“I have flown the Gilbert Baker Rainbow Flag during Pride for more than 25 years, but this year I stopped.”
by Julia D. Robertson, journalist and award-winning author, and William J. Malone, M.D., endocrinologist and NYU alumnus *This article has been updated to include December 1
“I was hurt knowing I couldn’t marry a woman at that time, hurt that I couldn’t have a family that looked like the only families I had seen… The idea I could ‘identify’ out of oppression, and be a straight man instead, felt liberating.” —Charlie Evans
“That confusion impacts children…who are statistically more likely to grow up to be [LGB] adults….telling a child that he or she was born in the wrong body pathologizes ‘gender non-conforming’ behavior…”
“I’ve struggled for weeks about whether to write this, because Madagascar is my home. I’d love to just talk about the sweet breeze, the little islands, the dugout-boats, the lemurs and the giant turtles— But creating change has to start here.”
“The view from my window is of the house next door, and a little winding road that leads to a local co-op… I wish my life, like this view, could’ve been so simple.”
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