"A photograph is the pause button of life." Pictures are a return ticket to a moment that is otherwise gone. Those moments may still be tucked away in the deepest recesses of our minds. Some memories we try to forget, yet they remain a part of us. As a transgender man, pictures from my past can bring up a perplexity of emotions and thoughts. The photo above recently surfaced in my Facebook memories. My beloved remembered it too, and shared her thoughts about it, then asked fo

I'm going to say something controversial, so brace yourself: Matthew Vines is right. Don't worry, I'm not stopping there. He's right about just one thing: his position of privilege as a white cisgender gay man is eroding. That's what his article boiled down to. In case you haven't read about the controversy, the New York Times published an opinion piece by well-known gay Christian author Matthew Vines, which claims that use of the term "queer" has threatened the existence of