Toby, Age 21
My dad was kinda your typical hard-ass conservative father. It’s all about family, getting married, having kids…about being a man. I guess that’s what he meant when he made fun of the gay guys he worked with—they weren’t real men.
We don't run the gay community, we just organize it!
My dad was kinda your typical hard-ass conservative father. It’s all about family, getting married, having kids…about being a man. I guess that’s what he meant when he made fun of the gay guys he worked with—they weren’t real men.
Perhaps you think that you are the only Rockband playing, Bowie sing-a-long, Bob Mould loving or even rap loving LGBT citizen in the city. So maybe you still use that hair brush as a microphone belting out tunes in front of the mirror as you get dressed for yet another night out of repetitive club music.
But still, I was hearing it from everywhere else, boys like girls and girls like boys and that’s how it is. I started thinking to myself, maybe if I like boys, maybe I should have been born a girl.
Kelly Burkhardt, the head programmer of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, on the making of her new film Tremble and Spark
Whether you realized it or not purchases and interests in knock-off apparel and accessories are through the roof. Are knock-offs a good thing?
I’ve never been very good at this. Seems like I can’t figure out dating very well, but I can figure out how to have sex. I can figure out how to go meet in a club and hang out for an hour or two, then go fuck, but that’s not really doing it for me anymore
The Misanthrope is the play to see right now. The actors are magnificent and the clothing handsome and rich.
At that time, my whole world was my family and my church. When they talked about gay people it was always them, or those people. It was just assumed that no one in our world could be gay.
“Jeffrey” recently asked in an email: “Where should I go to get tested, and how are things going to go when I go in. I’ve been sexually active for about 3 years now. I guess I am really scared to go in. I just want to know what are the best places to go..
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