Links - Via Dan Nicoletta / FB:

Dan said, "I am really excited about the upcoming Milk stamp but sickened that news agencies are saying he is the first openly gay person elected to office as ABC7 just did. It matters because women matter.  Kathy Kozachenko — first openly gay or lesbian candidate to win public office in the United States (won a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city council). Elaine Noble became the first openly gay or lesbian candidate ever elected to a state-level office in America when she was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Party_%28United_States%29
One of the 1972 HRP winners, Nancy Wechsler <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nancy_Wechsler&action=edit&redlink=1> , came out <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_out> as a lesbian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian> during her term on city council, thus becoming the first openly lesbian public-office holder in the United States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> . When Wechsler declined to run for reelection in 1974, her seat was won by HRP candidate Kathy Kozachenko <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kozachenko> , who became the country's first openly gay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay> or lesbian candidate to win public office.[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Party_%28United_States%29#cite_note-5>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Spear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kozachenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Noble

Via Daily Dharma

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Complete Transformation | April 22, 2014

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If spirituality is only about self-transcendence—about seeing through the story of ‘me’ that we habitually inhabit—then it runs the risk of cutting us loose from that story so that we no longer take care of the human wounds of self and other. No matter how imaginary the self proves to be, we return to its world. If spiritual or transcendent insight doesn’t lead to healing and transformation in our actual daily lives, it is clearly incomplete. 

 

—Henry Shukman, “Light and Dark”