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• DRAG QUEENS & TRANS WOMEN, BISEXUAL WARRRS, TECHNILOR STRAIGHTSPRISM & PEN WEEKLY — DECEMBER 4, 2022JAM FN·FOLLOWPUBLISHED PRISM & PEN·12 M READ·DEC 4, 2022--2LISTENSHAREBY JAM FNP&P WRERS SUBMTED SUCH GREAT STORI THIS WEEK THAT MY SUNDAY TASK OF HIGHLIGHTG THREE IS IMPOSSIBLE. MY EDOR’S PICKS ARE NEVER MEANT AS A STATEMENT ON WORTH ANYWAY, BUT THIS WEEK I SIMPLY CHOOSE THREE SAYS THAT SPEAK TO ME OF SIAR THEM DIFFERENT WAYS. SEE IF YOU AGREE! THEN PLEASE DIG FOR GOLD ALL OUR OFFERGS; THIS WEEK AT PRISM & PEN IS ALL ABOUT WRG RICH.FOR THE PURE PLEASURE OF MOVG, FELY CRAFTED CREATIVE NONFICTN, DO PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR A STUNNG FIRST SUBMISSN BY REMY J. ALAN ?️‍?✒️.READ FOR EE BY CLICKG UNRLED LKS. WANT EE DAILY STORI OM ACROSS THE RABOW? FOLLOW ON MEDIUM, TWTER, FACEBOOK, OR TUMBLR! WANT TO HELP SUPPORT P&P? CLICK HERE TO JO MEDIUM.— EDOR’S PICKS —THE BIGGT THREAT TO THE PATRIARCHY: TRANS WOMEN AND DRAG QUEENSFAY WYLTHE RISE OF VENOMO AND UNFIVG TARGETG OF TRANS WOMEN AND DRAG QUEENS IS NOT JT ANOTHER ASPECT OF LATG CULTURE WARS OUR SOCIETY. IT IS NOT JT THE CULTURE WAR DU JOUR. THIS IS DIFFERENT. THIS HAS FAR EPER ROOTS, AND NOT JT HISTORILLY BUT PSYCHOLOGILLY.READ P&PTHE HETEROSEXUAL MYTH: FDG OURSELV OUR BISEXUAL PASTLRENCE BTTHE POWER OF OVER ONE THOAND YEARS OF LI AND HETEROSEXUAL MYTHOLOGY TIED TO HELLFIRE AND DAMNATN IS NOT TO BE UNRTIMATED.THE EXTENSIVELY BISEXUAL LIV OF ANCIENT ETSNS, CELTS, GREEKS, AND ROMANS ARE NCEIVABLE TO NON-GAY MEN TODAY WHO HAVE LONG BEEN NDNED TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH LIV EXISTED ONLY OUT OF RPTN AND EVIL. IF SO, THE ANCIENT CHE AND JAPANE WERE EQUALLY CULPABLE, ALONG WH DIGENO PEOPL WORLDWI.READ P&PTECHNILOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE: REWATCHG “PLEASANTVILLE” WH MORN GAY EYJAM PATRICK NELSONAS A KID, I RELATED TO THIS MOVIE BEE I’M AN ARTIST. JEFF DANIELS’ CHARACTER WANTS TO BE A PATER, AND WHEN HE STARTS PATG VIBRANT MULTI-LORED MURALS ON THE SODA-SHOP WDOW OR THE SI OF A BUILDG, EVERYONE IS SNDALIZED AND THE TOWN UNCIL TRI TO BAN HIM OM DOG HIS WORK.BUT WHAT I DIDN’T UNRSTAND AS A KID WAS JT HOW MUCH MY OUTRAGE AT SYSTEMIC OPPRSN IS ROOTED MY QUEERNS. SCE QUEER PEOPLE HAVE LONG EXPRSED THEMSELV THROUGH ART AND PERFORMANCE, MOST OPPRSIVE SYSTEMS THAT WANT TO CENSOR ART REALLY WANT TO CENSOR SEXUAL LIBERTY.READ P&P— ESSAYS AND CREATIVE NONFICTN —TRANSGENR MICROAGGRSNS AND MICROABRASNSEMMA HOLIDAYWHETHER OR OUT, TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS RRY THEIR OWN “FIRST AID” K ORR TO SURVIVE. IT IS FILLED WH WAYS TO STOP THE PA, VENT THE HURT AND HEAL YET AGA OM THE FLICTED WOUND. EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN BAND AIDS AND SALV. THEY N CLU SUPPORTIVE IENDS AND FAY, THERAPISTS, OTHER TRANSGENR PEOPLE, ONLE SUPPORT GROUPS OR JT TAKG A MOMENT TO BREATH AND OUT AND REGA YOUR PERSPECTIVE.READ P&PACTRS CANDACE CAMERON BURE WANTS TO KEEP LGBTQ PEOPLE OUT OF MOVIKTY WILLIAMSWHAT I’M GETTG OM ALL OF THIS IS THAT BURE AND ABBOTT DON’T EVEN WANT QUEER PEOPLE TO EXIST A FICTNAL MA-FOR-TV MOVIE WORLD, LET ALONE THE REAL ONE.QUEER PEOPLE AND QUEER MARRIAGE ARE NOT “A TREND” OR ANY WAY UNTRADNAL, ABNORMAL, OR OUT OF THE ORDARY; OUR MEDIA NEEDS TO REFLECT THAT.WE SAW DON’T SAY GAY BEE LAW FLORIDA EARLIER THIS YEAR, BASILLY PROHIBG ANY DISCSN OR ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF QUEER PEOPLE SCHOOLS. NOW WE’RE TAKG A STEP FURTHER WH WHAT I WOULD TERM “DON’T SHOW GAY” — WHERE NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS EAK OUT WHEN THEY SEE A GAY UPLE A TV MERCIAL OR A LIGHTHEARTED CHRISTMAS MOVIE AND LL FOR A BOYTT.READ P&PTHE CLUB Q SHOOTG: WHEN TRAGEDY BE A TROPEERIC BEACHLIKE OTHERS WHO WERE MORE PERSONALLY NNECTED TO A SHOOTG, I WAS A DAZE ALL WEEK. LIVG DENVER, I KNOW PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO EQUENT THE TWO QUEER BARS COLORADO SPRGS. EVEN THOUGH MY IENDS WEREN’T AT CLUB Q THAT NIGHT, THEY ULD HAVE BEEN. HAVG EQUENTED THE QUEER BARS DENVER MAK THE SHOOTG THE SPRGS ALL THE MORE REAL TO ME. THERE’S NOT THAT MUCH DISTANCE BETWEEN COLORADO SPRGS AND DENVER.OUR LLECTIVE SHOCK AND ANGER SHOULD LEAD QUEER PEOPLE, AND OUR STRAIGHT ALLI, TO ACTN. WE SHOULD RISE UP AND VOTE OUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PERPETUATG THIS CYCLE OF VLENCE AND NURTURG THE WORST AMERIN VALU.READ P&PTRANS PEOPLE DO NOT “HOLD ALL THE POWER SOCIETY”LRA HALLSONE OF THE MORE LUDICRO IAS THAT WE SEE OM THE RIGHT, PECIALLY RELATN TO THE ONGOG TRANS PANIC, IS THE IA THAT TRANS PEOPLE HOLD ALL THE POWER SOCIETY. WE’VE SEEN THIS IA OM MATT WALSH HIS “WHAT IS A WOMAN?” DOCUMENTARY, AND ’S PROPAGATED WILY NSERVATIVE CIRCL EVEN OM LOW-LEVEL GRIFTERS LIKE SETH DILLON.IT SHOULD E AS NO SURPRISE THAT NSERVATIV HAVE A SUBLERATE UNRSTANDG OF POWER AND HOW WORKS.READ P&PN.C. UNED METHODISTS LEAVE CHURCH HUGE W FOR LGBTQ PEOPLEJAM FNA BUNCH OF NORTH CAROLA NGREGATNS JT LEFT (DISAFFILIATED OM) THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH, THE SEND-LARGT PROTTANT NOMATN THE U.S. AS A CHILD STG THROUGH FIERCE ANTI-GAY SERMONS THE AMERIN SOUTH, AGONIZG BEE I KNEW THE PREACHER WAS RANTG ABOUT ME, I ULD NEVER HAVE IMAGED THE EVENTS THAT ARE SHAKG THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH TODAY.HEADL THIS WEEK ARE MISLEADG IF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND WHAT’S GOG ON, SO LET’S DIVE AND TALK ABOUT WHY FEWER CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH WHAT I DID.READ P&PTHE STATE OF TRANS HEALTHRE THE UK IS PUTTG LIV AT RISKKAYL HATON, PH.DBEG A TRANS PERSON PARKED ON AN NHS WAG LIST FOR GENR-AFFIRMG RE N FEEL LIKE BEG STUCK SOME KD OF HELLISH GENR PURGATORY.I KNOW, BEE I’M ONE OF THEM.AS OF 2020 THERE WERE 13,500 PEOPLE WAG FOR A FIRST APPOTMENT WH AN NHS GENR CLIC THE UK — A NUMBER WHICH HAS LIKELY RISEN SCE THEN.FOUR AND A HALF YEARS: THAT’S HOW LONG I’LL HAVE WAED BEFORE I GET MY FIRST APPOTMENT WH MY NEART NHS GENR CLIC AUGT 2025.READ P&PANY QUEER REP IS TOO MUCH FOR CONSERVATIVESTHER SPURRILL-JONWHEN CANDACE CAMERON BURE REACTED TO THOSE LLG HER A BIGOT BY LLG THEM ALL A BUNCH OF HATERS, I WASN’T THE LEAST SURPRISED. DISAPPOTED, BUT NOT SURPRISED. THIS KNEE-JERK FENSIVENS ON THE PART OF NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHEN THEY ARE LLED OUT ON THEIR HATEFUL BEHAVUR HAS BEE MON.IN RPONSE TO THE HORRIFIC TRAGEDY AT CLUB Q COLORADO SPRGS, SOMEONE VANDALIZED THE HEADQUARTERS OF FOC ON FAY THE SAME CY. FOC IS KNOWN FOR THEIR ANTI-LGBTQ+ STANCE AND STATEMENTS, AND MANY LGBTQ+ PEOPLE DREW A LE OM SUCH BIGOTRY DIRECTLY TO THE VLENCE: E AND EFFECT.READ P&PEXVANGELIL GAY AUTHOR REFLECTS ON BLASPHEMY, HEALTH, AND INSOMNIAREMY J. ALAN ?️‍?✒️YOU WOULDN’T BE SO NERVO IF YOU HAD J, MY GRANDMOTHER SAYS MY HEAD. SHE PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS AGO, BUT I STILL HEAR HER VOICE ALMOST EVERY DAY. SHE WAS A BETIFUL, LOVG WOMAN, UNERRGLY KD WHEN SHE MET MY PARTNER. OF URSE, I TRODUCED HIM AS MY “IEND,” BUT I THK SHE KNEW. SHE DID LIVE THE WORLD A LONG TIME, AFTER ALL.IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF . I’VE BEEN OUT OF THE CHURCH FOR WELL OVER HALF MY LIFE, BUT STILL LIV RENT-EE WH ME EVERY DAY. TRA UP A CHILD THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT PART OM .AN UNWANTED MEMORY OF MY YOUNG SELF OUR SMALL SOUTH CAROLA CHURCH BUBBL UP OM WHERE I THOUGHT I HAD SAFELY BURIED.READ P&PA TRANS WOMAN WALKS INTO A COUNTRY BAR…KTY WHEMOREI GOT TO THE BAR A UPLE OF MUT PAST EIGHT, AND THE PARKG LOT WAS PACKED. I PARKED THE NORTH FORTY AND MA MY WAY TO THE SHOW. I WILL SAY THAT GOG HOME HAD CROSSED MY MD. I HAD NEVER BEEN OUT AT NIGHT SCE MY TRANSN, AND HAD NEVER GONE TO A BAR ALONE. TO PUT DLY, I WAS SRED STRAIGHT, AND THE WEED WAS NOT HELPG LM MY NERV. I WALKED THE QUARTER E OR SO TO THE DOOR AND WENT SI. THERE WAS STANDG ROOM ONLY. NO TURNG BACK NOW.READ P&PTHIS WORLD AIDS DAY, I REMEMBER A SWEET FRIEND AND HIS LIFE’S MEANGJAM FNTHEN, WHEN THE VID-19 PANMIC STCK, I STARTED TO WRE BRAD’S STORY.I FELT PELLED, BEE … WHAT IF I DIED OF VID? WHAT IF NOBODY ELSE BUT ME REMEMBERED BRAD? WHAT IF I ULD E MY FICTN-WRG CHOPS TO BRG BRAD BACK TO LIFE AS BT I ULD? I PLUNGED MYSELF TO REARCH, TO REH MY MEMORY OF EVENTS I KNEW WE’D BEEN AT TOGETHER, AND TO HELP RENSTCT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED OUTSI MY PRENCE.AFTER BRAD PASSED, I HAD SPENT TIME GRIEVG AND NNECTG WH HIS MOTHER AND HIS BT CHILDHOOD IEND. SO I WAS ABLE TO BE SOME OF THEIR MEMORI WH STORI BRAD TOLD ME — ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD AND GETTG DRIVEN OM HOME FOR BEG GAY, AND ABOUT HIS EVENTUAL RENCILIATN WH HIS FAY.READ P&PPERCEIVED CONTRADICTN OF FAH AND GAYNS: WILL THIS PA EVER LEAVE?JONNY MASTERSTHE PA I RRY IS MALIC. IT WAS AMBH, UNTIL I’M FEELG GOOD ABOUT MY LIFE AND MY JOB. THEN SPRGS FORTH, RENDG MY HEART AND SPIR LIKE AN AXE SPLTG WOOD.<CRACK!>THE PA IS NOT PHYSIL. IT IS EMOTNAL, MENTAL, SPIRUAL. IT OM THE PERCEIVED NTRADICTN OF MY CHRISTIAN FAH AND MY SEXUALY. I LIVE AND WORK AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE MANY HOLD THAT NTRADICTN TO BE TE. THEY BELIEVE ONE NNOT BE A GAY RELATNSHIP AND FOLLOW THE WAY OF CHRIST AT THE SAME TIME.READ P&PCAN I BE A WOMAN AND NOT BE A FEMALE?
• GAY, LBIAN TROOPS PERFORM DRAG AT KANA AIR BASE FUNDRAISER

DRAG QUEENS & TRANS WOMEN, BISEXUAL WARRRS, TECHNILOR STRAIGHTSPRISM & PEN WEEKLY — DECEMBER 4, 2022JAM FN·FOLLOWPUBLISHED PRISM & PEN·12 M READ·DEC 4, 2022--2LISTENSHAREBY JAM FNP&P WRERS SUBMTED SUCH GREAT STORI THIS WEEK THAT MY SUNDAY TASK OF HIGHLIGHTG THREE IS IMPOSSIBLE. MY EDOR’S PICKS ARE NEVER MEANT AS A STATEMENT ON WORTH ANYWAY, BUT THIS WEEK I SIMPLY CHOOSE THREE SAYS THAT SPEAK TO ME OF SIAR THEM DIFFERENT WAYS. SEE IF YOU AGREE! THEN PLEASE DIG FOR GOLD ALL OUR OFFERGS; THIS WEEK AT PRISM & PEN IS ALL ABOUT WRG RICH.FOR THE PURE PLEASURE OF MOVG, FELY CRAFTED CREATIVE NONFICTN, DO PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR A STUNNG FIRST SUBMISSN BY REMY J. ALAN ?️‍?✒️.READ FOR EE BY CLICKG UNRLED LKS. WANT EE DAILY STORI OM ACROSS THE RABOW? FOLLOW ON MEDIUM, TWTER, FACEBOOK, OR TUMBLR! WANT TO HELP SUPPORT P&P? CLICK HERE TO JO MEDIUM.— EDOR’S PICKS —THE BIGGT THREAT TO THE PATRIARCHY: TRANS WOMEN AND DRAG QUEENSFAY WYLTHE RISE OF VENOMO AND UNFIVG TARGETG OF TRANS WOMEN AND DRAG QUEENS IS NOT JT ANOTHER ASPECT OF LATG CULTURE WARS OUR SOCIETY. IT IS NOT JT THE CULTURE WAR DU JOUR. THIS IS DIFFERENT. THIS HAS FAR EPER ROOTS, AND NOT JT HISTORILLY BUT PSYCHOLOGILLY.READ P&PTHE HETEROSEXUAL MYTH: FDG OURSELV OUR BISEXUAL PASTLRENCE BTTHE POWER OF OVER ONE THOAND YEARS OF LI AND HETEROSEXUAL MYTHOLOGY TIED TO HELLFIRE AND DAMNATN IS NOT TO BE UNRTIMATED.THE EXTENSIVELY BISEXUAL LIV OF ANCIENT ETSNS, CELTS, GREEKS, AND ROMANS ARE NCEIVABLE TO NON-GAY MEN TODAY WHO HAVE LONG BEEN NDNED TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH LIV EXISTED ONLY OUT OF RPTN AND EVIL. IF SO, THE ANCIENT CHE AND JAPANE WERE EQUALLY CULPABLE, ALONG WH DIGENO PEOPL WORLDWI.READ P&PTECHNILOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE: REWATCHG “PLEASANTVILLE” WH MORN GAY EYJAM PATRICK NELSONAS A KID, I RELATED TO THIS MOVIE BEE I’M AN ARTIST. JEFF DANIELS’ CHARACTER WANTS TO BE A PATER, AND WHEN HE STARTS PATG VIBRANT MULTI-LORED MURALS ON THE SODA-SHOP WDOW OR THE SI OF A BUILDG, EVERYONE IS SNDALIZED AND THE TOWN UNCIL TRI TO BAN HIM OM DOG HIS WORK.BUT WHAT I DIDN’T UNRSTAND AS A KID WAS JT HOW MUCH MY OUTRAGE AT SYSTEMIC OPPRSN IS ROOTED MY QUEERNS. SCE QUEER PEOPLE HAVE LONG EXPRSED THEMSELV THROUGH ART AND PERFORMANCE, MOST OPPRSIVE SYSTEMS THAT WANT TO CENSOR ART REALLY WANT TO CENSOR SEXUAL LIBERTY.READ P&P— ESSAYS AND CREATIVE NONFICTN —TRANSGENR MICROAGGRSNS AND MICROABRASNSEMMA HOLIDAYWHETHER OR OUT, TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS RRY THEIR OWN “FIRST AID” K ORR TO SURVIVE. IT IS FILLED WH WAYS TO STOP THE PA, VENT THE HURT AND HEAL YET AGA OM THE FLICTED WOUND. EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN BAND AIDS AND SALV. THEY N CLU SUPPORTIVE IENDS AND FAY, THERAPISTS, OTHER TRANSGENR PEOPLE, ONLE SUPPORT GROUPS OR JT TAKG A MOMENT TO BREATH AND OUT AND REGA YOUR PERSPECTIVE.READ P&PACTRS CANDACE CAMERON BURE WANTS TO KEEP LGBTQ PEOPLE OUT OF MOVIKTY WILLIAMSWHAT I’M GETTG OM ALL OF THIS IS THAT BURE AND ABBOTT DON’T EVEN WANT QUEER PEOPLE TO EXIST A FICTNAL MA-FOR-TV MOVIE WORLD, LET ALONE THE REAL ONE.QUEER PEOPLE AND QUEER MARRIAGE ARE NOT “A TREND” OR ANY WAY UNTRADNAL, ABNORMAL, OR OUT OF THE ORDARY; OUR MEDIA NEEDS TO REFLECT THAT.WE SAW DON’T SAY GAY BEE LAW FLORIDA EARLIER THIS YEAR, BASILLY PROHIBG ANY DISCSN OR ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF QUEER PEOPLE SCHOOLS. NOW WE’RE TAKG A STEP FURTHER WH WHAT I WOULD TERM “DON’T SHOW GAY” — WHERE NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS EAK OUT WHEN THEY SEE A GAY UPLE A TV MERCIAL OR A LIGHTHEARTED CHRISTMAS MOVIE AND LL FOR A BOYTT.READ P&PTHE CLUB Q SHOOTG: WHEN TRAGEDY BE A TROPEERIC BEACHLIKE OTHERS WHO WERE MORE PERSONALLY NNECTED TO A SHOOTG, I WAS A DAZE ALL WEEK. LIVG DENVER, I KNOW PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO EQUENT THE TWO QUEER BARS COLORADO SPRGS. EVEN THOUGH MY IENDS WEREN’T AT CLUB Q THAT NIGHT, THEY ULD HAVE BEEN. HAVG EQUENTED THE QUEER BARS DENVER MAK THE SHOOTG THE SPRGS ALL THE MORE REAL TO ME. THERE’S NOT THAT MUCH DISTANCE BETWEEN COLORADO SPRGS AND DENVER.OUR LLECTIVE SHOCK AND ANGER SHOULD LEAD QUEER PEOPLE, AND OUR STRAIGHT ALLI, TO ACTN. WE SHOULD RISE UP AND VOTE OUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PERPETUATG THIS CYCLE OF VLENCE AND NURTURG THE WORST AMERIN VALU.READ P&PTRANS PEOPLE DO NOT “HOLD ALL THE POWER SOCIETY”LRA HALLSONE OF THE MORE LUDICRO IAS THAT WE SEE OM THE RIGHT, PECIALLY RELATN TO THE ONGOG TRANS PANIC, IS THE IA THAT TRANS PEOPLE HOLD ALL THE POWER SOCIETY. WE’VE SEEN THIS IA OM MATT WALSH HIS “WHAT IS A WOMAN?” DOCUMENTARY, AND ’S PROPAGATED WILY NSERVATIVE CIRCL EVEN OM LOW-LEVEL GRIFTERS LIKE SETH DILLON.IT SHOULD E AS NO SURPRISE THAT NSERVATIV HAVE A SUBLERATE UNRSTANDG OF POWER AND HOW WORKS.READ P&PN.C. UNED METHODISTS LEAVE CHURCH HUGE W FOR LGBTQ PEOPLEJAM FNA BUNCH OF NORTH CAROLA NGREGATNS JT LEFT (DISAFFILIATED OM) THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH, THE SEND-LARGT PROTTANT NOMATN THE U.S. AS A CHILD STG THROUGH FIERCE ANTI-GAY SERMONS THE AMERIN SOUTH, AGONIZG BEE I KNEW THE PREACHER WAS RANTG ABOUT ME, I ULD NEVER HAVE IMAGED THE EVENTS THAT ARE SHAKG THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH TODAY.HEADL THIS WEEK ARE MISLEADG IF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND WHAT’S GOG ON, SO LET’S DIVE AND TALK ABOUT WHY FEWER CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH WHAT I DID.READ P&PTHE STATE OF TRANS HEALTHRE THE UK IS PUTTG LIV AT RISKKAYL HATON, PH.DBEG A TRANS PERSON PARKED ON AN NHS WAG LIST FOR GENR-AFFIRMG RE N FEEL LIKE BEG STUCK SOME KD OF HELLISH GENR PURGATORY.I KNOW, BEE I’M ONE OF THEM.AS OF 2020 THERE WERE 13,500 PEOPLE WAG FOR A FIRST APPOTMENT WH AN NHS GENR CLIC THE UK — A NUMBER WHICH HAS LIKELY RISEN SCE THEN.FOUR AND A HALF YEARS: THAT’S HOW LONG I’LL HAVE WAED BEFORE I GET MY FIRST APPOTMENT WH MY NEART NHS GENR CLIC AUGT 2025.READ P&PANY QUEER REP IS TOO MUCH FOR CONSERVATIVESTHER SPURRILL-JONWHEN CANDACE CAMERON BURE REACTED TO THOSE LLG HER A BIGOT BY LLG THEM ALL A BUNCH OF HATERS, I WASN’T THE LEAST SURPRISED. DISAPPOTED, BUT NOT SURPRISED. THIS KNEE-JERK FENSIVENS ON THE PART OF NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHEN THEY ARE LLED OUT ON THEIR HATEFUL BEHAVUR HAS BEE MON.IN RPONSE TO THE HORRIFIC TRAGEDY AT CLUB Q COLORADO SPRGS, SOMEONE VANDALIZED THE HEADQUARTERS OF FOC ON FAY THE SAME CY. FOC IS KNOWN FOR THEIR ANTI-LGBTQ+ STANCE AND STATEMENTS, AND MANY LGBTQ+ PEOPLE DREW A LE OM SUCH BIGOTRY DIRECTLY TO THE VLENCE: E AND EFFECT.READ P&PEXVANGELIL GAY AUTHOR REFLECTS ON BLASPHEMY, HEALTH, AND INSOMNIAREMY J. ALAN ?️‍?✒️YOU WOULDN’T BE SO NERVO IF YOU HAD J, MY GRANDMOTHER SAYS MY HEAD. SHE PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS AGO, BUT I STILL HEAR HER VOICE ALMOST EVERY DAY. SHE WAS A BETIFUL, LOVG WOMAN, UNERRGLY KD WHEN SHE MET MY PARTNER. OF URSE, I TRODUCED HIM AS MY “IEND,” BUT I THK SHE KNEW. SHE DID LIVE THE WORLD A LONG TIME, AFTER ALL.IN THE WORLD, BUT NOT OF . I’VE BEEN OUT OF THE CHURCH FOR WELL OVER HALF MY LIFE, BUT STILL LIV RENT-EE WH ME EVERY DAY. TRA UP A CHILD THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT PART OM .AN UNWANTED MEMORY OF MY YOUNG SELF OUR SMALL SOUTH CAROLA CHURCH BUBBL UP OM WHERE I THOUGHT I HAD SAFELY BURIED.READ P&PA TRANS WOMAN WALKS INTO A COUNTRY BAR…KTY WHEMOREI GOT TO THE BAR A UPLE OF MUT PAST EIGHT, AND THE PARKG LOT WAS PACKED. I PARKED THE NORTH FORTY AND MA MY WAY TO THE SHOW. I WILL SAY THAT GOG HOME HAD CROSSED MY MD. I HAD NEVER BEEN OUT AT NIGHT SCE MY TRANSN, AND HAD NEVER GONE TO A BAR ALONE. TO PUT DLY, I WAS SRED STRAIGHT, AND THE WEED WAS NOT HELPG LM MY NERV. I WALKED THE QUARTER E OR SO TO THE DOOR AND WENT SI. THERE WAS STANDG ROOM ONLY. NO TURNG BACK NOW.READ P&PTHIS WORLD AIDS DAY, I REMEMBER A SWEET FRIEND AND HIS LIFE’S MEANGJAM FNTHEN, WHEN THE VID-19 PANMIC STCK, I STARTED TO WRE BRAD’S STORY.I FELT PELLED, BEE … WHAT IF I DIED OF VID? WHAT IF NOBODY ELSE BUT ME REMEMBERED BRAD? WHAT IF I ULD E MY FICTN-WRG CHOPS TO BRG BRAD BACK TO LIFE AS BT I ULD? I PLUNGED MYSELF TO REARCH, TO REH MY MEMORY OF EVENTS I KNEW WE’D BEEN AT TOGETHER, AND TO HELP RENSTCT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED OUTSI MY PRENCE.AFTER BRAD PASSED, I HAD SPENT TIME GRIEVG AND NNECTG WH HIS MOTHER AND HIS BT CHILDHOOD IEND. SO I WAS ABLE TO BE SOME OF THEIR MEMORI WH STORI BRAD TOLD ME — ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD AND GETTG DRIVEN OM HOME FOR BEG GAY, AND ABOUT HIS EVENTUAL RENCILIATN WH HIS FAY.READ P&PPERCEIVED CONTRADICTN OF FAH AND GAYNS: WILL THIS PA EVER LEAVE?JONNY MASTERSTHE PA I RRY IS MALIC. IT WAS AMBH, UNTIL I’M FEELG GOOD ABOUT MY LIFE AND MY JOB. THEN SPRGS FORTH, RENDG MY HEART AND SPIR LIKE AN AXE SPLTG WOOD.<CRACK!>THE PA IS NOT PHYSIL. IT IS EMOTNAL, MENTAL, SPIRUAL. IT OM THE PERCEIVED NTRADICTN OF MY CHRISTIAN FAH AND MY SEXUALY. I LIVE AND WORK AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE MANY HOLD THAT NTRADICTN TO BE TE. THEY BELIEVE ONE NNOT BE A GAY RELATNSHIP AND FOLLOW THE WAY OF CHRIST AT THE SAME TIME.READ P&PCAN I BE A WOMAN AND NOT BE A FEMALE?

“When you’re a ltle gay boy like I was, I thk I was subnscly materializg the reer that I have now wh those toys. Domick Varney, UMae's assistant director of unrgraduate amic advisg and support servic and a lol actor, speaks to Bangor High School stunts about his experience movg om the Uned Kgdom to Mae and growg up as a gay youth Wterport. Instead, Varney — who is also the assistant director of unrgraduate amic advisg and support servic at the Universy of Mae and a lol actor, director and sger — spoke about his experience movg to Mae om the Uned Kgdom and growg up as a gay youth Wterport.

“I’ve never, ever, my entire reer, been to a gay club where I’ve felt negative energy, ” Loreen tells PkNews, emphatilly.

The queen of Eurovisn is talkg about the simply feral receptn she received om gay fans after wng Europe’s mpt song ntt back 2012. She knew “stantly” that she’d ma an imprsn on LGBTQ+ viewers followg her fal performance at Eurovisn 2012, and while her gay fans see her as a gift, she says they have given her far more return. Then, right on cue, she’s back talkg about her lifelong ambn to avoid negative energy, whether that’s by headlg gay clubs or headg to Eurovisn.

GAY, LBIAN TROOPS PERFORM DRAG AT KANA AIR BASE FUNDRAISER

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