Non-binary people are not trans if they’re not transitioning, or hoping to transition, in either a physical or a social way. False: identifying somewhere outside the gender binary — and therefore as a gender different than the one you were assigned at birth — brings you under the trans...
Forced Outing: “Disclosure is a process, not an event.” A forced outing is when someone is publicly revealed to be LGBT without their consent. This can be a very traumatic experience, as it can lead to discrimination and violence. Forced outings are often used as a form of blackmail...
Gay-Straight Allies: New Horizons for The LGBTQ Community It was recently reported that none other than Prince William of Great Britain was being considered for an award for being a straight ally. Dial back a few decades and that would have been a real impossibility, let alone the ensuing hypothetical...
Why The Loss of Obamacare (LGBT Affordable Health Care) Should Be a Cause of Concern At this point, it is no longer useful to express any outrage at what Donald Trump is doing. The man has successfully and skillfully broken virtually every taboo in American politics. My concern now...
Exploring the phenomena of anti-effeminate attitude in gay culture One of the most puzzling and yet compelling aspects of gay life, is the apparent discomfort with effeminate men. This is not about some straight homophobic ignoramuses, but rather people within the LGBTQ community who actually express this type of...
Dear Planned Parenthood Protester Who Called Me a Baby-Killer, It was a fine, sunny morning shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration to the White House that the two of us first met. I had just parked my battered old car at the parking lot of the Planned Parenthood clinic where...
