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I used to think that self-sabotage made sense until I learned how to see it differently through neuroscience. 

There is no such thing as self-sabotage.

The way we have used language to come up with suc…

Instead, we only need to look at nature and the natural order of things to be reminded of how the world works. By the fact that we are part of the world — that we are the *stuff* of this world — so t…

In this episode, I share an early draft introduction to my, “Six Principles of Human-Hearted Leadership.” I share why these principles are based in the Tao Te Ching, what that 2,500-year-old text can…

Perhaps the question we need to ask instead is, “What is gender?”, followed by, “What are ways to describe gender?”

Notice I didn’t say, “How can we describe gender?” The difference between ‘what’ and…

43 years ago today, on August 1, 1977, I was 11-years old. It's a significant moment in Toronto queer history and it was most certainly formative of early queer identity, albeit not in a positive wa…

Over the weekend I wasn’t feeling well, worn out from the heat and humidity, and stuck in my head feeling somewhat depressed. I decided to lay low and take it easy and binged on Netflix. I was feelin…

It often feels like everyone is speaking at a level that is loud and not in a form we would call dialogue. On social media, in the news, in person we see shouting, personal attacks, and arguing to pr…

Happy Anniversary Think Queerly!

Two years ago on June 20, 2018, I launched my first podcast. It was called, The Living OUT Podcast, a tongue-in-cheek reference to coming out and being proud to be aut…

A Think Queerly Podcast Discussion with Shawn Banks

Last week I published a post on my Medium publication by Shawn Banks titled, "Why White Gay Men Have Ruined LGBTQ+ Pride Month For Me." My involveme…

Think Queerly Discussion with Olivia Nuamah & Jeffrey Iovannone

Pride will always be political so long as it continues to exist. Pride, as a celebration, because it is celebrated, is a priori politica…

In this special edition of the Think Queerly Podcast, I speak with my friend and colleague, Shaun Proulx about the issue of shaming and judgment of those who are choosing (and needing) to have sex du…

Human Liberation, Planetary Respect, and the Dissolution of Power Inequality

In this episode I discuss:

• How those of us at the bottom of the pyramid can create social and humanitarian evolution;
• Why des…

In today's episode, I discuss the present and observable factors that explain why we respond or react to the stresses, threats, and challenges that this pandemic has brought into our lives:

• How “hedon…

As we bear witness to this virus and its affect on us, how can we see things differently by embracing natural phenomena for the simplicity of what it is?

What we see as perfection is witnessed in the …

If you are a creative, an entrepreneur, someone who works in the gig-economy, or a business owner, you wear many hats and do a variety of tasks in your work. 

If you're pulled in several directions bu…

COVID-19 reveals how some things change while others become more apparent

The biggest challenge lately has been what some are calling, moral fatigue, which is our experience of having to make one too …

This is a powerful thought experiment prompt that could reveal far more about who you are, now during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown than at any other time.

“If ever there were a time to tell the …

Diversity is a gift of uniqueness and creativity

When did you realize that you had to forgive yourself first, before anyone else, for your “gay shame”?

Gay shame is a term used (and possibly coined) by…

In this Think Queerly Podcast Leadership Discussion, I speak with Jeffry Iovannone and David Butler about having lived through the origins of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, political and social observations,…

In this episode, I offer a mediation on Verse 29 of The Tao Te Ching in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it is teaching us how little control we have of the world.

We have an opportunity to resp…