i had a helluva trip this past weekend.  it was the first Pride festival of the season – Motorcity, located in beautiful Ferndale, MI.  i’d been busting my gluteus maximus for weeks trying to get everything ready; t-shirts, bags, posters, fliers, business cards, website, photos, e-mail, recruits,...

i’ve been under a lot of pressure lately, most of it self-imposed.  i’ve been slowly turning into the person that i swore i would never be – the one that is married to his job, the one who can’t take a day off, who loses touch with the people he loves, loses sight of what’s important and what...

Everyone knows where the Pope stands on Gay Marriage.  What we tend to forget is that not all Catholics, nay, not all people of faith, share this stance.  In the past few weeks, there have been multiple reports of a Catholic school’s rejection of students based upon the sexual orientation of their...

Lately everyone has been asking me the same two questions, questions that I am wary to answer honestly.  For to give someone the full truth about my story seems to be to give unto them the burden of a deep, private knowledge; one that I am only now beginning to grasp.  It is a knowledge of good and...

i have had a very enlightening weekend.  this is the exciting part of being who i am, learning every day a little bit more about myself as i interact with the worlds around me.  i never quite realized just how unique my perspective is until i learned that the way i do things is apparently foreign to...

queer (kwer), adj. 1. differing from what is usual or ordinary; odd; singular; strange. 2. slightly ill; qualmish; giddy. 3. [Colloq.] doubtful; suspicious. 4. [Colloq.] having mental quirks; eccentric. 5. [Slang] counterfeit; not genuine. 6. [Slang] homosexual. – SYN. see strange. * mind (mind), n....

i am nearly thirty-something, middle-class, caucasian with pansexual tendencies and a fluid gender identity.  i don’t fit into the normal classifications of gay or straight, man or woman, rich or poor, democrat or republican, christian or, well, not.  i’m just as comfortable in a five-star restaurant...