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Just another #Deaf geeky #queer guy who loves #comics! They/them #ClosetsAreForCapes #LGBTQ #queer #XSpoilers🤟
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They won’t teach you this in school:

In the 1920s & 30s, queer performers ruled nightlife. They called it The Pansy Craze.

Before Stonewall. Before Pride parades. Before RuPaul told us to sashay away.

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They Danced, They Dazzled, They Disappeared: The Lost Era of Queer Joy in America
This LGBTQ History Month, let’s remember when queerness ruled the stage... and why it was silenced. A forgotten drag revolution in 1930. A warning from history. A love letter to queer joy.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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This week’s Substack dives into that idea — how rage, grief, and softness can all sing together.
🎭 Featuring: “Last Call” from Speakeasy
💔 Plus my new single, Before I Go, out now.

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How Musicals Gave Me a Language for Pain
Growing up, I didn’t have words for what I was feeling or going through — so I learned to sing them instead. And now, my musical Speakeasy helps me face the same ghosts I grew up running from.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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That’s why I wrote Speakeasy, my new musical.
It’s my way of giving that scared kid a voice again — of saying, you’re allowed to make noise.
October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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But musicals did.
They said what I couldn’t.
They turned pain into melody — silence into survival.
October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I didn’t grow up in a world that encouraged softness.
Feelings were something you hid.
And if you were a boy — especially a different kind of boy — you learned fast to smile through it.

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#broadway #musical #musicaltheatre #music
How Musicals Gave Me a Language for Pain
Growing up, I didn’t have words for what I was feeling or going through — so I learned to sing them instead. And now, my musical Speakeasy helps me face the same ghosts I grew up running from.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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💔 Before I Go — out now.

The quietest goodbye I’ve ever written.
The moment you realize love shouldn’t make you disappear.

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#Music #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday #NewMusicAlert #NewMusic2025 #popmusic #Deaf
October 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I brought my U.S. rescue Maggie with me. Then Costa Rica gave me Daisy, Rose, and Iris — three jungle rescues who now run my life. 🌴🐶
October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The most common question I get about moving to Costa Rica isn’t about visas or rent.

It’s this: “Can I bring my dog?” 🐾

Answer: Yes.

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Pets in Paradise 🐾 | Bringing Your Dog or Cat to Costa Rica + Rescue Life
Yes, you can bring your pets to Costa Rica — and you might just adopt one here. From import rules to vet care to jungle rescues, here’s the real guide.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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If you missed it, this week’s Behind Broadway video on Broadway’s Soft Boys is the perfect lead-in to this blog.

Because before we talk toxic fathers trying to crush softness… we’ve got to celebrate the boys who dare to stay soft.

🎭 Watch: Boys Don’t Cry (Except in Musicals) → youtu.be/teQ5CD3L_bY
Behind Broadway Ep 4: Why Soft Boys Are the Real Leading Men (ft. Speakeasy's Girl in the Margins)
YouTube video by Waymon Hudson
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September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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💣 #Broadway isn’t all glitter & jazz hands.

Some of its most gut-punching songs wrestle with something darker: toxic masculinity.

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Broadway, Bloodlines, and the Cost of Being a Man
From Falsettos to Hadestown to Speakeasy, musicals have long explored the weight of manhood and the trauma fathers pass down. Here's why those songs hit so hard — and what happens when softness fights...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I don’t make this stuff for algorithms.
I make it for the ones who’ve been told they’re too loud, too soft, too queer, too late.

Your voice matters — even if the world never expected it.

💌 Read this week’s dispatch (it’s free):
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🧵 END
📬 Sunday Reading: Ballads, Bruises, and Belting Through the Noise
Or Kicking Down the Damn Door When the World Says No
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September 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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When you’re queer and Deaf, the world tells you “no” a lot.
No, you don’t belong.
No, you’re not the right kind of artist.
No, you’re too much.
No, you can’t hear the music — so why bother making it?

So eventually, you stop asking.

You kick the damn door down.

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📬 Sunday Reading: Ballads, Bruises, and Belting Through the Noise
Or Kicking Down the Damn Door When the World Says No
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September 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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🎥 here’s a teaser if you need a little temptation before you press play.
but don’t say i didn’t warn you…
September 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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✨ It’s here!

My debut single "Ruin Me Slowly "is officially out in the world and available on all streaming platforms!

And yeah… it’s exactly what it sounds like: That bad decision you keep making because it feels too good.

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Ruin Me Slowly by Waymon Hudson
Stream and Save Ruin Me Slowly - Distributed by DistroKid
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September 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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There’s a moment in every great musical — when the lights dim, the music swells…
…and a character finally tells you what they really want.

It’s not just a song.
It’s a confession. A key. A spark.
🎶 It’s the “I Want” Song.

👇 Let’s talk about it.

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The Anatomy of a Broadway “I Want” Song | From Wicked to Speakeasy 🎭✨
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September 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#SundayReading just dropped — and this one’s loaded. ✨
Broadway secrets. Queer joy. Deaf-made music. Jungle thirst.
Let’s go behind the curtain. 🧵

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🎭 Behind the Curtain: The Song That Lit the Spark in Speakeasy & More...
We're stepping into one of the most pivotal moments of the show — where desire, danger, and defiance all begin to brew. And we'll look at other HUGE news coming in from the wild world of Waymon!
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August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Meet the characters of Speakeasy: A New Musical. 🎭✨

A queer, jazz-soaked Romeo & Juliet — and my life story in disguise.

These aren’t just characters. They’re my queerness, my survival, my tenderness, my roar.

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#Broadway #MusicalTheater
Speakeasy: A New Broadway Musical of Queer Love & Jazz Rebellion
Step into the Velvet Boot. Speakeasy: A New Musical reimagines Romeo & Juliet through the queer underground of 1920s Chicago — where love is radical, resistance is survival, and jazz fuels the fight.
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August 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Two years ago, I thought “where can we move that feels safer, gayer, freer?” — and ended up in a Costa Rican jungle with four dogs, a surf habit, and a life I actually like living.

#expats #puravidalifestyle #antihustle #CostaRica

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The Anti-Hustle Queer Expat Life: How I Left Burnout Behind and Found Joy in the Jungle
I left burnout, homophobia, and hustle culture behind — and built a joyful queer life in the Costa Rican jungle.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Big queer launch moment!

It’s a lot:
📖 Memoir
🎭 Musical
🌴 Jungle life
🎶 Original song

It’s all live now — and I’d love for you to be part of it.

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I’m Finally Launching! Here’s What I’ve Been Building.
I wrote a memoir. I wrote a musical. I built a life in the jungle. Now I’m launching it all — and I’d love to have you along for the ride.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Day 1 with Iris.
She’s 3 months old. A rescue.
Came with the name.
Another flower. Another gay miracle.
Already kissed me, conquered the couch, and snuggled Maggie like it’s her job.

📸👇

#NewPuppy #IrisTheRescue #GayDogDad #QueerJoy #FlowerPowerPack #CostaRicaDogs #AdoptDontShop
July 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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#NewDogAlert My jungle puppy flower gang just added a new member. Meet Iris — yes, she’s a rescue. Yes, she came with the flower name. Yes, it’s fate. 🌸💅

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July 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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🧠 Yes, I’m Deaf.
📣 Yes, I Work in Communications.
❌ No, It’s Not a Paradox.

For #DisabilityPrideMonth, I’m sharing what it really means to lead, communicate, and connect as a late-deafened exec.

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#InclusiveLeadership #DisabilityInclusion #MarketingLife #DEI
July 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is me, y’all! Come over her to follow for all kinds of crazy content- moving to costa Rica and the jungle, writing a musical while Deaf, writing a memoir… there's a lot!
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This sounds AMAZING!
oh hi! I thought I would jump on the "I've-got-Kickstarter-in-prelaunch" band wagon too!

A Journey into the Abyss is a GN I co-created with illustrator Merissa Mayhew set in a world inspired by Georges Méliès.

We launch this summer! Sign up for prelaunch!

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Coming soon: A Journey Into The Abyss
A 70+-page science-fantasy graphic novel set in a world inspired by pioneering French filmmaker, Georges Méliès.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM