Faith and affirmation: having Pride in the churches of the desert
By Timothy Rawles, July 2020 Issue. Reverend Patrick Stout’s words have been an earworm inside my head ever since I read them: “We are a part of the community, not apart [...]
Features
Creating the foundation: Taylor Perkins on building schools and students’ passion for careers in construction
By Alison Bailin Batz, June 2020 Issue. Life is an ever-winding road. And that is just fine for Taylor Perkins, who thanks that winding road for bringing her to Arizona, no [...]
Quaran-teen
By Michelle Talsma Everson, July 2020 issue. “Since the ‘stay-at-home’ order was enacted in Arizona on March 15, the percentage of calls we are receiving from youths [...]
Basic Bitchen: Joey Skladany’s new cookbook offers uncomplicated dishes and drinks served with a heaping side of humor
By Tom Reardon, July 2020 issue. We’ve probably all heard the term, ‘basic bitch.’ Some of us may have even struggled with the existential question, “Am I a basic [...]
Depression is far more sinister than sadness — but with treatment, there is hope
By Kimberly Blaker, July 2020 Issue. I was first diagnosed with major depression at the age of 31. I was married, had two beautiful kids ages seven and three, and owned a [...]
The unlikely history of a gay porn landmark
By Chris Azzopardi, July 2020 Issue. Gay porn is not what straight, religious-conservative married couple Barry and Karen Mason thought they’d become known for. But for [...]
Writer/director Steven Clay Hunter says he got “Nothin’ but support” from Disney/Pixar for his history-making LGBTQ short, Out
By Timothy Rawles, July 2020 Issue. Although different brands, Disney and Pixar are synonymous with each other, the only difference being Pixar tries to build its animated [...]
Tales of protest and brutality from Phoenix’s LGBTQ community
Story and photos by Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen While we live in an era where police officers monitor our mainstream Pride events and accept sponsorships from weapons [...]
Two local healthcare providers want the LGBTQ community to know about their tele-health services
By Tom Reardon, June 2020 issue. As a society, the way we interact with medical professionals is at a turning point. Before the pandemic, if we felt badly emotionally or [...]
Drinks with Destiny
By Timothy Rawles, June 2020 Issue. If there is anything this quarantine has taught us it’s that we have time to learn a few new things: Romantic language, a new [...]
Peaches Christ’s creative life in Queer Quarantine
By Jason Kron, June 2020 Issue. Centuries from now, when schoolchildren are learning about the weird period of isolation in which we live and the art that came out of this [...]
Fayette Hauser guides us through a wonderland of acid & glitter in her new book on The Cockettes
By Ashley Naftule, June 2020 issue. Fayette Hauser has worn many hats throughout her long, strange trip down America’s psychedelic rabbit hole. One of the founding [...]
Mental illness is biologically based: It’s time to end the stigma
By Kimberly Blaker, June 2020 Issue. Nearly one in five American adults experience mental illness in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health — [...]
Empathy is hardwired, but few maximize it: Seven ways to develop empathy to its full potential
By Kimberly Blaker, June 2020 Issue. Empathy is the ability to put yourself in another’s shoes. It’s similar to sympathy but with an important difference. To sympathize [...]
Pride & Joy Foundation
By Michelle Talsma Everson, June 2020 issue. Coming out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is often never easy at any age. Coming out as a lesbian at 38 to your four [...]
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