Pride Always Chasing Rainbows Years ago, a sighting of even just one rainbow flag or sticker around and about the neighborhood would hearten me, as they'd typically been quite rare. These days, however, I
Community Thank You for Dining with Me As a 20-plus year resident of Norfolk, I’ve orbited the cycle of arriving as a stranger, ultimately meeting and knowing lots of folks from a variety of walks of life, being invited to house parties pretty regularly, and then once again becoming a relative stranger.
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
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
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
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
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 instance, I would attribute more to the latter than the former
Bostic v. Rainey A Celebration in Solidarity: GLBT Virginians Finally Get a Win of Their Own in Court I don’t know about you, but I don’t reside in an environment such that a party, or even a party spirit, is likely to envelop me as I
