I didn’t come out to my family as so much as I was dragged and yanked out of the proverbial closet. When I was younger, I lived my mother and my grandmother. My mother attended a fundamentalist church and she opined by the way I was behaving and dressing when I was twelve that I […]

“As long as you’re not gay, it doesn’t matter if you volunteer to help them.” That was the response I got in April last year when I decided to come out to an older relative about being a volunteer and advocate for gay women’s rights. My first thoughts were, “What’s wrong with being gay? What […]

I have been called an immoral teacher by conservatives who are not even in the teaching profession. I have been told that, if versions of me walked freely in this society, educated our children, society would fall into ruin. What kind of society would we have? But children don’t choose how they are born; they […]