Q & Ass with Rahim Thawer
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Speaking with Denise Balkissoon, sexual health counsellor Rahim Thawer discusses HIV prevention, fetishes, stereotypes and, most importantly, keeping the ass fun.
Of Mice and Faceless Men
/Jaime Woo reveals the most shocking thing about being a faceless torso on Grindr.
Read MoreContents Under Pressure: A Queer Muslim Unsilenced
/“Being both Muslim and queer always seemed like mutually exclusive identities to me.” Rahim Thawer explores how he came to see queerness and Islam as compatible, at least in himself.
Read MoreI Am Not My Beard
/Jaime Woo is a Chinese guy, yet he can grow a beard. Weird. “In gay culture, men have decided to flee from the swishy, polished look of the late-90s and early naughts towards beards and tatts. I’m lucky, I guess, that my laziness happened to time in with the trend towards a more traditionally masculine look.”
Read MorePassing, Or Something Like It
/Passing, Or Something Like It: Paul Aguirre-Livington on realizing that despite being a son of an immigrant father whose first language isn't English, the actual colour of his actual skin still makes him "white."
Read MoreA Brick Off My Chest
/Karen K. Ho updates her story of coming out to her mom.
Read MoreWhatever Happened To My Homophobia?
/Jef Catapang figures out where his own homophobia went.
Read MoreDown a Different Kind of Aisle
/Jaime Woo imagines his wedding day (fun!) and muses on the idea that ethnics are always weird about queers (smart!).
Read MoreLove Letter to Juan Gabriel
/Kelli Korducki interviews two Latino pop experts--her parents--about Mexican crooner Juan Gabriel, the Johnny Mathis of mariachi.
Read MoreIn Defence of Minority Homophobes (Sorta)
/Navneet Alang comes to the defense of minority homophobes.
Read MoreComing Out of the Cupboard: Q&A with my cuz
/Denise Balkissoon has got a huge family: 50+ first cousins, of which exactly one is openly gay.
Read MoreOpen Secrets
/Renée Sylvestre-Williams discusses the "open secret" of sexuality among her parents' extra-fabulous friends.
Read MorePride and (Gay) Prejudice
/Canice Leung talks about the day her parents came home wearing t-shirts that read "Man + Woman = Marriage.
Read MoreLink: Post-Mos and the Dangers of Privilege
/Over at Torontoist, Jaime Woo responds to The Grid piece "Dawn of a New Gay" (which is, apparently, all-white and all-boy).
