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How I feel about my first LGBTQ show
When one of my friends from my high school told me of this girl who might be interested in a relationship—maybe interested in me, I was freaking out. I remember when my dad brought me to that gas station to meet up with her and our mutual friend.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Pride
In and Out: TWD "Love Edition"
It’s been a while since I posted a new entry. I’ve been contemplating on where and how I wanted to start this thing off. I’m scatterbrained and my ideas don’t always come in order so I may as well just go with the flow. I wanted to talk about the thing I’ve been avoiding for the past year. Love. I used to think of myself as a hopeless romantic but lately I haven’t been in the mood for such blind love. My last relationship ended in disaster and may have been the worst trauma I’ve dealt with aside from the passing of my brother. I don’t even enjoy watching romantic movies anymore, thinking it’s all fake and superficial. Do I want to be alone forever, No! That’s the sad part. We need companionship. It’s a basic human need. And I would love to find my soulmate. Sometimes I wonder if I already met them and missed my chance.
By Ashley Williams3 years ago in Pride
No More Rain, Only Rainbows!. Top Story - June 2021.
In December of 2018 I was diagnosed with HIV - this news changed my whole life and the trajectory of my career. I relocated to NYC because I was sacred , embarrassed and afraid of my family, friends and those who where apart of my church community finding out about my status. NYC welcomed me with open arms, immediately providing me with medication, housing, food stamps and a biweekly cash benefit to help me with personal items. I was truly overwhelmed with the support, love and care that I received and currently receiving. NYC saved my life, I was depressed, lonely, isolated from friends and family but NYC, the bronx my neighborhood and community became my family in just a short period of time.
By william kelly3 years ago in Pride
Being Gay in Ancient Greece and Rome. Top Story - June 2021.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans had very different ideas of sexuality and gender than we do today. Bisexuality was considered the natural state for men in the Ancient World, and male homosexuality was also accepted. Unfortunately, we know very little about queer women in Ancient Greece and Rome—female queerness was mostly ignored by Greco-Roman society, except in Lesbos and Sparta. As for gender, the Greeks and Romans had some concept of a third sex and transgender priestesses were common in certain cults such as that of Cybele. However, unfortunately, just as with lesbians, we have few examples of real life trans people in Ancient Greece and Rome. Our ancient texts are awash with prominent bisexual and gay men, but unfortunately very few queer women or trans people. But here is a very incomplete list of 10 Ancient Greek and Roman LGBTQIA+ figures you need to know about.
By A. Walter Cox3 years ago in Pride
Searching for Sappho in Real Life. Top Story - June 2021.
“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.
By Jillian Spiridon3 years ago in Pride
5 Lessons Everyone Could Learn from RuPaul's Drag Race. Top Story - June 2021.
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.
By Jules Fortman3 years ago in Pride
Our Adoption Story . Top Story - June 2021.
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.
By Melissa Ingoldsby3 years ago in Pride