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The stories of both the victims and the perpetrators of gay bashing in the north Queensland city of Townsville.VOX POP YOUNG MAN: God didn't say Adam and Adam, and Eve and Eve.
It was Adam AND Eve -- not Adam and Steve!
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Welcome to regional Australia.
In Townsville, north Queensland, being gay can be a hazard to your safety.
BRUCE WATERS: Black eyes, broken nose, cuts to my ear, cuts to my leg.
Um -- broken arms.
WILL SCHMIDT: They were punching me and kicking me and smacking my head against the wall of the elevator.
DARREL COLFORD-WHITFORD: Dragged me down, ripped my shirt open and was subsequently stabbed in the side of the neck.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Tonight, Four Corners uncovers the hatred which targets gay men in country towns.
VOX POP YOUNG MAN: I just hate gays because --
men and women are meant to be, not men and men!
That's sick!
That's hitting material.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: A city at rest -- a picture of peace and tranquillity.
In a typical theatre hall in a typical suburb, a rehearsal is in full swing.
A group of friends is preparing for one of the year's biggest highlights -- the Queen's Birthday Ball.
Dresses need altering.
High heels need balancing.
And choreography needs a final practice.
And 24 hours later, it's show time!
For the gay community here in Far North Queensland, it's one of the biggest, happiest, most inclusive occasions in their calendar.
This isn't an exclusively gay occasion.
Men and women, gay and straight, from around the region have travelled to the Sovereign pub, here in Townsville, to celebrate.
MOCK AIR HOSTESS: Boarding!
PETER PATERSON: I love that bra-less look, don't you?
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: But behind the smiles and laughter lie real-life horror stories.
Peter Paterson, a star of the show, and a much-loved member of the local gay community, is lucky to be alive.
This is his first drag show since two men he knew broke into his home and attempted to kill him last year.
PETER PATERSON: I woke up with someone on top of me in the bed, like holding on to me, holding me down.
And I rolled over in the bed and saw someone else coming through the window.
And then I felt this awful thud and I thought someone had actually punched me.
And I rolled and started fighting and screamed.
I didn't believe I could scream so loud.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: But Peter hadn't been punched -- he'd been held down and stabbed repeatedly by two young men he'd entertained in his flat three nights earlier.
One of them had had sex with him while his companion slept and afterwards, while Peter slept, they robbed him.
When he reported this to the police, the two men returned to try and silence him forever.
PETER PATERSON: I'm glad I screamed so loud.
My upstairs neighbour heard me screaming over, you know, everything.
And I just kept feeling myself get wetter and wetter and wetter during the whole course of it.
That was one of the things that have always stuck in my mind is the fact that I just could feel like water everywhere.
Well, obviously, we know what it was now.
It was blood.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Peter's attackers fled, leaving a scene of devastation.
PETER PATERSON: I turned the light on in my room and it was like -- Mum!
Like a scene out of 'Psycho'.
Just completely torn apart, my bed, blood just everywhere.
My belongings on the floor where I'd been rolling and fighting.
And I looked at myself and my hair was actually standing on end.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Peter nearly died.
PETER PATERSON: The knife wound had actually gone through and pierced my windpipe and severed the major artery to my face on the way through.
And that scar there, along my lip -- which I'm trying desperately to cover for tonight, for obvious reasons -- what happened was, my lip was actually separated from the corner to my chin and my chin bone was visible and so I couldn't form --
I couldn't talk.
I mean, "Ugh, ugh."
That was it.
And air was escaping through my windpipe.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: In hospital, Peter underwent emergency surgery.
He retains a vivid sense of humour about his ordeal.
PETER PATERSON: The surgery saved my life, because what they had to do was they had to go into my neck and as you can see that's much tighter on that side, so I've had a little neck-lift there.
That's 42, that's 25.
And they had to go in and repair all the muscles all the way back out again.
So I had a big drain in my neck and this was triple sutured -- on the inside, in the middle, on the outside.
I had another wound there, another wound up here, the one in my arm and, of course, what we didn't notice at the time was that my hands were lacerated.
But you get that.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: This young woman says she saw Peter's attackers on the night of the assault.
MEL KINSLOW: All I seen is them coming back to where we were all mingling and, um -- their rush, panic, panic, you know, washing their hands.
They had blood all over them and the only thing that they were talking about is trying to get away and get a getaway car and get out of this town.
And, um -- and I hadn't of seen them since that night.
And the last I heard they were in jail.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Mel, who is herself gay, says one of the two men had come out the night before the attack.
MEL KINSLOW: The night beforehand, we'd seen him kissing up with this other fellow, so it made it obvious that, um -- yeah.
And then he'd come out and admitted that he was bisexual and so was the other feller that was with him, and stuff like that.
And I was cool with that.
PETER PATERSON: I do honestly believe that the attack occurred because of a problem that one of the people that attacked me had.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: And what was that problem?
PETER PATERSON: The problem was the fact that we had consensual sex.
Oh, it was pretty basic, ordinary old, you know, oral sex.
I mean, this has been reported in the paper.
I'm not saying anything that wasn't reported.
But -- and his friend was asleep, and I think his fear, like, he just couldn't stand the fact that it had actually happened.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Peter Paterson's attackers are now behind bars.
The jury rejected their story that he'd drugged them and molested one of them.
But the two men are planning an appeal.
The stabbing was a single manifestation of what's become a much wider problem -- the high and sustained level of violence against gay men in country towns.
Townsville is, in many ways, a microcosm of regional Australia.
With a population of 130,000, it's the country's largest tropical city.
Its sprawling suburbs take in a port, a large public sector and a huge military presence.
It's a city which wears its masculine credentials on its sleeve.
And like every regional centre, it has a gay community.
Townsville has seen a spate of anti-gay violence.
In common with many other young gay men, Will Schmidt has been subjected to repeated abuse and harassment.
WILL SCHMIDT: Basically your run-of-the-mill homophobic taunts, like, "Faggot, poofter, um -- dung puncher," everything that, like, you know, got into their minds they sort of yelled at us, um --
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Why were they targeting you, in particular?
WILL SCHMIDT: I think I was a threat to their masculinity because I was open about who I am and they really didn't like that.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will worked as a volunteer at the AIDS Council in the city centre last year.
At the time, he was living in a share house.
But other young men who'd lived there began to persecute him.
WILL SCHMIDT: They'd actually been banned from the share house.
They'd been causing trouble there for a while.
Um -- they'd been coming back on the grounds of they were coming to get food but had found out that there was two young gay men living there and, um -- were coming back, basically, to terrorise us.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: When Will started work at the AIDS Council, the persecution turned from words to deeds.
One day, he was surrounded by three young men in a local cafe.
WILL SCHMIDT: That's when they burnt me with the cigarettes -- very inconspicuously sort of reached across.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will says that Whayne Jang is one of the men who chased him outside the cafe, then followed him into a lift and bashed him.
Whayne, you were there when your mates were calling Will names, is that right?
WHAYNE JANG: Yes.
Just poof, faggot, um --
Yeah, whatever.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Did you join in?
WHAYNE JANG: No.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Really?
WHAYNE JANG: Yeah.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Did they chase after him?
WHAYNE JANG: Yep.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Did you try and stop them?
WHAYNE JANG: No.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Why not?
WHAYNE JANG: They got their own -- own mind.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Although Whayne denies joining in, that isn't Will's memory of the attack.
WILL SCHMIDT: They were shoulder-barging me against the wall.
I then got into the elevator in the carpark and they got in with me, which is when they attacked me.
They were punching me and kicking me and smacking my head against the wall of the elevator.
Um -- I got out of the elevator on the third floor, very shaken, and went into the office and basically lost it there.
And they got out of the elevator as well and "That's where the faggots work" was what they said, and got back in the lift.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: One man has now been convicted of the assault on Will.
But shortly after his ordeal came the event which rocked Townsville's gay community and reverberated around Australia.
Two crude homemade bombs exploded outside the AIDS Council offices.
NEWS ARCHIVE: Workers inside the AIDS Council believe today's bombing is part of a --
The AIDS Council has been forced to shut its doors until next Thursday --
The AIDS Council is warning members of the gay community in the wake of this latest apparent hate crime --
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: The regional coordinator of the AIDS Council, Darrel Colbert-Whitford, was caught up in the blast.
DARREL COLBERT-WHITFORD: There was two devices -- a smaller device and then a second device which went off later.
I was actually injured by the second device.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Where were you hurt?
DARREL COLBERT-WHITFORD: Just in the right shoulder, by a piece of shrapnel.
But fortunately it was just soft tissue and bruising.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Little physical damage was caused by the explosions but Townsville's police took the bombing seriously, bringing in an expert to examine the devices which were made from soda canisters.
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR DENNIS BAUER: We felt that they were trying to intimidate gay-type men or people that may assist gay-type men.
And as a consequence of that we took it very seriously.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: How much damage do you think those bombs could have done?
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR DENNIS BAUER: Structurally, very little.
But in my view, as I said at the time, there's always the possibility that someone could have been seriously injured or even killed.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: So why wasn't anyone charged with attempted murder?
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR DENNIS BAUER: Because the circumstances did not reflect that particular charge.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: The attack on the AIDS Council galvanised Townsville's gay community.
But as in much of regional Australia, the police didn't share the community's level of concern about homophobia.
COLIN EDWARDS, LOCAL GAY ACTIVIST: The police fundamentally were still very uneducated about homosexuality.
And these are country cops.
These are -- are people who -- who try to do their job as well as they can but when they're not taught about these specific issues, it makes it impossible for them to understand.
So we attempted as a community to empower ourselves.
We got up and tried to deal with it ourselves.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: The community set up an anti-violence project, a safe place scheme and an anonymous reporting arrangement for gay men who don't wish to identify themselves when they're attacked.
This has thrown up new evidence of the scale of gay-hate crimes which are occurring.
COLIN EDWARDS: We are now able to prove there is an increase in issues of assaults, vilification and threats against homosexuals.
We've never been able to show that before.
It's very nice to have those numbers to wave around in front of your face.
But these are anonymous reports.
These are reports that we are gathering ourselves.
These are not reports that are being put together by the police.
In fact, police policy doesn't even allow them to ask the question.
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR DENNIS BAUER: Whilst we've had incidences of -- where gay hate might relate to a particular crime, in general that is not our major focus of our policing problems.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: But why isn't it a major concern in the northern region when it is a huge concern to the gay community?
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR DENNIS BAUER: It's -- it's something that we're aware of but we don't feel a need to have particular statistics relating to --
..a particular set of statistics solely related to gay-type incidents.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: The harassment of Townsville's gay community didn't end with the bombing of the AIDS Council.
It just became nastier and more personal.
Six weeks after being wounded in the explosion, the coordinator, Darrel Colbert-Whitford, was himself targeted.
DARREL COLBERT-WHITFORD: I'd left the office to conduct some activities that were work-related.
On my way back, I was actually followed by a couple of youths and I returned to the office via the car park, the same area where Will started being harassed.
And they actually caught up to me in the stairwell, dragged me down, ripped my shirt open and I was subsequently stabbed in the side of the neck, just here, with a syringe.
For myself, initially all I wanted to do was get away.
It -- it --
Actually I'll have to stop.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Darrel staggered to the AIDS Council office, to be greeted by a stunned colleague.
TRACEY SMITH, ANTI-VIOLENCE OFFICER: It was a hideous time, like, everyone was just in shock.
Like, when that occurred, I'd just started.
I'd been at the anti-violence project for two days and everyone was just coming down off the bombing.
The AIDS Council had opened its doors.
And two days later the coordinator walked through the door with a needle hanging out of his neck and it just hit me like an iceberg what we were dealing with here.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Darrel Colbert-Whitford's ordeal lasted for months as he waited for the results of tests to find out if the needle had infected him.
DARREL COLBERT-WHITFORD: It was horrendous.
It was probably one of the longest six months I've ever been through.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Thankfully, the tests were negative.
But the police were unable to discover who carried out the needle attack.
Later, Whayne Jang and another young man, Nick Bower, were arrested and sentenced to nine months in jail for bombing the AIDS Council.
When Whayne Jang was interviewed by the police, he told them they had targeted the AIDS Council "just because they're faggots".
His opinion of gay men now remains typical of many in his peer group.
WHAYNE JANG: Yeah, they're just weird.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Weird in what way?
WHAYNE JANG: Like, um --
'Cause they like other blokes.
What's wrong with women, mate?
They can please you more than what a bloke can.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Do you think it's wrong?
WHAYNE JANG: Yeah, I do.
I do think it's wrong but I haven't got much to say about it, eh?
If they like what they're doing, they can do it, I suppose.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Whayne Jang says he now accepts the seriousness of what he did.
But the question remains whether he and Nick Bower have really learned their lesson.
Some people say the attack on the AIDS Council was an act of terrorism.
Do you agree with that?
WHAYNE JANG: Yeah, I do and I don't.
It was -- yeah, it is terrorism.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: So what should happen to terrorists?
WHAYNE JANG: They should go to jail, do their time.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Was nine months enough?
WHAYNE JANG: Yeah.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: It probably felt like enough, but was it enough?
WHAYNE JANG: No, it was.
I've changed.
I can feel that I've changed and I act different and --
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: How have you changed?
What --
how have your views changed now?
WHAYNE JANG: It's just woken me up, eh?
I've just turned into a man, whatever.
You know, something --
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Whayne Jang fits the profile of a typical offender -- young, white, male and unemployed.
For youngsters like Whayne, boredom provides as much motivation to go out and commit a crime as does homophobia -- certainly if Whayne himself is to be believed.
WHAYNE JANG: I met up with me mates.
And then we were just bored one day and we decided to make a bomb.
And then it just happened from there.
We done the place and that was it.
Then got arrested.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: What were you hoping to achieve when you made the bomb?
WHAYNE JANG: Oh, I was hoping to achieve nothing, mate.
We were just --
It was something to do.
We were just going to do letterboxes or something like that.
And then it turned out we ended up going in town and blowing a shop up.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Whayne Jang's air of listless boredom finds echoes elsewhere in Townsville.
A favourite haunt for the city's young men is the empty stretch of road on The Strand, down near the ocean.
When the youngsters' cars aren't roaring up and down the stretch, they're parked by the kerb, where gangs of teenagers simply sit and chew the fat.
VOX POP YOUNG MAN: Well, gay men shouldn't be there.
God didn't say, "Adam and Adam and Eve and Eve."
It was Adam and Eve -- not Adam and Steve!
What's going on?
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: So you have a religious objection to it?
YOUNG MAN 1: Oh, I do have a real serious religion against that.
I'm Catholic and I hate it.
And it will not go with me.
And if any Catholic says that gay men are meant to be, they're not Catholic.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Do you have any friends who are gay?
YOUNG MAN 2: Uh, yeah, a few.
One or two.
YOUNG MAN 3: I'm gay Adam!
YOUNG WOMAN: Personally, I think gay guys are great to go shopping with.
We were talking about this earlier, actually.
They're the best shoppers to go with!
So, no, it doesn't bother me one bit.
I know gay guys tend to intimidate a lot more males.
But, no, I'm fine with it.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Do you know anyone who's ever gone out and bashed gays?
YOUNG MAN 4: Yeah, they'd flip a coin.
Whoever lost was the one that would go in the toilet, act gay or whatever, or you know, put on a big act.
And he'd whistle out and they'd come in and flog the fuck out of him with a fucking baseball bat or something.
I don't know.
But one time they picked on the wrong person and he pulled out a knife.
No shit.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Do you have friends who are gay?
YOUNG MAN 5: Ah, no, but I have a friend --
a girlfriend who is lesbian.
YOUNG MAN 1: Fair enough, there's dykes.
I don't mind lesbians 'cause, I don't -- that's the way they are.
I don't mind them.
But men and men, it just doesn't go.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: What do you feel about lesbians?
YOUNG MAN 6: Lesbians are the same.
Again, I still don't think that's right either.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Some young guys planted a bomb or a couple of bombs at the AIDS Council.
Do you think that's appropriate?
YOUNG MAN 4: Well, it depends.
If someone wants to have an opinion because they don't like gays, fair enough.
If they feel like flogging into them, I'm not going to bag them 'cause they're doing what they want to do.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: If you had a mate who came up to you and said, "Look, I've known you for 10 years.
I've got to tell you this -- I'm gay."
What would you do?
YOUNG MAN 1: I'd hit him.
I'd hit him 'cause I'd say, "You're a liar.
Why didn't you tell me that at the beginning?"
'Cause I would hit him at the beginning if he had told me that anyway.
It doesn't matter.
'Cause I hate gays.
It's men and women, men -- a man and a woman.
Not man and man.
That's -- that's sick.
That's hitting material.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Do you have a girlfriend?
YOUNG MAN 4: No.
YOUNG MAN 1: Not at the moment, no.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: If you had a girlfr --
YOUNG MAN 1: 'Cause you can't trust them.
They take your money.
YOUNG MAN 7: No poofters allowed!
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Dangers are faced by gay communities everywhere.
A recent study in Victoria reported that 70 per cent of lesbians and gay men had been abused, threatened or bashed in public.
In Townsville, for many gays, Flinders Street East is a no-go area.
Every Friday night, armies of young men descend on the pubs and clubs, looking for action.
MICHAEL IMHOFF: I just refuse to go out by myself at night-time unless I either get driven there or driven back or get a taxi there and a taxi back to wherever I'm going.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will you ever venture into Flinders Street at night?
MICHAEL IMHOFF: No, absolutely not.
I have friends that have been bashed in Flinders Street Mall even with the cameras and all the rest of it and this was, like, on a Friday night.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: What kinds of injuries have you sustained in these bashings?
BRUCE WALTERS: Black eyes, broken nose, cuts to my ear, cuts to my leg, um -- broken arms.
Um -- just -- just about everything.
Like, you know, even, like, times where that --
..the bruisings have been that bad where I've just confined myself to my room 'cause I'm too embarrassed to face the public, you know?
Because of what happened and stuff.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Community attitudes like the ones found on The Strand and Flinders Street East are embedded in some respected Australian institutions.
Churches, schools and sometimes even families reinforce the message that gays are deviant and homosexuality is wrong.
DR DAVID PLUMMER, SCHOOL OF HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: The churches have been guilty for a long time of being too preoccupied with criticising the victims of these crimes and have said precious little about the deeply antisocial, hostile and dangerous behaviours that are involved in attacking these people.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: At a Townsville United Pentecostal Church, Pastor Denis Jacobsen delivers an unequivocal sermon to a broad and multiracial congregation.
PASTOR DENIS JACOBSEN (Preaching): Homosexuality is totally unacceptable to God!
They're saying now that homosexuals have a certain gene structure that gives a predisposition to homosexuality.
All have sinned!
It doesn't say that all have weaknesses or all have inclinations, but that all have sinned!
Thank God there is hope in Jesus Christ!
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Pastor Jacobsen says he condemns violence against gays.
But he seems to show little compassion for the intense difficulties faced by young gay people.
PASTOR DENIS JACOBSEN (Preaching): Bless the Lord, bless the Lord, bless the Lord!
PASTOR DENIS JACOBSEN: It's a moral issue.
It's not an intellectual issue.
It's not a personality issue.
It's a moral issue.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: But it's also a human issue and young people are being driven to harm themselves and even to kill themselves because they're being rejected by certain sections of society and because people are telling them it's wrong and because they're being bashed and violently harmed.
Now, don't you accept some responsibility for that?
PASTOR DENIS JACOBSEN: We accept no responsibility for that, and that's another unfortunate extension of their lifestyle.
We just read this morning about Judas who betrayed the Lord for 30 pieces of silver and then went out and hung himself.
And the Bible in no way is sympathetic towards Judas because of his end, over what he did, because his lifestyle, his choice of dishonesty led him, with guilt, to suicide.
And it's unfortunate that is the end of a lot of people who choose that lifestyle.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: But isn't the church responsible for making people feel guilty?
PASTOR DENIS JACOBSEN: They are responsible for the choices they make.
And they must live with those responsibilities and the consequences of that --
these decisions.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: In practice, for some young people, these decisions include self-harm.
Australia has one of the highest rates of male youth suicide in the industrialised world.
Studies here show that young gay men are up to three times more likely to contemplate and attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.
Sometimes the worst kind of violence visited on gays can end up being the violence they do to themselves.
Even high school children are at risk when they face uncontrolled homophobia from their fellow pupils.
MICHAEL IMHOFF: Sometimes they physically attacked me.
Other times it was more emotional -- taunting and stuff like that.
When I actually came out of the closet, I got burned in the arm -- a cigarette.
I've had beer bottles thrown at me.
One actually being thrown at me and it hit my leg.
Rocks, you name it, they've been throwing at me.
And it got to the point where I was trying to look for ways to get out of going to school, whether it be, like, you know, trying to cut up my wrists with a razor or trying to take a, you know, handful of this pill, a handful of that pill, or faking some kind of sickness or, you know, purposely falling down the stairs or something like that.
I just did not want to go to school.
WILL SCHMIDT (Reads speech aloud): "I would like to make one thing very clear.
What you have all been assuming for the past three years is true.
I am a homosexual, a poof, a fag -- whatever names pop into your childish minds.
I don't wish to live my life lying to society and myself."
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will Schmidt showed real courage when he came out.
WILL SCHMIDT: It was March 1997.
I was in Year 10.
And I stood up in front of my English class and, as part of a persuasive speech on something that had affected young people in the 1990s, I did gay youth.
During that I -- I came out and it was quite a revelation for the whole school.
It spread like wildfire through the whole school really fast.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: How did everyone respond?
WILL SCHMIDT: A lot were in shock.
Like, there was --
people were just, like, "Why the hell did you do that?"
sort of thing.
Some people were very, very proud of me.
I had a lot of young men who, you know, did have the same sort of feelings come up and say to me, "You're so brave but I could never do that."
Trust me -- it is a very terrifying experience just admitting to yourself that, yes, I am different."
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will was suspended from school after giving his speech on the grounds that he'd been smoking.
But when his case was written up in a Sunday paper he became something of a local celebrity.
WILL SCHMIDT: It did bring to light, you know, that there are young gay people in schools in north Queensland and regional areas and that something needed to be done about -- to educate both the staff and the students.
DR DAVID PLUMMER: In many ways, boys who've gone through school and young adulthood who've been subjected to intensive homophobia really are victims of torture, and that, whether it's psychological torture at school by bullies and groups of boys or otherwise, we haven't given enough attention to the marginalisation, isolation, psychological trauma that these young boys have experienced.
And isolation is one factor that has been linked fairly clearly into youth suicide and we've got an epidemic of it in modern Australia.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will Schmidt is one of those who tried to kill himself as a young adolescent.
Problems at school were compounded by his relationship with his father.
WILL SCHMIDT: He drives cattle trucks.
And he's very blokey, very macho, ideal Australian sort of male.
He wanted me to be like him and eventually run the business.
And that's not what I ever wanted to do.
I wasn't the ideal son.
I'm the only son.
And he thought that I was supposed to be blokey and everything and I never was.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Will ran away to Sydney following an argument with his parents when he was just 14.
WILL SCHMIDT: Sydney is a very harsh place to live, especially when you're so young.
I was only there two weeks and I was on the streets taking drugs, working on the Wall, which is where all the boys go to prostitute themselves for money.
Um --
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: You worked as a rentboy?
WILL SCHMIDT: Yep.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: At the age of 14?
WILL SCHMIDT: Yeah.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: How long did you work as a rentboy?
WILL SCHMIDT: Six months.
And my mum came down from Townsville to Sydney to save me.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: After returning home and going back to school, Will had a further, disastrous bust-up with his mother and father.
WILL SCHMIDT: She told him that I had come out at school and that I was gay and I was sitting at the kitchen table and he was sitting next to me and he said to me, "Do you know what the poofters do?"
Which is when I started crying and bawling and he said, "Get out of my house!"
Not quite so nicely, but, um --
So I ran out the back door and he ran over to one of the trucks and proceeded to chase after me down the road in one of the trucks and all I could think of -- "Where the hell am I going to go?
What am I going to do?"
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Mel Kinslow, too, grew up without the support of a traditional home environment.
As a young gay teenager she lived in the same share house occupied at one time by Whayne Jang and Nick Bower, who bombed the AIDS Council.
Two years ago her girlfriend died of an overdose.
The death distressed her deeply.
MEL KINSLOW: I'm pretty scared actually at the moment.
I'm still scared.
I don't want to die.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Why are you scared?
MEL KINSLOW: When I first started using I didn't think that -- morphine was something that could kill me, you know?
And it was just something -- I suppose something to escape from whether I was gay or not.
That was an issue, so I just used drugs to forget about it because I just didn't want to think about it.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Where did you get the scar on your arm?
MEL KINSLOW: A bit of suicidal.
When Jo overdosed it got to me, 'cause me and her each experienced feelings for each other and it hurt me to know that she wasn't going to be here anymore.
I had been a couple of weeks before that using morphine real, real bad and then I just swapped onto alcohol and it just, like, acted as a big volcano.
It was just -- just all got to me.
Everything in my head at once.
And, yeah, took control of me.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: And what did you do?
MEL KINSLOW: Just got a razor and started digging into myself.
A bit of selfmutilation.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Bruce is another young person who has turned his pain in on himself.
In his case, the pain of homophobic abuse as a young gay man and the agony of trying to summon the courage to tell his mother he was gay.
BRUCE WALTERS (In shop) : So, where's your menswear?
SHOPKEEPER: Down towards the end.
The two racks down the end there.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: When he finally did so, the hurt was compounded by the fact that she wouldn't speak to him for nine months.
BRUCE WALTERS: I really needed my Mum at that time and she wasn't there and I, sort of, basically tried to take my life that -- that night and if it wasn't for my ex-boyfriend being in that house, I reckon I might not even be here today.
BRUCE WALTERS (In shop): Here we go.
I'll go Bob Marley for a day.
CHERYL SMITH, BRUCE'S MOTHER: Deep down I knew.
It just broke my heart when he did tell me.
But I'll stand by him.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Why did it break your heart?
CHERYL SMITH: Probably because I didn't want a son to be gay.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: What's wrong with being gay?
CHERYL SMITH: Nothing, now.
Now that I have got to realise and get more into it after the two years of being told.
Um, at that stage it was hard for me to accept it.
Even though I knew.
But I can't change him to the way that I want him to be -- straight.
PETER PATERSON (In kitchen): Who's going to cook our tea?
JACK PATERSON, PETER'S FATHER: You are.
PETER PATERSON: Oh, I'm not cooking tea.
JACK PATERSON: Milk?
PETER PATERSON: Yes, please.
DORRIE PATERSON, PETER'S MOTHER: No, thanks.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Peter Paterson's parents, in striking contrast to some others, have stood by their son unquestioningly from the time he came out as a gay man.
PETER PATERSON: They never displayed distaste.
They never made me feel like I was strange.
They certainly thought I was like an idiot at times.
But they loved me anyway, you know, because they just thought, oh, well, that's the way I am.
JACK PATERSON (In kitchen): Do you want the car tomorrow?
PETER PATERSON: No.
JACK PATERSON: Good.
PETER PATERSON: Their love for me overrode anything else.
And that to me, when I look back, was why --
..is why I've made it this far and I've been so secure, you know?
Self esteem's a really huge thing when you're a gay child.
PETER PATERSON (In kitchen): Mum yelled at me this morning, at seven o'clock.
She's saying, "Get up", she's yelling at me, going, "Get up!"
DORRIE PATERSON: You had to be at work at half past eight and I thought, well, you might want a cup of coffee.
JACK PATERSON: Don't spoil him!
DORRIE PATERSON: A bit late for that, Jackie.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: In the last 12 months, it's been a rough ride for the Patersons.
After seeing their son near death following his stabbing, they had to read allegations made against him in court by his attackers which any parent would find painful.
But it was then they really showed their mettle.
PETER PATERSON: When you get up of a morning and you read in the local paper that I've attempted to give someone oral sex after I'd drugged them and your father still makes you a cup of tea and a piece of toast, then you don't really care what anybody else thinks.
And by the end of that your mother says, "Oh, well, you're only on page seven today, love, instead of page two."
Well, what's important, you know?
It's not important what anybody else thinks.
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Townsville is a place which inspires deep loyalty in those who live there and bravery in those who -- against all the evidence -- refuse to condemn it.
COLIN EDWARDS: We know what we're choosing.
We know that life's a bit tougher in the bush.
You know, that it needs a certain harder shell-casing over your back.
But we do our best.
I'm proud of Townsville.
I love this city.
I love the people of this city, you know?
QUENTIN McDERMOTT: In the end, Townsville can't be said to be any more or less homophobic than anywhere else in regional Australia.
And in Townsville, as elsewhere, the challenge is in coming to terms with each other's differences.
COLIN EDWARDS: It's about being a decent human being and not passing judgment on somebody.
It's about holding somebody's hand and maybe not accepting or understanding what they're going through or what they are, but letting them know that it doesn't matter.
You know?
Not rejecting them.
Not turning your back on them.
That's not the Australian way.
PETER PATERSON: There was something that happened quite a while ago with my father.
We were driving to work one morning and I was performing that night at the Sovereign on the bar.
And he said to me, "What's all the stuff for?"
I said, "Oh I've got a performance tonight after work," and he said, you know, I said, "Oh we're doing some work on the bar," blah blah blah.
And my dad said to me, "You make sure you don't fall off that bar."
I mean, you got to think about that.
Here's my father, who's driving his son to work in the morning, who's going to put a frock on that night, in stilettos and stockings and make-up and skip up and down on a bar.
And all he's concerned about is that I don't fall off.
I mean, how beautiful is that?
What more can you ask for?
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Seeds questions - stratify, storage & planting
I have some seeds to plant next spring. I've read a little about stratification but not sure when it applies. I'm in Michigan. I was wondering if I could just store the seeds in my garage over the winter and plant in spring. Or should I plant the seeds outside now? Or doesn't it matter? Is it absolutely necessary that they go through the stratification process? Here is what I have:
milkweed - no pods yet but planning ahead
poppies - no idea what kind, they were given to me
malva alcea (musk mallow)
Snaillover, there are different kinds of milkweed (Asclepias) and they don't all have the same germination requirements. A good place to look up the different types for reliable suggestions on how best to germinate is the Clothiers Germination database, I'll link it for you. The seed sowing articles found there are good too, you may want to read through them.
If stratifying a type seed is recommended, storing dry in your garage won't help, that's only storage. In order for the chill to be helpful the seeds must be moist. Can you sometimes skip that step and get (some) germination, Yes, in a very few cases...but the databases will give you suggestions for methods shown to provide the best and most complete germination.
It's hard to advise not knowing which poppy too. The oriental perennial types will germinate without the moist chill, are fine sown in pots, while other perennial types may need the chill - and the annual poppies are often best direct sown. In my milder climate I'll direct sow in Fall, Winter, earliest Spring. You can sometimes very carefully transplant the annual types into the garden but for the most part they don't do as well with the roots disturbed.
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In Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, the failure of Boston's Torey Krug to clear the puck out of his zone led to Chicago's third-period comeback and eventual triple-overtime victory.
In Game 2, the tables were turned.
In overtime, Blackhawk forward Brandon Bollig had a chance to clear the puck to the neutral zone, but lost control off the pressure of Adam McQuaid, which led to Daniel Paille's game-winning goal 13:48 into the extra session, lifting the Bruins to a 2-1 win and evening the series.
Game 2 was a lot shorter than the opener, but it didn't lack drama. It started out as a dominating effort by the home team, but by the end, the Bruins were controlling play up and down the ice.
In the first period, the ice seemed completely tilted toward Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask. After the opening 20 minutes, the Blackhawks were outshooting the B's 19-4.
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"If it wasn't for Tuukka it would've been a lot worse," Bruin forward Chris Kelly told reporters after the game.
By the end of the game, the Hawks only had six more shots than Boston as the B's seemed to find their legs after coming out flat following Wednesday's triple-overtime thriller.
In the overtime period, Bollig had the puck stripped by McQuaid, who fired it to Tyler Seguin just above the hash marks. Seguin fed Paille who rang it off the pipe and past Chicago netminder Corey Crawford.
"After it went off the post, we were all excited. We all jumped up," Bruin forward Nathan Horton told NBC's Pierre McGuire after the game. "It's a great feeling."
Horton, who missed the second and third overtimes of Game 1 with an upper-body injury, returned for Game 2 and was a factor at both ends of the ice.
"It's the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you can be in there, you're going to be in there," Horton said. "There's no way I'm coming out. I'm just happy to be a part of it. We got a great team and a great bunch of guys."
After Sharp's goal 11:22 into the first period, Chicago couldn't beat Rask for the rest of the night. In fact, the Blackhawks only had 15 shots the rest of the game.
Chicago's Marian Hossa slipped the puck over the goal line just over a minute after Sharp scored, but referee Wes McCauley had blown the play dead just prior to it crossing the line, and he ruled no goal.
"We were in survival mode there for a bit. It looked like they had more guys out there than we did," Rask told reporters.
Kelly was able to tie the game at the 14:58 mark of the second period off a rebound from a shot by Paille.
Saturday's victory was the Bruins' fifth win in seven OT games this postseason, and it's only the second OT loss in six for the Hawks.
Boston 41-year-old Jaromir Jagr almost ended it before Paille, as his snipe hit the crossbar just 1:28 into the extra session.
"After the first period, we had a bit of a chat and we got ourselves going," Bruins coach Claude Julien told reporters. "We got our feet moving to start and then the rest followed and eventually just got better."
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a resident of Portola Valley: Central Portola Valley
on Jul 30, 2014 at 6:35 pm
This happened over two years ago and is just now being reported? These two guys flew up here from Arizona, rented a car and drove to the destination house to rob it. Could this be an "inside job"? Seems there's a lot more to tell than has been revealed. Will be an interesting trial!
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jul 30, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Did they fly all this way to rob only one house? How about posting their mug shots to see if anyone else recognizes them?
I agree that there is a good story in the 2 year gap between the burglary and the arrests. Why is that not being told?
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jul 31, 2014 at 10:22 am
Calendar Guy & resident... re: your questions
It's a conspiracy!
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Aug 28, 2014 at 8:00 am
What a joke! The truth will come out. What a waste of tax payer money.
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Melody's gorgeous quilt Still Waters is on the cover of the January/February 2015 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine and you can learn her method of working in layers as well as see more of her incredible fiber art featured within the issue. Hurry and get your copy!
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Another First Friday Exhibition Opening!
Our Fiber Visions exhibition will continue to be on display at the Bas Bleu Theatre in Fort Collins, Colorado through the month of December. We had a great First Friday opening reception in November as you can see from the photos here. If you missed the party, you still have another chance to come to our second First Friday reception on December 5 from 5-7pm. Stop by for something to drink or a bite to eat and enjoy some great art! And if you can't make this second reception, you can always stop by when the Bas Bleu Theatre is open to see the exhibition.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Fiber Visions Latest Exhibition Opens Tomorrow!
|Franchi and Patty making sure nothing is forgotten
|Gwen and Vicki checking that everything is straight and level
|Finding perfect harmony with this grouping!
|Making the most of color and texture
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
More on Quilt Visions 2014....
|Linda Beach, Beyond
|Vicki Carlson, Points In Time
Fiber Visions is well represented in the exhibition Quilt Visions 2014: The Sky's The Limit and several of us were there at the opening reception in San Diego on October 11.
Not only was Patty Hawkins one of three jurors of the exhibition, but Melody Randol, Vicki Carlson and Linda Beach all had work juried in. (Please see the entry immediately preceding this for more on Melody Randol and her receiving the prestigious Quilts Japan Award). For information on visiting this exhibition or to purchase a catalog, please see the Visions Art Museum website.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Visions Quilts Japan Award
|Charlotte Bird presenting Melody Randol the Quilts Japan Award
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The opening of this urbane boîte in 2006 went a long way in helping Haight Street shed its hippie image. The bar is the focus, with its inspired cocktails like the Promissory Note, made with tequila, ginger liqueur, honey and a dash of absinthe. But the bar food is no mere afterthought. We loved: Sliders filled with albacore, avocado and South African peppadews.


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New Release: Pillars of Eternity, a new RPG perfect for fans of Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale!
Title screen
Main menu
Tess Conway from the game's intro...
...and her mansion - the setting of the game
Tess liked throwing parties... perhaps too much
Starting location. A g-g-g-g-GHOST!
This exact apparition means there is a small video scene with live characters nearby
More ghosts setting up the plot. This one explains why there are guns all over the mansion.
Map screen
Ducks appear early in the 3DO version and are the first "enemies" you'll encounter
Some duck hunters apparently don't appreciate the competition
The 3DO version is noticeably smaller and more linear than the later PC release. The textures are almost as nice, though
The entrance to the mansion is just a tiny area, and the mansion itself looks ridiculously small. No comparison to the imposing architecture in the PC version
You'll have to find and activate such doors throughout the game. What are you looking at, you... weird face?
Haven't been in a circus for quite a while
Have YOU joined the Communist party, comrade?.. Exploring the attic of the mansion
Coffee or tea, sir? Are you surprised to see me, sir? Allow me to draw your attention to these purple curtains, sir. Quite exquisite, I'm sure
Man... I have stomach ache, dude... I think it might be the Tommy gun you shot at me with...
Many enemies are different in the 3DO and the computer versions. The 3DO one has bats and maids. The computer one has vampiric bat maids! You tell me which is cooler
Fire in the corridor. I can still pass, but it'll hurt
You'll see Robert the butler quite a lot. He is always very collected. I guess he has seen all sorts of stuff before
Battle against some cowboy-like dudes in a library
The 3DO version has big floating red heads. The computer version has big floating red SKULLS. See the difference?..
The 3DO version has a rather artificial level design with pointless long corridors and a copy-paste feel in many places. The levels of the PC version are much more interesting
The sewers are inhabited by heavy green monsters who look more amphibian than their reptilian PC counterparts
The dining room in the mansion is one of the few locations that looks almost identical in 3DO and PC versions. Another thing is that the PC version has more houses with other dining rooms
The kitchen is annoyingly maze-like in the 3DO version. It still has the crazy knife-throwing chefs, though
Is this skeleton smoking a cigarette??..
...He most certainly was! And now he is attacking me with a lit one!.. ... Okay, that's another skeleton, in another place, but that's not the point!
Giant bees in a warehouse. Tough day, eh?..
A creepy little girl greets you at the entrance to the hedge maze. This is one of the very few locations I actually liked more in the 3DO version
Crazy middle-aged women are throwing bottles at you in the basement. Next time, be more politically correct or something
Look, I understand you have to clean all those orbs, but can we please just... come to some understanding?
Insects hitting me with fire among colorful pillars
This secret passage looks similar to the one I used to get to the mansion
A ghostly scene in a large room. The game beautifully conveys the opulent atmosphere of the 1930s
You'll be attacked by many enemies at once very often. These duck hunters just can't quit...
Angry maids are punching me hard! What did I do to deserve this?..
Is this a switch or just beautiful, detailed textures? Probably both!
When, or WHEN will I be able to score enough MobyPoints to become all-time leading contributor?!..
Lavish art in Tess' inner sanctum
What's wrong, do you want that thing there? Why didn't you just tell me?..
The fairly long and impressive live action intro depicts Egyptian artifacts...
...Tess Conway, the rich heiress who mysteriously vanished...
...her estate on an island in Maine...
...and various scenes from her life. Most of these characters will have in-game appearances as well... though not quite in their usual shape
A nicely designed options screen
The starting area in the computer versions is different. You start in your boat rather than immediately outside of the mansion
The path to the mansion is quite different as well. Outdoor areas are much bigger and more open in the computer versions
Indoor locations, however, tend to be narrower. You'll have such cramped fights many, many times
A ghostly apparition! One of the many to follow. I reduced the screen size to display my HP and ammo
Tommy gun zombie massacre early in the game. I haven't reached the mansion yet - the surrounding areas are much, much bigger than in the 3DO version
Reloading a shotgun. Zombies are outside and can't enter. But I can see a healing orb glowing out there... should I risj it?
A dining room in one of the smaller houses. You think this is fancy and detailed? Wait till you get into the rich rooms of the mansion...
The square in front of the mansion is huge
Flowers, bodies, and damage orbs. This is almost the vacation I had in mind
Mansion hall. From here, many divergent paths lead to other locations
3D maze, Molotov cocktail, skeletons dripping blood. I think I'll go to Florida next year
The game is full of "gothic" imagery with heavy colors. The atmosphere is very thick. Here, I just use my flamethrower in an empty room. Why not?..
Found an Ankh - the game's most powerful weapon with limited uses. Always ready to appreciate art
You guys keep dancing, I have better things to do
Hey, this is not funny. I've seen clown sprites up close before. It's just that they were... nicer
See, I told you that there are more lavish dining rooms in the game. Hello! Is dinner ready yet?..
The game is full of insane, weird enemies. Crazy, maniacal chefs throw knives at you in the kitchen
You'll have to find quite a few keys and so-called "vessels", and solve some puzzles
Yes sir, is there anything you need, sir? Busty vampire bat maid always at your service in this basement... sir
I just want to blow this wine cellar to pieces with my Ankh. But this insane explosive bottle-throwing older lady seems to disagree
The game has a lot of enemies. Really, a lot - perhaps too many. The cool thing is that they will attack each other if for some reason they can't see you
Manipulating levers - a basic puzzle that can be encountered here. But there are no colored keycards!..
Sewers, sewers. Game designers do seem to love them. These here are populated by fictional reptiles with a lot of teeth
The island offers plenty to explore besides the mansion itself. But beware of evil hunters!..
The Mausoleum, one of the game's most dangerous locations. It's dark, skeletons are wandering... this can seriously affect your nervous system, you know?
Whoa, whoa... wait a second... Did you say Temple of Isis? Just turn right at the next intersection. Have a nice day!..
This game really likes angry female demonic creatures. She and I wreaked some serious havoc around here, hehe!..
I set the library on fire! Pyromania! Bibliophobia! Haa-ahahahahaaa!..
On the way to the cave system. Cerberus, I presume? Benign and canine, so to say... Hehe... hopefully... actually, probably not, right?
Anger management? It's okay, don't worry, I used to have the same problem. Just take a deep breath... errr... without exhaling fire this time...
No! Not one step further! Sir, really now! Do you know how long it will take me to clean this mess?..
Lavish purple corridors, bodies of enemies... just a regular day
Mansion massacre. Looks like I'm powerful enough to go all the way
This deceptively cozy, beautifully decorated room leads to the game's inner sanctum, which remains locked for a long time...
...Tess' bedroom. Lavish design, old portraits, and a clock. What are you going to do now?..
Psychedelic images. This game's visuals are really something
One of the confrontations late in the game
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The Enfield RFC would like to congratulate Tasha McKenzie who received the Female Athlete of the Year Award at the recent Nova Scotia Aboriginal Sports Summit in November. Tasha is a long-time member of the Enfield RFC and recently won the CIS Rugby National Championship with the St. FX X-Women. Tasha also represented Team Nova Scotia and her community (Indian Brook First Nation - Sipekne'katik) at the North American Indigenous Games in July in Regina on the volleyball team. We are extremely proud of you Tasha!
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Crystal excels in all areas of the coaching process; however, the one component that I believe she is truly exceptional at is leading by example and from a place of very positive energy.
Energy—I've learned a tremendous amount of very valuable insight into energy levels and the subconscious from Crystal. She 'talks the talk AND walks the walk' with grace and finesse. She really helped me to understand what energy level I was operating at and how that position perpetuated my self-limiting beliefs and behaviors—in essence, she showed me how I was getting in my own way. Crystal didn't just show me, however. She taught me how to maintain this positive state of energy—especially during times of uncertainty, fear, or stress.
Crystal is my catalyst to 'higher living'—she reconnected me to my own spirituality, my purpose in this world, and who I am. The gift of Crystal in my life is truly priceless.
I no longer feel 'stuck'. I am an amazing mosaic artist who is not only growing my business with the help of Crystal—I see a completely different person now when I look in the mirror. Crystal returned me to my essence. Yes, she's THAT amazing. I cannot imagine my life without her now.
I now know what really makes me happy and what career to pursue!
Crystal helped me hone in on what really makes me happy. I now know what I want to consider pursuing as both a career and a hobby - preferably both. I also have a better understanding of what is holding me back, and I have the tools I need to make my dreams a reality. I feel great and I am excited about my new plan!
Wendy, Rockland, MA
WINGS Women's Program changed my life!
"Crystal and I have a similar analytical background and I found it easy to connect with her. She was excellent at guiding me and opening my mind to effective energy levels. I now have better self-awareness, I know how to make progress on my personal goals, and I have specific examples of how I can take action."
"Crystal and the other women are supportive, they listen attentively, and offer their ideas. Crystal also pushed me to really look at myself and figure out what I wanted most. She provided me with tools to help me be a better person, and got me to the point where I now not only know what I want, but I've started accomplishing it already. I have not participated in workshops like this before so I didn't know what to expect, but it was awesome!"
Crystal helped me create a successful and purposeful career!
My coaching experience with Crystal impacted my life in a direct and powerful way. Crystal combines life experience, coaching expertise and intuition to guide clients' in setting intentions and transforming it to a reality. Her coach training was evident during one session in which I realized the negative effects my inner critic was having in an unrewarding career path. Crystal gave me the tools to "quiet" it down which motivated me to change course and create a successful and purposeful career with confidence. I highly recommend Crystal for individuals seeking guidance and support during personal and professional roadblocks.
Filomena Iorio-Tasoluk
|BS, CPC, MBA, Other
|Time in Practice
|3-5 years
|Additional Expertise
|Business Coach
Career Coach
Personal Development Coach
Spiritual Coach
Spiritual Healer
Wellness Coach
|I offer my services
|At my office
By Email
Willing To Meet in Public Locations like Starbucks (please inquire)
Via Skype
Other, please inquire
|I am fluent in