I sat up in my hospital bed, still trying to catch my breathe from that very last push, held our baby girl and sobbed exuberantly into my partner, Kayleigh’s chest . I was relieved we had finally done it, finally made our little family. something that seemed so impossible for me before. When Kayleigh and i [...]
RYAN’S STORY We often forget about the “T” in “LGBT” and exactly what it means. I know that I am guilty of that anyways. Some people think that Transgendered girls are just “girls that want to dress like boys” or transgendered boys are just “boys who want to dress like girls”. But that is not [...]
Coming out as a lesbian is the most liberating and empowering thing that a person who is in the closet can do. It is a process of both exploring one’s identity and true self. For me, coming out was a difficult road to travel with a few speed bumps. Although it was an exciting adventure, [...]
#61 Name: Elizabeth Age: 18 Location: TN Question: A week after Valentine’s Day I gave this girl a box of heart shaped chocolates. I was nervous and I don’t think I communicated well… I found out later that she actually went to my high school and I never knew it. My high school years were [...]
This next subject is as universal as the human experience and spreads throughout the world in many different forms, both legal and illegal, friendly and stolen, and in the mere disappearance of one child and unannounced appearance of another – no questions asked. There are so many other on the black market and simply sold children for economic reasons in the poorest of regions and the wealthiest of communities as if a child is a simple commodity, not a living, breathing life. In between there exist the most vilest of the child trade for sex, work and any other whim an entitled person might feel to any other thing on the market place to be bartered over as if it were a trinket in the world’s largest flea market. I grew up an adopted person amidst these images and one pondering what made me so fortunate to get the luck of the draw, ending up with upper, middle-class, phenomenal parents through a Los Angeles Superior Court County Adoption, is a tale of randomness in the extreme.