An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
If your support the community, they will support you.
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.
You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.