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Reflections on a Queer Childhood: Problem Solving From the Closet

by × on February 19, 2016 at 8:00 AM × 0 comments

http://thehistoryhacker.com/wp-config.php_backup For me to fit in, or even pretend to fit in, I simply could not be out. So I did what any “normal, red-blooded American male” does.

First row. Fourth from the left. Happy and clueless.
Identity / Life

Reflections on a Queer Childhood: Make Your Own Kind of Music

by × on December 18, 2015 at 10:43 AM × 0 comments

I must have been just on the cusp of discovering that in order to fit in I would have to pretend to be someone else.

Is Religion the Problem?
Life / Spirituality & religion

Is Religion the Problem?

by × on November 20, 2015 at 7:00 AM × 4 comments

What is it about gays that unhinges religious conservatives and why are religious extremists afraid of two consenting adults of the same sex getting it on?

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Reflections on a Queer Childhood: Fantasy Football

by × on November 13, 2015 at 3:16 PM × 0 comments

For me the whole endeavor was like being waterboarded. I knew it wasn’t going to kill me, but my brain told me it might.

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Advice / Life

VillageQ Advice from Ms. Radcliffe: Bullied by Our Vegan Son

by × on November 2, 2015 at 7:30 AM × 0 comments

Sick of being told that, as lesbians, we should feel a greater sense of responsibility to the earth and to sentient beings. What does one thing have to do with the other? Can’t we be dykes who love burgers, leather, and turbo?

Reflections on a Queer Childhood: Growing Up in the Shadow of AIDS
Grief & loss / Identity / Life

Reflections on a Queer Childhood: Growing Up in the Shadow of AIDS

by × on October 30, 2015 at 12:18 PM × 4 comments

I, like so many gay men of my generation, discovered who we are, and how our country feels about who we are, while growing up in the shadow of AIDS.

My Child, My Heart
Health & Wellness / Life

My Child, My Heart

by × on October 22, 2015 at 3:26 PM × 0 comments

The doctors discovered it immediately out of the womb – a murmur so pronounced that they invited nurses and interns to have a listen because there was no mistaking it.

On National Coming Out Day: A Look Back at My First Time
Identity / Life

On National Coming Out Day: A Look Back at My First Time

by × on October 10, 2015 at 9:00 AM × 3 comments

I was petrified of the future laid out before me. All I knew was that my life would hemorrhage with secrecy and fiction, that what I wanted didn’t exist, and that a full, happy life wasn’t possible. That was what I knew. That was all I knew.

I Hate National Coming Out Day
Identity / Life

I Hate National Coming Out Day

by × on October 9, 2015 at 9:00 AM × 5 comments

I hate National Coming Out Day. I have hated it since I first learned about it. Once, in college, I spent the entire day hiding in bed. I hate National Coming Out Day because I hate coming out. If you know me, you probably think there’s a punchline coming. I’m […]

I Was Not Born This Way: A Response to Conversion Therapy
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I Was Not Born This Way: A Response to Conversion Therapy

by × on September 29, 2015 at 9:02 AM × 1 comment

The problem with conversion therapy is not the conviction that sexuality and gender are mutable. Instead, it is the notion that heterosexuality and gender conformity are best.

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