Pride in Life, or PiL as I call it, was born from a passion to plaster the internet with images of a unicorn vomiting a rainbow (see above). You’re welcome, interwebz.
I actually started writing Pride in Life in late 2010, not too long after my husband and I had our son, Bean (read about me here, Jeremy here and the Bean here). When we found out that we were expecting, I began searching for the voices of other gay Dads on the internet, seeing as we have relatively few in the community around us. I found a few sites and blogs that I loved but that’s all there were – a few blogs.
At that point, I decided that I’d bore the entire world with the happenings in my life and my opinion. You’re welcome again, interwebz.
The Incident
Things were going along swimmingly until one fine day, my site was hacked by someone who apparently had a problem with the fact that I’m a gay man (who also happens to be a proud husband and father). You can read more about what happened here. After debating whether or not to take PiL down for good and move on with my life, at some point I turned into a super diva. I dusted off my sequined evening gown, I freshened up my makeup and I made a decision to bring PiL back, to beef up my security and to be GAY. AS. HELL.
Rainbow Barfing Unicorns
Hence the rainbow barfing unicorn in PiL’s logo. Could anything else say I’m here, I’m queer, I blog better than a rainbow barfing unicorn? I think not.
It’s kind of ironic that my site is Pride in Life (the idea being that I show my pride in who I am simply by living my life openly) and, for a very short time, I let the idea of someone else’s bigotry almost convince me to shut down the site and silence my voice. But I haven’t – and I won’t. I’ll be there, spreading the gay, adding some fairy dust to the world, one blog post at a time.
You’re super welcome again, interwebz.
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My Boo’s Birthday: Day 3
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MY BOO’S BIRTHDAY: DAY 2
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A plead
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First Zoo Trip
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Bean’s Pawpaw
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Letting Go (and hating it)
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Premier Popcorn
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Happiness to a toddler
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Beancase
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Stitch and B*tch Session
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Where I’m at
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Almost Two
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We’re all good
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Guess where I am
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Pink isn’t my favorite color
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Selective hearing
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Houston, we have a problem
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My enemy
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How do you measure a life?
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Snip snip
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Loving: Pyrex Butterprint
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A boy and his dog (and baths)
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Random Wednesday
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Harper
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Abstract Juke
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Beanspace
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Rainy days
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