National Coming Out Day
Coming out, I once read, refers not only to the process of disclosing your identity to other folks, but also to yourself. At , I wrote about coming out. I discussed my early crushes, innocent things from when I was…
Safety and Craigslist
I wrote about some lurid Craigslist pranks here and here. What did we learn? That any information you release on the Internet can come back to you in some ugly ways, whether or not your action was good, bad, moral,…
October’s Carnival of Bent Attractions is Up at Les Faits de la Fiction!
October's Carnival of Bent Attractions is up! Bryan of Les Faits de la Fiction gave us another great carnival edition! (Thank you, Bryan!) Read it HERE. The November edition of the Carnival of Bent Attractions will be hosted at Marti…
For Queer Women/Trans Artists/Performers in NYC
I recently posted that I am looking for queer reading series. I just learned of another series in New York City: GirlSalon Janine Avril is the founder of GirlSalon, "a forum for queer women/trans artists/performers," and is looking for queer…
_Trans/forming Feminisms_
In February I posted that “Queer Femmes Loving FTMs,†a piece by Dr. Susan Driver, would appear in the anthology Trans/forming Feminisms, edited by Krista Scott. Sumach Press released Trans/forming Feminisms last month. Read more about Trans/forming Feminisms here.
The Fenceberry’s
"Fenceberry" is the result of combining two surnames: Fenceroy and Mayberry. I n high spirits because the February day was warm, Jean Mayberry honked and waved at a neighbor, a woman she knew only as "Aleta, the lesbian down the…
The REAL letters to (and from) my ex
There they are, right over there. No worries: as usual, there are no addresses, names, locations, time frames, and the like. I wrote about them and some past writing stuff in a recent post for The Nervous Breakdown. I even…
“Own It. End It.” Campaign Succeeds in At Least One Thing: Getting Attention
The Own It. End It. campaign, sending the message that "HIV is a gay disease," launched by the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center last week has quickly, and unsurprisingly so, become the center of controversy. LAVoice posted about the…
Update on Carissa McGee’s Case
Back in March New Mexico star athlete Carissa McGee was charged with two counts of attempted murder after her mother and sister were found with multiple stab wounds. reported the news, coming from a local Albuquerque television station, "that Carissa…