My favourite Queer role model/celebrity… I’ve written pretty earnestly in previous years about Queer Icons and mentors both celebrity and otherwise. I love the fact that the queer family are so spread across the celebrity world and no longer in that funnysexual sort of way. Yeah I love RuPaul for getting Queer out and visible … Read More
So I really fancy watching Bottoms when it comes out because in so many many ways it is what I would have loved to see when I was watching the relentlessly heterosexual American Pie (I still maintain it’s funnier than I thought it was going to be). However until August I will be amusing myself … Read More
(Spoilers for the final Anna Madrigal book ahead mention of suicide ideation) Last year at least the prompt was top five… My favourite book is a series, the Tales from the City series by Armistead Maupin. Honestly Anna Madrigal is lifegoals in many ways. I swear it’s not just old characters deciding to kill themselves … Read More
Oooft. Marriage. Huh I think you’re going to get more of a feminist answer to that one than a queer answer. When gay marriage just wasn’t a thing of course I supported it, after all equality of relationship opportunities is something I believe in. However, I am not the biggest fan of marriage. At least … Read More
I love Pride. Sure I’ve got so many criticisms of its playing into the capitalist materialistic culture that overtakes A Lot of mainstream queer culture. I hate the Rainbow Washing that corporate entities with problematic records on queer employment try to do by sending straight people posing as allies to Pride parades. Good gods the … Read More
Being in the closet is one of those things that some people have to be, I hate it. But growing up I was always very aware that my opening my mouth reflected on other people. Well, by other people I mean my parents, my little sister. It may surprise you, dear readers, to learn that … Read More
Oh yes. This. (Content Warning – Frank discussion of problems with my parents, mention of mental health problems) The thing is I’m 41 and I still find people with entirely open and honest relationships with their parents to be something of an oddity. If there is one thing that growing up in the eighties and … Read More
I suspect this prompt was written on the understanding that religion means one of the main six, and probably one of the Abrahamic ones. I’m a Wiccan though, and there’s a mainstream cultural understanding that Paganism is free and easy when it comes to gender and sexuality… And then there’s Wicca. My religion was created … Read More
(Content warning – contains frank references to my sex life) Being bisexual doesn’t cause me inner turmoil these days, being bisexual within the context of other people frequently has. Yes, yes roll your eyes I’m sure somebody is rolling their eyes. Anyone saying “we live in a society”? – right, in anycase, get it out … Read More
Gods I don’t even know who counts anymore. I guess the first girl I kissed, the girl on holiday because to be honest until I actually kissed her I’m not sure I was really out to myself, it was all just very theoretical at that point. When I told my best friend at the time … Read More
