I must be dreaming, because I swear section 28 was repealed but it feels like we’ve gone back in time. Four schools in Birmingham have stopped teaching children that LGBTQ people exist. Hundreds of homophobic parents are protesting outside one...
Yesterday I went to my first conference. Ever. I’m not really a conference person. In that they involve people, strangers, and always struck me as a thing you went to if you had a career or were you know, an...
On July 2nd my wife and I will be celebrating our sixth anniversary. Seeing as I’ve only been blogging on QLF for two years, I guess I’ve never spoken about our meeting, our engagement or our wedding. I don’t talk...
I don’t actually watch many videos. I’m a writer and reader. Television even is mainly a background thing for me now. There are some channels I watch and subscribe too. I will be doing another post of LGBTQIA blogs I...
To go along with my Queer Lexicon 101, I have made an infographic of some of the more common and less known LGBTQIA+ pride flags. Again, it’s not an exhaustive list and will be updated over time. To be honest,...
The Ex-Gay is the newest minority apparently. The latest maligned minority, hated by the very community they once belonged to, facing prejudice at every turn. At least, so they would have you believe. As more and more countries and more...
Sexual intercourse began/ in nineteen sixty-three/(Which was rather late for me), Philip Larkin memorably wrote, Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Beatles’ first LP. I know the feeling. I found Lady Chatterley’s Lover very boring, but I know...
Not all my readers are queer. I get that. Not all my writing is queer (well, to be fair, it is) but it’s totally passing. And for the next month (year and, well, forever) more and more labels and acronyms...
