‘Queer World’ Articles

When Massachusetts makes me want to move back… According to the Huffington Post, on November 16th, the Massachusetts state Legislature passed a bill designed to prohibit discrimination against the state’s transgender population. The bill protects against employment, education, and housing discrimination and revises the state’s hate crimes [Continue]

I really think “Foster the People” captures a feeling both familiar and far too often realized when they exclaim, “Yeah, yeah and it’s OK! I tie my hands up to a chair so I don’t fall that way!”. . . This statement is useful for a whole variety of reasons, not the least of which [Continue]

When I was 16, on the heels of the movie Philadelphia, the playwright and poet David Drake came to Natick, MA for a book signing. He had a bit part in the movie. His play was loosely autobiographical and even made a venture of hope into the future, ending at a time shortly after the [Continue]

Remember that girl, Constance McMillen, who was discriminated against by her high school because she wanted to go to her prom with her girlfriend? According to CNN, that same Fulton, Mississippi, high school has now agreed to pay Constance $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. The ACLU sued [Continue]

Gay Gay World by Karyn LoMuscio Well, I indeed do feel that the LGBTQ community represented itself well for Providence Pride 2010. There were more people than I have ever seen before at Pride enjoying the breeze off of the river on South Water Street. When it was time for the crowd to move over [Continue]

I suppose it is only fitting that after I get home from attending my own graduation from Providence College that I find an email in my mail box containing a certain article. Though I thought the “Masters of the Universe Sticker” I placed atop my cap was totally appropriate, I felt remiss when Governor Carcieri [Continue]