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Very good questions. Love has meant different things to me at different times in my life. When I was much younger, it was all tied up with lust. So much so that I fell in love a lot for a short period of time. Once that initial attraction wore off, I realized I was not in love.
Today, I have found love and it's a lot different than I thought it would be and yet exactly what I was looking for but couldn't describe in a hundred years - not even to myself.
So love is that thing I yearned for but didn't know what it looked like until it hit me upside the head.
Love is devotion. Whether familial or spousal, devotion survives time, lust, age, anger, and faults. Gay or straight, young or old, "true" love is a devoted love that endures.
End Bullying And Smash Stereotypes! Lee's Speaker Visits To Your School, Library or Group
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Where Lee's Speaking Next...
California Teachers Association GLBT Caucus meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013
"Discovering LGBTQ History" presentation
The 2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013 Moderator of "Pictures on the Page: The Art of Children's Books" Panel
Where Lee Spoke Recently
Palisades Charter High School, Pacific Palisades, CA, March 2013
"Creating Safe Space: Ending Anti-Gay (And All!) Bullying In Our Culture... and at YOUR School" Assemblies, meeting with Gay-Straight Alliance and LGBT Student Group
SCBWI Los Angeles' Writer's Days, San Gabriel, CA, March 2013 "Our World of Diversity and What That Means For The Characters You Create"
Brentwood School, Brentwood CA, March 2013
9th grade "Smashing Stereotypes" workshops and February 2013
Diversity Day presentation on "Discovering LGBTQ History"
Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA, February 2013
8th grade Assembly "Creating Safe Space: Ending Anti-Gay (and All!) Bullying in our Culture... and at YOUR School", Smashing Stereotypes workshop, meeting with Alliance club
Archer School for Girls, Brentwood, CA, January 2013
Diversity Day "Smashing Stereotypes!" workshops for middle and high school students, meeting with GSA club
Fresno State University, Fresno, CA, January 2013
Keynote presentation at Bullying Symposium for Educators, "Smashing Stereotypes" workshop for middle school educators.
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2 comments:
Very good questions. Love has meant different things to me at different times in my life. When I was much younger, it was all tied up with lust. So much so that I fell in love a lot for a short period of time. Once that initial attraction wore off, I realized I was not in love.
Today, I have found love and it's a lot different than I thought it would be and yet exactly what I was looking for but couldn't describe in a hundred years - not even to myself.
So love is that thing I yearned for but didn't know what it looked like until it hit me upside the head.
I second Sarah, with just one addition.
Love is devotion.
Whether familial or spousal, devotion survives time, lust, age, anger, and faults. Gay or straight, young or old, "true" love is a devoted love that endures.
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