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Maybe someday your life will depend on knowing what’s happening all around you right now

Click to learn how you can fight Trump’s queer erasure!

This is a dark truth behind Utah’s conversion-therapy ban loophole

Coming out wasn’t an option in the ’90s — but I refuse to be silent now.

Six years ago, newly discovering I’m transgender, I could never have imagined this

Demons Are Coming Out! — Part 34

Introducing my date to a “heathen”

Sexual orientation is more complex and nuanced than most of us would like to think

Not fully accepted, my family looked to me anyway for guidance, understanding, stability, and more

If you think transgender people are a threat to your way of life, this is for you. Happy Valentine’s Day.

How Would You Explain Donald Trump to the Dead?

On defying the normalization of hate

‘Enemy Feminisms’ by Sophie Lewis

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 16 February 2025

Reality is not only still there, but the whiteout is a sign of weakness.

Intimates: the untold stories of self-combed women

When inclusivity begets erasure, is it time to pull the plug?

At three different points in my life

Demons Are Coming Out! — Part 33

brilliant, beautiful love

Demons Are Coming Out! — Part 32

Two recent novels featuring protagonists in their 60s and 70s show the vital importance of telling stories of queer survival and queer…

A fictional meditation on countryside romance inspired by a painting

Demons Are Coming Out! — Part 31

We are more than just LGBTQIA+, we are part of the greater group called “humanity” … just different needs!

When you’re naughty in a naughty country, whose spanks are justified?

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 9 February 2025