Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of articles dealing with personal narratives and perspectives focused on HIV/AIDS; it is Mrs. Billings’s second article for the set. For more information on this particular series of articles, please read the editor’s introduction here. The first time I ever had to learn to pay a bill [...]
I am a submissive person. In the game of sadomasochism, I will openly admit that I definitely have more masochistic tendencies than sadistic ones; this is true for most facets of my life. I suppose my discussion here leans more towards the sexual aspects of my life (because who doesn’t love to talk about sex) [...]
Let me begin by saying I love Jo Calderone, not Gaga — Jo. I think Gaga has her redeeming qualities and the music that she produces is undoubtedly phenomenal (say what you will but ‘Poker Face’ is still genius). I think what she has come to stand for in the LGBTQ community is not only [...]
I have to do more — plain and simple. I’m loud and in the last few years, it’s gotten louder. When I rage, Cleveland can hear me. I don’t apologize for my temper any longer; I used to. I used to throw things: vases, bottles, cats, anything that was close and accessible. And then I’d [...]
I was stumbling and rumbling about the internet last week, randomly perusing articles via my StumbleUpon gadget (truly, I thank them for endless hours of article reading, documentary watching, picture ingestion, and knowledge expansion that would have otherwise been wasted on Jersey Shore and YouTube remixes of YouTube sensations). This adventure happened to bring me [...]
I was stumbling and rumbling about the internet last week, randomly perusing articles via my StumbleUpon gadget (truly, I thank them for endless hours of article reading, documentary watching, picture ingestion, and knowledge expansion that would have otherwise been wasted on Jersey Shore and YouTube remixes of YouTube sensations). This adventure happened to bring me [...]
Going to gym class was ultimately a lugubrious experience. It either ended in complete humiliation in the boy’s locker room where penis size was only ever trumped by jokes about girl’s breasts, or towel snapping becoming an Olympic event. All of these subjects were completely foreign to me. Even at 16, I had a sense [...]
As previously reported by several news sources yesterday, we have recently experienced several attacks being investigated as hate crimes against gay men. A “Unity Gathering†organized by Councilmember Robert Garcia and the Gay and Lesbian Center of Long Beach in response to the attacks was conducted yesterday at Cherry Park, hundreds of people showed up [...]
Editor’s Note: This marks the first in a series of articles dealing with personal narratives and perspectives focused on HIV/AIDS. For more information on this particular series of articles, please read the editor’s introduction here. I was standing in my hallway crying. The TV was blaring from the other room and half of my apartment [...]
No one can say they were surprised to learn of the death of Amy Winehouse. The 27-year-old British neo-soul songstress – who broke out in a big way with her second album Back to Black and whose single ‘Rehab’ was a gay bar anthem – had long been troubled by drugs and alcohol. As in [...]
