Get Over Yourselves, Homophobia Doesn’t Make You An Asshole
by: Carrie Kaufman “I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a real phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.” That meme has been going around the internets for […]
Tag Archives: LGBT
Straight Up Queer
by: Ariana Barreto In the 90’s the label “queer” began as a negatively conotated slur/insult. It was originally meant as being different or weird. Much like other negative slurs have […]
Coconut Love: Tales of a Closeted Virgin
by: Caitlin Bergh When I was a sophomore in college, I was sitting in my room doing homework one afternoon when I overheard some friends in the hallway talking about […]
Remembering My Internet Boyfriend
by: Zach Stafford The other night, while at dinner with my roommate and a friend, the subject of Lena Dunham’s show Girls came up. At the time, I had not seen the […]
Mirror’s Remnants: Moving Beyond an Eating Disorder
by: Michael Overman For many, the topic of eating disorders is a difficult one, especially if one has been diagnosed or suffered from symptoms of one. Fortunately or unfortunately, most […]
A Full Breadth of Expression: In Praise of Gender Variance
by: John Daniel Gore I like humans, but there are limits to how many can be kept in a confined space before health problems arise. I started thinking about over-population […]
Get Right or Get Left: A Review of Pray the Gay Away
by: Anna Cook Between the winter of 1987 and the summer of 1988, Boston-based journalist Neil Miller traveled across the United States “in search of gay America.” Though he spoke […]
Things I Wish I Knew Before the Times I Came Out
by: Amanda Owens I wish I knew before coming out the first time that I would have to do it again… and again… and again. Media and society seem […]
Cold Winds Are Blowing: Femme Invisibility and Transmisogyny
by: ellie june navidson It’s starting to cool down in Chicago. Like much of the country, we’ve had a particularly hot summer. The cool draft feels very welcome on my […]
Better Than The Kardashians: 10 Things We Learned From Shark Week
by: Bobby Crowley I recently read a tweet which said, “only in America is there a day for mothers but a week for sharks.” Though I believe this was meant […]
