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My “Dear Shane” Video Responses, Angels In Masses!
If you haven’t checked out my YouTube channel, then you won’t know that I have a video that has been seen by thousands of folks in response to the video regarding “Tom Bridegroom,” who passed away leaving his Partner Shane Bitney Crone with no rights, unable to attend his funeral, and threatened by Tom’s family. His video is now being turned into a documentary, and my response has become popular with his supporters – because I reached out to him in his time of need, due to the fact that his partner’s family and the grave site is in Indiana. WATCH SHANE’S VIDEO HERE – and then come back to read on.
My video response appears below:
My video has caused HUNDREDS of people to email me, due to the fact that my REAL email address appears in the video itself. I have had a few negative responses, mainly from prejudiced assholes who couldn’t even write a proper email without spelling errors, and a LARGE LARGE HUGE majority of people who have related to this video and let me know about it. I wanted to take the time to share with you these messages, because all of them are beautiful – here we go:
This is from China, I do not read Chinese so I cannot tell you what the symbols mean to translate the name. I can tell you the email reads:
“When I read Shane’s video, I cried!! Although I don’t know him, but I can see from his eyes kind of pain. Now I have read your video.I cried again. But both of you were gave me a notice: to fight for what you deserve equality. Together with you to support him.”
Others read:
“Dear Mr. Wheat, I just wanted to express my gratitude for your response to Shane’s video on youtube. You expressed my feeling as well as the feelings of millions of others with your heartfelt and eloquent video. I can only hope you have provided some small comfort for Shane.”
“Jake, I wish there were more people in the world like you. The fact that you made this video shows that there’s still good people in the world.”
“Oh my god Jake I love you!!! I’m so glad you support Shane, I too were moved by his story, and wish we homosexuals shouldn’t have to go through this, that he shouldn’t have gone through this. I may only be 15, but even I know this is wrong, and fully support Shane and you!!!! I’m glad people like you assist, and I hope on day we will gain equality! Thank you!!!!!! You are truly a great person!!!!!”
“I Had to Email just to say “WOW”, You Are truly an Inspiration…I Lost my 1st Love of 2yrs, was still in high school, and not even My family was there… Sometimes in times like these ALL we really need is a HUG…And JAKE you hugged a lot of us through Your Response…”
These responses are only a FEW of the replies that I have had, there are quite a few comments on the actual video page as well, and it is a good feeling to know that there are that many caring people out there. I just wanted to share this with everyone on my website, and say goodnight – it’s time for me to being my own journey, and sometimes – often times – we forget that what we are not alone.
May your own journey be successful.
Sincerely,
Jake A. Wheat
A Fan Letter That Touched Me.
I write a lot about gay teen suicide, and fighting for GLBTI rights. My blog reaches a lot of people, and I am proud of that because I try to stay on the side of “good.”
One email that came out made touched my heart compeltely, and I wanted it to share it to the public. I wrote them back and didn’t get a reply, and I understand why… but I just want to let you (the author of the email below) that I am so thankful you wrote me, and I admire you! You didn’t say anything in your letter about what happened to your Brother, or what may have come from his being afraid to come out. I immediately think the worst, and feel as if he may have took his own life. If this is not the case, then I am relieved and please forgive me. If this is the case, then please accept my condolences and know that I feel your pain. Know that in my heart the last thing that I want to see happen to anyone is to feel so lost that they choose to take their own life. I wish I could speak with you, and I hope that one day I can.
Here is the letter that I was sent:
I just discovered your blog, and I wish my brother had something like this to read when he was growing up. He thought he was the only gay kid in the world. I don’t require a response, but I am just glad to know that you are here for kids like my brother.
I hope that whoever wrote this letter to me is doing well, and I can’t again thank you how much that this touched my heart!
Love,
Jake A. Wheat
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KaLaZza! … The Play Comes Out of the Closet!
In the 90′s, I wrote a one act play that I dubbed “KaLaZza,” and dedicated it to a friend of mine who was big at our college theatre at the time, Shane Morton. Shane, ultimately, would ask me to write various plays or whatever and I would – or we would collaborate. My work hit dusty boxes, and survived several residential moves – including being in the trunk of my car for so very very long. LOL!
I had been looking for the script for a long time, and for the past few months I had given up hope until I mysteriously opened up a black folder in one of the boxes in my storage closet, and there it was. It was fading, and looked as if it had something spilled all over it. I read it, fell in love with it again, but realized that it was dated and needed some TLC.
Over the past weekend, I worked over my laptop updating the long lost play that was “KaLaZza,” and revising a lot of it to be just as relevant today as it was in the early 90′s. It has power, and it’s something I am very VERY proud of!
Today, I authorized it to be published after deciding that something this awesome should not be kept just to myself, and so it has manifested! YAY!
The original play in one act, in script form, ready for performance on a stage near you! KaLaZza! is a nightmarish dreamscape for Sable, who falls asleep and enters a post-apocalyptic world where he must face his other personalities, learn that the tables have turned on him, and fight to wake up again. A interesting perspective on the struggle for one man vs. his sexual identity in a world full of hate & bigotry….even if he is only dreaming.
“KaLaZza!” is available for sale in both SOFTBACK and 6×9 HARDBACK, and yes – you Producers and Directors…. it’s ready to hit the stage as well! 
LOVE YOU,
Jake A. Wheat
PS. You can always check out my other books available by clicking HERE!
FCKH8 – Straight Up Your @ss!
A new campaign is in town, and it is kicking ass and taking names… it’s called “FCKH8″ and it raises the middle finger to all of the bigoted assholes standing in the way of equality, gay bullying, and anti-gay marriage.
GET THIS ALL UP ON YOUR TWITTER, AND SPREAD THIS LIKE HERPES!
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I pretty much feel the same way, and agree with the message that this campaign sends because we have been to passive for too long! FUCK HATE! That is the sweetest message of the season! xoxo
If anyone wants to get me a Christmas gift this year, I really want the FCKH8 calendar for 2011, and if you want to join the fight, then just visit the fucking website ok?
FUCK YEAH!
SINcerely,
Jake A. Wheat
Why Must You Throw It In Our Face?
This blog has been a safe place for me in a very strange period of my life, where I am not exactly sure when success equals joy or failure. One of the things that I can do is continue to publish and put out there the writing that I enjoy, and continue to support the GLBTI community in my efforts to recognize equality. It’s funny, those who profess to be liberal and “gay friendly” can at times talk out of both sides of their mouths, accepting a person as being gay but not wanting it to be “thrown in their face.”
Here is the thing, and I am being morbidly honest…. being GAY does not mean that I can BE GAY but have to CENSOR certain aspects of my life to meet the approval of those who are supposed to be ACCEPTING. I say again, you either accept me for who I am, or you don’t accept me at all. There is no bargaining chip.
This came to light after I started publishing a collection of work I have written, which happens to be gay erotic fiction. Yes it is here for the public to read, and YES there is a disclaimer on each and every post that I write, and even on the erotic fiction posts I WARN people of the content ahead. I hate having to do that, because the gay lifestyle does involve sexuality, and to put it bluntly you can romanticize the intimacy between two people in sugar coated adjectives to meet the conservative public’s approval, but that isn’t reality. Sexuality is raw, fresh, and exciting. FUCKING is not exactly something you can describe in fluffy letters, or that can be watered down – so why should I dilute it on my blog so that when people read it I don’t “offend” anyone?
When two people have sex in my stories, it is between two consenting adults who happen to be of the same sex. My blog automatically publishes my posts to Twitter, and also to my NEW Facebook page – and some of my followers write comments back about how they are “offended,” or that I am “throwing homosexuality in the faces of others,” and that is NOT what I am doing. I am sharing my fantasies, creative writing skills, and even my wit to people in a real form – and it’s not going to be watered down just because I may offend a few people who profess to be “gay friendly,” but don’t understand why a penis could ever go into a butthole. It’s anal sex, and it’s something that gay men do. It’s not all interior designers, and your favorite hair sylist at the salon – it’s sweaty reality, and it should not have to be censored because the visuals are too “graphic” for a “tolerant” heterosexual’s imagination.
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My life is pretty much an open book on here, and I present it that way because I want people to know that I have a bright wonderful personality, and I also have – at times – a considerably real dark side. I am vulnerable, angry, and also sexual. I am provocative, charming, and also carry a lot of self-esteem issues. I have loved, lost, and loved again. I have found sexual release in the strangest of settings, and all under the circumstances that society has afforded the GLBTI community – because we have to CENSOR aspects of our lives to fit in.
Seriously bitches, if you can’t take the heat then get out of the kitchen! There is straight erotic fiction all over the place, and if I was to write about how a “man took his mouth to a woman’s nipple making her heart beat faster, and whimpering gently” I assume it would make less of a grotesque image to those who are “tolerant of the GLBTI” community, because the image is FAMILIAR. The simple fact is, that to me I am able to accept two heterosexual people together, because I have been forced to accept it my whole life. It is the familiarity of this “acceptable norm” that our society has thrust upon us, and yet which makes the GLBTI feel so horribly inferior in their own world! Guard your children, cover your eyes, and don’t you dare speak of two people of the same sex touching each other with intimacy. Shield your ears, for you shouldn’t dare hear me speak of how orgasm is achieved by two consensual adults of the same sex! It is this hypocritical thinking in our society that keeps us from actually being equal.
Expect nothing less from me than honesty, and in return I shall give you nothing less as well. If you wish to be lied to, sugar coated, and have everything tied up in a sweet looking package with a nice bow then you are sadly ignoring reality, because everyone – no matter how conservative or “outspoken” they are has a feisty sexuality that is raw and untamed, because that is after all absolutely what it is to be instinctively human.
Uncensored & SINcerely Yours,
Jake A. Wheat
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