I don’t fit the labels of ‘mom’ or ‘dad.’ It’s time society tackled the gendered expectations of parenthood

If these texts offer a framework for how we might embody queer desire, then they can also model for us how we might survive abuse, how we might make it home

How sexism and racism in the medical system undermines my community’s pain

Before she got Alzheimer’s, she never got to know me and after all of this, she never really will

I didn’t expect to find romance in my small town

Streep was there to support and empower women like her, women who’d spent a lifetime sidestepping entitled men. And in me, she saw a man

It was intense and condensed — and we fooled no one but ourselves

How meeting one of my heroes reminded me to love my feminine self

Devon Delacroix reflects on four years of writing “Hard Labour”

We have two queer identities, but share one sibling bond

“I think I’m trans, too,” I said. “That’s okay,” he said, “I know.”

I was a lesbian who turned straight overnight. Then my husband came out as a trans woman.

Trans is here and it is here to stay

He learned that my sexuality didn’t entirely define me

‘I wasn’t sure I was in the right place’

‘He said he was not attracted to men — even the man who used to be his girlfriend’

‘She told me I must now embrace the man I was always supposed to be’

It’s not F to M, it’s F to something else entirely

Personal Essay

I’m a non-binary parent. There still isn’t space for me

How memoirs by femmes became a second mother to me

I’m a queer Black woman — misogynoir cost me my health

Coming out to my grandmother over and over again

I fell in love with my middle school mean girl

What Meryl Streep taught me about trans identity and allyship

I had a teenage lesbian love affair at Jewish summer camp

Coming out to David Sedaris

What I learned about sex work and writing

How my bisexual big sister blazed a path for me

One love story told two ways

You thought your coming out story was complicated?

Here, now and always: remembering transgender people every day

How weekly trips to the theatre with my father helped me come out as gay

I had sex with a client in a Chinese restaurant

I came out as trans while in a heterosexual relationship

How coming out to my wife changed our relationship — for the better

The question of my trans-ness has a complicated answer