When a child of God is gay
I was raised under the idea that God loves all of his children and wants the best for them. After all, if you create something, you’d like it to do well right?
Tommy DiDario: The LGBTQ Community Needs to Pull Together
I have seen far too many times on social media people being treated cruelly, but specifically in the LGBTQ community, one in which we have all fought so hard for respect and acceptance in.
A Mother/Daughter Connection Outlives Death
I so wanted to be there holding my mother’s hand at the end. But my mother had other ideas.
What Happens When Bisexuals Marry?
I didn’t stop being attracted to men or transpeople when I married a ciswoman.
Prevented From Legal Marriage, Italian Lesbians Have Formal “Love” Photo Session
Ours is an ordinary love story. One of those where two people suddenly realize they are meant for each other. A true love story, romance and ordinary life, like so many others.
Win a Dream LGBT Wedding from The Brice Hotel, Savannah, Georgia
The Brice, located in the heart of Savannah, Georgia, is honoring the SCOTUS ruling by pulling out all the stops for one lucky LGBT couple in Georgia who will win an all-inclusive wedding giveaway.
Getting Pregnant: A Lesbian Couple’s One-Year Journey through Fertility, Using a Known Sperm Donor of a Different Race, and the Emotional and Financial Costs
A year ago I walked into the fertility center with my beautiful, kind, strong wife feeling so absolutely excited to bring another person just like her into this world. We walked right in, and I said “We’re here to get pregnant! LET’S DO THIS!”
Love Always Wins: An Indiana Same-Sex Wedding in a Post-RFRA Era
It later occurred to me that this is the first wedding my sons will remember. I already had tears in my eyes from the beauty of the moment the pair kissed—their union finally recognized by friends and country—but the tears refreshed with the hope that my children might grow up free from the constraints of the traditional family model. Instead of gender, they will see love as the requisite for marriage.
A Delightful Love Story with Champagne, Southern Fare, Laughter and a Proposal
[title maintitle=”” subtitle=”This is the love story of Niva and Michelle….”] Niva: It all began with an ol’ fashioned hookup… Wait. Those don’t happen anymore. Yes, they do! It…
From Indiana, With Love: an Essay on Long-Distance Love, Divorce and Finding Happiness
It wasn’t that my family considered gayness wrong. It just wasn’t something that was considered at all. Somewhere in my history, I learned that girls marry boys and have kids….
Prisms: an Essay on the Anxieties of an Approaching Marriage
Diamond: from the Greek αδάμας (adamas) “proper,” “unalterable,” “unbreakable” The Japanese have two words for truth, honne and tatemae. Tataemae describes the truth revealed by the words we speak, the…
A Conservative Father’s Love for his Lesbian Daughter
My best friend and I grew up believing whole heartedly that we were the lost Disney princesses. At any moment, our prince charming would swoop in on his noble steed,…
Something and Nothing and Love for Always
[title maintitle=”” subtitle=”I’m going to tell you the one thing someone should have told me before I got married.”] On my wedding day, no one told me about the bad…
Lessons on Love from a Divorced Gay Man
Two divorces and brutal family rejection gave David Yerks insight into what true love is all about.
Lessons on Devotion from ‘Gone With the Wind’
As a woman, I have sat here day after day wondering when I might find my Prince/Princess Charming! I often make jokes that he/she got lost along the way or…
How Queer Radicalism and Gay Progressivism Can Meet in the Middle
Is marriage equality relevant to radical queer politics? Bird Pilatsky challenges the notion that engaging with norms of marriage is regressive and anti-queer. Susan and Jana’s rustic Catskill Mountain wedding….
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