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Stephen King vs J.K. Rowling
Much like what I’ve said about hot button issues with well-known people, everything I have to say here is my own personal opinion based on information available online. I don’t know any of the parties mentioned, nor do I have any first-hand knowledge about this situation.
By Chloe Medeiros5 years ago in Pride
The Curse: A Love Story
Nobody calls their bank because they’re having a good day. This was the chief reason that I hated my job as much as I did. Eight hours each day, Monday through Friday, is a lot of time out of one’s life to be screamed at by irate clients who somehow had the idea that I possessed enough power to undo their late fees and bounced checks. And it was one of the reasons why, on the morning I first heard your voice, I was so startled by it.
By Sophie Colette5 years ago in Pride
In Which the Mother of a Queer Person Continues to Fail at Irony
My mom’s homophobic, even if she doesn’t realize it. But not…like…a Homophobe, you know what I mean? She’s a “love the sinner, hate the sin” homophobe. A “marriage is between man and a woman, but if they want a civil union, that’s okay” homophobe. A “I use my one lesbian friend as a rhetorical shield for my weird takes on queerness” homophobe. Someone who I genuinely don’t think harbors active malice toward the LGBTQIA+ community, but genuinely struggles, intellectually, with how gay people fit into the “order” of her universe. And while this obviously isn’t good, it’s at least fixable long term. There’s a chance for some reprogramming. Of the various, increasingly cumbersome conversations we rehash regarding progressive issues, there’s one that we always drift back to. I call it the “I liked it until it was gay, but I won’t admit it” conversation.
By Ashe Thurman5 years ago in Pride
This is the best one so far
In this video this lovely young boy told his father he was gay. I have seen many videos where the parents blow up at their child, yet again kick them out of the house. The father in video did everything in my opinion the right way. He asked non threatening questions like are you sure? When that was confirmed he sits on the bed next to his son and starts talking to him. He does as a father giving advice to his young son, while showing his son he loves and supports him. This is lovely and just what this boy needed at that time. You could tell he was nervous and even backed himself into a little corner.
By Lawrence Edward Hinchee5 years ago in Pride
The Start of it All
Recently I've been starting the arduous task of self repair. Over the last year, the amount of trauma and growth I've made would cause anyone to double over in a depressive gut punch. Not to toot my own horn (not that anyone would ever want to deal with this shit), but I've experience a pandemic, leaving and abusive asshole husband, became a single mom, left a cult, came out of the closet, and managed to not do the unalive thing. Yeah you read all of that right. That was my 2020-2021 in one over run sentence.
By Candace Burningham5 years ago in Pride
Turbulent Night.
Ted woke up, precisely one minute before his alarm went off, that day, like millions, of days before it. He huffed at it, when it finally went off, and turned the damn thing off. He never used his cell phone, he stuck to the old clock his mom and dad gave him. It was one of the first things they gave him, it had seen very better days. A few mornings it had gotten 'accidentally knocked off the night stand, when he was still in high school.
By Capt. Dash5 years ago in Pride
