Prism & Pen

While the world debates our existence, we live!

What survival sounds like to me when silence just isn’t an option.

Experts say continuing delays to a ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy are “dangerous”

That’s not how our bisexual story ended.

The confrontation (1)

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 6 July 2025

And what if I’m the man that got away?

Going back to the scene of trauma and overcoming it

Just because someone uses the word nuance doesn’t mean they aren’t bigots

These three queer artworks memorialize those lost

Foreseeing a world in which gender roles are secondary to one’s humanity, where love is love, and play is play.

Analysing bigotry and the response to it

Keeping it on the down-low, again

What happens when LGBTQ+ drama meets pop psychology

Maybe the manosphere is nothing more than a natural manifestation of cisgender fragility.

Sometimes I “forget” I have transitioned. Is this normal?

Living, loving, and being visible in a place where politics are deeply personal

The silence that raised me did make me the strong one

The initiation (2)

My body finally feels like it belongs to me

How government oppression became the most powerful act of queer defiance in Eastern European history

The real threat to LGBTQ equality and religious liberty might be wearing a black robe

One of those events you never forget, and reflect back on later.

On 9/11, it took him again.

Pride is supposed to be joyful. So why was I scanning the crowd for threats?

Wishful thinking? Seven decades later, I’m looking for the truth.

The false retelling of history must not overshadow Cuba’s progressive role in queer rights