Pride, People, and Perseverance
Pride’s over for another year, making this the week of recuperation for many local folks. I always need some downtime after Pride, but this year […]
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Cincinnati Pride; Progress or Privilege?
Today is my birthday, but I can’t say I’ve been looking forward to it – not because I’m upset about getting freakishly close to 30, […]
Continue reading »Trans Role Models Chosen by Non-Trans People?
This is one of my rare less-professional rant posts that I could not not write, even though I’m supposed to be headed out the door […]
Continue reading »Queers Not Too Proud for Pop-Culture Hand-Outs
I am a proud person, but I have never really considered myself to be “proud” of being trans or genderqueer or queer or femme or […]
Continue reading »Tools of Our Own Demise
My community continues to throw me curve balls. Recently I was given an account of a rather discouraging discourse that took place on stage at […]
Continue reading »Cincinnati Pride or Privilege?
Cincinnati Pride is approaching, and this year issues have gone beyond the usual problems with Pride. Pride is a cluster of issues, visibility, consumerism and […]
Continue reading »Be Queer, Buy Queer
I’d like to give a shout out to Emily Wunderlich of the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, the winner of the Campus Pride and OUTmedia’s BQBQ contest. […]
Continue reading »If You Still Aren’t Sure About G.I.D….
I sat in the house-made office on the east side of the city, waiting. I looked at the doctor, “I need a letter so I […]
Continue reading »Bad Parenting: Effects of an Noninclusive Movement on Queer Kids
This past weekend I had a fantastic romp to the University of Toledo. I met some stellar students working their asses off to support their […]
Continue reading »Dear Census; Nunuh’yuh Beeswax
Before I got the census I wasn’t really sure how I felt about the “count the queers” argument that is being pumped up by the […]
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