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My Transgender Son Has No ‘Dead Name’. Top Story - June 2021.
A dead name is a term that some within the transgender community use when referring to their birth name. As a parent of a transgender young adult, I’ve never been a fan of this term. It feels laced with morbidity, despair, and foreboding.
By Zada Kent5 years ago in Pride
I Am Still Valid
I am a pansexual woman who has never had a serious relationship with anyone who doesn't identify as a male. I have had "talking" stages with individuals who identify as a gender other than male, but it never went past that stage. In my teenage years, this was mainly due to my fear of being out to people other than those in my small friend group. Currently, it is due to another reason.
By Emily Mainor5 years ago in Pride
Do You Know Positive And Negative Sign of Pride? Read This Article To Know
Pride may be a confounded feeling. It can drive people to confound new statures, where their achievements can spread past self to everything of humankind. Yet, pride can likewise push individuals to act terribly. Jessica Tracy, a neuroscience teacher at the University of British Columbia, takes a gander at the 2 sides in her book, named — Take Pride: Why the mortal sin Holds the key to Human Success.
By www.furnday.com5 years ago in Pride
Colton Ford is Older and Wiser This Pride Season
The title track from Colton’s Ford’s new Unity EP is meant to inspire and get hips shaking! The celebratory Pride anthem is a pop track mashed with Caribbean Calypso beats. It urges listeners to come together as brothers and sisters of the human race.
By Ben Nelson5 years ago in Pride
Rainbow Spectrum & Technotronics
We're the spectrum of a light ray. We're the sunshine of your bright day. How we think only song can say! We love it when life’s colorful. We adore bright & whimsical. What we have planned is wonderful! Soon we’ll see the color of sound. Vibrant light forms fully surround. They stretch through the sky & the ground. Our every word takes solid form. Around us a cosmic light storm! Divine perfection's our true norm. Bright colors start to glow & drip. The seams of structures seem to rip. It might seem like you're losing grip. All life will ring with vibrant light! Patterns & colors pulsate bright, night & days become quite a sight!
By David Duran 5 years ago in Pride
Being Positive: Part 1
On September 3rd, 2020 I went to a local hospital’s ER, as I spent the last week with COVID-19 like symptoms as well as vomiting everything I had ingested for a week’s time. Upon being admitted to the ER routine covid, blood, and urine tests were taken, and after several of hours of vomiting and sitting in an ER room alone a doctor finally came in around 9:30p. He told me that my covid tests were negative, but then he asked if I was aware of my positive status. I told him no and asked him what I was positive for, because I was quite puzzled with what he meant by positive status. He quickly looked down and that’s when he said, “Your HIV positive status.”
By Josh Diaz5 years ago in Pride
How Pride Made A Better Person
In 2019, different countries are looking for different rules for LGBTQ+ people. Although the struggle for LGBTQ + rights continues, research has found that in 70 countries/regions around the world, “consensual same-sex relationships are still criminalized and punishable by imprisonment, torture and even death”.
By www.furnday.com5 years ago in Pride
What does it mean to be Demisexual?
In fact, I'm certain I'm demisexual, but I have this weird thing where I feel like I can't claim a label unless someone else confirms it, and so far the few people I've shared this notion with have basically just thought I was weird (which I am, but that's beside the point). I write about sex, after all. How can I be demi-sexual if I'm writing about sex all the time?
By Heather Kinnane5 years ago in Pride
Nature Vs Nurture Vs Diethylstilbestrol
It all started as a life line; a quest to put something, anything, in order. Perhaps it was survivors guilt or maybe a thinly veiled vanity project. At any rate it started, and soon stopped. I wondered what needed to be said or if anything could be rationalized after all. The narrative had been banging around in my head for as long as I could remember, but recording it was too lofty a project and not really what I had intended. Nor was it within my grasp. I resigned myself to simply organize the disparate voices and find a platform from which to build contentment. Even at this, I imagined, the gods would snicker. And as my hand cramped, I saw how futile the endeavor would be. I put down my crayon.
By John McFaul5 years ago in Pride
The Awkward Teenage Years...
Sometimes, when I look back, and I’m sure many people can relate to this, I felt like I was living a double life before I came out as gay. It was quite a while ago, but every now and then, memories will present themselves and I’ll think about how I would’ve handled situations if I had been honest with myself and those around me.
By Himmet Kazak5 years ago in Pride
COME OUT, COME OUT, WHATEVER YOU ARE
First, Happy Pride Month everyone. I applaud every single one of you and I love you all. I even love me. I haven’t always loved myself. I was born in the last century, nineteen-fifty to be exact. I am the oldest boy of eight children. I am the only homo in the lot. My six sisters all have children and my brother took care of ensuring the family name would live on. I’m a great uncle to his grand son. As I said, I’m seventy and I live alone.
By David Zinke aka ZINK5 years ago in Pride
Being Asexual In Today's World
Just to get a working definition going, asexuality is described as: ‘…the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity.’
By Rebecca Smith5 years ago in Pride