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Gay people belong in the great outdoors.
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Dec 19, 2020
How Do You Know What You Value?
What we hold dear is embodied by whom we keep close.
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Dec 6, 2020
The Power of We
Learned helplessness in the queer community rears its ugly head in many ways: idle drug use, doom scrolling, panic dating, addiction...
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Dec 5, 2020
Do Your Part
If learned helplessness is a form of homophobic conditioning, then getting informed and empowered is a radical act of resistance.
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Nov 27, 2020
Get Used To It
Queer people are here.
We've always been here.
Living. Laughing. Loving.
And we're not going anywhere.
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Nov 21, 2020
The Masks We Wear
At a young age, many gay people learn to dissociate as a matter of self-preservation -- hiding who we are for the sake of survival...
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Nov 17, 2020
The Secret to Great Sex
The surest way to start having better sex is to stop pathologizing femininity, regardless of our gender or sexual orientation.
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Oct 30, 2020
We Must Rise
Those of us who cannot pass as straight have never had a choice but to be brave.
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Oct 25, 2020
The Mysterious Human Heart
Many people experience varying levels of same-sex attraction over the course of their lives. For some of us this attraction is...
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Oct 11, 2020
Coming Out is Not a One Time Thing
Over the course of any given day, each of us "closet" and "out" ourselves on a wide array of topics, depending on our sense of pride...
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Aug 21, 2020
The Power of Redemption
I believe that there are no enlightened people, only enlightened actions.
In the same way, there are no homophobic people, only...
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Aug 3, 2020
We Must Find Our Family
Even the most well-meaning parents rarely raise culturally gay children.
That means most of us must find our own way, through trial...
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Jul 25, 2020
The Whole Point
The goal of advocating for greater diversity and inclusion is not the ironing out of our differences, but the delighting in them.
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Jul 21, 2020
Privilege vs Adversity
We are all complex mixtures of privilege and adversity. By acknowledging our accidental advantages, we can better empathize with...
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