We live in a world where we have measured freedom, often times we don’t realize just how limited it is. We can look back 60 years and see the strides we have made, how disease brought our community to the brink, and won the right to marry, should we choose to do so. We have … Continue reading The Curious Case of Candice Keller
Asian Lantern Festival August 2019
This year I got to go back to the Asian Lantern Festival at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The lanterns were as awesome as last year but they were all new exhibits. It was as amazing as it was last year and the crowds seemed to be more mindful of photographers this year. Being 6'4 and … Continue reading Asian Lantern Festival August 2019
Gay Ol’ Summer
It is August and the summer is officially winding down. The days have already started to get shorter and the air has taken on a different quality. These are the last days for getting away, partying, and enjoying youthful behavior before fall sets in and all of our clothes have to go back on. Summer … Continue reading Gay Ol’ Summer
Trials to Change the Future
Okay, you can argue that it is a more accepting time in history than, let's say 1960, for being LGBTQ and that is true in a way. We are more out than we have ever been, there is more coverage in the media, and more people in positions of power speaking out about who they … Continue reading Trials to Change the Future
Seeing People For Who They Are
My recent article prompted some heated discussions on a Facebook group for Cleveland’s LGBTQ. Things like pronoun usage, gender identity, and sex are topics that have become something of a large amount of focus in recent years. And it is easy to understand why people have a hard time with the terms and usage. For … Continue reading Seeing People For Who They Are
Gender and Pronouns
Human Condition is defined as the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and morality, as defined by yourdictionary.com. Life is the quintessential human condition because it is the sum of our existence. How the unique identifiers are understood by us is how … Continue reading Gender and Pronouns
The Best Advice…
Often overlooked in our LGBTQ community are transgender men and women. I feel it is important to be able to share some of their stories. It is time for us all to set our differences and beliefs aside. We must unite and fight we lose all the progress we have made. That requires us coming … Continue reading The Best Advice…
Modern Dating
As technology has changed and become more portable and pocketable, our interactions with people have also drastically changed. We spend more time looking down at our apps than we do paying attention to where we are walking. We talk to people through messengers and apps more than we do face to face, leaving verbal communication … Continue reading Modern Dating
Gay Songs Summer Throwback
So, here we are about half way through summer. Today it is ungodly hot across the Midwest, so what better way to deal with the heat that to take a look as some previous summer hits. When I started this list, I went back to about 1995 and realized that was 25 years ago. Then … Continue reading Gay Songs Summer Throwback
Small Step Activism
Activism is a huge idea and often times scary for the individual. We look back at history and see the marches for civil rights, the sit ins for peace, and the demonstrations for freedom and it call all be too much to process. You get swept up in the current thinking how you can help … Continue reading Small Step Activism
Gay in the CLE 