Notices by Prism & Pen (prismnpen@stranger.social)

What’s going on with the insistence on mispronouncing Vice President Harris’s name?
Is it obnoxious? Yep. Is it provocative? Yep.
But most of all, it’s fear.
https://buff.ly/3BSHRzR

#LGBTQ #USPolitics #Racism #Misogyny #Feminism #Fear

To celebrate Queer History month, I’d like to tell the story of Umberto II, the last King of #Italy, about how his queerness was used as blackmail by none other than Mussolini himself.
https://buff.ly/4eDjxR4

#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #History #Fascism

I came out in the mid-1960s and used to go to bars, especially ones with drag shows, before I was of drinking age. In those days in Chicago, they did not check too carefully at the door to verify your age.
https://buff.ly/3TyOzkn

#LGBTQ #Gay #Memoir #DragQueens

Men, notoriously, tie their masculinity to their ability to drive a car. Many families struggle with getting the person dealing with #dementia (often Alzheimer’s disease) to stop driving.
https://buff.ly/4e0MbeE

#LGBTQ #MentalHealth #Marriage

Trump could be our next president.
That thought makes me nauseous.
https://buff.ly/3TrZ9d3

#LGBTQ #USPolitics #Religion #Racism #Jesus

Gregory and his grandma used to sit on the porch after dark to enjoy the balmy summer air and watch the cars drive by the courthouse across the street. She would turn off the porch and living room lights to make the car lights more dramatic and exciting.
https://buff.ly/3AS3IqL

#LGBTQ #Gay #Memories #GrowingUp

I’m writing this after living more than fifty years surrounded by your anger and then your disgust about the person I have become.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-letter-to-my-homophobic-brother-in-law-7da8a3eae439?sk=30697334bb216b604bc1cd774ac78307

#LGBTQ #OpenLetter #Family #ComingOut #Homophobia #Rejection

Somehow, it feels like decades ago that I celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court decision (Bostock v. Clayton County) that declared that Americans enjoy the civil right to be hired (and not to be fired) if we happen to identify as #transgender or #gay.
https://buff.ly/3I7pJC0

#LGBTQ #Employment #Education #USPolitics