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Six years ago, four friends and I sat at a tall wooden table near the entrance of Darwin’s Pub and waited to see if anyone else would show up. We had just come from the keynote presentation after a full day of conference talks at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology’s annual conference. That […]
The University of Southern California, my very-soon-to-be alma matter, is surrounded by four walls. That line could be taken as a cute expression to represent the usual college-student campus isolation, but I am being quite literal when I say the university park campus is surrounded by four, heavily-guarded fences. Though they have been here for […]
On the evening of October 13, 2018, I gave a speech in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The room was packed with nearly hundreds of LGBTQ professionals, entertainers, writers, and dignitaries whose eyes and ears were transfixed on me. With clammy hands gripping the well-lit podium, I looked into […]
I’m a Pisces sun, Aquarius moon, Virgo rising. Have no idea what any of that means? I didn’t either! That is, until I got to college. Reed College is the most queer place I have ever been, and unsurprisingly, the most astrology-filled, so it only took me three weeks to become familiar with the language […]
I met writer and Point alumni Ellen Adams in the last few hours of the Point Arts and Humanities LEAD this past October. The conference– three days of panels, discussions, and trips to arts and culture landmarks in LA– was packed with scholars, alumni, and professionals doing everything from screenwriting to cultural anthropology. By the […]
About three months ago, I started working as the Library Intern at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, PA, through a grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation. I was so excited the night before, I could barely sleep. When I walked up to the center and saw the rainbow flags blowing in the […]
Not sure where to turn for sanity during Trump Times? LGBTQ+ media of the distant-past, recent-past, present, & future can help to stay sane. Mattachine Podcast by Devlyn Camp Devlyn Camp has released a serialized story in gay history. 10 episodes are available as a podcast with additional supporting documents online made available by […]
My first instinct was to write this post about what it was like to be back home in Mississippi for winter break. Though I love being close to my family and back in the place that I think of as home, my life there is very different than the one I have at school in […]
This year has been an incredible year filled with new experiences. First of all, this fall, I packed my bags and flew across the country from Arizona to Connecticut to begin a new chapter in my life: college. As I have gotten settled in, I have noticed that no matter what your interests are, there […]
I sat on the couch with my partner and one of my mothers as we decided to watch the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. It was a normal Winter break evening spent gathered as a family to watch movies, eat snacks, and cuddle under blankets to fend off the cold Wisconsin […]