Want Your “HartStrings” Tugged?
In that case, have no fear! WYATTEVANS.COM is on the case. Please welcome Bishop Hartsel Clifton Shirley to the WYATTEVANS.COM Fam of Writers! As the popular news, features, and entertainment website’s newest Guest Columnist, Bishop Shirley will delight in tugging your heartstrings by providing insight, analysis…and emotion. Currently residing in Atlanta, Mr. Shirley is a bishop of [...]
Doin’ It On the Regular
If you’re HIV-poz, what’s essential to achieving viral suppression? The answer: adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. This faithfulness and fidelity about taking your HIV meds on the regular put you on the righteous road toward becoming undetectable. And that, my friends, is the ultimate destination—to NOT transmit the virus to your sexual partners. Unfortunately, however, social factors [...]
Old School New Kid 13 – MARK MY WORDS, YOU NEVER KNOW, NEVER GIVE UP
"MARK MY WORDS, YOU NEVER KNOW, NEVER GIVE UP" Guest Writer: W.D. Foster-Graham Besides the COVID-19 pandemic (which, paradoxically, has given our planet a chance to breathe), there is another pandemic that is front and center at this time, though it has been around far longer: systemic racism. Indeed, George Floyd's murder has sparked a revolution [...]
Honey, Let Me Tell You Something! 20
“Pardon Me” Guest Writer: R. L. Norman As I sit here, I swear I can feel the walls closing in on me. I don’t know how much more I can take of this “quarantine thing.” But they say, “It’s for my own good.” I’m not so sure about that: I’d rather be with my family and friends during this [...]
Old School New Kid 12
"Second Home" Guest Writer: W.D. Foster-Graham Indeed, COVID-19 has brought about drastic changes in our lives. My state has a shelter-in-place order at this time, and all that goes with it. People overall have been good about compliance here; I must admit it’s weird driving on freeways with hardly any traffic, but I will take it for [...]
Honey, Let Me Tell You Something! 19
“Jump!” Guest Writer: R. L. Norman I was frozen with shock. I couldn’t move. My mind was racing with so many thoughts. “I can’t believe he did that. I can’t believe we did that. Right here in the alley between two buildings. Anyone could have walked upon us.” At twelve years old, I [...]
Old School New Kid 11
"Never Give Up!" Guest Writer: W.D. Foster-Graham Summer will be here before I know it, and with it the release of Never Give Up: A Christopher Family Novel. True, it is a historical fiction/whodunit, as I have mentioned in my previous columns. However, the story does have elements of romance, which include the LGBT members of the [...]
The IPV/A Chronicles, Part Eight: IN CLOSE QUARTERS
I have made it my ongoing--and fervent--mission to continue to shine a bright light on a certain demoralizing, insidious and horrific cycle of behavior that continues to be a growing concern within the LGBTQ Community. This is Part Eight of an ongoing series that will address this potentially life-threatening cycle of abuse. COVID-19. The coronavirus. The Plague of [...]