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The Norm-Busting Life of the Chevalière d’Éon
They might have kick-started the women’s movement 56 years sooner, and who knows where we’d all be right now?
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Fearmongering Kills
No kid deserves to die for who they are.
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You Do You
It occurs to me that a lot of the conflict and scandal and overall kerfuffle in this world could be avoided if we all stuck to one basic tenet: You do you. I’ll do me. (That is, as long as what you’re doing does not negatively impact others.) For example, I’ll never understand why people…
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The Nasty Habits
I often attend a storytelling event here in town, and I’ve met a lot of fascinating people there. One such person is Ginger, who will sometimes tell stories about being transgender and how that has impacted her life. Her stories often move me to tears. Ginger has a quiet, shy, dignified grace about her. But…
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What Hate Looks Like
It really breaks my heart to have to write this blog entry after the high of yesterday’s entry about Seattle Pride. Unfortunately every light seems to have its shadow. The brightest lights seem to cast even darker ones. So, two things. First, at the Pride events I attended, I would occasionally come across religious…
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News Flash: I Don’t Care Where You Pee
When I lived in Florida, I used to dream about moving to the mountains of North Carolina. To me, that was paradise. I had convinced myself that I would find my ultimate happiness there. I used to vacation there every chance I got. The reason I was so anxious to get out of Florida, believe…
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True
Standing there in the parking lot after the delightful little neighborhood weekly drag show, I was thinking about what a strange grouping we made. There was frumpy vanilla straight ol’ me, probably 15 years older than everyone else in the crowd. Then there was my best friend, R, a reserved gay male as big as…
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The Danish Girl
I had a very unique, delightful and emotionally fraught experience on my birthday recently. I invited a friend of mine who just happens to be transgender to go with me to see The Danish Girl, a movie about one of the very first people to go through gender reassignment surgery. First of all, if you…