Isolation. Rejection. Lack of love. All are very common fears that those who are hiding in the closet face. Yet at the core, all of those represent the need to connected and cuddled into the warm arms of acceptance. So how do you get past those fears? Today we’re going to take a unique approach …

Let’s play ball. Or hockey, ice skate, run track, do gymnastics, or any other sport…but if your LGBT, let’s don’t ask don’t tell. Now that might sound weird in this day and age, but it’s not. While not as prevalent as it used to be hide your truth on the playing field, courts, or rinks,…

  When tragedy hits…we all suffer. When hate prevails…we all pay. When darkness descends…we all have opportunity to create light. My thoughts on the Orlando Mass Killings and what this event has taught me to choose!

I want you to take a journey with me. A journey where the truth of who you are is as follows. You’ve never been married. You’re an avid motorcyclist who’s traveled from the Pacific Coast all the way to the Great Lakes. You love your cats, attending church, cooking and you even had the thrilling…

Instead of talking about just living our truth, today I want to focus on being more self-reliant, self-loving, self-aware, and mindful. Why? Without these abilities, and exercising those muscles to become more self-reliant, self-loving, self-aware, and mindful, you’ll be fighting a steeper uphill battle to change your beliefs about who you are as a LGBTQ…

Empty. The life you’d envisioned, just became an empty episode of Portlandia…so to speak. You never saw it coming. Up until this point in your life, you were doing what you love. Acting, composing, mastering your craft as a pianist, and then while on the set of a film all your questioning about who you…

Ever feel like you don’t fit the mold? Wonder how you’re going to fit into that box the world’s told you to step into? Yeah…it sucks. Doesn’t matter if you’re not gay enough or too gay. Not man enough or woman enough. You just can’t seem to find your place to say…”Ah, I fit in!”…

Most of us, love a good story. In fact, most of us, love to create stories…you know the ones that sometimes get us in trouble. Stories that cause us to believe we can’t, shouldn’t, and aren’t supposed to be who we are. But what does that do for us living authentically in the world? Well,…

One of the greatest challenges we face as humans is the ability to find balance between being ourselves and being what others expect from us. Factor in the fact that we’re gay and you have a whole other world to contend with. That’s not to say that it’s just us gay people who have to…

The conversation we’re going to have today is going to go all over the place, but the reason I’m going to allow this one to just free-flow and go wherever we want it to is because it’s about being creative and just being in the moment and seeing what happens. Frank Rogala is a lot…