**Disclaimer: Names in this posting have been changed to protect the family’s privacy The other day while catching up with a social work friend, she was asking me how my classes were going. I told her that I was enjoying my classes, especially my LGBT class. I explained the macro project that I was working on and asked her about various topics I may address on this particular macro blog project. I mentioned that one of the topics I was…
Have you seen the movie, Philadelphia which stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, that came out in 1993? Philadelphia, was one of the first movies to address the AIDS epidemic, and won two Academy Awards. The story is set roughly in the year 1987, and is about Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) getting fired from his job after his employer found out that he was gay and had AIDS. Mr. Beckett decides to sue for wrongful termination. As he calls different…
Since I had to completely recreate my website due to an error between a database and WordPress, I lost all of the content that I had posted over the past 5 years. I was completely sick to my stomach when my husband told me that he wasn’t able to bring back the old website, and if he downloaded the newest version of WordPress I would lose everything. If nothing was done, then amyrschumaker.com would have no access to anyone (even…
Intro to Macro Project: September 12th, 9pm eastern standard time… I created this blog as part of a macro project for The LGBTQ Experience: Sexual & Gender Diversities Class that I am taking at University of Connecticut – School of Social Work. Students had several options on what one could do for their project. One could write a research paper exploring the histories of various important times in the LGBT world, others could keep a journal, etc. The option that…
I have not accessed my amyrschumaker.com website in quite some time. With school and the other things in life, I just have not had time to sit down and do a weekly or even monthly posting. Just this past week though, I attempted to access my website and all I came up with was a plain white screen. I refreshed and Firefox pretty much laughed at me. So I made attempts on Internet Explorer, Safari, and even my web browser…