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What does it mean to be “Gay?” (3/3)

Culture is an umbrella term used so frequently that we risk losing track of its meaning. It is a complex phenomenon that helps to shape...

What does it mean to be "Gay?" (2/3)

Part 2: Coming out to family One of the key difficulties for my coming out and living as a gay man, as it is for many of us in the queer

What does it mean to be "Gay?" (1/3)

Part 1: Coming out to ourselves I’ve been out of the closet a relatively short amount of time, given my age. Always a late bloomer, my...

The Gift

(dis)Comfort

Poem: Mustangs

sometimes there are no words because the feelings are too wild too sharp with fullness to try and chain them forcing them into stalls of...

Poem: Pearls

Pearls Once i collected books for the sake of impressing myself hoarding the wise words of Others brave enough to speak their truths i...

Poem: Carbon (a poem about coming out)

Carbon (A Poem About Coming Out) I am not who I thought I would be But I am who I suspected I was Alchemy, it would seem Applied to...

Poem: Change

Change mirrors lie every day a warped portrayal of familiarity built on tiny fragments a sum greater than its parts significant only to...

Poem: Scarcity

Scarcity not enough not enough not enough the drumbeat of fear and loathing this Las Vegas has got nothing on me as i look around to see...

Poem: Control

Control you don’t control the story only what you do it doesn’t matter what’s real or fake there’s no such thing as true when daylight...

Poem: On Living

On Living living is odd we cling to it tire of it resent it wonder at it soak in it every day the fish searching for the ocean how...

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"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

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