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Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

A Town Split By a Play About the 1980s AIDS Epidemic

by Aaron Gilbreath November 12, 2019October 19, 2022

Sometimes art can challenge viewers enough to change them. Sometimes art just makes the narrow-minded angry.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

I’m Not Queer to Make Friends

by Logan Scherer May 14, 2019October 19, 2022

By Trying on the Role of Reality TV Villain, Logan Scherer Confronts His Gay Shame

Posted inCrime, Culture, Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Canada’s Breeding Ground for Hate

by Aaron Gilbreath May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

The Real Danger on the Promenade

by Steffan Triplett March 1, 2019October 19, 2022

After coming out, Steffan Triplett considers rekindling a broken friendship, dancing with danger and mystery in a secluded area on the edge of town.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

The Real Danger on the Promenade

by Steffan Triplett March 1, 2019October 19, 2022

After coming out, Steffan Triplett considers rekindling a broken friendship, dancing with danger and mystery in a secluded area on the edge of town.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Pulse Nightclub Was My Home

by Edgar Gomez June 12, 2017October 19, 2022

On the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Edgar Gomez reflects on what a safe haven the club was for him and others — maybe even shooter Omar Mateen.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Geek Love: On Nerditry as Salvation in ’70s Small-Town Canada

by Krista Stevens November 30, 2016October 19, 2022

At The Walrus, Kevin Patterson writes on how his fraternal twin brother embraced nerditry to navigate the homophobia of small-town Canada in the ’70s.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Geek Love: On Nerditry as Salvation in ’70s Small-Town Canada

by Krista Stevens November 30, 2016October 19, 2022

At The Walrus, Kevin Patterson writes on how his fraternal twin brother embraced nerditry to navigate the homophobia of small-town Canada in the ’70s.

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