Category: LGBTQ-Logues
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Lessons from Watching Lesbian Porn in Class
The first time I had sex with another woman I had no idea what I was doing. As I started to take off her panties, she said down to me, “Gloves?” I remember thinking: “What gloves? What for?” The practice seemed so esoteric to me. From then forth my whole orientation with safer sex altered.…
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The “Condom Girl”: Condom Policing is Gender Policing
“What do you do when you’re detained by powerful officials, everything you say is presumed deceptive, arbitrary “evidence” is held against you, and you’re treated like a moral deviant? And what if its 2013, you’re a woman, and the “evidence” is that you possess condoms?”- Clay Nikiforuk In March 2013, Clay Nikiforuk was detained at…
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A Mark in History of Marriage Equality: Family Story by John & Stuart
LGBTQ-Logue 005. You know, the sense of the historic moment hanging over these cases is incredible, and the atmosphere is really electric…As my husband said, it really feels like our very lives are before the court. But there’s no mistaking this historic moment. The momentum leading up to these hearings is incredible. Every day, when…
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Poster Child of DOMA: Testifying the impacts of marriage inequality
LGBTQ-logue 004. I’m a tangible poster child for why DOMA should be repealed. If someone asks what’s unfair about our marriage not being recognized in all states, I can offer several examples, but here is the most glaring one: I’m dying. I have a terminal illness and I pretty much know my life span. My…
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Walking While Trans: police profiling and abuse of LGBTQ communities of color in Queens
LGBTQ 003. In this entry of our LGBTQ-Logue Initiative, posting mementos of sexual justice issues, we share narratives from participants in a study about the gender-based violence that police regularly commit against LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people. In response to the rise of complaints about hate violence and police abuse against LGBTQ people in Jackson…
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Video Storytelling about ‘Coming Out’ by a Mormon
LGBTQ-Logue 002. “So, are you dating anyone.” “Nope.” I shamelessly replied. “Well that’s not good.” my bishop said. “I don’t want to date anyone.” Then my bishop looked at me, “Do you experience feelings of same-gender attraction?” What?! All I said is I don’t want to date anyone, how does he…? ‘This is real. Oh gosh,…
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Remembering Stonewall: Excerpts from the First Documentary Made on the Riots
LGBTQ-Logue 001. “The archives of lesbian culture…created four years after Stonewall, owes, at least for my part, it’s creation to that night and the courage that found its voice in the streets. That night, in some very deep way, we finally found our place in history. Not as a dirty joke, not as a doctor’s…