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Queer Layers at the Oscars
By J. Ken Stuckey
This year’s Oscars were peppered with moments of diversity and inclusion. It’s too bad almost none of those moments will be remembered
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By Charles Green
BASED ON Charles M. Blow’s 2015 memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black in Louisiana, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season … making it the first opera by a Black composer to appear at the Met.
A Zoom Interview with novelist Brian Broome
By Richard M. Berrong
I had the pleasure of interviewing writer Brian Broome over two sessions conducted on Zoom in December, 2021.
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How My Grandmother’s Photos Uncovered a Secret Lesbian Society
By Gayla Turner
The groom standing next to my grandmother in those photos was not my grandfather, but a woman dressed in men’s clothing.
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By Caitlin Billings
I’ve learned it’s important to grieve, not because someone has died but because they have gone away and returned from a new direction.
MoreRejection Made Me Stronger
By Byron Kennard
My parents didn’t kick me out, but they did kick me out of their hearts. And I mourn the loss of their love to this day.
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