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Yes, This Is Who We Are

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Callen Harty

Aside from the ubiquitous thoughts and prayers, the refusal to consider any kind of gun control at all because it’s always too soon to talk about it, and the flags once again lowered to half-staff, there is another thing … Continue reading →

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Will they know

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Callen Harty

When they dig up these bones what will they find on the skeleton of my life? Will they be able to read the hieroglyphics on my skull and the petroglyphs of my soul etched in the decaying calcium before them? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged all, anger, bodies, bones, corpse, curiosity, dust, earth, empathy, enrgy, frailty, hate, hieroglyphics, home, human beings, immortality, life, love, man, mortality, passion, petroglyphs, skeleton, soul, strength, writing | Leave a comment

On the Pulse Nightclub Massacre

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Callen Harty

Within a couple minutes of waking up on Sunday morning several posts on Facebook had alerted me to yet another mass shooting in the United States. A moment later I saw that it had taken place at a gay nightclub … Continue reading →

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Blake, Ash, and Skylar

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Callen Harty

Note: Someone reposted an article from a year ago and I didn’t notice that it said 2015 instead of 2016, which caused me to write this blog post. I have revised the post a bit due to that. Today I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged activist, anti-discrimination bill, Ash Haffner, bathroom bill, bigots, bisexual, Blake Brockington, Charlotte NC, Constitution of the United States, equal, gay, God, hate, hatred, law, legislators, lesbian, LGBT, Madison, minority, queer youth, queer-identified, rights, self-expression, Skylar Lee, suicide, transgender, transgender youth, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Forgive the Shooter

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Callen Harty

On Sunday evening in the small Wisconsin town of Menasha a man apparently distraught over a recent breakup and argument with his former fiancée took two guns with him on his bike and went for a ride. On the middle … Continue reading →

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Letter to the LaFayette County Clerk

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Callen Harty

On Friday, June 7, Judge Barbara Crabb ruled Wisconsin’s Constitutional same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. She didn’t do a very good job of guidance for what that meant, but by Thursday morning, June 12, all but nine of Wisconsin’s 72 counties … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Attorney General, Clerk Bawden, conservative, Constitution, Democrats, discrimination, divorce, family, gay, government, Governor Walker, hate, human rights, husbands, J. B. Van Hollen, Judge Barbara Crabb, La Fayette County, lesbian, love, marriage, marriage licenses, MAssachusetts, orientation, patriarchy, places of worship, policy, politics, procreation, Republicans, rights, same-sex couples, same-sex marriage ban, Shullsburg, straight, traditional marriage, Wisconsin, wives | Leave a comment

Countering Hate

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Callen Harty

On Friday members of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church are scheduled to be in my city for a protest at the courthouse. A counter rally is scheduled to greet them. Pretty much everywhere they go around the country they are … Continue reading →

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Yes, This Is Who We Are

Will they know

On the Pulse Nightclub Massacre

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