Cost Benefit Analysis
The costs of the closet are manifold, so coming out is both an act of defiant self-preservation and gift to the world.
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- Nov 29, 2022
True Courage
From "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee:
<Mrs. Dubose was a sick, cantankerous old woman who would berate Jem and Scout whenever...
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- Nov 19, 2022
The Wasteland
There's nothing bleak about the natural world and the only wastelands are of our own creation.
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- Nov 3, 2022
Straight Consequences
Society's concoction of "straightness" as a sexual orientation/culture has created real consequences for queer people, which is of course...
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- Oct 12, 2022
Illusions of Straightness
Left unfettered, human hearts run wild and free of their own accord, and desire is both a mystical and messy business...
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- Sep 26, 2022
Resistance Is Never Futile
Weird how some get angry when queer people aren't more grateful for straight supremacy...
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- Sep 16, 2022
Sew What You Reap
We fear what we might feel compelled to do if we acknowledged our complex shared stories, in part because we're all so weary of this...
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- Sep 13, 2022
Shared Vulnerability
Man box culture dictates that vulnerability accrues to some strange perceived tactical disadvantage, but queer people know that sharing...
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- Sep 11, 2022
Words Matter
What is said can never truly be unsaid. And years hence, long after we have found forgiveness, we will never really be able to forget...
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- Sep 1, 2022
Proximal Power
What queerphobic choices are you excusing, and what are you getting out of the exchange?
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- Aug 4, 2022
We Stand Together
Just about every day we each make or witness some sort of queerphobic choice, and then excuse it, deny it, or look the other way...
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- Aug 2, 2022
The Unwinnable Rat Race
Capitalism keeps us in crisis to preserve power and sustain the status quo.
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- Jul 29, 2022
What Will You Risk?
Some "allies" are more interested in changing the way they feel than changing actual laws. But queer pride does not exist just to help...
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- Jul 26, 2022
What We Project
Tell me who your god hates, and I'll show you some neglected and unloved part of you desperate to be cherished and adored.
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- Jul 23, 2022
It's A Matter Of Health
Hate is a health crisis whose cure is radical togetherness.
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- Jun 13, 2022
The Wealth Of Acceptance
Pride reveals the poverty in being loved for who we are not.
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- Apr 21, 2022
What We Do Defines Us
Every day I think of those who bullied and tormented me as a child, wonder how those choices might have distorted the contours of...
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- Apr 18, 2022
What Will We Require
Institutionalized queerphobia exists in large part because our allies allow it to.
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- Jan 2, 2022
Summon What's True
Let's call forth the courage to embody the depths of our yearning and the hunger in our hearts.
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- Dec 12, 2021
We Are All In This Together
Unfortunately queerphobia will likely persist until straight people see its adverse impacts on their lives as well. Bigotry is not just...
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