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30/10/2025

https://thomascwaters.com/2025/10/30/no-kings-and-the-obsession-on-the-president/

22/09/2025

https://thomascwaters.com/2025/09/22/what-is-the-foe-harming-the-lgbtqia-community/

We haven’t been trained to either see or understand the problem as some structure of power. We have been trained to believe that there are good people and bad people. Cops and robbers, Cowboys and Indians, there are so many ways in which we are trained to blame other people and fit them into a bin...

16/01/2025

I began to blog on thomascwaters.com almost as a fluke. I had attended an unconference about podcasting. I had a podcast called “A Q***r Look at the Bible (QLATB) and I was interested in growing my audience and improving my podcast. I knew nothing about blogging, but decided to open a WordPress blog for the podcast. But, since I didn’t know anything about WordPress or blogging, I also started thomascwaters.com as a “sandbox” blog, a place where I could learn the program.

Then, the election happened. Obama won, and Prop 8 passed in California. These two events seemed so disparate. One displayed such progress and the other was three steps backwards.
I began blogging to sort out my feelings and try and understand what was happening. And thomascwaters.com was officially born as a blog focusing on LGBTQ issues.

Over the life of the blog, I won a few awards and received accolades. I loved blogging. But a time arrived where I missed making artwork. I missed it more than I loved blogging.

I never found a way to do both. Maybe it is a right brain left brain thing. Maybe it was just I had only so much energy to expend. Regardless of why I chose to stop actively blogging. I began pouring time and energy into my artwork.
Now, as I contemplate leaving the META platforms completely, I want to shut down this page. But I’m either too stupid to figure that out, or META has made it pretty hard. Either way, today, I’m calling this Face Book page closed for business.

I really appreciate all the support I’ve had over the years for my blog. I met so many amazing people, and I wrote some pieces I’m so deeply proud of.

I’m not done writing. I’ve started a book project. And I write posts on my personal Facebook feed that I’m proud of. I will be forever grateful for the folks I met at that first PodCamp, because it set it off on a journey that has been fabulous and amazing and so gratifying.

The actual WordPress blog isn’t going away. I can’t yet bring myself to delete it all. But this place on META for it is done.
All that I wrote is still available via Google search.

The internet has changed so much and writing and podcasting is changed. Am I totally done in this arena? I don’t know, but it is time this phase of it is “put to bed.” To use a more old fashioned publishing phrase.

Love to you all.

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11/10/2024

Today is National Coming Out Day and the date coincides with anniversaries of several massive Marches on Washington, starting in 1987.

I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but there really was a time when it seemed coming g out, at least as Le***an or Gay was so easy. Not controversial.

But this is no longer the case. It is especially hard and dangerous today for trans and non binary people as well as bisexuals. Bisexuals have never been adequately embraced by the mainstream LG groups.

More younger people are exploring their identity and expression at a younger age, and they don’t have as many life lessons or the financial means to deal with the discrimination and homophobia they face.

Today, even those of us, who are as out as out can be, must continue to come out- continue to give voice to our expressions and identities, to be a shining beacon for youth. Because for too many, it all looks hopeless.

I come out publicly today not because I need to, but because too many of my siblings of many different ages can’t, or for whom it is still too dangerous.

Anyone in the LGBTQIA+ communities is not really liberated until we are all free to be our authentic selves.

10/10/2024

I’m very excited. About 20 months ago. I had a book idea to create some passive income. I did some research, and shared my idea with an author who had started her book writing journey and built it into her full time job.

But while I got support, I didn’t really have a clear idea about my path forward. Fast forward to a month the ago, when I revisited the book project with another author who helped me detail specific next steps.

Yesterday, I completed the first of those next steps. I’m ready now to take on the next of the next steps. I feel like I’m making real progress.

One of my other next steps however, is to get back to regular writing. I created a Substack account and now I need to set a schedule and commitment to write one post every week. These writings can be portions of book chapters. They could be short essays helping me sort out book chapters.

I’m hoping that in two weeks, I can post that I have written at least one or two Substack posts.