well-respected leader within the LGBT movement, and we believe will be a visionary and strategic leader for GLAAD’s culture-changing work.”

Herndon said: “Right now GLAAD and our partners in the LGBT movement are making a significant difference at a time when a difference needs to be made. I look forward to working with our dedicated staff to create a culture where there is a welcoming and respected space for LGBT Americans. GLAAD’s work with the media to inspire Americans to speak out against anti-LGBT actions and support equality is needed today more than ever.”

David Hedley, Search Committee Co-Chair, commented on behalf of GLAAD’s National Board of Directors: “We want to first thank the volunteer Search Committee for their selfless service, and all the prospective presidential candidates for their interest and the investment each made in considering being of service to GLAAD.” Executive Search Recruiter Scott Miller volunteered his firm’s services pro bono to GLAAD to facilitate the search process.

Herndon is the current Vice President of Programs and Communications at GLAAD, a position he assumed in 2010. In his role, he has lead GLAAD’s media initiatives and oversees the organization’s National & Local News; Entertainment; People of Color; Religion, Faith & Values; Advertising; and Spanish-Language Media programs. Under his leadership, GLAAD has engaged in numerous highly visible and impactful campaigns including ‘Stand Up For Ellen,’ which prompted the group One Million Moms – a project of the American Family Association – to end their call for J.C. Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres as its new spokesperson because she is gay. Herndon also oversaw GLAAD’s work on the Commentator Accountability Project – an initiative launched in March to highlight the extreme rhetoric of anti-LGBT activists who currently appear in national news outlets. He is leading efforts with the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) on the “I AM: Trans People Speak” video series as well as with film director Brett Ratner to develop a series of videos with GLAAD featuring high-profile celebrities and public figures speaking out for LGBT equality. Herndon has also put resources behind GLAAD’s work to share stories of LGBT people of color and allies with African American media, sports media, and Spanish-language news outlets, among others.

Prior to his work at GLAAD, Herndon served as the Executive Producer of the Global Observatory, a media and communications effort which aimed to bring public awareness to the climate change crisis. He also served as Supervising Producer at E! Networks and the day-of-air news division director at CURRENT TV, the youth-oriented news and entertainment network created by former Vice President Al Gore. As a producer at CNN, Herndon also contributed to the creation of daily primetime programming such as “Paula Zahn Now,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” and “Live from the Headlines.”

Herndon will be speaking onstage at the 23^rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on April 21, 2012.

I remember giving them a few days to think about what I’d just told them and kind of hoped that the information would spread a little bit around school so that I wasn’t stepping on egg shells, being careful of what I said all the time.

However, I got a lot of abuse from it then and especially when I got into a relationship one year later. I had a couple situations which I ended up taking up with the police who did nothing about it even though they had assured me that at least something small would come out at the end of it.

It’s been 4 years since I came out and, although I got a lot of vocal and physical abuse from it, I’m glad I did at that point because it gave the bullies time to let it all out of their system and at this moment in time I very rarely get any abuse in the street that 3 years ago I would have been getting every day.

- Kirsty.

You can even Design Your Own Wedding Ring. That is a great choice for women who want to add a little personal touch to the ring they get for their girlfriend.

Did you know that when you get a lesbian engagement ring you can usually get a matching diamond wedding ring? This cuts your shopping time in half and it assures that your soon to be wife will want to wear them both until the day that she dies. Diamond jewelry is important to a girl and the more she can wear at one time the better! Especially if you can work some fancy colored pink diamonds in there!

Love and Pride lesbian jewelry also has some diamond and sapphire designs that will make you cry they are so pretty. Their solitaire diamond ring collection is astoundingly sparkly too.

Diamond jewelry is always the jewelry of choice when it comes to engagements because of their attachment to the concept of strength. A diamond is next to indestructible and that is what you want to symbolize when you get married.

You want your love to be just as invulnerable to anything and that is why most people in your shoes choose the diamond for the lesbian engagement ring and the wedding ring. Pink diamonds are just as strong as white ones, they just have a little more pazzazz.

Diamond solitaire engagement rings allow the center diamond to be the main attraction. In these rings it is that much more important that you have a good carat weight and a good clarity to the ring.

There will be nothing to draw your eye away from the diamond so it needs to be able to stand up to scrutiny well. White and pink diamonds are the perfect diamond jewelry for an engagement for both style and longevity.

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I am so sorry I have not been any help at all for V Day like I was for Christmas got sick and everything went to hell in a handbasket (and no it wasn;t mine, I would never own something so gay.) Kay bad joke. But anyway you also have to forgive y typing the medication the doc put me on has shut off communication between brain and fingers but man, you should have seen the way I was typing a few days ago. But as usual I digress.

I am going to try my bet to get some sales out to you even though it’s last minute.

Szul, who also offers overnight shipping so that;s good for last minute shopping, has a great weekend sale going on. I know their site isn’t very pretty but their jewelry is so get over it and browse a bit, you never know what you’ll find in there!

My sex life, so let’s think about that for a while… I am your typical lesbian. What I mean is I have gone through the typical gestation period of a lesbian. When I was, about four years old I started to think that there was something different about me but I did not know what it was or how to explain it.

At that time, I was taken to church and told about the proper way of life. I was going to grow up, fall in love with a man, get married, have babies, raise them, grow old with that man, die and go to heaven. I believed at that time that this was like a checklist that if you did not achieve the things that you did not go to heaven.

Therefore, I set out to achieve them in the order that they were taught to me. When I was six I met a girl named Jennifer, she took my best friend away from me and I hated her for it. All the other little girls were falling in love with all the little boys and I dint understand it. This was the first time I remember, “faking it” for the sake of being normal. I continued to go to church and be taught mostly about the fact that kissing a boy before we got married was a sin and that we would go to hell if we did.

I was around eleven or twelve when that Jennifer came back in my life. That was when I first realized the reason I hated her so much was because I felt something for her that God had taught me was a sin. When I was thirteen I had finally learned what it was I felt, what the word for it was, and that I had to say something to someone about it. When I finally told my mother, she told me it was just a phase and that I would grow out of it. I chose to go in the closet as far as my family went but as for my friends, I slowly started to tell them.

When I was in high school I told a friend of mine that was for lack of a better word a Jesus freak, she promptly told me that I made her sick and that I was going to hell. I have had girlfriends over the years but because of my parents and my church, I stuck with men most of the time. I tried to be straight for them and going back to my first teachings, I had a limited time to achieve those milestones that I needed to get in to heaven. I needed to find a man, get married, and have babies. This ruled out being with a woman mostly because I could not have children with her.

I tried… I did everything I could to do what I was supposed to do but to no avail I am now 29 years old and I have not gotten married I have not fallen in love I have not had any babies and I wonder why. One thing that bothers me is that the strongest argument for heterosexual pairings is that we are put on this earth to procreate and yet even though I chose to ignore my feelings and be with a man I still had no children. I am sterile, so why exactly does it matter if I am with a man or a woman I am never going to have children anyways.

I am 29 and I look back on the way I thought about God my whole life and I now realize that my entire understanding of God is wrapped up it what he thinks about my sex life. If the milestones I was supposed to achieve so I could go to heaven were totally unachievable from birth then what have I been wasting the last 25 years of my life for?

– Jolene Lake

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Each of these  Valentine Day presents at these shops would be enough to make up for just about anything. Find something for a girl or guy of any age and something you can really feel good about giving to someone you love a lot.

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So, what exactly is it you are looking at you ask? It’s a 1/8 Carat Pave Diamond Heart Pendant in Solid .925 Sterling Silver and guess how much it costs? ONLY $33! PLUS free shipping! Sounds crazy, but is just friggin’ awesome. It even comes in a nice little gift box.

It’s a slide pendant and I have a penchant for these, it is the kind of Valentines Day deal that is the next best thing to an actual steal. Your girl is going to love this gift this holiday, it’s going to show her that she is not always just on your mind but in your heart as well.