All Over The Map

By Liz Massey, June 2018 Issue. The title of this column can be interpreted in one of two ways. Many of you have probably heard of the phrase “doing the same thing over and [...]

By Liz Massey, May 2018 Issue. I have to admit it – I cried recently watching the protests that happened in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, led by students [...]

By Liz Massey, April 2018 Issue. The first year I lived here, I remember the desire to bring back a Pride parade to the festivities, a component that had been missing for [...]

By Liz Massey, March 2018 Issue Does anyone remember life before the 2016 presidential election? I’m not sure I do any more. Events for me can be pigeonholed into “before [...]

By Liz Massey, February 2018 Issue Several years ago, my office book club read “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course On Making Your Way In The World” by [...]

By Liz Massey, January 2018 Issue I woke up giggling the other day because I had a long, elaborate dream about competing in a combination karaoke-and-long-form-storytelling [...]

By Liz Massey, December 2017 Issue. As I write this, our nation is poised to plunge itself into the surrealistic two-month frenzy that Americans know as “the winter holiday [...]

By Liz Massey, November 2017 Issue. As part of LGBTQ History Month, Echo Magazine will induct another class of community leaders into its Hall of Fame. More than just [...]

By Liz Massey, October 2017 Issue. Each October, I make an extra effort to tie this column to a creativity-related topic for Echo’s arts season preview. Over the years, [...]

By Liz Massey, September 2017 Issue. I come from a family of teachers. This tradition stretches back at least four generations and my relatives have taught everything from [...]

By Liz Massey, August 2017 Issue. For the last several decades of the 20th century, the wedding industry was a place where out LGBTQ people sometimes worked, but weren’t [...]

By Liz Massey, July 2017 Issue. If nothing else, last November’s elections taught us that the American “culture wars” are a literal, ongoing reality. The biggest and [...]

By Liz Massey, June 2017 Issue. It seems that everyone has a couple of mostly useless “superpowers,” and one of mine seems to be remembering the exact date of several [...]

By Liz Massey, May 2017 Issue. There’s an old cliché about our community that happens to be largely true: LGBTQ people have historically been tastemakers in American [...]

By Liz Massey, April 2017 Issue. Many of us in the LGBTQ community we can divide the recent past into the world we knew before Nov. 8, 2016, and the world – particularly [...]