Lack of Education About the Trans Experience Causes Discrimination
With the recent uprising of discrimination from some members of the gay community involving the ban on transgender men at a Michigan, all-male campground, I've [...]
Passing the Equality Act Will Honor Aimee Stephens' Legacy
Aimee Stephens has been on my mind a lot recently. I thought about her when President Joe Biden, on his first day in office, issued a sweeping executive order [...]
I Tried to Figure Out How to Date Men After Dating Women For So Long. My Audiobook Helped Me Get There.
In a basement classroom my freshman year of college, I heard a woman with purple hair say, "I came out to my parents as queer when I was 13. And I came out to [...]
Creep of the Week: Electing People Who Aren't Hateful Ghouls Makes All the Difference
Hip, hip, hooray! The U.S. House passed The Equality Act! We're all equal now! There's no more hate, no more homophobia, no more Marjorie Taylor Greene! OK, [...]
Creep of the Week: CPAC Axes Young Pharaoh, Masks Reasoning
Have you ever thought to yourself, "What could somebody do or say that would get them kicked off of the Conservative Political Action Conference's speaker [...]
Reclamation of Self: Navigating Shame and Healing
I am because we are. I come from a lineage of mothers – Black mothers, strong mothers. Mothers that have made a proverbial way out of no way. Mothers that have [...]
Letter from the Publisher: A Legacy to Carry On
I first met Jan Stevenson and Susan Horowitz while serving them a plate of pasta with a rainbow Pride bracelet around my wrist. I was working at Noodles [...]
Creep of the Week: Trump Supporters
By the time you read this, Joe Biden will be the President and the worst president in U.S. history will be history. Truly hope the door hits Trump in the ass [...]
Billy and Miss Nancy: Selma Sweets
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, for African American voter rights changed the South forever. (Or, did it?) Few [...]
Mombian: An Open Letter to Joe Biden from a Lesbian Mom
Dear President-elect Biden: I'm writing you this open letter as you prepare to take office as president. My son was just a few months too young to vote in the [...]
700 PGs later
I started writing my Parting Glances column in 1999. Its premise was simple enough: choose an important LGB — and occasionally T — historical event that [...]
Creep of the Week: Republican Party
Hello! It's 2021 and everything is fine now! Ha, ha, just kidding. The dumpster fire rages on. Some things in 2021 are delightful, like that guy who made the [...]
