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Prism & Pen
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An online journal of compelling LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Calling on all readers and writers with LGBTQ+ flair to join us on
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#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #2SLGBTQ #2SLGBTQIA #Queer #QueerWriters #Writing #Storytelling
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I hope people find these articles useful, and if anyone has any requests, I’d be more than happy to help. As long as I have experience with it, I can’t write what I don’t know.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #CisAllies #Advice #Relationships
Supporting Your Loved One Through Their Gender Transition
My cis wife’s support & advice guide
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December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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These institutions are acting out of fear — fear of litigation, fear of lobby groups, fear of being dragged into a financially ruinous court case they cannot possibly afford to win.
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#LGBTQ #UKPolitics #GirlGuides #WomensInstitute
The Real Reason the Girl Guides and WI Turned Away Trans Women
How the Supreme court ruling has been weaponised against British institutions.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I miss the simplicity of the flat-worlders’ ignorance of science. They like their world simple, just flat.
Deniers want their gender to be as simple as well, biologically male or female, as if nature is that cut and dry.
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#LGBTQ #GenderStuff #Science #Simplistic
Flat Worlders and Gender Deniers Are Buffoons.
Why argue with them?
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December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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You can use all the facts available to predict the weather, but it’s still not certain. Nothing ever really is, until you find yourself in that moment of truth. Your truth.
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#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #Transgender #SerialFiction
Jae and Alex: Driving From Dysphoria. The End
The Storm We Choose (V)
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December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I keep wondering: why am I holding onto his WhatsApp? Is it because I want to see if he’ll still think of me on every birthday, every Christmas, every New Year’s message? Or maybe — I’m still holding onto a fragment of hope that he might come back.
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#LGBTQ #Gay #LostLove #Breakups
The Gay Love I Finally Learned to Let Go Of
Moving on was never about deleting someone
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December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A cartoon potato with sneakers stood next to a behemoth of a cherry pie. The tagline read: She/They Queer Pie-Eating Contest.
I was instantly charmed. This was the exact kind of delightful, ridiculous community event that amplifies my love for queer spaces.
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#LGBTQ #Lesbian
The Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest I Almost Said Yes To
Sticky, silly, subversive: slicing into the queer politics of public eating competitions
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December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Warning that this review contains some spoilers. I did not enjoy the movie. Apart from a few light-hearted moments, I found it incredibly vacuous.
It appears to glorify cruelty, with ghosting and abuse presented as central elements.
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#LGBTQ #Pillion #FilmReview #Gay #QueerFilm
A Review of the Film Pillion: Gay Motorbike Subculture
Reinforcing harmful behaviours under the guise of aesthetic spectacle.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Some noteworthy people are willing to stand up for trans rights. One of the most famous examples is Hayley Williams of the American rock band Paramore, who recently gave an interview to explain her support for trans rights.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #TransRights #HayleyWilliams
Paramore’s Hayley Williams Shows How To Support Trans Rights
Cis people who rise to the occasion of allyship
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December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Queer folks like me tend to joke about the first time they truly knew.
If you’re down with the Alphabet Gang, chances are you get exactly what I mean — the moment that, without a shred of doubt or uncertainty, you knew you were #queer.
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#LGBTQ #Gay #ComingOut #Identity
Gay, Straight, or Draw: What’s Unsaid in the Things We Never Say
How a childhood crush and an unexpected question shaped my queer identity.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I was stuck in a body that wasn’t mine, aching for something I couldn’t name. The lack of recognition from my own reflection was a constant, gnawing feeling. Every part of me — my chest, my hips, my voice — felt wrong.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Dysphoria #Gender #Memoir
Between the Rising Sun and the Dropping Moon: A Trans Journey
Back then, I wasn’t chasing death. I was chasing the body I didn’t yet have
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December 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I used to focus through nights of studying. Binge watch tv shows. Read for hours. Listen to a friend’s stories. Sit without a phone. Sit. In one place. How can I possibly have ADHD?
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#LGBTQ #ComingOut #Gay #Neurodivergent #ADHD
My Neurodivergent Coming Out Mirrors My Gay Coming out
Or, how I accepted my ADHD diagnosis after getting a ‘below average’ on a neuropsych test
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December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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What nobody ever tells you is that when the love between any two people is under pressure, communication becomes even more important than it already was. Even more important and infinitely more difficult.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #CisAllies #Advice
The Importance of Communicating When Your Loved One Is Transitioning
My cis wife’s final support & advice guide
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December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Alex had been a bit subdued all morning. When she was pumping petrol into the car earlier, I noticed her staring over the boot into space while the tank filled up. She didn’t seem with it.
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#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #SerialFiction
Jae and Alex: Driving From Dysphoria, Driven To Desperation
The Storm We Choose (IV)
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December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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For the first time since 1988, World AIDS Day goes acknowledged by my nation, even as infection rates and death rates creep up here, skyrocketing in the developing nations we have abandoned.
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#LGBTQ #WorldAIDSDay #USPolitics
Today Is World AIDS Day, but the Trump Administration Suppresses It
I remember the dark days when this was normal, so here’s a memory to help us take action.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Usually, this is the time of year when we write light-hearted listicles about how to soft-launch your partner at #Christmas or which indie films to put on while pretending to enjoy football.
But let’s be real: November 2025 hits different.
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#LGBTQ #Politics #Fear #Safety
Why Queer People Are Pairing Up for Safety This Winter
In a year shaped by fear and politics, safety has become the new intimacy.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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As a transgender woman, I am disgusted by the constant vicious and hypocritical attacks on #transgender women, as if we are the evil that pervades the world.
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#LGBTQ #Feminism #Transphobia #Femicide
The World Continues To Worry about ‘Dangerous’ Transgender Women
As a woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes … by a cisgender man.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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What makes the BBC’s language troublesome is that it automatically puts Henderson’s motivation for using the female-only changing room under suspicion.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #UKPolitics #BBC #Transphobia
Some Thoughts From a “Biological Male Who Identifies as a Man”
The BBC deserves to be called out for perpetrating “malicious rhetorical constructs.”
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December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Transphobes like to style themselves as arbiters of science and truth. Claims that transphobic talking points are grounded in science fall apart after the most basic examination. Transphobic talking points are very clearly grounded in fear.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #Fear
Transphobia Is an Emotional Position
When emotions become justification for toxic politics
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November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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What I didn’t know, what I had no notion of, is how much paperwork is involved in being #transgender! During the early stages of his transition, it seemed as though there were endless forms for him to fill in and research for us to do.
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#LGBTQ #Advice #CisAllies
So Much Paperwork Involved in Being Transgender!
My cis wife’s support & advice guide
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November 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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He assured me that he had “a legitimate business opportunity” that was not a pyramid scheme.
I wish I had the clarity to see that if someone keeps insisting their business is not a pyramid scheme… chances are, it probably is.
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#LGBTQ #Loneliness #MLM #PyramidScheme
How Could My Queer Loneliness Lead Me Right Into a Pyramid Scheme?
And how much are you willing to sacrifice to believe that you’re loved?
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November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I always tell her she looks amazing, she seems to smile which betrays the fact she doesn’t believe me. She does though! I went to school with Alex, and she never smiled like she does now, ever.
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#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #Transgender #SerialFiction
Jae and Alex: Driving From Dysphoria, Resting & Regrets
The Storm We Choose (III)
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November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Niobe knew her wild, reckless behavior would someday become her hamartia, but the Fates had a darker future awaiting he than she could ever have imagined.
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#LGBTQ #GreekMyth #Retelling
The Massacre of the Niobids: The Sapphic Myth of Leto and Niobe
The story of how Niobe’s former lover caused the greatest tragedy of her life, based on Sappho’s version of the classic myth.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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She reworked Dorothy’s
slippers into 12-inch
stripper stilettos
’cause there’s no place
like what became home...
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#LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LovePoem #Denver
A Queer Love Poem to Denver
From a trans person who took refuge here
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November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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As a consultant who advises and assists US citizens in emigrating from the country — especially those who are leaving due to marginalization — I’ve been tracking the fallout of this EO since it was issued.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics
A Crumb of Hopeful Intel for Trans Emigrants Outside the US
Just one data point, but it’s a good sign for those who are residents outside the US
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November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Since the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that women are to be defined in biological terms as per the Equality Act, there has been a lot of concern over how it will apply to things such as public bathrooms.
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#LGBTQ #UKPolitics #Transgender
British Transphobes and Their Cis Victims
Transphobes won’t stop at just trans people
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November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM