Prism & Pen

Becoming who you truly are shouldn’t be so costly or risky

Segregation academies are nothing new, but taxpayer support for them is both new and disturbing

Nothing against kink, but self-righteous book-banners don’t get to have their cake and eat it, too

Hey, Mom, look! Purple hair and earrings!

Meet the gang, have an eggnog or two, and enjoy Tuesday

Scant media representation, slim dating prospects, and reductive stereotypes of what a gay person looked like abounded in the early 2000s

In two chapters … maybe more

Episode 19: After their rescue, Jevan and Ardyn take time to recover from their ordeal.

From Whitman to Dickinson to now

Prism & Pen Weekly — December 3 , 2023.

Some people have a difficult holiday season, bliaing it on being LGBTQIA … not me!

As the Christmas Season arrives, I reflect on my husband and our love

Make the holiday holi-GAY and stress-free

… on the sleeper train.

A ballad inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXXVI

Episode 18: Jevan’s captors prepare to ramp up their interrogation.

Maybe the bucket isn’t empty after all

Episode 17: His captors think Jevan knows more than he’s letting on, so they employ new measures to make him talk.

It led to one of my worst humiliations

The Oklahoma chapter of Moms for Liberty wants to ban Scholastic Book Fairs from schools, claiming their books push “radical viewpoints”…

A haven for nature-loving, artsy queers, the continent is still held back by perceptions and prejudices that derive from a western lens

They’d love it if you did kill somebody

Prism & Pen Weekly — Nov 26, 2023.

Who was Henry Geldzahler, a name that resonates deeply in the New York art scene of the late 20th century, Born in Belgium in 1935 and…

In those days the younger lesbian referred to the older as “Miss”

Internal conflict over gender identity

Poster boy model can’t keep his ladies satisfied