LGBT National Coming Out Day: Don't Let Go From a distance, I could not be certain, but was hopeful. "Is that two dudes, perchance, holding hands?" I wondered, as I arrived on the block on which my building sits.
LGBT Expressions of Pride 2017 in Norfolk, Virginia -- and Particularly in Ghent A few years ago, I began flying on my porch a flag bearing the Human Rights Campaign's equality emblem, inspired largely by the feeling of solidarity and support I experienced when seeing that
LGBT Time-Travel Tuesday: A Night Out in Richmond In today’s installment of time-travel Tuesday, we’re turning back the clock to 1982 (for the bedspread; I jest, I jest!) and to 2003 (for the person sitting on the bedspread, and
LGBT The Marvels of PrideFest, the PrideFest Bubble, and the Importance of LGBT Visibility One, amongst many, reasons that I so enthusiastically support and attend PrideFest and its companion events is that, in Hampton Roads, the event creates an unparalleled level of visibility for the LGBT community
LGBT A Relative Stranger Who Was Dear to My Heart: Becoming Better-Acquainted with "Our Own," An LGBT Newspaper Based in Norfolk, VA When first I moved to Hampton Roads in 1998, I'd never been in a gay bar, save for one impromptu visit with friends to a place in Charlotte, NC several years prior. After
LGBT William & Mary Undergrads Delve Into Archives to Help Document Virginia's LGBTIQ Past Yesterday, I journeyed to Williamsburg, VA to hear the student presentations associated with the William & Mary Mattachine LGBTIQ Research Project "Documenting the LGBTIQ Past in Virginia." Charles Francis, President of
LGBT Street Slurs: The Return of the F-Word Ended My Longest-Ever Winning Streak Sometimes, the inability to remember is symptomatic not so much of a faulty sense of recall as it is of a scar not subjected of late to a new injury. In this particular
LGBT Finding One's Tribe: LGBT Documentaries "Coming of Age in Cherry Grove" and "Straight Acting" I initially intended this post as a quick shout-out for two LGBT-related documentaries I'd seen in the last few days and enjoyed, though since I wound up straying into review territory for at
