If you haven’t watched it yet, you need to see it. You need to educate yourself by getting inside the mindset of the white supremacists who would have us believe that their tribe is going to save this country. Look, I don’t like the news, either, but sometimes we need Read more…
While visiting my lovely girlfriend in California (and how it came to pass that I’m living on the East Coast with a girlfriend on the West is another story entirely, one you wouldn’t believe if I told you), I lost my sunscreening privileges after badly burning myself on a trip Read more…
I think this parable might originally be Taoist. I can’t actually remember where I heard it. Here’s how it goes: Once there was an old man who lived in a village with only his son, who was known by the other villagers to be particularly wild and restless and insubordinate. Read more…
“You can’t tell white people a story about white people and expect them to understand.” A girl I dated almost twenty years ago — a wonderful, strong, brave woman of color — told me that. I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but I remember that I was the white person Read more…
A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups on my computer, and besides the OH MY GOD PLEASE Read more…
Here’s the long and short of it: Everyone’s invited to our lesfic authors & readers Facebook party, which is happening on Sunday, January 8, from 1pm – 11pm EST. Here’s the link — click and RSVP. And fo’ sho’, please share with your lesfic-reading friends! Now, on to the details. Read more…
Hi guys. I got to reading some stuff on Facebook recently that got me to thinking about how much suffering there can be during the holidays, and how this suffering disproportionately affects LGBTQ people. We have lots of reasons for that, like dealing with the incessant undercurrents of homophobia, families who Read more…
Like her music or hate it, but give props to the Force of Nature that is — and has been for 35 years — Madonna. Few women have done more to redefine, and bring into the light of day, female sexual desire. Before Madonna, how common was it, how mainstream was Read more…
I’m going to start this post with another copy & paste from author Chuck Wendig, whose blog I love oh-so-very-much. (It might be the only blog I actually read on a regular basis.) Except this little excerpt isn’t by Chuck, it’s by his friend, author Andrea Phillips. Here’s the excerpt: Read more…
Hello, folks. This is the first bit of a recent post by Chuck Wendig, an author and a screenwriter whose blog I follow (and you should, too). I’m reposting a chunk of one of his posts here because it’s both funny and true and because you should read it. You Read more…