I just found out the release date of "With This Cowboy I Love So Freely," will be February 8, 2013. This is an anthology with some of the western themed gay romance stories I've had pubbed with loveyoudivine.com over the years. I didn't even know I'd done enough with them to come up with an anthology, but when the editor said I did and she suggested we do the anthology, I figured it would be a good way for people who don't like to purchase short stories alone to get a collection in a larger book.
Here's the book description, and I'll post again with links when it's released on the 8th.
In this collection of Ryan Field stories that is focused on erotic cowboy love, the gay romance and emotion isn’t overlooked either. In “A Life Filled with Awesome Love” set in 1959, young Travis finds the cowboy of his dreams through an ad in the back of a rodeo magazine. In “Something for Saint Jude,” the main character finds his passion, but he had to take a cruise to discover it was in his backyard all along. And then there’s poor Noah in “Cowboy Mike and Buddy Boy” who falls in love with a married Cowboy and he doesn’t know where to run when the wife finds out. One story is slightly quirky, and the love and emotion is focused more on positive self-discovery than finding a man. And then there’s a New Adult story in “Cowboy Howdy,” where two young guys from different parts of the country meet and fall in love their first semester in college. This is a book of true love in its finest form, and the ability with which to love freely and openly. In a world where love is the only thing that promises a happy ending.
Here is a list of stories in the book. The book is about 50,000 words in length, and the stories range from 5,000 words to 12,000.
Cowboy Howdy
Missing Jackson's Hole
Kevin Loves Cowboys
Something for St. Jude
That Cowboy in the Window
Cowboy Mike and Buddy Boy
A Life Filled with Awesome Love
Boy Scouts of America Rethink Gay Members:
In an interesting turn of events that most people didn't expect, the Boy Scouts of America are about to rethink the idea of banning gays from becoming members. I honestly don't know much about the Boy Scouts. I was never one and never wanted to be one. But I do know gay men who were Boy Scouts and of course no one knew they were gay at the time. Half of them didn't even know it at the time. And, all of the gay men I know who were Boy Scouts, or who supported Boy Scouts, have stopped all support because of their stand on banning openly gay members. I know straight men who have gay brothers, cousins, neighbors, and friends, who have also stopped their support because of the ban on gay members.
So while I'd like to think this is a nice gesture and that the Boy Scouts of America are starting to truly believe gay men are not threats to them, and that gay men will not hurt or change their organization in any way, I tend to think the main reason this has come up is because of the pressure they've been getting and the lack of support they've been receiving, which could lead them into extinction.
In any event, at least it's progress and we're moving forward. If the Boy Scouts do allow gay members I think the rest of the world will see nothing really changed and all that controversy was much ado about nothing. But there's also a catch to all this:
The organization's national executive board is expected to discuss lifting the ban on gay members at its regularly scheduled board meeting next week in Texas.
"The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic or educational organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting to determine how to address this issue," spokesman Deron Smith said in an email to Reuters.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the United Methodist Church and the Catholic Church have the largest youth membership in the Boy Scouts among faith-based organizations.
What I think this is basically saying is that they aren't lifting the ban against gays completely. They are offering choices to those organizations overseeing scouting. It sounds like a way for the Boy Scouts of America to put an end to discrimination in a general sense, and yet at the same time support the stand they have always had in an indirect way. But I could be wrong about that. It's too soon to tell.
This is interesting, too:
The Boy Scouts has also faced criticism for keeping private files covering decades of child sex abuse incidents within the organization. The Scouts released thousands of pages of files in October covering incidents from 1965 to 1985.
But this quote I find fascinating:
The Family Research Council, which said in December it would pull its business with UPS because the package delivery company had decided to cease funding of the Boy Scouts, said on Monday the Scouts should resist the pressure to change its policy.
"If the board capitulates to the bullying of homosexual activists, the Boy Scouts' legacy of producing great leaders will become yet another casualty of moral compromise," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said in a statement.
The problem with this statement is that the Family Research Council underestimates gay people in general, and just how many of us there are that are not represented well. This is something I'm always talking about here on this blog and I have a feeling I'll be talking about it as they lower me into the grave someday. Yes, there are "homosexual" bully activists who do apply pressure. I agree with the Family Council on that 100% and I really don't like to see anyone being bullied. But then there is the issue of discrimination, and what the Family Council fails to realize is that I'm gay and I'm not a bully activist. I'm not a radical, I'm not a left wing liberal carrying a vegan sign, and I'm not shouting or screaming at them to change anything. And I think I'm speaking for the silent majority when I say this. And not just for gay people. I think I'm speaking for straight people who have gay relatives, friends, and co-workers. We're not bullies and we're not activists. What we are is tired of this brand of discrimination, and we're tired of the double standards that have been pulled with regard to child sexual abuse. And what happens when we get tired is we dismiss you completely and you become obsolete, and I don't think you want that to happen.
As I said, I'm far from a bully activist. But I'm not willing to be suppressed anymore either. And I think a lot of these conservative religious based organizations fail to actually grasp that the world around them is changing. We aren't willing to put up with bans on gays and at the same time pretend pedophiles within organizations like the Boy Scouts haven't been abusing little boys in the worst possible ways. We aren't going to bully you or pressure you. Nope. We're just going to forget all about you and you'll become obsolete. Frankly, as things stand now, I wouldn't allow a child of mind to be in any groups like this just based on the child abuse allegations alone.
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