GayCities (Q.Digital) • 3rd June 2022

Pride in Places: An LGBTQ+ nightclub built in Orlando to celebrate life became the scene of the second largest mass shooting in modern American history

Barbara Poma opened Pulse with her husband in 2004 to honor her late brother John who passed from AIDS in 1991. It was a business proposal pitched to them by their best friend at the time, whose dream was to open an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando. Poma saw it as an opportunity to pay tribute to a community she grew up in, choosing the name “Pulse” to remember her brother’s heart that kept beating through her acts of love and service. Orlando’s queer community found their own beat within the nightc

Elite Daily • 1st June 2022

Once I Came Out, Dating Suddenly Became So Hot... And Complicated

I entered my first gay bar on the eve of my 21st birthday. I was in between apartments in New York and temporarily staying at my brother's. When I searched for the nearest LGBTQ+-friendly spaces in his Lower East Side neighborhood, a bar called Boiler Room popped up. My heart started pounding faster as I entered the venue, though I felt relieved by the lack of a doorman. The one time I tried entering a gay bar in the past was the only time my fake ID had ever failed. Still in the closet, I had

Xtra Magazine (Pink Triangle Press) • 19th October 2021

Love at first lust: A young writer explores a lasting love denied… or is that deferred?

A short story about unrequited love, self-denial, and the influential power of coincidence.

GayCities (Q.Digital) • 10th June 2022

Pride in Places: How two women turned a century-old stag bar into an inclusive hangout

Melanie’s at Griffith’s Tavern doesn’t claim to be any better than other bars in its Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. But, perhaps, that is because it expects patrons to walk in with the same attitude. This is thanks to its new owners, Hannah Spangler and Allison Crowley, who bought and partially renamed the place two months ago. Before their purchase, Griffith’s Tavern was a neighborhood dive bar for nearly 100 years, catering primarily to straight men. It was a space where guys could sip

VICE • 14th April 2021

Grieving Without God: How Atheists Deal with Death

Relying on a supernatural deity to have a plan, the promise of an afterlife, and perhaps even reuniting with deceased loved ones can be comforting for believers—but atheists need to find other ways to cope.

Houston Chronicle (Hearst) • 24th December 2021

Can a U.S. metropolitan city adopt the siesta? Experts, expats and Houstonians weigh in

When I moved to Europe, I learned the Swiss charge for wine by the deciliter, making indulging in American-sized portions financially impractical. Becoming a beer drinker felt like the biggest challenge I’d face — that is, until I arrived in Spain and learned that doing errands in the afternoon is against the law (well, not quite, but it feels that way).

WIRED (Condé Nast) • 22nd June 2021

The Joy and Liberation of Customizing Your Avatar

The act of personalizing the character you'll play in a game is more than fun, it empowers you—and pulls you into the fantasy you're about to enjoy. If anything, the ability to design yourself into anything desired is a reminder physicality is the least of what comprises our shared humanity. Instead of bones, blood, and skin, every player online reflects the limbs of knowledge, opinions, cravings, and experience.

GayCities (Q.Digital) • 2nd May 2022

Guadalajara is your sexy undercover gay gem in Mexico

LGBTQ folks are nothing if not creative. However, it’s easy for us to perpetually choose from the mainstream selection of popular destinations to visit when it comes to travel. Mexico offers two of the most frequented cities for gays: Puerto Vallarta and Mexico City. But the Latin American travel hotspot nestles another secret gem that should not be missed: Guadalajara, Jalisco. Naturally, queers of Instagram might doubt just how gay Guadalajara is without the ocean scenery.

VICE • 14th December 2020

What It’s Like To Be a Quadruplet

Our lives began in the Colombian capital of Bogotá simultaneously, my heart beating to the same rhythm as three others. The media celebrated the birth of David, Pablo, Lorenzo, and me in 1994 as if it were a miracle. It's weird to receive praise for just being born, but newspapers and magazines printed the news as such: ​"The first quadruplets safely delivered in 30 years."

New York Daily News • 2nd March 2021

Romance away from home: The 6 sexiest cities in America

Commissioned by Smarter Travel Media, republished by various newspapers and publications, I rank the sexiest cities in America according to research, demographics, nightlife, online culture, and the experts.

Canadian Business • 31st March 2022

Should You Apply for a Job with a Video Resume?

Twenty-four-year-old Grace Wells has never experienced the often time-consuming process of uploading a résumé to an online job application portal. Instead, Wells landed her first corporate job in 2019 as a video director in New York with a video. Rather than submitting a traditional résumé, Wells decided to make a mock commercial using one of the company’s products, which eventually caught the attention of millions.

Channel Void • 15th May 2022

One more is never enough

He invites you to come over but doesn’t know who you are. He likes the skin you’re wearing, the bone structure beneath it. Would revealing more than that even be to your benefit? His chest looks hard, but his eyes seem soft, like light blue almonds of kindness. The conversation’s promisingly flirtatious, you think, as much as two foreign bodies can when they are 1,479 feet away. “Now?” He says, sharing an address but not his name. Knocking shyly on the stranger’s door, he appears cuter in pers

Business Insider • 14th March 2022

I'm a quadruplet. This is how I found my individuality beyond my brothers.

As my high-school principal in Miami read aloud the election results over the PA system, I prepared to share my victory. I could hardly remember any instance from my quadruplet upbringing where three other male bodies didn't crowd my shadow.

Business Insider • 1st April 2022

I write porn scripts for a living. It has created tension with my family, but it's my most enjoyable freelance job.

My mother always encouraged me to follow whatever career path made me happy — until one of my freelance jobs went against her religious values.

Giddy (The world's largest sexual health platform) • 5th October 2021

Conscious Resettling: Moving Out to Save the Relationship

Distance makes the heart grow fonder...until your partner is seeking to widen the proximity on purpose. Then, you may suddenly be insulted by every inch you're apart. But what if the distance between you can actually bring you closer together?

Chicago Tribune • 9th March 2021

The 5 most LGBTQ-friendly cities in America

Commissioned by Smarter Travel Media, republished nationally in over twenty-five newspapers, I explore the most LGBTQ-friendly cities across the United States.

CBD-Intel • 23rd July 2021

Lobbyists for special interests accused of un-American activities on cannabis

Licensing issues look set to become the next big US lobbying battleground for cannabis as money moves on from the traditional legalisation-versus-prohibition field. With the majority of opponents to cannabis seemingly having accepted the eventual inevitability of some form of legalisation, attention has now turned to attempts to influence the shape of any potential future regime.

LOVE INC. Magazine • 26th October 2021

Breaking Bridal: Designer Curtis Cassel of Queera Wang is rewriting wedding fashion rules

Designer Curtis Cassell has achieved national recognition by the bridal industry, but he’s learned not to plant the seeds of change in a field where crops have only grown pink or blue. Since creating his label Queera Wang, the queer activist fostered a space liberated from the artificial roles of "bride" and "groom."

The Nakey Times (Nakey brand) • 22nd March 2022

How Can We Achieve Sexual Liberation?

Today, racial equality, feminism, LGBTQ rights (almost in that order) are celebrated in media for the likes and comments of a new generation. However, the dynamics of gender and sex shifting for the millennium doesn't mean the patriarchal cage has been lifted. Back in the 1960s, the goal of the historically dubbed sexual revolution was to advocate that intercourse before marriage didn't make women less pure. Feminists succeeded in being reimagined as sexual creatures, but the price for liberation was objectification and exploitation.

Giddy (The world's largest sexual health platform) • 24th November 2021

What It Means to Be a Gay Icon

A dive into the evolution of the term 'gay icon' and a history of the shoulders modern LGBTQ+ celebrities stand on - featuring interviews with Malcolm Lazin, Founder of the Equality Form; and Zach Stafford, the first Black gay Editor-in-chief of Advocate Magazine.