My Legal H(omo)etersexual Marriage or Why Gay Marriage Matters To Me

by Spencer April 2, 2013

The other day I did something I never do. I wrote a status update that was incredibly personal and also kind of political. When it comes to Facebook statuses, I generally try to stick to memes involving animals, pictures of pitbulls or realizations about life I have whilst riding my bike to work. The reason [...]

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ANATOMY OF A FALL #6: I’m Qualified

by TT Jax April 2, 2013

We slipped in like snow, pleurisy, an effusion between doors. Her eyes welled. “Are you homeless?” she asked, white freckled face flushing, framed in red hair. Of course we were. We blinked at each other; the time had come. We signed forms. “Come back by five,” she said, slipped us a shiny gray folder of [...]

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It’s a Butch thing

by Henry Afton March 31, 2013

  As someone who enjoys making music and art, I naturally gravitate toward other, well, music and art makers. Lately I’ve been thinking about masculinity and art, specifically the differing experiences of cis and trans artists and musicians. I’ve had so many inspiring conversations with creative cisgender men that I decided to conduct some interviews [...]

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Are We There Yet?

by Henry Afton March 20, 2013

A few years ago when I began medically transitioning, my good buddy and former band mate moved to LA with a childhood friend of his to pursue music. My friend has since played over a thousand shows across the country and engineered music for major label artists. His friend is now a famous sitcom star [...]

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Anatomy Of A Fall #5: I’m “special”

by TT Jax March 15, 2013

I. Eugenics, Imbeciles, and the Public School Purple Dinosaur There is a push now in Special Education towards a process called “inclusion”, defined as the commitment to educate each child, to the maximum extent appropriate, in the school and classroom he or she would otherwise attend. It involves bringing the support services to the child [...]

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The Secret History Of Love

by Josh March 8, 2013

Not quite a year ago I sat down with groundbreaking choreographer Sean Dorsey to talk about his show “The Secret History of Love”.  I checked in with him again recently and caught up on all that’s happened since – with the show, his love life, and the trans-loving folks of Whitewater, Wisconsin. We caught up [...]

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ASK A PORN STAR: Cruising Classics

by James Darling March 7, 2013

You live in the Bay Area, where cis gay men are more likely to at least know that queer transguys exist, and where there are lots of sex clubs. On the other hand, I’ve also seen you complain on Twitter about gay men’s phobia/ignorance/revulsion about vaginas. Do you have any practical tips for cruising as [...]

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In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion: It’s the Transgender Month of Action!

by Hale T. March 4, 2013

March 1 marked the launch of the Transgender Month of Action and kicked off an historic campaign to educate and encourage unions to bargain for trans-inclusive healthcare benefits among their memberships, labor councils, and state federations. Conceived during the Transgender Caucus at this year’s Creating Change Conference in January, the campaign is sponsored by Pride [...]

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I Was a Teenage Unicorn: Zits! Libido! Angst!

by Mo March 4, 2013

I can tell you one thing for sure about my experience with testosterone: I have a LOT more sympathy for teenage boys. The first three weeks of rubbing testosterone all over my shoulders and chest were the three most uneventful weeks ever. Nothing happened. And to make it worse, all the folks who knew I [...]

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TT JAX: Whoops

by TT Jax February 25, 2013

#4.5 Whoops. The problem with writing is that life doesn’t stop for it. Shit got hard; writing this got harder. I am back now, attempting inexplicably to explicate my guts. These last three will hurt: special, qualified, yes. Why? I think I need to remind myself, remind the walls and the dog and  the clock, remind [...]

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