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Monthly Archives: July 2012

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Give Me Just One Night: 98 Degrees Are Reuniting for the Mixtape Festival

July 12, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Kathryn A. Evans 98 degrees is not only the temperature it has been the past few days, because there is more exciting news that involves this level of heat. […]

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Lesbian, LGBT, Life, Music
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Bully: Why Dan Savage Shouldn’t Use Hate Speech Against Gay Republicans

July 12, 2012by inourwordsblog 4 Comments

by: Miriam Mogilevsky A few weeks ago, an organization of conservative LGBT folks and their allies called GOProud endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Surprise, surprise: a conservative group endorsing a […]

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Bullying, Gay, LGBT, Politics
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An Incompatiable Couple: Comparing Frank Ocean and Anderson Cooper’s Coming Out Stories

July 12, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Rohan Lewis Recently, two celebrities openly revealed their sexualities as different from mainstream societal assumptions: R&B artist Frank Ocean and CNN news reporter and television host Anderson Cooper. Chronologically, […]

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Art/Culture, Coming Out, Gay, LGBT, Media/Entertainment, Music, News
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Avoiding The Big Talk: Coming Out to People as Poly

July 11, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: David Chastity Like everyone else, I was so pleased to read Anderson Cooper’s coming out letter when Nico posted it on Facebook about an hour after it went live. I felt such empathy for the […]

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Coming Out, LGBT, Life, Poly
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Chicago Mental Health Advocates Put City ‘On Trial’ For Consequences Of Clinic Closures

July 11, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Joseph Erbentraut As advocates pled not guilty last month to charges that they had trespassed during a sit-in demonstration at a Chicago mental health clinic, they sought to put […]

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Activism, Health, Life, News, Politics
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Serial Dater: Dating Your Parents

July 11, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Adam Guerino  Note: “Serial Dater” is a series that came in response from a magazine asking Adam Guerino to write a dating column. He realized the irony that anyone would […]

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Advice, Dating, Serial Dater
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How a Muslim Introduced Me to Humanism

July 11, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Chris Stedman “What’s a ‘Humanist’?” As a Humanist activist, it’s a question I hear a lot. I’m not comfortable with the idea of trying to answer it on behalf […]

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Atheism, Interfaith, LGBT, Religion
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We Need to Stop Referring to People as Nazis, Even Gay Republicans

July 11, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Johnny Gall Readers, there are a lot of phrases still in use in the popular culture that really get under my skin. I hate the term “welfare queen,” I’m […]

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Art/Culture, Editorial, Gay, LGBT, Opinion, Politics
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Another Girl: Looking Back on Past Versions of Myself

July 11, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Melanie Sue I, like many people, sometimes look back on my life and find myself rather shocked and rattled by how much I’ve changed, and how often. When I […]

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LGBT, Life, Memoir, Women
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60 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Scientologists

July 10, 2012by inourwordsblog 4 Comments

by: Nico Lang While writing my Tom Cruise piece, I did some research on the presence of Scientology in Hollywood and the bevy of stars that got mad love for […]

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Art/Culture, LGBT, Life, Media/Entertainment, Religion

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