Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Pride.

Metamorphosis
I just started packing for next week's trip. This one's a hard trip to prepare for - not just because there's a pandemic going on and I'm in the extreme high-risk category, but because I'm worried about what I've packed. Did I get everything I need? What did I forget? Did I buy too much? What if I got the sizes wrong, the colors wrong, the styles all wrong? What if I didn't get the right food in the right flavors?
By Meredith Harmon4 years ago in Pride
I Want To Be Obviously Queer
When I first came out, I wanted to hide. I had a partner and that was great, but I wanted that to be where my queerness stopped. I just wanted to blend in with the crowd. I disapproved of Pride parades, I was confused by queer fashion, and I generally wanted to keep the whole thing as quiet and unintrusive as possible.
By Sean Bennett4 years ago in Pride
Ace Representation: Canon, Coding, and... Assigning?
In preparation for this series on asexual representation on the screen, I launched a question for the community: What canonically asexual or ace-spec characters do you know from TV and Film?
By Angie Loveday4 years ago in Pride
After 15 Years of LGBTQ Living, I Forget I am Queer Sometimes
Many of us are aware society likes to label things. Being able to slap a label onto someone usually puts them into a neat box that others can process easier. I find that labels are necessary for certain situations. I like to know if someone is Democrat or Republican. I can’t imagine not labeling street signs or freeway exits. Restaurants deserve a good label so we all know the food we are putting into our bodies.
By Meagon Nolasco4 years ago in Pride
You Say Sir/Mam, I Say Gender-Neutral Language
It is no secret that many of us were raised to use terms like sir and mam when addressing someone whom we may not know, who may be our elder, or in a professional setting.
By Meagon Nolasco4 years ago in Pride
Dyking Out: Reclamation of LGBTQ Slang
I have had the word dyke hurled at me for as long as I have been out of the closet. As a masculine-presenting lesbian woman, I hold a certain disdain for the usage of the word dyke in any context. When you have a word constantly used to degrade and harass you it is hard to see it in any other context. I am not even a fan when this term is used amongst other queer women in the community.
By Meagon Nolasco4 years ago in Pride
A Message to my son
On your 20st birthday you came out to our family. You thought we would hate you, you thought we would kick you out, you thought you knew us. We didn't know how to deal with the anger you flung at us for months after. We loved you but we also hated you. We hated the anger that came off you in waves, we hated the stranger that lived in our house, we hated the loss of the person we knew. But we loved you.
By Erika Wood4 years ago in Pride
Met him at the video arcade
It was a cold, cloudy, snowy December night in Denver, CO. I was in need of sexual relief of tension. My wife hadn't had sex with for over six months and Susie palm and her five sisters was not helping relieve my tensions any more. I worked at Dominoes' as a delivery driver. I decided to go to The Galaxy Video Arcade. After having oral sex with several men, I saw him. He came into the booth with me and we had oral sex. Then it happened, he invited me too his apartment. I called home and said I would be later than normal.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee4 years ago in Pride
"He/Him"
Our server walked up wearing a short, sassy haircut and asked my family to follow you to our table to be seated. Although you wore a mask, your eyes were smiling and welcoming. Covid-19 restrictions had been lifted in our area and you were the only one wearing a mask this evening, but it didn’t hide your professionalism or kindness.
By Auntie K4 years ago in Pride
What is A Queer Platonic Relationship?
As Valentine's Day rears its head, many people celebrate the bond they have with their primary life partner. Others celebrate their wholly platonic connections, both with friends and their own life partners. Today, this article is about the latter — what is a platonic life partnership, and why is a chose more and more young queer people are making?
By TC134 years ago in Pride
The Importance of Boyfriend by Dove Cameron
For many LGBTQ+ folks, representation in music means changing the pronouns to make it inclusive. Sometimes if we're lucky, songs about dating and relationships aren't as gendered and we can find a bit ourselves there, but more often than not, we're drowned in the heterosexual "norm".
By Josey Pickering4 years ago in Pride
Gender is Cumbersome, But it Keeps me Safe . Top Story - February 2022.
Hey, my name is Danny. I'm 27 years old and non-binary: not a man nor a woman. Just a person, or an alien attempting to fit in with the rest of the persons. Honestly, that's what it feels like most days. The problem with society is that everything needs to be labeled, and everything that isn't labeled is considered strange and confusing. I never understood this compulsive need of society to put expectations on things. We label clothing, people, media, objects. When I grew up and became more acquainted with life, I realized this need for labels stemmed from the need for control. As a species, we're often scared of things we don't understand. We feel threatened by them, and hesitant to have an opinion. But instead of trying to learn, we stick to what we know, and blame everything else for causing us confusion.
By choreomanias4 years ago in Pride