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Thanks so much to Falon Ballard for sending me an absolutely beautiful copy of her book! I saw a blurb that described this as a blend betwe...

While I watch very little television now, I was a television addict from the 1970s into the early 2000s. I still remember some episodes fro...

Thought-provoking and emotional, Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie is a reflection on what freedom really means and how relationships of al...

Can't Take That Away , Steven Salvatore's debut novel, is an absolutely fantastic book about the courage to be yourself and be prou...

I love it when a book surprises you, not just with how compelling the story is but also with how layered the plot is, that it's so much...

It was so good to get back into this series! I loved The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue ( see my review ), Mackenzi Lee's fi...

When I went to see Hidden Figures I joked on social media, "Let it be said I am seeing a movie about math." While obviously this...

Around the holidays, there is always at least one or two movies released which are either chronicles of an event or a time in history, or b...

This is Duncan McAlpine Sennett. Last month Duncan celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at Portland's Congregation Beth Israel. During his Bar...

I've debated quite a bit whether to write a post about the ridiculous government-sanctioned homophobia occurring in Russia since the e...

Thought this was inspiring and oh so true. Thanks to George Takei.

Although I'm a big fan of pop culture and sports, I don't tend to revere celebrities. While there are certainly people whose work o...

I woke up this morning feeling immensely apprehensive about what the Supreme Court would do relative to the federal Defense of Marriage Act...

As the mantle of marriage equality—and equality in general—continues to get embraced by a wider and wider circle, those on what will eventua...

To the surprise of no one, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe—an outspoken advocate for marriage equality—was cut by his team earlier to...

Since NBA player Jason Collins announced he is gay earlier this week, response within and outside the world of sports has been largely posit...

A 4th grade teacher posted the above essay to Reddit, saying, "One of my 4th grade students chose gay marriage as his topic for a per...

I've written about NFL linebacker Scott Fujita before , and how much I admire him for being one of just a few professional athletes w...

As I've said so many times over the last four years, if you had told me that one day in my lifetime the President of the United States w...

The first time I heard Same Love , the song by hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (featuring Mary Lambert), I literally started crying....