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Four years ago Amanda* met Julie at a club in San Francisco. It was love at first sight, though they were both cautious and went through a formal “Let’s see […]
Four years ago Amanda* met Julie at a club in San Francisco. It was love at first sight, though they were both cautious and went through a formal “Let’s see […]
In September 2015, Alex Myers came to the Southwest Harbor Public Library in Maine to talk about his first novel, Revolutionary (Simon & Schuster, 2014). If the advance publicity for […]
On Sunday, June 28, New York City will celebrate Gay Pride with a parade that honors the 1969 Stonewall riots during which a group of members of the LGBT community, including some very flamboyant […]
I trust that I was never a homophobe. My parents had gay friends. Two highly respected members of my family were gay and my mother took great pain to tell […]
“All my life Eileen, my mom, always told me to do what I had to do, not what I wanted to do.” In spite of this principled attitude, Eileen got […]
Religion was always important to Brian Besser. He took his bar mitzvah very seriously, and for many years thereafter joyfully attended a special high school program held every Sunday morning […]
Gay, lesbian, bi, trans or queer? Trans can be either male to female (MTF) or female to male (FTM). Queer is an umbrella term for those who reject traditional gender […]
“God did not make me [or anyone else] gay; nature did. There is nothing supernatural about being or not being gay. Being gay is like the color of your skin […]
If your son is mature you have little to worry about. Most gay men practice “safe sex,” i.e. they wear a condom that prevents the actual transfer of semen and […]
We all want to be like everyone else, but actually each one of us is unique. There was a time, not so long ago, when red-haired children were mocked. Today […]