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Coming Out Again: Reaching, Building, Educating, Doing.

January 8, 2013by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Joe Varisco  About a month ago I found out that I am HIV positive. Adaptation, embrace change. I found that in speaking this news I was liberated and empowered […]

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Awareness, Body Positivity, Coming Out, Family, Gay, Health, HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Life, Men, Personal
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All Together Now: Tammy Baldwin and The Whole Community

November 12, 2012by inourwordsblog 3 Comments

by: Alexandra Cavallaro I don’t know about you, but election night felt like a lesson in information management. I sat with two of my friends in their living room and […]

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Activism, Equality, Gay, Gender, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, Trans, War on Women, Women
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The Problem of the Straight Savior: Thoughts On an Unredeeming Social Experiment

November 5, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Derrick Clifton As a gay Christian who grew up internalizing anti-gay theology, I can do without Timothy Kurek attempting to describe any aspect of what I endured. It’s unacceptable for him […]

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Ally, Coming Out, Equality, Gay, Homophobia, LGBT, Religion, Straights
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Confessions of an Emotionally Abused Boyfriend

October 25, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Mark Nott I started dating my ex-boyfriend the summer of my sophomore year of college. I had recently gotten out of a 5 month long relationship with an attorney […]

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Dating, Gay, Life
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Making Room For All God’s People: Why I Stepped Down from UMC Ordination

October 15, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Michael Overman Little did I know that a private message I received from a fellow member of the Gay Christian Network nearly four years ago would drastically change the […]

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Gay, Homophobia, LGBT, Life, Religion
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Coming Out of the Digital Closet

October 11, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Zach Stafford Before I came out, I used to peer out through a window—a chat window on my computer. From the comfort of my digital closet, AOL Instant Messenger, […]

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Bullying, Coming Out, Gay, LGBT, Life, Uncategorized
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Serial Dater: The Politics of Dating

October 3, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Adam Guerino Serial Dater is a dating column inspired by a year-long sabbatical from dating. The author went from compulsively dating to abstaining from dating and decided to write […]

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Advice, Dating, Gay, LGBT, Life, Men, Politics, Serial Dater
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Serial Dater: Enabling Cheating

September 26, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Adam Guerino I’ve never cheated on someone. This may be because of morality or lack of opportunity, but it’s a fact I enjoy about myself. If I’m not ready […]

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Advice, Dating, Gay, Serial Dater, Uncategorized
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Close Encounters of the First Kind: When My Partner Met My Family

September 25, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Michael Matthew Overman My partner Frankie and I had been dating for over fifteen months when he finally met my grandmother, Nanny. He’d first met my parents the spring […]

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Coming Out, Family, Gay, Life, Personal
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A Human Community: Why We Shouldn’t Hate Rupert Everett

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Patrick Gill Rupert Everett has spoken with the grace of a toddler throwing a brick.  In an interview with the British Sunday Times, he said, among many things, that […]

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Gay, LGBT, Media/Entertainment, Parenting

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