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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Pentatonix: Auld Lang Syne
New Day's Lyric: Amanda Gorman
Ian Axel: This is Your New Year
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
New Year Song by ABBA
You Will Be Found
Bruce Springsteen: Auld Lang Syne
Rob Thomas: Someday
Seasons of Love: Idina
Menzel and Cast of Rent
Pentatonix: New Year's Day
Katy Perry: You're a Firework
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
Ingrid Michaelson: I Just Want to Be OK

2021 Was Supposed to Be the Worst Year
for LGBTQ Rights... Then Came 2022
The Year Ahead: What to Expect From LGBTQ
Rights in 2023
Top 10 National LGBTQ News Stories of
2022
Celebrities Who Came Out
as LGBTQ in 2022
Favorite LGBTQ Movies of 2022
2022: President Joe Biden's
LGBTQ-History-Making Year
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
What Films, TV Shows, Books, and Music
Did You Overlook in 2022?
Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
LGBTQ Celebrities: Notable Coming Out Stories
Celebrity LGBTQ Couples Who Got Engaged in 2022
Favorite LGBTQ Books of 2022
All The Gays Nominated For 2023 Golden
Globes
Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of
2022
All of the Celebrities Who Came Out in 2022
2022 Out100 Honorees Changing the Game in Sports

Auld Lang Syne
Health,
Happiness, Hope!
Cheers!
Here's a toast to you! Here's to putting 2022 behind us!
And here's to a fabulous 2023! Let's wring out the old
and ring in the new! It's a brand new year! A new
beginning! A fresh start! A clean slate! Best wishes and
good luck! Here's wishing you much peace, happiness,
success and optimism in the coming year! Here's hoping
things will get better!
May your
hope be rekindled and your passion restored.
May hurt turn to healing and wounds become wisdom.
May joy surround you and laughter infect you.

You Will Be Found
Out LGBTQ Celebrities
Best LGBTQ Films of 2022
Glee: This is Your New Year
LGBTQ Movies We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2023
Favorite Songs by LGBTQ Artists in 2022
LGBTQ Stars Who Came Out in 2022
Post Modern Jukebox: What
Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Biggest LGBTQ Music Moments of 2022
Best Queer Books of 2022
Katy Perry: You're a Firework
Trans Books By Trans Authors in 2023
Baby There's COVID Outside
Celebrities Who Came Out
as LGBTQ in 2022
Favorite LGBTQ Movies of 2022
LGBTQ Celebrities: Notable Coming Out Stories
Lesbian Highlights of 2022
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
Top LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Kasey Musgraves: What Are
You Doing New Year's Eve?
LGBTQ Words Added to the Oxford English
Dictionary in 2022
LGBTQ Adult Population in United States Reaches 20
Million
Best Queer Video Games of 2022
Professional Men's Soccer Players Who Have Come Out
2022 LGBTQ Travel Trends
All the Drag Race Queens Who Won Crowns in 2022
Dan Fogelberg: Same Old Lang Syne
Celebrity LGBTQ Couples Who Got Engaged in 2022
ABBA: Happy New Year
Best Songs By Queer Artists in 2022
In 2022, LGBTQ Books Told New Stories and Experimented
with Form
LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of 2022
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
Every Celebrity That Came Out in 2022
Pentatonix: 12 Days Of Christmas
New Year Wishes
"Cheers to
a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
-Oprah Winfrey
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the new year,
whispering, It will be happier."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a
book, waiting to be written."
-Melody Beattie
"This is
the new year. A new beginning. Another chance to turn it
all around."
-Ian Axel

"May we
always get what we need.
May we
sometimes get what we want.
May we
never get what we deserve."
-Irish
Toast
"What can
be said in New Year rhymes, that's not been said a
thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go, we know we dream,
we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light, we lie down weeping
with the night.
We hug the world until it stings, we curse it then and
sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed, we wreathe our prides,
we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, and that's the
burden of a year."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my
mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and
fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned
something important along the way: I've learned to heed
the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path
is not always the best path and I've learned that the
voice of fear is not always to be trusted.”
-Steve Goodier
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
There is a rapture on the lonely sea."
-Lord Byron
Top 10 National LGBTQ News Stories of
2022
Pentatonix: New Year's Day
Every Celebrity That Came Out in 2022
Best LGBTQ Films of 2022
2022: President Joe Biden's
LGBTQ-History-Making Year
Best Songs By Queer Artists in 2022
Rob Thomas: Someday
Celebrities Who Came Out
as LGBTQ in 2022
Best Queer Albums of 2022
Favorite LGBTQ Movies of 2022
Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
What Films, TV Shows, Books, and Music Did
You Overlook in 2022?
Ingrid Michaelson: I Just Want to Be OK
Top Ships on Tumblr This Year Were All
Queer

Best Queer Video Games of 2022
James Taylor: Auld Lang Syne
Top LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of
2022
Out LGBTQ Celebrities
Favorite LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
New Year Song by ABBA
Best LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Pentatonix: Auld Lang Syne
Best LGBTQ Dating Sites 2022
LGBTQ Celebrities: Notable Coming Out Stories
Celebrity LGBTQ Couples Who Got Engaged in 2022
Favorite LGBTQ Books of 2022

This is Your New
Year
Another
year you made a promise, another chance to turn it all
around,
And do not save this for tomorrow, embrace the past and
you can live for now.
Speak louder that the words before you, and give them
meaning no one else has found.
The role we play is so important, we are the voices of
the underground,
Say everything you’ve always wanted, be not afraid of
who you really are,
Because in the end we have each other, and that's at
least one thing worth living for.
A million suns that shine upon me, A million eyes you
are the brightest blue,
Let's tear the walls down that divide us, and build a
statue strong enough for two.
[Source:
Song by Ian Axel, This is the New Year]

Ian Axel: This is Your New Year
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
2021 Was Supposed to Be the Worst Year
for LGBTQ Rights... Then Came 2022
Time Magazine Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky
Favorite LGBTQ Books of 2022
LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of 2022
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
All of the Celebrities Who Came Out in 2022
2022 LGBTQ Travel Trends
Top LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of
2022
Winners of LGBTQ Nation Heroes Award 2022

Katy Perry: You're a Firework
LGBTQ Stars Who Came Out in 2022
Favorite Songs by LGBTQ Artists in 2022
Biggest LGBTQ Music Moments of 2022
ABBA: Happy New Year
LGBTQ Words Added to the Oxford English
Dictionary in 2022
2022: President Joe Biden's
LGBTQ-History-Making Year
Sundance Film Festival 2023: All the LGBTQ Movies We're
Excited For
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of
2022
Time Magazine Heroes of the Year: Women of Iran
2022 Out100 Honorees Changing the Game in Sports
Seasons of Love: Idina
Menzel and Original Broadway Cast of Rent
In 2022, LGBTQ Books Told New Stories and Experimented
with Form
Top LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Pentatonix: Auld Lang Syne
Cautiously
Optimistic
It's easy
to be optimistic at the start of a new year. But, listen
up, here's the deal. Nobody claim 2023 as "your year,"
okay? We're all going to walk in real slow. Take it
easy. Be good. Be quiet. Be cautious and respectful.
Don't touch anything. And, most importantly, no sudden
movements.
Yes, strains of Auld Lang Syne and fireworks may still
be ringing in your ears. The year is still perfect. We
are off to a good start.
So as we begin 2023, let’s not be naive enough to think
that this year will be enormously better than any of the
years that have preceded it. We know from experience
that we have no idea what the next day brings, much less
what the next 364 days will bring.
Let’s be adaptable to the challenges that the new year
may bring. Being intractable and set in our ways won’t
serve us well if we find ourselves in for another year
of sudden changes in our schools, businesses and social
lives.
There are challenges every year, yet we look back on
some years with happy memories. Do we do so
because those years were really that great? Or do we
look back with fond memories because we adapted well to
the challenges we faced?
Here's hoping the new year brings you and yours peace,
happiness, fulfillment, good health and a treasure trove
of wonderful memories that prompt you to look back on
2023 with fondness.
[Source: Times Observer, adapted]

Top 10 National LGBTQ News Stories of
2022
Winners of LGBTQ Nation Heroes Award 2022
All The Gays Nominated For 2023 Golden
Globes
Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of
2022
2021 Was Supposed to Be the Worst Year
for LGBTQ Rights... Then Came 2022
Bruce Springsteen: Auld Lang Syne
Best Queer Books of 2022
Rob Thomas: Someday
Time Magazine Heroes of the Year: Women of Iran
All of the Celebrities Who Came Out in 2022
Dan Fogelberg: Same Old Lang Syne
2022 Out100 Honorees Changing the Game in Sports

Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
Seasons of Love: Idina
Menzel and Cast of Rent
What Films, TV Shows, Books, and Music
Did You Overlook in 2022?
Best Queer Video Games of 2022
Pentatonix: New Year's Day
Every Celebrity That Came Out in 2022
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
Trans Books By Trans Authors in 2023
Out LGBTQ Celebrities
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
Top Ships on Tumblr This Year Were All
Queer
Best LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
Katy Perry: You're a Firework
Best Queer Albums of 2022
In 2022, LGBTQ Books Told New Stories and Experimented
with Form
LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of 2022
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
Best Songs By Queer Artists in 2022
Ingrid Michaelson: I Just Want to Be OK
"Well,
another crazy year... You'll drink the night away, and
forget about everything.
You used to think that it was so easy... You used to say that it was so
easy...
But you're trying, you're trying now.
Another year and then you'd be happy.... Just one more
year and then you'd be happy...
But you're crying', you're crying now."
-Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street
"An
optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
-Bill Vaughan
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all
unkindness."
-William Shakespeare
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history
of the past.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin
again.”
-Buddha
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you
can go. They merely determine where you start.”
-Nido Qubein

New Year Full of
Promise
"May you have the hindsight to know where you've been,
the
foresight to know where you're going,
and the
insight to know when you're going too far."
-Celtic Wisdom
“Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great
Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your
head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer
yourself in any direction you choose.”
-Dr. Seuss
"Maybe someday we'll figure all this out. Try to put an
end to all our doubt. Try to find a way to make things
better now. Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud.
We'll be better off somehow."
-Rob Thomas
"The New
Year is full of promise, though you may also get a fair
share of tough times. With each progressing year, you
find yourself growing confident, experienced, and wise.
That's the gift of the New Year. Raise a toast to the
year that holds many promises. And may you be filled
with optimism and enthusiasm."
-Simran Khurana
"For last year's words belong to last year's language.
And next year's words await another voice. And to make
an end is to make a beginning."
-TS Elliot
New Year Song by ABBA
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
2022: President Joe Biden's
LGBTQ-History-Making Year
James Taylor: Auld Lang Syne
Trans Books By Trans Authors in 2023
Best LGBTQ Dating Sites 2022
LGBTQ Words Added to the Oxford English
Dictionary in 2022
Pentatonix: New Year's Day
Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality
2022
2021 Was Supposed to Be the Worst Year
for LGBTQ Rights... Then Came 2022
Out LGBTQ Celebrities
Time’s 2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Biggest LGBTQ Music Moments of 2022
In 2022, LGBTQ Books Told New Stories and Experimented
with Form
LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of 2022

Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg
Best LGBTQ Films of 2022
Post Modern Jukebox: What
Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Top LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of
2022
Glee: This is Your New Year
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
HRC Corporate Equality Index 2022
Best Gay Cities in 2022
Pentatonix: Auld Lang Syne
LGBTQ Celebrities Who Died in 2022
Drag Events Targeted with Threats and
Violence 124 times in 2022
Bruce Springsteen: Auld Lang Syne
LGBTQ Stars Who Came Out in 2022
What Films, TV Shows, Books, and Music
Did You Overlook in 2022?
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
U2: New Year's Day

2022 LGBTQ Year
in Review
- Television star MJ (Michaela Jaé) Rodriguez is
the first transgender actor to win a Golden Globe award
- Transgender Jeopardy game show contestant
Amy Schneider earns 40 consecutive wins ($1.3 million),
second highest in history
- Andrea Jenkins is first openly transgender city
council president (Minneapolis, MN)
-
Gay fashion icon and editor André Leon Talley dies at 73
- Brittany Griner, lesbian WNBA athlete, is detained by
Russian government (Released 10 months later)
- Arnie Kantrowitz, pioneering activist and GLAAD
co-founder, dies at 81
- HIV discoverer Luc Montagnier dies at 89
- At least 35 out LGBTQ athletes compete in
Beijing Olympic games
-
Sam
Brinton, non-binary, LGBTQ activist, drag queen, and
fetishist, becomes Deputy Asst Secr at US Energy Dept Office of
Nuclear Energy
-
According to Gallup Poll, percent of Americans
identifying as LGBTQ is 7.1%
- New
Zealand bans conversion therapy
- Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts become first same-sex
couple on Essence Magazine cover
- Lia
Thomas becomes first out transgender athlete to win NCAA
Div I title, finishing 1st place in women's 500-yard
freestyle swim event
- Ariana DeBose, LGBTQ Latinx actor, wins Academy Award
for West Side Story
Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
James Taylor: Auld Lang Syne
Best Songs By Queer Artists in 2022
Auld Lang Syne (Traditional)
Favorite LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Winners of LGBTQ Nation Heroes Award 2022
All The Gays Nominated For 2023 Golden
Globes
Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of
2022
Time Magazine Heroes of the Year: Women of Iran
All of the Celebrities Who Came Out in 2022
Glee: This is Your New Year

Best Queer Books of 2022
Kasey Musgraves: What Are
You Doing New Year's Eve?
New Year Song by ABBA
Post Modern Jukebox: What
Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Best Gay Cities in 2022
LGBTQ Celebrities Who Died in 2022
Sundance Film Festival 2023: All the LGBTQ Movies We're
Excited For
Pentatonix: 12 Days Of Christmas
Best LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Desiderata

-
Florida governor and legislature pass bills to restrict
classroom discussion around LGBTQ topics
-
Lawmakers in several states copy Florida's example
regarding bills to restrict
classroom discussion around LGBTQ topics
-
Ellen DeGeneres ends 19 seasons of the Ellen day time TV
talk show
- TJ
House, major league baseball player, comes out as gay
-
President Biden signs historic executive order advancing
LGBTQ equality
-
Musicians Adam Lambert and Queen perform at Queen
Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee (Elizabeth dies
3 months later)
-
Texas GOP party adopts shockingly explicit anti-LGBTQ
platform
- US
Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade decision regarding
abortion rights
-
Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage
- Monkeypox outbreak; majority of patients are men who
have had sex with men
-
Singapore decriminalizes sex between men
-
Record number of states pass laws to curtail LGBTQ
rights
-
United Nations urges United States to improve its LGBTQ
rights and protections
-
Molly Kearney is first out non-binary cast member of
Saturday Night Live TV show
Top 10 National LGBTQ News Stories of
2022
You Will Be Found
Best LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Sundance Film Festival 2023: All the LGBTQ Movies We're
Excited For
Top Ships on Tumblr This Year Were All
Queer
Happy New Year Quotes
Pentatonix: Auld Lang Syne
In 2022, LGBTQ Books Told New Stories and Experimented
with Form
LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of 2022
All of the Celebrities Who Came Out in 2022
Best Queer Video Games of 2022
Top LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of
2022
LGBTQ Celebrities Who Died in 2022
Biggest LGBTQ Music Moments of 2022

Sanity Clause by The Marx Brothers
Top 10 National LGBTQ News Stories of
2022
Dan Fogelberg: Same Old Lang Syne
What Films, TV Shows, Books, and Music
Did You Overlook in 2022?
LGBTQ Words Added to the Oxford English
Dictionary in 2022
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
Every Celebrity That Came Out in 2022
HRC Corporate Equality Index 2022
2021 Was Supposed to Be the Worst Year
for LGBTQ Rights... Then Came 2022
Best Gay Cities in 2022
Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
Norah Jones: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Favorite LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
2022: President Joe Biden's
LGBTQ-History-Making Year
LGBTQ Stars Who Came Out in 2022
Best LGBTQ Films of 2022
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
LGBTQ Celebrities Who Died in 2022
Auld Lang Syne by Mairi Campbell
Best LGBTQ Dating Sites 2022
Drag Events Targeted with Threats and
Violence 124 times in 2022
Best Queer Albums of 2022
2022 LGBTQ Travel Trends

-
Cuba votes to legalize same-sex marriage
- Karine Jean-Pierre, a gay black woman, appointed White
House Press Secretary
-
Long-running Scooby-Doo animated series features main
character Velma as a lesbian
-
Brazil elects two openly transgender women to congress
-
Leslie Jordan, actor and comedian, dies in car crash at
age 67
- Sam
Smith and Kim Petras become first out non-binary and
transgender musicians to rank no. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
-
Mexico legalizes same-sex marriage
-
LGBTQ candidates for public office are on the ballot in
all 50 states
-
Miss Argentina (Mariana Varela) and Miss Puerto Rico (Fabiola
Valentín), of
Miss Grand
International pageant,
married each other
-
Maura Healey (Massachusetts) and Tina Kotek (Oregon) become first out lesbians elected governors
in US
-
Robert Garcia becomes first out gay immigrant in US
Congress
- Qatar hosts World Cup amid protests and boycotts
by participants, fans, and organizations due to
anti-LGBTQ policies
-
Same sex households in the US surpass 1 million for the
first time
- New
York City gay bar Julius' is declared a historical
landmark
- Gunman kills 5 and injures 18 at Club Q gay club
in Colorado
- Respect
for Marriage Act signed into law, codifying federal
protections for inter-racial and same-sex marriage
- Vivienne
Westwood, fashion designer and activist, dies at 81
- Emilia
Schneider becomes first trans woman elected deputy in
the history of Chile

Ian Axel: This is Your New Year
Best Songs By Queer Artists in 2022
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
2021 Was Supposed to Be the Worst Year
for LGBTQ Rights... Then Came 2022
Seasons of Love: Idina
Menzel and Cast of Rent
Professional Men's Soccer Players Who Have Come Out
All the Drag Race Queens Who Won Crowns in 2022
Celebrity LGBTQ Couples Who Got Engaged in 2022
Pentatonix: New Year's Day
2022: Violent Year for LGBTQ People
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
Top LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Lea Michele: Auld Lang Syne
Time Magazine Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky
Favorite LGBTQ Books of 2022
Winners of LGBTQ Nation Heroes Award 2022
Rob Thomas: Someday
ABBA: Happy New Year
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Transformative
New Year
“I hope
that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if
you are making mistakes, then you are making new things,
trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself,
changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing
things you've never done
before, and more importantly, you're doing something. So
that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for
myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing
mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't
freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good
enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art or love
or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared
of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and
forever.”
-Neil Gaiman
“New
Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting
to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and
loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this
transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today
carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to
dream. Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new
year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe in
your dreams. Only dreams give birth to change.”
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
"I hope
there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your
playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and
the night sky touches your soul. I hope you fall
in love with being alive again."
-Social
Media Meme
“You live
you learn. You love you learn. You cry you learn. You
lose you learn. You bleed you learn. You scream you
learn. You grieve you learn. You choke you learn. You
laugh you learn. You choose you learn. You pray you
learn. You ask you learn.”
-Alanis Morrissette

Top 10 National LGBTQ News Stories of
2022
Bruce Springsteen: Auld Lang Syne
LGBTQ Stars Who Came Out in 2022
2022: President Joe Biden's
LGBTQ-History-Making Year
Ingrid Michaelson: I Just Want to Be OK
Trans Books By Trans Authors in 2023
Out LGBTQ Celebrities
Kasey Musgraves: What Are
You Doing New Year's Eve?
2022 Out100 Honorees Changing the Game in Sports
Billboard: Best Pride Albums of 2022
Every Celebrity That Came Out in 2022
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
James Taylor: Auld Lang Syne
All The Gays Nominated For 2023 Golden
Globes
Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of
2022
Barry Manilow: It's Just Another New Year's Eve
Winners of LGBTQ Nation Heroes Award 2022
Time Magazine Heroes of the Year: Women of Iran
All of the Celebrities Who Came Out in 2022
Top Ships on Tumblr This Year Were All
Queer
New Year Song by ABBA
Best Queer Video Games of 2022
Pentatonix: 12 Days Of Christmas
Desiderata

New Year's Good
Luck Traditions
--Hoppin'
John | In the southern US, it's said that anyone who
makes this dish of black-eyed peas, pork, collard
greens, and cornbread on January 1 will experience luck,
peace and mostly prosperity for the rest of the year.
The collard greens resemble money. The cornbread
represents gold. The black-eyed peas are coins. Some
families boost the potential of their Hoppin’ John by
placing a penny underneath the dishes to bring more
luck.
--Wear White | Brazil makes it easier too choose your New
Year's Eve outfit. Everyone wears white for good luck
and peace. Plus, matching outfits make for good photos!
--Jump Seven Waves | Also in Brazil, if you head to the
beach, you can increase your luck by heading to the
water and jumping over seven waves. You get one wish for
each wave.
--Smash a Plate | In Denmark, broken dishes are a good
thing. People go around breaking dishware on the
doorsteps of their friends and family. The more shards
there are in front of your home the next day, the
luckier and more well liked you are.

Biggest LGBTQ Music Moments of 2022
Post Modern Jukebox: What
Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Trans Books By Trans Authors in 2023
Baby There's COVID Outside
Favorite LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Best Queer Video Games of 2022
Top LGBTQ-Inclusive Films and Shows of
2022
Best Songs By Queer Artists in 2022
Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg
Favorite Songs by LGBTQ Artists in 2022
Best Queer Books of 2022
What Films, TV Shows, Books, and Music
Did You Overlook in 2022?

Biggest LGBTQ News Stories of 2022
Athletes Who Came Out As LGBTQ in 2022
Bruce Springsteen: Auld Lang Syne
Celebrities Who Came Out
as LGBTQ in 2022
Best LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Pentatonix: Auld Lang Syne
Lesbian Highlights of 2022
Favorite LGBTQ Movies of 2022
Best Queer Albums of 2022
LGBTQ Celebrities: Notable Coming Out Stories
In 2022, LGBTQ Books Told New Stories and Experimented
with Form
U2: New Year's Day
Top LGBTQ TV Shows of 2022
Best LGBTQ Films of 2022
Rod Stewart: Auld Lang
Syne
--Eat 12
Grapes | Yes, exactly 12, one at each stroke of
midnight. That's what they do in Spain. Pop one grape
for every month of the New Year. Eating one grape at
each of midnight’s 12 clock chimes guarantees you a
lucky year if and only if you simultaneously ruminate on
their significance (Each grape represents an upcoming
month.) If you fail to conscientiously finish your
grapes by the time the clock stops chiming, you’ll face
misfortune in the new year.
--Kiss a
Loved One | You've heard of this one before. When the
clock strikes midnight, you're supposed to kiss someone
you love. And it's not just about stealing a smooch.
This is borrowed from English and German folklore, which
stated that it's the first person with whom a person
came in contact that dictated the year’s destiny. Choose
your partner wisely!
--Jump Into the New Year | Also, in Denmark, people stand
on their chairs and "leap" into January at midnight to
bring good luck and banish bad spirits.
--Grab a Suitcase | In Colombia, people take empty
suitcases and run around the block as fast as they can.
It's supposed to guarantee a year filled with travel.
--Smash the Peppermint Pig | In upstate New York, they
sell special peppermint pigs all throughout the holiday
season. Everyone gets to take a turn hitting it with a
special candy-size hammer and eating a piece for good
fortune in the coming year. The peppermint is very
strong, so only take a small piece.

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--Open the
Doors and Windows | It's a common superstition that
opening the doors and windows will let the old year out,
and the new year in unimpeded.
--Lucky Underwear | Certain countries, especially in Latin
America, believe that the color of your underwear can
bring good things to you in the next 12 months. Yellow
is for luck. Red is for love. And white undies bring peace.
--Throw Water Out the Window | In Puerto Rico, they
believe that dumping a bucket of water out the window
drives away evil spirits. Puerto Ricans also
sprinkle sugar outside their houses to invite the good
luck in.
--Buy a New Lucky Charm | In Germany and Austria, there
are a few different lucky symbols that you'd gift to
friends and family to bring them good fortune. These
include pigs, mushrooms, clovers and chimney sweeps. You
can buy little tokens of these lucky charms at a
Christmas market. Or get edible ones in fun combinations
made out of marzipan.
--Save a Wish | Write down a resolution, goal, wish or
note to your future self. Put it in a jar and save it
for the year. On the next New Year's Eve, you can
retrieve the jar and read the notes to see how far you
have progressed.
[Source: Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, Dec 2020]

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Looking Forward
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
-Eleanor
Roosevelt
“Every
great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you
have within you the strength, the patience, and the
passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-Harriet
Tubman
“We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference
is what we do with them.”
-Hillary
DePiano
"What the
new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what
you bring to the new year."
-Vern
McLellanmn

“Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned
citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only
thing that ever has.”
-Margaret
Mead
“New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel
some level of excitement as new chances come your way.”
-Auliq Ice
“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form
an invincible host against difficulties.”
-Helen
Keller
“You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to
learn it for yourself.”
-The
Wizard of Oz
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New Year's
Resolutions
The New
Year is the time most folks reflect on the past year and
make promises to do better in the year to come. As
another calendar year begins, it makes perfect sense
that people might examine themselves, question the
direction of their lives, seek to improve themselves,
and make vows, plans and promises. Making New Year
resolutions has become a real tradition.
For the
queer community (or for anybody), it’s time to ask those
questions all over again. What do I remember from
last year? What mistakes did I make? What regrets
do I have? What have I learned? What did I
accomplish? In what ways did I succeed or fail?
What decisions (good and bad) have I made?
Perhaps we
should go a little easy on ourselves. Being LGBTQ in
this current environment can sometimes be challenging.
Perhaps we should put an end to the "New Year, New Me"
mentality and just relax a little bit. After all,
being proud of who you are without apology or compromise
is the most critical goal. And if you are trying
to improve yourself, remember that people don't change
overnight and old habits can be tough to break.
So, before
parading into the New Year making resolutions that will
get broken a week later, here are a few tips for your
consideration that hopefully won't get lost in the sea
of confetti, cheap champagne and regrets. And, of
course, these suggestions are purely for self-reflection
and not intended to impose any kind of strict moral
code.

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--Try
dating without the dating apps and see how it goes.
Interfacing is not the same as interacting. Who
knows, you might find the love of your life at the
bookstore or the neighborhood gay bar or a
non-judgmental gym. And you might just enjoy
honing your interpersonal skills and leading with your
personal charm.
--Be a nicer person. You can choose your attitude
and your behavior. Sometimes it's just easier to
be a jerk. But, this year, what if you chose,
instead, to be a more friendly, kind, compassionate,
sensitive, empathetic, and patient person?
--Take a
more active interest in politics. Equal rights for LGBTQ
people are dependent on the vigilance of the LGBTQ
community in demanding those rights and resisting
oppression and injustice. Some LGBTQ folks, of course,
have done a better job than others. Some have been
protesting nonstop, signing petitions, and making calls
for years. They've been active since day one and haven’t
stopped. Consider getting more involved in the movement.
--Exercise
for health, not just to show off a ripped bod. Fitness
is important, of course. And taking care of our
body is a good habit. But it is also important learn to
love your body as it is and to be comfortable in your
skin. Do you really have to starve yourself?
Do you really have to look like a model? Understand that
looks (and fashion) alone don't make the person. A
pleasant personality and good manners do too.

--Take a
trip to a gay mecca. Go to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian
Mardi Gras in Australia or Carnival in Rio. Visit
Provincetown on Cape Code or Fire Island in New York or
the Castro District in San Francisco or Key West in
Florida.
--Make
more time for reading. Increase your literacy and
vocabulary. Expand your sources of information.
Be more informed. Broaden your mind. Read
for knowledge and for enrichment. And audiobooks
and podcasts count as reading.
--Be more
adventurous. Do something that frightens you. Face
your fears. Try something outside of your comfort zone.
The list can include learning to tap dance, skydiving,
eating alone at a restaurant, doing karaoke, going to a
nude beach, exploring drag or crossdressing, visiting a
foreign country, learning a new hobby, getting a little
kinky in bed. Having unprotected sex with a
complete stranger should not be on the list.
--Be more intentional about relationships. Don't be
afraid to begin a new romance or to tell that special
person how you really feel about them. But, also,
don’t be afraid to end a relationship that’s not going
anywhere. And remember that it is okay to be
single.
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--Learn more about queer history and queer pioneers.
What happened at Stonewall? Do you know? Do you
know any famous LGBTQ people? Who is Oscar Wilde?
Are you familiar with any LGBTQ authors and literature?
What are the origins of certain LGBTQ terminology?
What do the various queer flags mean? Who is Sappho?
Where does voguing come from?
--Diversify your music taste. Try to expand your
appreciation for a wider genre of music beyond the the
pop divas and disco queens. Even among LGBTQ
artists there is an amazing variety of sounds that you
might enjoy discovering. Divas like longtime LGBTQ
ally and icon Ariana Grande are great, but there’s a
whole new world of music out there that is just waiting
to be explored.
--Be better at safe sex. The AIDS epidemic taught us
critical lessons about sexually transmitted infections.
If you’re on PrEP that’s awesome, but you can still get
other STIs. It’s always good to wear a condom. Get
tested regularly and be honest about your sexual
activities and risk with your partners.
--Cut down on alcohol consumption. For your own
long-term health, it might be good to have more nights
on the town without getting drunk. We all know that
alcohol loosens you up and makes you more sociable.
But, if you find that the only way you can build up your
courage is to get intoxicated, you might have a drinking
problem.
[Source: Zachary Zane and Aniruddha Mahale; Edited]
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Wisdom for the
New Year
"Learn
from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Albert
Einstein
"Life
isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself."
-George
Bernard Shaw
"It’s never too late, never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy."
-Jane
Fonda
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your
neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better
person."
-Benjamin
Franklin
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the
world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
-Rumi
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all
the paint on it you can."
-Danny
Kaye
"Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with
too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"And now
we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never
been."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

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New Year
Blessing
May you be
blessed with discomfort
At easy answers, half truths, and superficial
relationships
So that you may live deep within your heart
May you be blessed with anger
At injustice, oppression and exploitation of people
So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace
May you be blessed with tears
To shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger,
poverty and war
So that you may reach our your hand to comfort them
To turn their pain into joy.
And may you be blessed with enough foolishness
To believe that you can make a difference in the world
So that you can do what others claim cannot be done
[Source: Sister Ruth Fox, Non-Traditional Benedictine
Blessing, 1985]

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