Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Pride.
- Top Story - June 2021
To All The Young Trans People Out There
The original letter was a local trans woman’s life story; the editor picked it because the woman was her neighbor, and she thought it interesting and meaningful. The letter detailed vast amounts of shame the writer still holds; she called herself disgusting, disfigured, in need of correction.
- Top Story - June 2021
Searching for Sappho in Real Life
“Sweet mother, I cannot weave – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.” —Sappho Sometimes I think you’d know me if you just met eyes with me in a park. Maybe you’d be walking your dog—at least, I think you had a dog—and I’d be sitting on a park bench, mind lost to my phone, till I looked up and met your true gaze. I don’t know your eyes' color—you never told me—but maybe we’d recognize each other across the distance. Something magnetic, something that makes the stars sing at night, might join us in fate’s fine thread.
Jillian SpiridonPublished 3 years ago in Pride - Top Story - June 2021
5 Lessons Everyone Could Learn from RuPaul's Drag Race
I still remember the very first time I stumbled onto an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Right before my eyes, I saw men transform into women, then lip-sync better than Ashley Simpson pre-SNL. The energy, the excitement, the pure passion was indescribable. My jaw hit the floor and this show changed my life forever. As a graduate student studying feminist literature, I wondered, “How can these men perform the female gender so well?” Needless to say, I was hooked—but I had no idea how hooked I would become.
Jules FortmanPublished 3 years ago in Pride - Top Story - June 2021
Our Adoption Story
Everything changed on June, 2015. For some people, it might’ve been nothing. Maybe something to look past the headline to shrug at—-or scoff at even. But, for me and my fraternal twin brother Ezra, it meant everything, as that was the day that changed the course of our entire lives.
Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago in Pride Young Love with John and Raphael in the shot
I at the time this was written three other stories with John and Raphael. Note all of them are self-contained and may controdict each other. Some are heavier than others, while some are just light and cute.
Young Love with John and Raphael in Scars
Author’s Note I have a link to a light and sweet and cute story of these boys that I wrote. The link is posted at the end of the author's note as well as at the end of the chapter. This is a heavy chapter, but there is still some sweetness.
Young Love with John and Raphael in Watching the Sunrise
I was begrudgingly awoken by my phone buzzing, I rolled over to see who was calling me in the middle of the night. It was John.