By Buddy Early, December 2020 Issue. There’s a common sentiment that has been repeated since the beginning of last summer, when protests over police brutality flared up in [...]
By Fiske S. Nyirongo The first time I ever let people into my ‘closet’, I was fifteen years old. I was a new high school student in a school I liked. I was now on the [...]
Today marks 50 years since a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in NYC inspired a cultural revolution. After that June 28th act of aggression, members and supporters of the [...]
By Buddy Early, March 2019 Issue. There are certain things that become part of your routine when you get older. You take an Ibuprofen that’s on the counter, even if it’s [...]
By Buddy Early, November 2018 Issue. It’s been over two decades since I accidentally walked into a bath house in Washington D.C.’s gay district. It was both terrifying [...]
By Steve Kilar, November 2018 Issue. My husband and I had a small wedding –just us and six other people. We didn’t put a lot of thought or money into most aspects of the [...]
By Omar Beretta, November 2018 Issue. I was recently in Perú interviewing transgender and nonbinary individuals for a piece about LGTBQ+ diversity. In doing so, I realized [...]
By Buddy Early, September 2018 Issue. It might surprise you to learn that I sometimes engage in online debates with people who spout bigotry and ignorance. That is, if [...]
By Gordon Fraser, August 2018 Web Exclusive. Have you ever felt you were not quite good enough for a job or a role of importance and feel that at any moment, you will be [...]
By James Esseks, August 2018 Issue. On the morning of June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up another challenge to state nondiscrimination laws protecting LGBTQ [...]
By Buddy Early, July 2018 Issue. Earlier this year I saw an advertisement for the movie Love, Simon, and it struck me very odd that the poster included the word [...]
By Buddy Early, June 2018 Issue. The tiny home phenomenon is something that has caught my attention lately. While most people accumulate “things” as badges of their [...]
By Buddy Early, May 2018 Issue. “Why are you not more successful?” a friend asked me recently over coffee. This wasn’t really what he said but I fancy myself as someone [...]
By Buddy Early, April 2018 Issue. An optimistic person—someone I am trying to be—approaches each spring with a mindset of rebirth and/or renewal, or perhaps as a time to [...]
By David-Elijah Nahmod, April 2018 Issue. In 1964, when I was 8 years old, my parents had me committed to a mental hospital in New York City. Years later, when I asked my mom [...]