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2020 DWIGHT ALLEN O’NEAL SERVES “ G AY B O Y N E X T D O O R ” WISDOM CREEP OF THE WEEK
N AT I O N A L S T R A I G H T PRIDE COALITION
Photography by Richie Arpino
SOME QUEER HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIES ARE COMING. HO HO HO
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DWIGHT ALLEN O’NEAL SERVES “GAY BOY NEXT DOOR” WISDOM
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CREEP OF THE WEEK NATIONAL STRAIGHT PRIDE COALITION
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OUT AND ABOUT
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SOME QUEER HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIES ARE COMING. HO HO HO.
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BLACK PRIDE BY RICHIE ARPINO
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Dwight Allen O’Neal Serves “Gay Boy Next Door” Wisdom
Star of Christopher Street-The Series Releases Memoir, Shoulda! Coulda! Woulda! By John Stein
Dwight Allen O’Neal is perhaps best known for his starring role in the first black gay webseries Christopher Street-The Series but he has also gained a huge following from his popular podcast show, “Shoulda Coulda Woulda,” where he recounts some of his life’s biggest missteps, and reflects on how they have affected his personal journey. Now, he’s turned his podcast show into an inspirational book of the same name. We spoke with Dwight from his home in NYC. Why should everyone add Shoulda! Coulda! Woulda! to their libraries? Dwight Allen O’Neal: I think it’s important for us all to have someone to relate to and inspire us. My book does that for my readers. I want them to join me on my journey through my past, and take the chance to reflect on their own personal memories. Was
it
fun
writing
the
book?
Dwight Allen O’Neal: I enjoyed it very much. You have to be very disciplined to complete a book, and dedicate some time every day to writing it. For me it was like carving out time to hang out with an old friend and catch up on past shenanigans. Writing this book allowed me to walk down memory lane and reflect on many good and some challenging life moments. Some moments made me laugh, others left me in tears. So much of my heart went into this, my junior memoir as I call it, because there is so much more of my story that I hope to share in the future.
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How long did it take you to complete the book?
Garner died? To this day many people don’t even know who Emmitt Till is. There has been so many people reaching Dwight Allen O’Neal: Technically a little over a decade. out to me to ask how they can help. I do understand that This is literally the product of several attempts to complete they want to help now or be a part of the movement, but the book. Once I decided on how I wanted to release it, we shoulda, coulda, woulda did this sooner. Also, let us the book all came together fairly quickly. It took me about not forget our queer black lives. Iyanna Dior was brutally two months to gather all of the content I wanted. I then attacked in Minnesota. Black trans women are some of partnered with an incredible editor who made it word the most under protected people in our society. Many are perfect. I guess things happen when they are supposed to. homeless and those with homes, fear leaving them safely. Let’s do our part now so we never have to regret any more shoulda, coulda, wouldas. Which was the hardest chapter to write? Visit OnealAppeal.com. Follow Dwight Allen O’Neal on Dwight Allen O’Neal: The hardest chapter to write was Instagram @onealappeal “Coulda Made Baked Spaghetti,” dedicated to my friend Tawana. I wrote it a few days after her funeral, one of the most challenging weeks of my life. Writing it was therapeutic. It allowed me to start healing and it gave me the opportunity to celebrate her memory. Was there one period in your life that was particularly challenging to live through? Dwight Allen O’Neal: Yes, learning that someone that I once loved was being accused of having several intimate relationships with underaged teens. When I learned one young man’s story was eerily identical to my relationship with my ex, I was devastated, heartbroken. And then I saw the young man was being attacked via social media and it didn’t seem fair at all. I believed him. He was me… I was him. When looking back on this memory, even today, there were so many more shoulda, coulda, wouldas I wish I had done. What are thoughts
your on
Shoulda! Black
Coulda! Lives
Woulda! Matter?
Dwight Allen O’Neal: My heart breaks every time a new incident happens and I am encouraged that George Floyd inspired so many people into action, however, where was this attention when Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, or Eric
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Creep of the WEEK
by D’Anne Witkowski
Well, well, well, if it isn’t another we ek Not sure wh in Horror Town, US y they put “straigh A. t Pride” A very tig any town in the co That’s just about front-and-center htly focused celeb untry right now, bu when it seems lik ration. Can’t t their main focu it’s definitely all of the towns in Florid s is anti-abortion. e wait to see that on a T-shirt. a. the front page On Every time I watch their website reads th I’m suddenly going e news I feel like all caps: “Save in Just as last year, there is a co the next generation blind and deaf, bu t babies” along unterthen I realize that of protest in the side lots of phot my eyes and my ea works. os of rs babies. Undern have simply burro eath is wed deeper into my skull to save them is, “Normal, Natural their “motto” that “We decided th selves. at we needed to sta , Healthy, Sane.” nd up and fight back against this hate It’s the dumbest tim In fact, they’re ho in our own commun e to be alive! 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But we pro-Satanism me anti-Christian and unwise du pecially elected the dumb ring th religi est man in America as and most corrupt driving force be ous beliefs, a major While I certa e COVID-19 epidemic. hind the attack of inly hope that Mo our “leader” and we the folks have are truly getting ev LGBT War Machine the sense to wear Pride erything he promise upon our nation, masks d most especially us: “I’m a new kin and protest as d of Republican! Al of children.” safely as possibl l of the racism, no e, so me thing tells me that ne of the brains.” we can’t trust A They go on to criminal without th e NS PC fo ac lks a cu anyone shocked by mastermind. So the insanity of se PP of “promoting don’t seem es to do the same. They pecially normal, na ‘gender fluidity,’ the epic failure of th this administratio tural, e psychosis of ‘trans healthy or sane. n has truly not be ge nd er’ or an y other en sexual patholo paying attention gy.” since, well, Dona ld Trump’s entire dis On their website NS gusting existence PC urges: “Click th . A flyer for the e botton [sic] below ev to aid our many W en t po ste d on Meanwhile, across ABC10.com reads ar ac tiv itie s yo ur , “Celebrate life! [sic] very needed the country, the All deeply apprec Mask War rages on and lives matter!” It iated non-tax dedu even though it isn also calls Plann ’t Parenthood ctable ed a war and people [si c] co nt rib “th ut who refuse to we ions/donations.” e biggest killers ar masks are stupid of and their disregard blacks in the history of our natio n,” for reality is literal accusing the orga If you truly want ly killing people. I nization of genocid to help babies, th am lucky in that I work e. isn’t the best from home. When use of your mone is I However, includ do go out in publi y. I suggest donating c I wear a mask ev ed on the NSPC to an organization en foundational though it makes ’s th at pr ovides “vital repro principles of life on my ductive their care, sex because my face sw face sweat a lot, website, alongsid education and inf health e Heterosexuality eating is gross, bu orma and to millions t Christianity, is death is forever. “caucas of people worldwi tion de” at define as “the biolog ians,” which they plannedparenth ood.org. ical majority of the California has on his to ric al developers and fo e of the highest unders of numbers of COVI Western Civilizatio D-19 cases in th n.” e country right now, so it only makes sense that a so-ca But don’t worry! Th lled “straight pride ey also say, “Christ ” loves and value group wants to ha ve a s everyone.” Even the in Modesto on Au public gathering Black people th is nice racist grou g. 29 to celebrat p is e trying to save their straightness, apparently. COVID be damned . Inspired by last “We have a celeb year’ rat demonstration, wh s straight Pride its aspects: ma ion of life in all of ich according to sculinity; femininit Pink News drew y; the natural family 20 of 200 counter-protes participants and children; children man, woman, and ters, the Nationa born and unborn l Straight Pride Coali ; D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and tion is making this Western civilization; Christianity an annual thing no — ev erything which bu comedian living in Michigan with her wife w, apparently. ilds the culture of life,” NSPC founde and son. She has been writing about LGBT r Don Grundman n told ABC10. politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski
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Power to the People
By Jack Barry
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