25 July 2014

Gay Rights = Loss Of Religious Freedom. Haven't We Heard That One Before?

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New Orleans is often called "The Big Easy."  While that nickname might depict life--at least some aspects of it--in the Crescent ...
20 July 2014

Sunday Sailing

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I admit this photo hasn't much to do with gender identity or any related issue. I took it on Point Lookout, one of the places to wh...
19 July 2014

What Do They Mean By A "Transgender Tipping Point"?

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Sometimes I despair over National Public Radio.  While it's certainly more balanced (or, al least, broadcasts fewer out-and-out falseho...
18 July 2014

Two Ships Didn't Pass Or Collide. One Swerved..

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Late yesterday afternoon, I was riding my bike in another part of Queens, a few miles from my apartment.   Conditions were nearly perf...
17 July 2014

Young LGBT People Of Color

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A gay Dominican man describes where he lives--the South Bronx--as a "major gayborhood". When I was spending a lot of time in th...
16 July 2014

Trans Woman's Body Found This Morning

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Just before 6 this morning, someone found a body in an alley. The murder victim had suffered severe trauma. Does it surprise you that s...
15 July 2014

Barbera-ic

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Sometimes I wonder whether I'm performing some sort of service by calling out someone by Peter LaBarbera .  Or, by mentioning him, am I...
14 July 2014

I Always Thought They Were Better Than This

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Even when I wanted nothing to do with religion and was denying my spirituality, I had respect for the Quakers.  For one thing, they played ...
13 July 2014

"Where Are You Riding Today?"

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Sometimes, when I’m about to mount my bike, someone—almost invariably, someone who doesn’t ride—will spot me and ask, “Where are you going...
12 July 2014

An Early Role Model

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I have never thought myself as a particularly good model of anything for anybody.   Maybe that explains, at least partially, some of t...
11 July 2014

One Of Our Own Might Win The Prize

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I haven't watched television in more than a year.  That means I probably pay less attention than most other people pay to the world of ...
10 July 2014

The Rainbow

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From the University of Arizona
09 July 2014

The Hobby Lobby Case You Didn't Hear About

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We've been hearing a lot about the Supreme Court decision that allows Hobby Lobby, and other "closely held" businesses, to us...
08 July 2014

Old Enough To Remember

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I have lived only a fifth of my life as a woman.  Still, I've lived as Justine long enough--and as Nick before that--to remember when b...
07 July 2014

Five Years Since My Surgery

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Today marks five years since my surgery--and six since I started this blog. Perhaps not surprisingly, I have less and less to say about t...
06 July 2014

A Failed Attempt To Disguise Hate As Comedy

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Looking back, I’m not surprised that Joan Rivers attained the peak of her popularity during the 1980’s.   After all, it was a time whe...