Mombian: Making Museums Welcoming to All Families
BY DANA RUDOLPH May is National Museum Month, and LGBTQ families have a growing source of support in museums — including ones aimed at children — that have [...]
Parting Glances: Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow
Not too long ago while browsing a cluttered, non-LGBT Ann Arbor bookstore, I spent $20 for a used paperback: #3 of Richard Lamparski's 11 volume series [...]
Viewpoint: Diversity, Even in Opinion, is Good
Spoiler Alert! If you are reading this, you are in the Op-Ed section. If you visit the Online Etymology Dictionary, you will read that this section of a [...]
Creep of the Week: Michael Brown
My 6-year-old son has two moms. For Mothers' Day (and, yes, that's where we put the apostrophe) he gave both my wife (a.k.a. "Mommy") and I cards with [...]
Parting Glances A Meeting: Charles Past, Charles Present
It's been 60 years since I last saw the young man who sits across from me. He has, at 20, what a friend calls "the poetry of youth." An eager freshness that's [...]
Transmissions: Creating A Problem
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith I had once erroneously thought that 2014 or 2015 was going to be the year of "pee politics," with clashes over trans bathroom rights [...]
Creep of the Week: Ted Cruz's Face
Ted Cruz is creepy. That's not only a widely held opinion, it's scientific fact. George Washington University neurology professor Dr. Richard E. Cytowic wrote [...]
Parting Glances: BTL and Me (Among Other Things)
I started writing my Parting Glances column in 1999. Its premise was simple enough: choose an important LGB — and occasionally T — historical event that [...]
Viewpoint: It's a Stacked Deck, but We've Got That Woman Card Up Our Sleeve
Life started out simple, or so it seemed. There were two boxes — female/girl and male/boy. It was all supposed to be simple from there. We would walk down [...]
