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About Us 10 Apr 2009 07:14 For our German translation click here

Hi, my name is Dave Watkins and I am the founder of A Day In Hand. I'm absolutely passionate about issues of diversity and I hope this project reflects all the different permutations of what it means to be human. I live in London with a bunch of brightly coloured fish and two frisky felines. I'm so grateful to everybody who has sent their pics in. You are the pioneers. To the rest, I hope you find some way of getting involved and that this project helps you to live happier, to love happier and to allow yourself to be loved without fear or restraint.

I suffer some subtle form of discrimination because of my sexuality, every day. There was a time when it felt like dying of a thousand paper cuts. Now it drives me forward to want to change things. That's why I came up with the idea for this project. It has 2 main ideas: 1) We want to see more Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) people living their lives publicly without shame and to the...
3 comments have been posted

1. At 01:38 GMT on 23 Apr 2009, wrote:

2. At 01:44 GMT on 23 Apr 2009, wrote:

My experience is that people do this all wrong. It takes a lot to be expressive in public. It is vital for people to be able to see that there is genuine affection. Making grabd political gestures to shock acheives nothing great. It belittles real affection. Alos it will take time for people to get used to men expressing affection. I have seen hetrosexual people who were being overly affectionate asked to control their behaviour in a public house. people who French kiss in public just reinforce the iedea that we are shallow people who only have a sexual dimension. They do so just to sort out the messs in their head, to shock and be the centre of attention.

3. At 01:46 GMT on 22 Jan 2010, jaunitavaldez wrote:

Regardless of our preference,sex is sacred and when we understand that it allows us to wisely express it all of the time among all of the people as well as privately.