Odds are, the guy with the headphones wasn’t even #gay. So I had to infer the shouting man would use that slur to describe anyone who diverges from his narrow view of masculinity — But then what exactly set him off? medium.com/prismnpen/yo... #LGBTQ #Slurs #Words #Language

I couldn’t help it, I was driven, like a slave, from her master’s whip. It did not seem real, Shame, beyond the pain... medium.com/prismnpen/a-... #LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #Transgender

My husband is an excellent cook. This is great for me, because I am an excellent eater. That doesn’t mean I’m not picky. I’m very picky. My mother was not a great cook, and that’s part of the reason I have so many food phobias. buff.ly/19S4K5C #LGBTQ #Food #LifeLessons #Queer

Many times, in my life, I have felt like giving up. A couple of times I have withdrawn from life to a dangerous degree, once for several years. And yes, a few times I have stood on that precipice. Literally. But here I am. medium.com/prismnpen/a-... #LGBTQ #Inspiring #LifeLessons #History

I’ve been out as myself in broad daylight mingling with the general population before, but that was sans wig and with my sister. This time I am meeting someone who didn’t know me before, & Kay is going to find out if the woman can back up the words. buff.ly/wObOPxE #LGBTQ #Transgender #Identity

For years, decades actually, I’ve let my family off the hook for votes that hurt me as a #gay person. Those days are over. Love has to be shown. buff.ly/Uk350WO #LGBTQ #USPolitics #HumanRights

A surefire way to make sure I read something I am not ‘supposed to’ is to ban me from doing so. buff.ly/oqfbVV3 #LGBTQ #BanningBooks #BookBanning #Defiance

Things have changed in our world. These days instead of helping one’s neighbour, people are far more likely to put up a higher fence. buff.ly/xSugOQK #LGBTQ #Civil #Civilization #Queer

The biggest impact Sam Neill had on me, personally — and Neill is actor who was very personal to a lot of people, who love him for so many of the different roles he played — is that he was the first man I had a crush on. buff.ly/U5Ijqqs #LGBTQ #Gay #FirstCrush #SamNeill

Going with O, who was clearly better looking than I, even as he was in his late 50s, brought out the uneasy feeling of not belonging. A gay bar is an arena for judgment. And I didn’t want to be judged. That was where my insecurity anchored. buff.ly/STefnhv #LGBTQ #Gay #GayBar #SelfEsteem

It’s Friday night, and the room is a little quiet, but that’s OK; it’s still early and I’m happy just being back in this space. The lights are low and the music seems a little soft, but I’m comfy on a banquette, happy to be out of the cold. buff.ly/HqyLIVr #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Transgender

We must find concrete ways to support them and to incorporate them into our political movement in significant and meaningful ways, beyond the single overlooked letter “B” in LGBTQ+. buff.ly/yOl4AWo #LGBTQ #Bisexual

It says: I must not publish the whole of this. I have thought about that sentence for weeks now. It is the most honest thing anyone in this story ever committed to paper. medium.com/prismnpen/th... #LGBTQ #QueerHIstory #AlexanderHamilton #USHistory

We don’t build safety on the assumption that people are basically in charge of things. We build it on the assumption that being in charge is unreliable, and then we put controls in place so that when it fails, nobody dies. medium.com/prismnpen/th... #LGBTQ #Transgender #Safety #Society

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

Join us for #queer tales of love, family, history, and #LGBTQ courage. From a #transgender woman who fled war, to a Black #gay Harlem Renaissance founder, we have always been everywhere. Just ask Alexander Hamilton’s son, who knew something historians can’t pin down! medium.com/prismnpen/qu...

I have amassed an impressive library of alternate explanations for my confusion. Explanations why I am likely just imagining things and why my gender could not possibly be anything other than that which the world has known and expected of me for all this time. buff.ly/TaDBtqG #LGBTQ #Transgender

I am a straight writer. I consider myself an ally. I stand against prejudice. And yet, without realizing it, I’d built a quiet, ugly archive of resentment, a mental folder labeled “Too Much.” buff.ly/uxGacTp #LGBTQ #Gay #Disgust

Oh my God, Why are we forsaken? How often we pleaded for peace and comfort, love and understanding... buff.ly/oxZuG6g #LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #ReligiousTrauma

The simple fact is that a depressing proportion of the world hates, mistrusts, or just thinks we’re weird freaks who should be marginalized in order to protect the stability of “normal society.” buff.ly/gIZPQW4 #LGBTQ #Transgender #Society #Transphobia

Recently, the algorithm on two of my main social media platforms decided to show my content to a broader audience. The wave of hate that followed was astonishing, but I realized something important: it doesn't affect me emotionally in the slightest. buff.ly/KhFRPOu #LGBTQ #Transgender #LifeStory

It seems as though our leaders, and those holding the arm of the law, have unlimited capacity for making hundreds of bad decisions, but they learn very little from the death, pain and devastation they cause. buff.ly/7MQOXER #LGBTQ #UKPolitics #Transgender #Scotland

The Supreme Court have turned back the clock on modern gender science & reintroduced the segregational logic of the Plessy v. Ferguson, an 1896 ruling which legally justified “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites. buff.ly/48vsO99 #LGBTQ #USPolitics #Transgender #Sports #Segregation

Richard Bruce Nugent was not merely a talented writer who happened to be #queer. He was a #Black queer artist who refused to treat his own life as a secret, and for that refusal he was both indispensable and inconvenient. buff.ly/G8RJ4Sq #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #QueerWriters

I’m attracted to men. I have been since I was a baby, as far as I can remember. The fact is, everyone, family, and friends knew it, even though I tried to hide it. And for sure, do I ever love women, as you can read below. medium.com/prismnpen/th... #LGBTQ #Independence #Nonbinary #Queer

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

This week, #SCOTUS issued another anti- #transgender ruling, the same day the New York Times elevated the voice of a conservative, #gay, #Christian man hostile to #queer liberation. We amplify James Dale's stirring letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson, plus we rebut the Times! medium.com/prismnpen/p-...

This past week in my new home state of #Colorado, Children’s Hospital of Colorado suspended gender-affirming care for minors as a result of ongoing investigations by the DOJ. buff.ly/5XlI3cX #LGBTQ #USPolitics #Transgender

I saw a post on Instagram from a trans woman who said something to the effect of, “They don’t care about trans men; they just want to erase and kill trans women. Trans men don’t have anything to worry about; they’re not looking at you.” buff.ly/9v12oeE #LGBTQ #Transgender #TransMen

Vines frets over “young people identifying as something other than straight, even if they are unlikely to ever pursue a same-sex relationship.” He fears that queer is just ... buff.ly/XwbymAe #LGBTQ #Queer #LanguagePolicing

Last day of Pride month what does a calendar know Pride returns upon us... buff.ly/VzG2GCs #LGBTQ #Poetry #Pride #Haiku

I love my hometown. And, here’s why I couldn’t be more proud of her today. We don’t call our drag performers criminals here. In fact, we revere and honor them. We even name our town squares after them! buff.ly/lHQtsfF #LGBTQ #USPolitics #Portland #Oregon

I had only met one #lesbian before, my uncle’s friend, the one I had studied at that gathering years ago and decided I was nothing like. Michelle was my second. And she was so different. She looked, I realized, like me. buff.ly/2aWkpFP #LGBTQ #Identity #ComingOut

Hi Bylines, can you explain why you have commissioned this person to write an article about Pride for you? Here they are repeatedly misgendering a murdered trans child.

"You don’t quit. You show up."

I don’t believethe U.S. Constitution belongs to one political party, one view of patriotism, love, and marriage, or one expression of sexuality or faith. We means all of us. buff.ly/yXUoT0L #LGBTQ #USPolitics #America250

Today, the US Supreme Court ruled against a sixteen-year-old girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson. She spent five years fighting for the right to compete on her school’s girls’ track team as a #transgender athlete.. I lost at that same court 26 years ago. buff.ly/1kAIFq8 #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #USPolitics

The shield of passing only holds against strangers. It does nothing against someone who knows your past. One person who knows where you came from, and the whole thing falls apart in a second. buff.ly/dBsH6u3 #LGBTQ #Transgender #GenderStuff

We undertake many journeys, from going off to college to starting a new job, we set sail to new horizons. Often, we undertake a journey that does not have a definitive signpost telling us to “start here” or “you have started a journey.” buff.ly/MUk7UM5 #LGBTQ #Transgender #Transitioning

I am 5 feet 10 inches. He was 5 feet 8 inches. Two inches, barely anything. But I was angry, and I was on my feet, and he was not. I thought I was making a point. I did not understand that I was making two. buff.ly/voit9vl #LGBTQ #Relationships #Privilege

Growing up #queer and #Muslim in Britain, the future often felt like a blank page. Not because I lacked imagination, but because I lacked examples. buff.ly/we7hTul #LGBTQ #GrowingUp #UKPolitics #Representation #Belonging

This is a #gay story. Gay men were allowed to die because the government had decided that gay men did not count. That is the specific, documented, unambiguous truth of what happened. buff.ly/PGVy7RR #LGBTQ #USPolitics #AIDS #Bigotry #Pandemic

I will not tell your secrets — but you should know that I know them, and I do not forget. I was there for your first kiss, first hickey, first consenting grope in public. buff.ly/JkCAIDZ #LGBTQ #Fiction #Humor #GayBar #Satire

As a heatwave suffocated the UK, editor Rachel Addison reflected on #transgender women and fashion, in an intense personal story, like many in P&P last week. In politics,James Dale of BSA v. Dale ponders how his SCOTUS loss could pave the way for #LGBTQ legal victory. medium.com/prismnpen/la...

My name became a citation. A precedent. A legal shorthand that other people’s lawyers would invoke in rooms I’d never enter, for arguments I’d never approve, for outcomes I couldn’t control. buff.ly/mbGPIuW #LGBTQ #BoyScouts #SCOTUS

I grew up in a place called home, I have owned homes, I was never homeless, and yet home was mostly viewed with a sense of disappoinment. I rarely found it matched the description on the box. buff.ly/suQTKf9 #LGBTQ #Transgender #Home

Bhumika Shrestha, a trans woman, walked into Nepal’s parliament as a sworn-in member on 26 March, 2026. She is a long-time activist. She was finally inside the room where the law is written. buff.ly/JoGdeb9 #LGBTQ #Transgender #Nepal #Politics

I’d like to write a complete list of restrictions on trans adults in the US and emotionally cushion it for readers, yet there are so many restrictions that any list must be incomplete and the idea of a cushion feels absurd. #LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics #HumanRights

#Identity can be defined as an internal state that is bounded only by my limitations or my imagination. Freedom, as espoused here, is the expression to proclaim that identity, out loud, by living it. And this is where the problem begins. buff.ly/limAxCK #LGBTQ #Transgender #Self #Freedom

This is the UK in June, though. We haven’t even hit the summer holidays, and we’re not equipped as a country to cope in this. buff.ly/W9IgX6e #LGBTQ #Transgender #HeatWave #UKHeatWave