By Mark Olmstead
In the summer of 1970, Chuck Falco was a handsome and charismatic 28-year-old scoutmaster at Camp Waubeeka, in upstate New York. I was eleven when he molested me.
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Andrii Kravchuk is a Ukrainian LGBTQ activist, one of the founders of the Nash Mir (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Centre, Ukraine’s leading LGBTQ advocacy center.
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By Craig Smith
While I was in the closet, as a good Catholic, I was also celibate. I suddenly found myself in a small office in the old Executive Office Building across the alley from the White House in a job that would change my life forever.
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By Mary Aviyah Farkas
I didn’t know I would again become death’s witness and companion. The two most important people in my life were gone. My soul festered with abject pain and grief. I couldn’t sleep and could barely eat.
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By Adam Kocurek
This collection presents its interviewees as a mosaic—a group of unique individuals who, when viewed together, represent the diversity of the New York community.
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By Richard Schneider
Seems it’s been a while since the religious Right went into full freakout mode over a logo or ad campaign, but they pretty much lost their minds over a change in those multi-colored and commercially personified candies known as M&#…
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By Noni Salma
This is not a love story. Or a story of a child missing a father. This is a story of a father chasing a lost shadow. This is a story of a child who is not a dream come true. …
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By Jer Long
Life with Shirley T., was a rollercoaster ride through an Edgar Allen Poe version of Alice in Wonderland. Her peaceable downtimes I relished. Her flipping nightmares I bore with monkish silence. Her madcap express I boarded eagerly. Unpredi…
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By Allen Ellenzweig
As Long As I’m Famous wishes to be an exposé of Broadway and Hollywood in the period after World War II; the narrative action mostly takes place in 1948. It focuses on a half-dozen overlapping relationships, but mostly zeroes in on…
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By Ignacio Darnaude
CHICAGO’S WRIGHTWOOD 659, a private institution focused on socially engaged art, is currently showing a landmark exhibition: The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869–1930.
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By Andrea Weiss
Her playful humor, her barbed wit, her keen intellect, her iconoclastic spirit — these were just some of the things that made Sylvia so special. What I would give to sit in the garden with her once more.
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By Dick Atkins
Tiffany never gave up hope for her ultimate goal, finding love and comfort in the body and soul she felt was hers.
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By Laura Moreno
“Hello, new me. She’s now strong. She’s now confident. She is alive. She’s in love… I am here. I am her. I am transvisible.”
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By Anne Kruse
For many, feeling pride about who we are is a foreign concept, but we worked at it
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by Mae Espada
My mother whimpering, choking, eating her own words: “Really, who, what, are you?” Me, sitting down, clutching my phone in one hand and my bandaged chest in the other. This can’t be true. It can’t be true.
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