General Uncertainty: How to Survive in Spaces Where You Can’t Come Out For gay, bisexual, asexual, trans or intersex people, coming out can be many important things. Few could call coming out an important “moment” given that, for most of us, coming out is a constant process rather than...
Summer Camps for LGBT Children Where do LGBT people go to socialize, meet other LGBT people and feel like they belong? Gay bars and clubs, right? While for many this may be true and sufficient, unfortunately such spaces – that constitute the majority of LGBT safe spaces, and more-often-than-not...
What bisexual meaning? Bisexuality is the romantic and/or sexual attraction to both men and women. This term is used to describe people who are attracted to more than one gender. Bisexuality is often misunderstood because many people assume that bisexuals are equally attracted to both men and women. However,...
Why Gay People Support Right-wing Candidates. The Right to Political Conscience. I was watching a program about Donald Trump supporters and could not quite believe my eyes or even ears. There was an “obviously gay” man telling us how Trump was very good for his business. Thep interviewer seemed...
Straight people who are homophobic: We live in a society that likes to believe that progress has been made – even though many members of our society condemn whatever progress and seem to prefer going backwards; that was accurately demonstrated through Trump’s election as president. Many people will argue that we...
Gender Orientation: The Explanations and Recriminations We have recently learnt that it is possible for someone to murder another or even commit suicide, for no other reason other than to avoid the risk of being outed. Sexuality has become such a controversial issue that we are willing to go...
Intersex people must stand up against genital mutilation of children. Among all the current discussions centered around gender identity as a spectrum, whether or not people believe it is different from the sex binary male-female, there is often the misconception that biological sex can be divided in as rigid,...
With the conservative government of Trump in the US, which will put the lives of thousands of LGBT+ people at risk, and the contrasting climate in bright examples such as that of Malta that made conversion therapy illegal, the debate on the so called “corrective”, “reparative”, or “ex-gay” therapies...
I’m writing this list from a position of privilege. It’s the privilege of not being told I’m broken because I’m a sexual person – which means that I experience sexual attraction to others, that I’m not one of the asexual people. What I have is called sexual privilege; it’s...
You’re probably already tired of hearing about how every story in the LGBTQIA+ community is written by a different author. Yes, we get it, each and every one of us is unique, and how that couldn’t be so, in a community with people coming from different countries, racial backgrounds,...
