Genderqueer people don’t conform to society’s ideas of how they should act or express themselves based on the gender they were assigned at birth. According toPsychology Today,“This may be in terms of their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and, most importantly, their gender identity.” ...
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With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self. Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year’s Eve...
When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence, Ryan, Harley and Miles discover things about one another they never saw before, and realize there may be more tying them together than just Is...
The growing group of terms for various sexual orientations and gender identities is a good thing, as it provides opportunities to treat often-marginalized members of society with the respect they deserve. This need for careful language is as important for heterosexual people to bear in mind as ...
T (Transgender)refers to people who transitioned (socially and/or medically) from living as one gender to living as another. People who identify as transgender may use any of a number of terms to describe themselves, including transgender or nonbinary. This identity is not dependent on physical...
Both terms are acceptable, though same-sex marriage is sometimes preferred to make clear that the expression covers both gay men and lesbians. Normally use wife or husband for people who are legally married. (Spouse is also accurate for either partner in any legal marriage, but do not use ...
The modern LGBTQ+ movement often fails to address communities of color when discussing topics such as gender. While terms like ‘nonbinary’ and ‘transgender’ are used commonly in English, gender-related terminology from other countries are less likely to be recognized. Communities of color includ...
These are names and terms that were second nature to those of us in the middle of the maelstrom, fighting for our lives, to all those who worked and lived in the trenches in the 1980s and early 1990s: the activists and the educators and the infected and their partners and their nurses...
Everything comes crashing down the day Kai learns the deadly secret about her mother’s past. Now she must come to terms with the truth about her identity and take her destiny into her own hands. As Kai desperately searches for a way to escape her fate, she comes to find compassion, an...