T for Tricky

I get asked a lot what the heck this "Tricky" thing is all about.

And in honor of the  Fifth of November I thought I'd let Tricky answer for himself (I usually keep his paws off of the keyboard, but I was home sick and delirious with flu and fever today and he got the drop on me. I apologize ahead of time...)

Warning--whatever comes next is Tricky's handiwork please don't coming groaning to me):

Tricky, who or what are you?

...on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.

Photo by Sharon Abraham:
Tricky and butterfly dragon baby from Only Human

Ta-da! In truth a humble thespian talent, cast tenuously as both target and trickster by the tarots of fate. This totem, no mere token of theatricality, is a trace of a Time now terminated, taboo. However, this tremendous trip of a bygone troublemaker stands tenacious, and has tendered to teach these thugish and tarnished traitors, trademarking turpitude and tolerating the torridly treacherous and tremendous transgressions of trepidation. The only turnout is toxic; a tribulation, held as a tintinnabulation not thwarted, for the tolls and tariffs of such shall one day triumph the thoughtful and the taintless. Truthfully, this taratur of terms turns most talkative, so let me simply add that it’s truly my good honour to meet you and that you may call me T.

Well, I'm glad we got that cleared up.

This is the original

Coming Out Day

Well as the last few grains of October 11 wind down on National Coming Out day, I pause and reflect on the amazing changes that I’ve seen in equality in my time.

Marriage rights in Massachusetts. Positive role models in fiction like Burt Humbol from Glee or Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter. Real life role models--Ricky Martin, Orlando Cruz, Neil Patrick Harris (he’s a magician too J), Anderson Cooper.   Brokeback Mountain. The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  Advocates like Lady Gaga and Adam Levine, who aren’t gay but fight for equality.

My original draft of this blog changed gears here, pointing out how much more fighting lay ahead.  I pointed out that we have a presidential candidate who said he would support an amendment to define marriage in our Constitution--clearly ignoring the precedent that the only amendment to date that infringed a person’s rights was repealed years later…But I dropped the negativity. 

Well I am trying to.  Why? Because today is a day to celebrate.

And for those of you who don’t see what there is to celebrate, or maybe tinkered with the idea of coming out today but whose courage ultimately fell a little short, let me attempt to offer some encouragement.

There's always next year.  It gets better.  I know if I could go back and tell my 18 year old self, I'd never believe it.  But it's true.  It gets better.

Don't take my word for it.  Here are some people way more intelligent than me.