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While going to UCLA may feel like a dream, it hasn’t been easy for all of us. Annual fees have risen from under $8,000 when I applied to over $12,000 this year. In just the …

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Let’s Act! And Move Our Campus Forward
May 6, 2013 – 4:54 am | No Comment

While going to UCLA may feel like a dream, it hasn’t been easy for all of us. Annual fees have risen from under $8,000 when I applied to over $12,000 this year. In just the …

Queer Spring Playlist
April 24, 2013 – 12:14 am | No Comment
Queer Spring Playlist

 
Perhaps my favorite depiction of the cracking forth of yolky spring from hard-shelled winter are Chaucer’s opening lines to The Canterbury Tales (bear with me through the Middle English, the ethical English major side of …

Sugar Grandpa
April 18, 2013 – 1:20 am | No Comment
Sugar Grandpa

 
His name was Terry, but since David had told me his name was Tyler, I wasn’t sure it was him. In a gruff voice, he murmured, “Nice to meet you” as I shook his firm, …

What Are You Thankful For?
April 12, 2013 – 12:55 am | No Comment
What Are You Thankful For?

Although overdosing on turkey (or tofurkey!) was so last season, being thankful is perennial. For this blog post, I polled members of the queer community on the rights, privileges, and aspects of daily life they …

Chinese Expressions of Queer Identities
February 23, 2013 – 7:39 pm | No Comment
Chinese Expressions of Queer Identities

 
“May God have mercy on this falling land!” proclaimed Chinese actress Lu Li Ping in 2011, “We have to prevent this from happening in China.”
Ping was reacting to New York state’s passing of legislation that …

Queer GIFs
February 16, 2013 – 11:40 pm | No Comment
Queer GIFs

 
 
 
 
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My Struggle for Identification
January 24, 2013 – 4:18 pm | No Comment

I’ve identified as queer for about five years. After a process of reckoning much the same as many other coming out stories of the kind—though in my own fortunate case, my own terror was a …

Read our fall issue here!
November 28, 2012 – 5:45 pm | No Comment
Read our fall issue here!

Read our fall 2012 issue here! Learn more about the BDSM community, femme invisibility, queer sex on TV, queer Christians, and more!

Racism and Sexism: Not the Tale of Generations Past
November 15, 2012 – 1:46 am | No Comment
Racism and Sexism: Not the Tale of Generations Past

Photo originally taken by the Center for American Progress Action Fund

Though election season this year, as ever, focused largely on the question of the presidency, it was in the matter of Congress that America …

City Spotlight: LA Transgender Film Fest
November 5, 2012 – 8:58 pm | No Comment
City Spotlight: LA Transgender Film Fest

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting the LA Gay & Lesbian Center for the first time to volunteer and see a series of short films that were part of the fourth annual …