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In 2014, I wrote a blog post about the Fourth of July, focusing on things we saw in movies but didn’t experience in real life. The thing most people take away from that post is my reference to the annual firework displays hosted by Hill’s Department Stores around the region. Something about that simple experience […]
It has been almost two years since the event I now refer to as the ‘Decommitment’ hit its full stride and while calm right now, things are still roiling under the surface. You can read the backstory here including many updates. And it has been verified by GoFundMe – they’ve been so helpful. Here’s the […]
Ryan “JJ” Godbey was seen on June 19, 2025 departing a local LGBTQ club, Darlin’s Crew. They were a regular performer. Note – I am unsure how JJ identifies so I am using gender neutral pronouns. JJ’s family grew worried the next day when they didn’t show up for a performance at a local queer […]
Hope Lyca Youngblood was 49 years old when she was killed in vehicular incident in Los Angeles on June 7, 2025. Hope identified as a trans woman. [They were] struck and killed Saturday by multiple vehicles near a freeway offramp to the Santa Monica (10) Freeway in the Palms community of Los Angeles, authorities said.The […]
Little Pridefests Everywhere and the waves of Pride organizing in Pittsburgh and Beyond. This is a draft of an essay I submmitted to multiple sites about the nature of a Pride festival. It was not accepted for publication because they publish Pride pieces in June. I think they missed my point. ~ Sue Once upon […]
I was recently contacted by a ‘content creator’ whose work I had shared. I used the attribution mark, I tagged the account, but she was not happy with me because I wasn’t interacting with the content – likes and comments – and she assumed I was just building up my own page without giving back. […]
I’ve been feeling down the past few days – overwhelmed by the media I consume, processing some difficult things in therapy this week, not eating well, not having much energy. Some of that is the weather of course. But June is historically a tough month for me with regard to bipolar depression. I have what’s […]
My third indie movie review with Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) characters (watching the fourth now) was a little disappointing. The story focuses on a mother-daughter relationship between Pakistani-Canadian Azra, a young queer filmmaker, and her traditional Pakistani mother, Mariam. Azra’s father and Mariam’s husband dies at the beginning of the film. […]
I developed a theory over 30 years ago while working in social service ministry in Western Kentucky – if we could find ways to help folx out with small problems, we’d avoid a lot of bigger problems. I saw this play out nearly daily in the rural community with no traffic lights and nearly 100 […]
If you had asked me last year or even last week to specify my blog audience, I would have said “the LGBTQ community” or “white cisgender people who need to read this” or some such statement. Those things are true, but they are not quite complete. I am writing this blog for my six niblings […]
