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A Few of the 2004 KarMel Scholarship Submissions |
Come read a few of the submissions we received from this year's scholarship! Enjoy! - Karen and Melody |
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Title |
Created By |
Description |
Jessica Armestead-Loges |
Some teenage romance issues and emotional complications don't change much no matter gender. |
Poems |
Jacquelyn |
Depicts a variety of woman who have left impacts on me in various different ways. |
Brittany Bayn |
About being confused, but knowing that everything will be okay. |
Anonymous |
Encouraging people who are GLBT to simply be who they are regardless of anyone or anything else.. |
Charlene Carroll |
Poem about pride. |
Nneka Chukwuelue |
About knowing who you are as a person and believing in the vaildity of your love despite what ...(cont) |
Nneka Chukwuelue |
About the confusion and loneliness one experiences when trying to come out and asking for help. |
Jessi Hall |
Describing to a friend how "spreading the word" about her orientation hurts her deeply. |
Alexandra Harris |
Revealing the emotional unrest of someone who has recently fallen in love with her best friend. |
Jennifer Kepley |
About some of the things a gay guy has to go through. |
Jessi Hall |
Description of my first PRIDE Festival. |
Barb Klein |
Emotional piece of writing about teenage repression. |
Michael Kostelnik |
About professing a forbidden love. |
Anonymous |
Coming out poem to dad. |
Lynsey Lobdell |
About my girlfriend, that my mother treats as a daughter. |
Kristena McCaig |
About what I am strugglin with accepting my sexuality. |
Kristena McCaig |
About two lovers' secret. |
Tanya Matthews |
About healing and movingon after a breakup. |
Detailing my mental struggle with society over my being transsexual. |
Nickolas McDaniel |
Anonymous |
About the love that walked into my life.. |
Lorraine Mossbrooks |
Stephanie Myers |
About how it feels to be bi. |
Coming out against resistance. |
Dominique Pszyk |
An experience I had with a girl at a party. |
Christina Roark |
Anonymous |
Plea to those who can marry, asking them not to. |
In response to those horrible gender binary boxes. |
Anonymous |
My journey through self-discovery as a gay teen. |
Lisa Thompson |
Dedicated to the transgendered love of my life. |
Title |
Created By |
Description |
Ernie Amaya |
This is an allegory, which is highly symbolic of a man's struggle to find himself. |
Bendi Barrrett |
Two men experience a chance encounter in a parking garage |
Amelia Bitely |
A little girl discovers her mother is a lesbian. |
Mickie Blair |
Showing hope resides in my heart that I will one day find the lady I wish to spend the rest of my life with |
Jacqui Casiano |
An 18 year old boy trying to live his life with an older man . |
A story of 2 dogs falling in love and confronting the question of "If homosexual love is against nature.. |
Cecilia Clarizio |
A mother coming out to her 4 children. |
A gay boy, his lover, a hospital and a song. |
Amy Dachenbach |
A bisexual teenaegr goes to a new school and discovers the GSA. |
Jacqui Casiano |
Amy Dachenbach |
Anonymous |
A play about two young lovers who cannot e together because of societies stereotypes and family hatred. |
Anonymous |
A play challenging gender roles and imbedded heterosexual notions within society |
A tale of a young girl who meets a young fairy and falls in love. |
Tan Pham |
What if the whole world is gay and heterosexual people need to come out? |
A lesbian dealing with her partner's abusive ways. |
Samantha Ronich |
Trans-gender antics for all. |
Elizabeth Ochoa |
Cassaundra Thompson |
Erin Wilhelm |
A boy's relationship. |
A college student goes to hear his nice but intresting Uncel Fred give a speech |
Ashley Williams |
A scared gay man who is stuck in a stereotypical straight world |
Anonymous |
Shari Levine |
Deals with LGBT issues. Princess and Knights. |
Anonymous |
The effects of the conflict between sexuality, religion and family for a young teenager. |
Steven Harbaugh |
3 separate profiles of different individuals who are members of teh LGBT community and another minority |
The need for the legalization of gay marriages. |
Kody Trauger |
Article written to school newspaper on how I felt. |
Emily Gardner |
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Drawings: |
Paintings: |
Comics: |
By Subject |
Title |
Created By |
Type |
Shannon Anderson |
Photo |
Gay Marriage |
Sheena Clark |
Essay |
Allison Coker |
Essay |
Aresha Dickens |
Collage |
Genevieve Egger |
Comic |
Jessica English |
Scrapbook |
Emily Gardner |
Editorial |
Rocky Khamken |
Essay |
Barbara McGiven |
Scrapbook |
Jessica Negron |
Essay |
Anonymous |
Drawing |
Rochelle Price |
Personal Statement |
Anonymous |
Poem |
Christopher Wilson |
Collage |
Title |
Created By |
Type |
Anonymous |
Poem |
Gay Pride |
Charlene Carroll |
Poem |
Michael Conway-Semensi |
Drawing |
Alexandra Harris |
Poem |
Theresa Lebraglio |
Special Art |
Kaleena Martinez |
Special Art |
Michael Jay Myers |
Photo |
Tasha Parker |
Photo |
Justin Senoll |
Special Art |
Anonymous |
Special Art |
Jaymee Weissman |
Photo |
Christopher Wilson |
Collage |
Title |
Created By |
Type |
Brittany Bayn |
Editorial |
Coming Out |
Amelia Bitely |
Fictional Story |
Anonymous |
Personal Story |
Jacqui Casiano |
Fictional Story |
William Ching |
Essay |
Nneka Chukwuelue |
Poem |
Cecilia Clarizio |
Fictional Story |
Jason C. |
Personal Story |
Sarah Cohen |
Photo |
Dean Cooper |
Picture |
Marcos Duran |
Video |
Matthew Dy |
Screenplay |
Heather Dias |
Special Art |
Anonymous |
Play |
Barb Klein |
Poem |
Tanya Matthews |
Poem |
Lorraine Mossbrooks |
Poem |
Stephanie Myers |
Poem |
Trianh Nguyen |
Personal Story |
Anonymous |
Personal Story |
Erin Wilhelm |
Fictional Story |
Ashley Williams |
Personal Story |
Anonymous |
Fictional Story |
Kody Trauger |
Editorial |
Emily Teachout |
Essay |
Title |
Created By |
Type |
Julie Davenport |
Fictional Story |
Transgender |
Jess Dugan |
Comic |
Nickolas McDaniel |
Personal Story |
Anonymous |
Personal Story |
Anonymous |
Drawing |
Christina Roark |
Poem |
Samantha Ronich |
Fictional Story |
Lisa Thompson |
Poem |
Lynsey Welmers |
Drawing |
Magdalen Zinky |
Fictional Story |
Created By |
Type |
Catherine Buell |
Slideshow |
Bi-Sexual |
Kerriann Clinton |
Drawing |
Amy Dachenbach |
Fictional Story |
Jessica Kim |
Personal Story |
Stephanie Myers |
Personal Story |
Anonymous |
Personal Story |
Tashina Reynolds |
Personal Story |
Anonymous |
Poem |
Title |
Created By |
Type |
Kimberly Clavecilla |
Comic |
Family/Friend of Gay Person |
Jessica Kim |
Personal Story |
Adrianne Klein |
Personal Story |
Becky Teman |
Personal Story |
Lisa Thompson |
Poem |
Sophie Gatfoyle |
Personal Story |
Title |
Kelly Moscolo |
Personal Story |
Created By |
Type |
Ernie Amaya |
Fictional Story |
Love |
David Arevalo |
Painting |
Jessica Armstead-Loges |
Poem |
Brittany Bayn |
Poem |
Jacquelyn |
Poem |
Nicole Antolin |
Poster |
Title |
Cathy Baxter |
Comic |
Asa Benally |
Drawing |
Deborah Burnett |
Drawing |
Jacqui Cassiano |
Fictional Story |
Sarah Cohen |
Photo |
Anonymous |
Poem |
Mickie Blair |
Fictional Story |
Nneka Chukwuelue |
Poem |
Adrien Cooper |
Personal Story |
Amy Dachenbach |
Fictional Story |
Terrell Crawford |
Poem |
Carla Deasy |
Photo |
Monica Escobar |
Drawing |
Anonymous |
Personal Story |
Barbara Davis |
Painting |
Anonymous |
Photo |
Shilo Jorgensen |
Photo |
Anonymous |
Poem |
Jessi Hall |
Poem |
Michael Kostelnik |
Poem |
Heather Kyker |
Fictional Story |
Chrystal Layton |
Poem |
Shari Levine |
Fictional Story |
Lynsey Lobdell |
Poem |
Karen Lee |
Photo |
Kristena McCaig |
Poem |
Quyen Ngo |
Drawing |
Anonymous |
Fictional Story |
Anonymous |
Personal Story |
Laine Vandal |
Picture |
Magdalen Zinky |
Fictional Story |
Anne Stringer |
Picture |
Created By |
Type |
Sensual |
Steven Cochrane |
Drawing |
Brittany Cordero |
Photo |
Angela Daniels |
Drawing |
Julianne David |
Drawing |
Anonymous |
Drawing |
Title |
Angela Daniels |
Drawing |
Drawing |
Anonymous |
Photo |
Julianne David |
Anonymous |
Photo |
Alexia Leal |
Picture |
Anonymous |
Drawing |
Personal Story |
Dominique Pszyk |
Poem |
Anonymous |
Anonymous |
Drawing |
Rebecca Schoch |
Photo |
Peter Reitz |
Drawing |
Created By |
Type |
Allison Coker |
Essay |
Unique Idea |
Kaleena Martinez |
Special Art |
Jeremie Rujanawech |
Special Art |
Anonymous |
Special Art |
Jamie Wilkinson |
Essay |
Kristin Hall |
Personal Story |
Title |
Justin Senoll |
Special Art |
IMPORTANT: We were NOT able to showcase all the outstanding works we received this year due to the overwhelming 1,100 submissions from 700 applicants . We selected a good representation, of the works we received, for everyone to enjoy reading. - Karen and Melody |