Suzanne, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 2:29pm
When I saw a post on livejournal about National Coming Out Day, I realized that even here in my sex-positive, queerluscious, kinktastic office, we hadn't talked about the fact that today was...
Chris Hall, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:48pm
If you're a bank or a school, today is Columbus Day, which celebrates the day hundreds of years ago when Christopher Columbus came across the American continent thinking it was India. For the rest...
Kitty Stryker, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 3:42pm
Ah, the bloom of careless youth. We’ve all seen the after school specials and the popular high school TV shows that warn about accidental teen pregnancy because teenage boys don’t want to use...
MgWade, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 11:49am
Here's the deal. I am an ordinary middle-aged (yikes! when did that happen?) woman of middle America. I went to college during the seventies. Everyone I knew tried marijuana; most of us tried lots...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:57am
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed...
Margaret Wade, Monday, October 4, 2010 - 4:56pm
Once upon a time, I lived in Japan and worked with junior high school students. Every week or so, I would hear someone repeat a Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” It was...
Tim, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 5:58pm
Like many people, I have been deeply affected by the Tyler Clementi tragedy. I find I cannot stop thinking about that fateful series of events that led to a college freshman jumping to his death...
Claudia Ossa, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 4:40pm
I have had sardines more than I would care to recall lately and not the canned-cooked-to-smithereens kind, but the, how-much-did-I-just-pay-for-that-fishy-experience-kind. Sardines have been a hot...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 4:48pm
For sex workers, getting their stories out to the public in an honest and respectful manner is always a huge problem. In any given news story as presented in the mainstream media, there are only a...
Suzanne, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 6:34pm
As a person who moves primarily among significantly younger people, and dates exclusively younger people (I’m a Lifestyle Cougar) I sometimes come up against things I simply don’t understand....
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:52am
People often ask—am I a voyeur?
Well, yes I am. Obviously, I like to watch, especially when explosive subject matter pops my eyeballs. But that's just one level, one of many. A voyeur...
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 3:11pm
September 26, 2010 – San Francisco – Folsom Street between 7th and 12th was packed with leather men and women, kinksters, fetishists, and tourists for the 27th annual Folsom Street Fair. The event...
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 2:30pm
San Francisco – This year's Gayvn Awards show took the Castro Theatre by the short and curlies with a very hot jailbird theme and sexy self-proclaimed Gaysian host, Alec Mapa. The annual event...
Kitty Stryker, Monday, September 27, 2010 - 4:17pm
I’ve always loved going to Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Festival, or the IXFF, a collection of erotic films from all over the place representing different sexual orientations and...
Margaret Wade, Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 4:11pm
Women past childbearing age are the ones leading the changes toward a better world all over the globe says Jean Houston. She claims that 85% of the founders of change movements – planting trees,...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 5:02pm
Seattle-based advice columnist and writer Dan Savage joined anti-bullying efforts this week by launching a YouTube channel dedicated to hosting videos that tell LGBT youth that "It gets better."...
Arielle Loren, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 1:36pm
In popular culture, the stereotype of black men continues to resemble the Big Bad Wolf. Imagine a black man. What do you most likely see? He's tall, muscular, uber-masculine, darker in skin...
Jane Fae, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 10:38am
Is US dominance of the internet—and particularly of the social networking space—leading to the export of US prudery across the globe? Or is the growing debate on international censorship a little...
Theresa, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 8:17pm
Storytelling is a type of performance art that has the power to heal, educate and entertain. It is especially useful for helping even the most contentious of communities gain perspective and...
