20 October 2010

Inadvertent Commemoration

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Today, without thinking, I wore a purple overshirt atop a magenta blouse that coordinated with a like color in the print of the skirt I wore...
18 October 2010

Galloping Against Their Bodies

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What is it about October? I know that it's fall and leaves are dying and, oh, they look so beautiful doing it.  And I'll admit th...
17 October 2010

I Wanna Get Better Already!

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I can't believe I've been home, not working, for a whole week.  Not that my "time off" has been fun and games, or whatever...
16 October 2010

Growing Old As We're Starting To Live

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I've been asked to co-facilitate a transgender forum on aging at a conference for LGBT older adults next month.  I've agreed to do...
15 October 2010

You Never Know Where They'll Find You, Or You'll Find Them

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"Small world!," we exclaimed in unison. "We" being myself and one of my students. As you probably figured out, we ...
14 October 2010

Beryl Burton and Lana Lawless

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I am going to mention  Lana Lawless  and  Beryl Burton  in the same post. Why?, you ask. Well, I just happened to read about both of them t...
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13 October 2010

I Hate Being Sick

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I should've known.  When I conked out halfway through an easy ride on Sunday, and had to bail out, I thought I was just having "one...
12 October 2010

A Transgendered Dorian Gray?

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Last night I had one of those dreams that both reflects and changes the way I see myself.  Those seem to be the only kind I remember.  I ...
11 October 2010

Zach Harriington: Another Victim of Hate

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As I said the other day, tis the season. Gotta do this shit again:  Report on another victim of homophobia.  Another one too young. ...
09 October 2010

Beating and Killing Ourselves

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Tis the season. A couple of weeks ago, Tyler Clementi committed suicide.  Last week, in the Stonewall Inn , two young men shouted anti-g...
06 October 2010

Tyler Clementi, Rutgers and Me

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Tyler Clementi's suicide prompted me to do something I don't do very often:  I found myself thinking about my own days at Rutgers.  ...
30 September 2010

Driven to Kill (Themselves)

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I used to think that summer was the most dangerous time to be L, G, B, T or some combination or version thereof--or simply to be so perceive...
27 September 2010

What Do I Tell Them?

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I had just left the allergist's office.  The rain had softened to a drizzle, and I was walking past the booths of some sort of craft fai...