I live in Canada where same-sex marriages are legal. When I heard what was happening in California, I asked myself what I could do in order to encourage people to vote NO against Proposition 8 and support my Queer American Peers. I decided to write a letter…because I’m a badass.
With all the goodness (or should I say badness?) of politics lately, it’s easy for a loud little political kid such as myself to become so entranced in the madness that I lose my ability to remain socially competent. It wouldn’t be the first time it happened either. I hang out with a weird bunch [...]
In Berlin, opposite the monument for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, there is another monument, just across the road, for the gays and lesbians killed in the Nazi-regime because of their sexual orientation. It is a granite cube incorporating a video screen showing a film of two guys kissing (the film is supposed to be changed [...]
The other night my partner and I stuck it out for two whole games while being heckled by a couple of men at the pool table. They were agressive and full of sexist and homophobic insults. I won’t bore you with the all too familiar details. The barwoman has promised to throw them out next [...]
First, I’d like to preface this by saying that I am a sixteen year old Junior in high school, and I came out in early 2007. I was raised Southern Baptist, and one of my earliest memories of homophobia within my own family was when I was around the age of 7. I remember quite [...]
