My Tattoo/Something Lost
by: AJ Durand stepping out of the Charleston, just now. boarding a bicycle homeward bound. it wasn’t the sound of the rain beginning to pour it was the sound of […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
“Ready”: A Coming Out Story
by: Addison Bell He was home for winter break when he told his mother. He was 21. His mother said, “I know. I’ve known for a long time. I was […]
Feeding the Trolls: Why Secularists Must Stand Up For Social Justice
by: Andrew Tripp Note: For those of you who are unaware, I am the President of the DePaul Alliance for Free Thought, a student group at the university that serves […]
Kate Bornstein: It Doesn’t Get Better, We Make It Better
by: Mason Strand Recently, as part of a new feminist book club that some friends and I started, I got the chance to read the book Hello, Cruel World: 101 […]
Poetry: “End Of Line”
by: Joe Varisco Here in the broken palace of the cosmos When light brokered an agreement with time and then learned time was bluffing We, we the living We the […]
All About My Mother: How an Ally Taught Me to Stand Up
by: Nico Lang Recently, I’ve been encountering a weird amount of hostility toward allies, [1] who, as a queer person, I deem to be an immensely crucial part of the […]
The Rainbow Flag Waves North and South
by: Timothy Lalowski In Moulin Rouge, we learn that love conquers all, that it lifts us up where we belong. According to the film, “The greatest thing you will ever […]
Of Families of Origin and Choice
by: Jason Wyman We gathered on a Wednesday night in January 2011 to celebrate and remember my grandfather. He passed away late at night the Tuesday before. He lived in […]
Why Dan Savage Deserved to get Glitterbombed…Twice
by: Lindsey Dietzler Dan Savage is a sex advice columnist, often misrepresented as an activist, who happened to have a catchy idea that caught on at a time of national […]
Why I Won’t Tell You How I Identify
by: Kara Crawford I’m not going to tell you how I identify. No, I’m not a queer person trying to pass for straight. Nor am I a straight person trying […]
