Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Pride.
Alice: Cruel Transwoman stereotype, or something more?
In this day and age, we're seeing more LGBT characters than ever across adult and even children's cartoons. These characters are usually portrayed quite sensitively and positively, but even as recent as a decade ago, the rare gay character would almost always be a walking caricature of what society as a whole saw these individuals as.
By Daniel Teach4 years ago in Pride
Bisexually Christian: How I Integrated My Sexuality and Spirituality
When I was in my graduate program, I took an online clinical course for LGBT+ clients. I remember sitting at my dining room table, my laptop and textbook open in front. We were covering the section on sexual identity development. In my textbook, Counseling LGBTQ Americans, by Frank (2012), there was a different timeline for each of the letters in the acronym, as well as for heterosexuality.
By Selys Rivera4 years ago in Pride
Are You in a Healthy Relationship? How to find out
Healthy relationships involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and they take effort and compromise from both people. There is no imbalance of power. Partners respect each other’s independence, can make their own decisions without fear of retribution or retaliation, and share decisions. Some important keys to a healthy relationship are as follows:
By Abdulrahman Hassan4 years ago in Pride
Fiberglass.
I was shopping for a new mattress. I read all these reviews on the ones that come in a box and puff up when the air hits them. There was this one with a zipper. Don’t open the zipper, they said. They don’t tell you there’s fiberglass inside. It explodes into the air and gets in all your things, your hair, your clothes, your lungs. And I thought. Love. It’s like that. You take a lover to bed and one day you’ve opened that zipper and those tiny shards are everywhere. Memory. Can’t be put back. Not even time can cleanse it. You feel them in your lungs when you take a deep breath after exercise, a fuck. Long after the love bed is gone and way back you regret having ignored the tag that said don’t unzip but you’re curious and fuck it, there’s a zipper on the damn thing. What for if not to open.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”4 years ago in Pride
Journey of the Deepest, Darkest Neon Rainbow Phoenix that Ever Existed: The Fiery-Feathered Flight Searching for Hope, Love and Forgiveness From The One
I’m positive. Love was, is, and always will be the essential key to unlocking the secrets of life and changing the world. With each day, even now, the way I see it, it’s a gift. It’s not easy, but you’ll be better because of it. If you believe it, you can see it too. If it is true, then it will see it through. You know the truth don’t you? Please try not to cry as you read this.
By Jeffie Ledfo4 years ago in Pride
