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By Melanie Mitzner

While all good stories come to an end, our art lives on.

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By Melanie Mitzner

While all good stories come to an end, our art lives on.

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by Charles Green

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By Richard M. Berrong

I had the pleasure of interviewing writer Brian Broome over two sessions  conducted on Zoom in December, 2021.

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By Stephen Smith

But why would I mourn the loss of that boyfriend? I’ve decided that he was not the only one in our relationship who was needy.

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By John Whittier Treat

The beautiful Japanese plate was gone and could not be restored. I put the plastic garbage bag underneath the workbench and it stayed there for years, long after Tom left me and our house […]

Trebor Healey interviews gay Ukrainian American filmmaker, Yuri Sivo, who has spent much of the last eight years in Kyiv.

The post Like the Rest of Ukraine, the LGBT Community Has Turned Toward the West (A Zoom […]

By Brian J Kennedy

Maybe it’s a stretch to say that Dolly Parton and country music helped me come to terms with my sexuality. But I do know that once I fell in love with her music, I never tried to hide i […]

  It was a tiny victory amid a colossal human tragedy, and we may have run this image before, but it is priceless, and it resurfaced just as Vladimir Putin was entering Ukraine. It first appeared on a poster in […]

By John Sacowicz

For my whole life, I have wondered what it would have been like to be touched by Tom.

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By Loren Olson

If I am known in this world at all, I want to be known as myself. I hope you approve, but it no longer matters to me if you do.

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By Jonthan Alexander

We had ourselves, our own experiences, our journeys to this moment.  We couldn’t hide anymore. And we didn’t.  

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By Edward Gunawan

Yes, the encounter happened, I would remind myself. The card is real. And so are we.

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By Meredith May

Managing Edie’s stress tested the limits of our compassion and our strength as a couple, but the shared struggle has bonded us closer than had we been given an easy dog.

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By Randi Triant

Somewhere along these years, I’ve made a conscious decision to keep writing stories with characters that have AIDS.

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By Allen Ellenzweig

In this thoughtful double character study, and in the film’s examination of the personal costs of a draconian penal system, Great Freedom delivers not a neat Hollywood ending but a painful r […]

By Ren Iris

Hello world! My name is Ren. I use they/them/their pronouns. These are not my “preferred” pronouns; these are my pronouns.

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By Ren Iris

Hello world! My name is Ren. I use they/them/their pronouns. These are not my “preferred” pronouns; these are my pronouns.

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By Mizar Opula

Despite all the challenges facing LGBT rights advocacy in Kenya, it is not all gloom.

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By Bea Hitchman

Undeniably the gift of aunthood, made us revisit our choices about having children of our own—whatever that might come to mean.

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