Identity

Bearded (Demi) Lady
If you try to picture someone who has a beard, would you automatically imagine a man? It wouldn’t be surprising or even wrong if you did. Facial hair, however, is just one of the numerous things that are unnecessarily gendered and labeled as something that is masculine and can only be masculine. By society’s standards, a beard is something that is exclusively for men while biological women do not have hair on their face or chest.
By Sarah Rhoden4 years ago in Pride
Sympathy for the Devil
Welcome back to my once-neglected, but now well in the process of completion, series of blogs giving LGBTQIA+ persepctives on the Tarot cards.
By Steph Cole4 years ago in Pride
Getting A Queer Haircut In LDN. Top Story - August 2022.
When LGBTQ Wellness Co asked me to start writing about Queer haircuts, hairdressers and salons I obviously jumped at the chance!
By Rae Smith4 years ago in Pride
Losing My Temperance
Look at me finding my way through the chronic fatigue brain-fog and finishing three entries in my LGBTQIA+ Tarot series in one day! (however long they take to be submitted and published)
By Steph Cole4 years ago in Pride
We Shouldn't Care If Someone's "Faking" Being Queer For Attention
There is this odd narrative that gay, bi, and trans people are just being queer for attention. For the past couple of years, there has been a lot of discourse around the concept of "transtrenders" (i.e., people who allegedly aren't "real" trans individuals and are just identifying as such for attention). Before this, countless straight people claimed this same thing for gay and bi people. We were "just being dramatic" or "going through a phase."
By Alex Mell-Taylor4 years ago in Pride
Book Review: Shannon Molloy’s FOURTEEN
If you have been following my pages you will have probably noticed that there are a few subjects that I have a keen interest in; two of which are Australian books which feature LGBTQI themes or characters, along with real life LGBTQI histories of people who grew up gay in rural Australia, just like I did.
By Mark 'Ponyboy' Peters4 years ago in Pride
Blow Me Home
In 1965, at the exciting age of eighteen, I enrolled as a legitimate college student. My Great Depression era parents were almost giddy with the thought that their youngest, C average high school graduate, was accepted, even if it was a junior college where everyone is welcome.
By Jack Getz 4 years ago in Pride
Justice You Are
Post-covid-brain-fog-exhaustion be damned, here I am back on a roll with my LGBTQIA+ Tarot blog series. Let me catch up any newcomers:
By Steph Cole4 years ago in Pride
Trans Folk Are REAL.
This tweet showed up on my Facebook feed and boy howdy does the folly of this resonate with me. Parents gifted with gender-nonconforming children have tried for generations to erase us with zero actual success.
By Martha Madrigal4 years ago in Pride
Wrong sex Morris's life
Morris, a self-described "transgendered person", realised at the age of three or four that she was a girl despite being a man. It bothered her that the soul was being packaged in the wrong body -- since Freud's theory became widely accepted, gender confusion has often been labeled a "sexual paraphilia," and their origins are naturally seen as sexual problems. But for Morris, the scope of his own gender issues is much broader than sex issues. It is spiritualized and more related to the cognition of his own identity. In She he, she looks back, saying: "It's not a sexual relationship, it's not favoring one sex over another. It is a burning, lifelong, indelible faith..." In Morris's understanding, gender is a matter of soul as well as self-unity. "Gender is the soul, the talent, the interest, the environment, the feeling of the person, the light and shadow, the music of the heart, the leap or the wink, the more real life and love, not the sum total of sex organs, ovaries and hormones," she said. It was about every aspect of her life -- "not just the sexual impulse, but everything she could remember seeing and hearing and smelling, the buildings, the sights, the bonds of family and friends, the power of love and trouble, the satisfaction of the senses and the satisfaction of the body."
By twddn4 years ago in Pride
A Cristal Clear First Impression
Queer non-binary actor Qya Cristal makes their lead acting debut in A Lasting First Impression, a film starring RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Kelly Mantle.
By Ben Nelson4 years ago in Pride
Pride in Asia: LGBTIQ+ Friendly Destinations
Asian pride is the cultural and political movement for LGBTIQ+ rights in Asia. Pride parades are a way to celebrate and show acceptance of sexual diversity.
By Travel Center4 years ago in Pride