Blogs From Our Members
By Aila Boyd
I’m only 25, but I’ve been a high school theater and chorus teacher, a general assignment reporter, a college English instructor, and an editor of a small weekly newspaper. Luckily I have done quite well in both …
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By Brad Graber
Am I having trouble breathing? Is that cough an allergy or something more serious? These are the thoughts racing through my mind as I socially distance from everyone except my husband, Jeff. Am I afraid of coronavirus? …
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By Julia Wendell
His name was Stefan. No one called him my older brother’s lover. John hadn’t come out yet, even to me. The two men could have just been friends. I was twenty. It was 1977. I hadn’t been …
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By Bruce Skeaff
RON CHARLES, book critic for the Washington Post, took a few minutes on this past CBS Sunday Morning program to remind us that, while it’s important to keep up on our current terrible global pandemic circumstances, …
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By E.M. Birmingham
My lesbian twin sister died in May of 2019 from Stage IV bone cancer, having delayed going to a doctor for almost a year as she limped around from the pain in her left hip. By the …
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The last time the Boy Scouts of America made headlines was when their policy of excluding gay youths was being challenged in court by LGBT organizations. This time it’s because the national BSA has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection …
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By George DeStefano
In July 2000, my partner Rob and I spent several weeks in Italy, beginning in Rome. We came to the Eternal City for World Pride Roma, a week of gay cultural and political activities culminating in a …
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By Janet Lea
his is embarrassing. I have fallen in love with a woman who died nearly 200 years ago.
I blame my newfound love on the new and enthralling period drama Gentleman Jack. The eight-episode prime time series …
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By Tobias Maxwell
I’ve always wondered about bisexuality. Mine, primarily.
Navigating any orientation as a prepubescent is not easy. When I was growing up in the sixties, being gay was generally more complicated. But, imagine raging hormones while having to …
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By Jason Armstrong
I came of age at the advent of the AIDS crisis. To me, sex and death were intertwined, even as HIV medications turned a terminal illness into a chronic condition. Sex felt like playing a game of …
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By Natascha Graham
A few months ago, someone in a Facebook group for highly sensitive people wrote a post asking for movie suggestions. I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve commented on group posts, but for …
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By Peter Kupfer
It was a gold Seiko. It wasn’t a particularly expensive watch, but it was priceless to me because it had belonged to my father. It was a part of him, something he’d worn every day.
The post …
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By Ruth Marner
They called it Rock Creek, but really, it was a lake. And on a hot summer’s day in 1984, we drove out to it. We only had several days together before I needed to return home to …
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For 27 years, Alan Doyle has been bringing the kitchen party to venues throughout Canada and around the world. First in the iconic Great Big Sea, now as a solo artist. Doyle released his 4th solo release, a 6 …
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By Jeffrey Round
Of the handful of books that informed my adolescent understanding of what it meant to be gay, E. M. Forster’s posthumously published Maurice was the most revelatory. The reasons are numerous, but the most important was that …
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The Best LGBT Novels 1 The Color Purple, Alice Walker 2. Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin 3. Open Play (Kink Chronicles Book 3)…
Giovanni’s Room Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional…
The 10 Best LGBT Novels of All Time Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient…
Travel, in the late 1950’s, was quite different from today. Relatives can be unpleasant. Drugs help.
I could never tell him “Ben, I love you.” My parents had a goingtochurch requirement I followed in exchange forfreedomfromprying. I’d go to…