Sarah Priestman’s son’s s tattoo “visible” was a present from her for his 18th birthday. He is transgender, and to him, visibility is an antidote to stigma; it’s refusing what most of the world still wants trans people to do: disappear.
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I was that boy whose body was shackled by toxic masculinity. I was that boy, wearing a mask on a stage performing for a too large audience that I could handle, called society. In that experience, I punished my body, and it punished me in return. The so…
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If you were to encounter Carson Russell and his husband walking down the street in downtown Seattle, you’d find yourself in a pleasant exchange with a charming man. If you caught him in uniform, you’d likely thank him for his service and disembark with…
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when my wife Sylvia and I moved into our house in Portland in 2005, a couple lived next door. Sarah and Don are Pentecostal Christians. We shared feeding the chickens, cleaning the coop, and (of course) the eggs. One time Sarah and I discussed sensitiv…
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In 2010, five years before the Obergefell decision, same-sex marriage was not legal in New York, my home state, but honored out-of-state marriages. My partner and I talked about marrying, but actually, we were ambivalent about engaging in such a ritual…
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By Jennifer Thompson
Since I was a child, I bought into the idea that my attraction to a person of the same gender is an abomination in the eyes of the one I loved most and the one who loved me most. God himself.
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By William Lawrence
HOW DID I COME to meet the writer Robin Maugham—the man who was to be my first openly gay relationship? Socially, we were poles apart. …
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By Randy Tibbits
Rereading Tennessee Williams’s Memoirs recently, I came across this line: “But then life is full of transient loves when you are young.”
His poignantly poetic line sent me searching for reminders of my own transient loves of youth …
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THIS PAST NOVEMBER, I found myself with some wonderment wandering through daily life in Santiago, Chile, in the midst of one of the largest populist uprisings in the world. I’d traveled there to attend a wedding and to visit one of my oldest fri…
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When the Queen Jukebox Musical We Will Rock You hits Alberta for multiple dates across the province later this month, it’s a homecoming of sorts. Produced by the Canadian branch of Annerin Productions, the show features a primarily Albertan cast and cr…
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HIS REAL NAME was Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. Hollywood needed someone glamorous on theater marquees, so it took two of the world’s natural wonders—the Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River—and baptized the 6’4” truck driver from Winnetka, Illinois (popul…
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Last year Stage West’s holiday show was the stellar Jersey Boys, showing that the company can create on its smaller stage a show that measures up to the large-scale touring productions. This year, they are once again tackling a huge blockbuster musical…
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“The churches down South are not few and far between, not by a long shot. One of the very first questions you might receive from a complete stranger is, “What church do you attend?” This is the local gauge to discover what mutual acquaint…
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Spring 1955 in Paris. WWII was long past, but times were still tough all over Europe. Nevertheless, the Paris theater, opera, fashion, and art scenes were flourishing.
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A while back we reported (Sept.-Oct. 2018) on a clever device to stop the serial incineration of a gay flag in a Warsaw square—a “water rainbow” that couldn’t be ignited. Now an artist has devised an ingenious way to deal with a group of anti-LG…
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