Adventures in Abstract Coping Mechanisms
Ten Best Ways To Practice Consent
Eric Ginsburg (Greensboro, NC) Courtesy, Yes Weekly! Defining consent Consent is usually discussed in the context of engaging in sexual activity with someone else, but can really be applied to interpersonal interactions in general. By defining what we mean by…
What Inspires a Professional LGBT Advocate Working in Washington, DC? YOU!
Ian Thompson (Washington, D.C.) Each day, I have the great privilege of working to secure basic fairness and equality under the law for LGBT people all across the country. The ACLU has a long and proud history of fighting for…
Finding self
Kiticia Hayes (Greensboro, NC) I’ve forever been the oddball, outkast, never quite fitting in. I remember my first job right out of college as a reporter for a local newspaper. I wanted to dress the part: makeup, blue power suit,…
We don’t do boxes
Kia Vaughn (Greensboro, NC) Queerness, boxes, identity, relationships, presentation, politics not just, but more Friendships, boundaries, family (chosen/blood), music, school, work, class, race, experience the world, food, showing affection, love, poly, media, perceptions, lost, broken, rebuilt, denied, affirmed. It’s a…
Fantasy
Collins Bennett (New Jersey) I have this fantasy of New York. I will have an apartment full of nothing. It will be downtown somewhere. The landlord will be an older man who charges too much. He will leave my lights…
There’s No Place Like Home
B. Marshall (Texas) One would think that being queer in a small town like Wichita, Kansas is a lot harder than it would be living in a big city. That person would be extraordinarily wrong. When I was back home,…
CALLING HOME
Karl Cronin (San Francisco, CA) When I was a kid, our family moved from Denver to north Texas. My dad was in the military and he was restationed to an Air Force base in Wichita Falls. Our whole family packed…
Summer Reading List
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White June Jordan’s poetry Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Queer Spirits by AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs Dykes to Watch Out…
Local & Regional Resources
Organizations for Youth Youth OUTRight (Asheville) Time Out Youth (Charlotte) YouthSAFE (Greensboro) InsideOUT 180 (Durham/Chapel Hill) LGBT Camps ASPYRE Leadership Camp (Greensboro) QORDS Camp (Browns Summit) GSA Activist Camp (Charlotte) LGBT Conferences Trans Student List LGBT in the South (Asheville)…
Defining “Queer”
(A film by Marcelitte Failla) Queer is a term with many meanings. Historically, queer has been used as a slur to marginalize gay, lesbian and trans communities. More recently, the idea of “queer studies” has sought to reclaim the word…
