Gender is neither a title nor an honorific. When someone says "Mr.," "Mrs.," "Miss," etc. all I hear is patriarchy.

It's far more efficient and effective to convince our allies to convert their attitude into action in the dismantling of straight...

We create "closets" to hide away those parts of ourselves we cannot afford to share, until one day we realize our lives have become a...

I think "gay" is a culture based on a variety of sexual orientations (homosexual, bi-, pan-, etc.), rather than...

In this society, love is still subversive.

Riots were never meant to retain corporate sponsorships.

Too many allies pat themselves on the back for practicing tolerance, without actually risking anything to change the status quo.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but gender is just a social construct designed to preserve the patriarchy. That means...

Find somewhere you can walk hand-in-hand -- unbothered and unburdened with straight supremacy. Even if just for a moment, even if just...

Claiming you love and support queer people while voting against our civil rights is just a convenient way to burnish your reputation with...

The way we gender human connection as "feminine," teach each other that anything feminine is inferior, and then wonder why we...

For queer people, walking together hand in hand is both our simplest display of affection and our foundational form of political...

It's almost like some of us think we might pay for the past systemic suffering of others without our present pain or inconvenience.

Laughing at others with impunity is a license to dehumanize and a precursor to violence.

Every day I think of those who bullied and tormented me as a child, wonder how those choices might have distorted the contours of...

Gentle public displays of affection is the simplest risk we can take to carve our place in this world and bolster self-worth.

Institutionalized queerphobia exists in large part because our allies allow it to.

For some queer children, our first bullies were our families. But it doesn't have to be this way! When we acknowledge that diversity is...

The tyranny of the majority is wholly self-satisfied and unbothered -- preening in their privilege and basking in their bigotry. Trying...

Straight people who "aren't queerphobic" are part of the reason queerphobia is alive and well today. Many people have covert contracts...