My first collab video – “LGBTQ & YouTube: Japan vs. UK/US (part 1/2)”
While a gay YouTuber in the US asks his fans to donate money to an anti-LGBT bullying charity, YouTube Japan is filled with homophobic content like “let&#...
Tag: coming-out
Queer By Choice and Ex-gay
I have always been sick of the born-this-way rhetoric that mainstream gay activism has so proudly spread all over the U.S. I don’t have anything against t...
My Coming Out Story… or a lack thereof!
This piece of writing was submitted to the Office for LGBTQ Student Affairs at the University of Chicago as part of their OUTober: Coming Out Stories Project. T...
I Want To Drown
When I first got that name, “gay,” I felt jubilant. I accepted the name and told people that I was gay. Since I was also bisexual from time to time, I sometimes...
Don’t leave ’em alone, but don’t bother, either.
At Below the Belt, Someone (I’m sorry but I can’t find their name) posted an entry on class divisions and the invisible working-class in queer commu...
Unhappy Queer In Denial – I Am Not Who I Am And That’s Fine, Thank You Very Much
People say, “happiness is all that matters,” “it’s fine as long as you’re happy,” “I just want you to be happy,”...