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Outing Myself, One Story at a Time

November 12, 2015

Below is a Guest Post from Marsha Shandur, a Storytelling Coach and Networking Mentor.   Mid-way through telling the story, I looked at Steve, suddenly realised what was coming, and panicked. I was 30 years old, and in my first queer relationship. I’d first had [read more]

Family, Identity

Grandma – In Detail

August 10, 2015

A Guest Post by Dr. James B. Lyttle as a follow-up to my post of two days ago. Grandma was born November 3, 1900 in Belleville, Ontario to Cameron Brown and Margaret Sarah Ross. Her dad was born February 3, 1870, in Hamilton Ontario. He [read more]

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Coming Out Again, More Coming Out, Coming More Out

March 30, 2015

I came out as gay to my family and the world (well, the readership of the Chatham Daily News) in 1978. Although I’ve always reserved the right to decide whether or not to tell people I come in contact with, not saying anything has been [read more]

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Fey Gay Tops

January 5, 2015

Just had a short discussion on The Book of Face regarding a recent article at Queerty.com entitled People Who Should Come Out In 2015 (But Probably Won’t) (no longer on the site). One of the comments was that Richard Simmons (mentioned in the above-named article [read more]

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Me and the ‘T’

November 2, 2014

This post germinated some weeks ago as I read on-line comments expressing extreme disappointment (if not outright anger) that Cher continues to refer to her child as ‘she‘. Chaz Bono is trans*; born into a biologically female body he is now living his authentic self. [read more]

Brushing Fame

Coming Out

May 7, 2014

A follow up to this recent post about the importance of Coming Out. I’ve spent a certain amount of time admiring great actors and wondering if greatness (in just about any field) and madness are really as closely related as it often seems. There are [read more]