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Every May 17, we gather as a global community to commemorate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOT). Yes, it’s 2023 and we still need a day to call out the painful and persisting experiences of LGBTQ people with discrimination. Across the world, LGBTQ+ advocates use this day as an inflection point to raise…
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In my experience, nothing creates more distress, curiosity, and pleasure in a man than when “anal sex” enters the discussion. Perhaps because it is synonymous with unnecessary “pain” and homosexuality. The sexual act is spoken of in secret in the Latino community; however, what if I told you that this sexual act has been around…
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My name is Maddy and I am a woman. Beautifully imperfect and proudly trans, I use she/her pronouns. And, like all of us, I can only share my own experiences and try to give you a better understanding of whom I am as a person in this world. These essays are hard to write, as…
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When I say I identify as a “man of trans experience” during one of my trainings, I can feel the questions from my attendees before they get a chance to ask them aloud: Is he dating a transgender person? Does he think he’s a woman? Is he considering the surgery? There is a reason I…
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Nothing tests a new marriage quite like spending roughly 90-95% of your time together. Add in a historic breakdown of our democracy and the highest unemployment rates since 1948, and it becomes easy to see how the pandemic caused a spike in global divorce and breakup rates. While we’ve had our fair share of stress…
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For Pride Month this year, Sexual + Being commissioned pieces from four different people about how they feel about the LGBTIA+ identifiers that most closely align with their identities. This is the first, L: Lesbian. Back in the ‘90s, we’d line in rows: one for boys and one for girls. Already, first grade, even then,…
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I sat at my desk reading over the email. “Happy Women’s History Month! We would love to interview you about what it means to be a woman in the world of pornography.” It wasn’t the first time that I had been interviewed about pornography. After nearly 20 years of working in the realm of erotic…
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This is a realization about life that I have found through trans-ness, and that I would recommend to anyone: That we are all just making ourselves up, every single day, for ourselves and for others. That it is possible to write and rewrite yourself, to play and fuss and tweak, to sand and strip and…
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The holiday season is often billed as the most wonderful time of the year, but that can be a hard sell for some in the LGBTQ+ community. Whether estranged or disconnected from family, or forced back in the closet on a trip home, many queer people find the holidays to be filled with more dread…
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From an amazing panel of Black and brown LGBTQIA activists to the best sex positive party DC has seen, July was all about community at Sexual + Being.
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