Sybil Offen, My Late-in-Life Lesbian Friend, Was the Best Jewish Mother a Baby Dyke Could Have
The nametag stopped me in my tracks. I immediately swung around to talk to the gray-haired woman with a friendly face sitting in the author booth at the March [...]
Fox News Fires Tucker Carlson As If Nothing Is Even Sacred Anymore
It’s almost 4 in the morning and I can’t sleep. A fun part of getting older. And so I’m up reading about white nationalist Tucker Carlson [...]
The Year of Opal
It is with humility, pride and a bit of awe that I celebrate my 24th year with Between The Lines and Pride Source this month. The traditional theme for a 24th [...]
The Complicated Reasons Why the Fisting Scene in Detroit Is So Downlow
A few weeks ago, I almost went to my first live fisting show.A popular tweeter and OnlyFans performer casually announced on Twitter that he’d be fisting a [...]
Equality Florida: Get Out While You Still Can as State Gears Up for Hot Fascist Summer
Things are heating up in Florida, and I’m not just talking about the weather. The state is gearing up for one hell of a Hot Fascist Summer.On April 16, [...]
For Trans Kids, Fiction Books Are Not the Enemy But the Solution to Living Authentically
This is a difficult, scary time for the transgender community. There are currently more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ laws being proposed that focus at least in part on [...]
West Virginia Lawmakers Scramble to Protect Women From… 12-Year-Old Becky?
Another day, another mass shooting in the United States. Actually, that’s being optimistic as there have been more mass shootings than there have been [...]
Cis School Shooters Aren’t Identified By Their Gender. So Why Was the Covenant Shooter Called Out for Being Trans?
The team at Stand With Trans was devastated to learn of the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville on March 27. We were horrified for the victims and their [...]
Right-Wing Uproar Over Drag Queens Inspires Nazi Idiot to Firebomb Church
They say you can tell a lot about a man by what motivates him to firebomb a building. And if the man says his motivation was a drag queen story hour, that tells [...]
I Witnessed Gov. Whitmer Sign Off on LGBTQ+ Protections in Lansing and, Yes, Of Course There Was Crying
Full disclosure: I have at least a dozen photos of myself standing next to Governor Whitmer since she was Candidate Whitmer in 2018. The first was taken at a [...]
Hero Parent Challenges Christian Fascist Book Ban in the Most Epic Way Imaginable
The concerted effort to ban books that offend Christian fascist sensibilities rages on across the United States.While I suspect the 2023 numbers will be even [...]
Hurricane of Hate Washes Over Florida, Delighting Republicans
I have to be honest, I have not been keeping up with the recent “Trump is going to jail" news. What I do know is that Trump is running to be prez again [...]
