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With politicians relentlessly attacking #transgender people and acting like they wish people with HIV would hurry up and die, #holiday cheer might feel hard to muster. We bring you tidings of #trans joy, #queer hope, and #gay family #love. Directly from the source! 👇

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Queer Lives in the Spotlight, Queer Holiday Cheer Even in Hard Times
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 14 December 2025
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December 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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VPNs were my first lover — slow, unreliable, but the only way to taste freedom (and porn) without the Great Firewall cockblocking me.
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#LGBTQ #Memoir #Gay #China #Travel
About Me Story: Confessions of a Post-90s Chinese Queer-with-a-Passport
My Gay Gossip: By Duan Chenglei
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December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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UK anti-trans forces rip off masks, targeting little girls and the elderly.The US cancels World AIDS Day as millions die. But #queer, #LGBTQ, #transgender, #gay people live and love, find joy and tell our stories here in the pages of Prism & Pen. @prismnpen.bsky.social👇

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UK Fires Up War on Trans, US Cancels World AIDS Day, Queer Lives March On
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 7 December 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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For the first time since 1988, World AIDS Day goes acknowledged by my nation, even as infection rates and death rates creep up here, skyrocketing in the developing nations we have abandoned.
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#LGBTQ #WorldAIDSDay #USPolitics
Today Is World AIDS Day, but the Trump Administration Suppresses It
I remember the dark days when this was normal, so here’s a memory to help us take action.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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While #Catholic nuns and priests brand us #queer people depraved and disordered, Hawaiian culture can #decolonize #Thanksgiving and center love instead of hate speech. Also in this week's #LGBTQ #storytelling, a #gay #Christian shares #Christmas joy through #CharlieBrown.

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Catholic Hate Speech, Hawaii Love, Christmas Joy, & a Pyramid Scheme Escape
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 30 November 2025
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November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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From the time I was about 11, I understood that both religious traditions condemned me as evil and broken.
I spent much of yesterday in anguish, and I’d like to tell you why.
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#LGBTQ #Gay #Queer #PersonalStory #SuicidalIdeation
This Depraved, Disordered, Queer F-Word Shed Tears of Anguish Yesterday
This atheist who loves Christmas can’t understand support for hatred and hate speech
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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She reworked Dorothy’s
slippers into 12-inch
stripper stilettos
’cause there’s no place
like what became home...
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#LGBTQ #Poetry #QueerPoetry #LovePoem #Denver
A Queer Love Poem to Denver
From a trans person who took refuge here
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November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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When her #transgender spouse transitioned, Claire couldn't find support, so she’s writing her own guide. When a #gay man didn’t get support from his greatest-gen dad, he learned a shocking secret. Also, the #queer art of feeling safe, and much more #LGBTQ #storytelling!👇

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Trans Spouse Support, Greatest-Generation Gay Secrets, & Queer Safety Art
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 16 November 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“She stole a car on stolen land,
for one night only-a joy ride,
just another foggy freedom;
the heat didn’t check cameras.”

“Grateful for probation,
she once forgot to go
because time folds
in on itself at the veins.”

#poetry #Medium
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Want to leave the US? Considered Iceland? Why do parents reject #transgender children? Did you know Josephine Baker was a #bisexual hero in France? Heard the splash a haunting #gay film made in Cannes? All in this week's #queer, #LGBTQ P&P storytelling!

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A Fab Trans Road Trip, a Haunting Gay Film, and a Bohemian Lesbian Icon
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 9 November 2025
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November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This week in Prism & Pen, we feature 3 different #LGBTQ lives. Meet a “stealth” #transgender woman in conservative America, a younger #gay man in Scotland struggling to connect to love, and get angry with a #queer woman in England who wants corporate money out of #Pride.

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Queer Lives Revealed in the UK and US, ‘Boots’ Reviews, and Elder Gay Magic
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 26 October 2025
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October 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Meet an angry #gay Pulse survivor. Meet an author presenting her #LGBTQ YA novel at the Miami Book Fair. Meet a #queer elder who's published a funny memoir about childhood in Coconut Grove. And so much more about Florida, books, censorship, and global #transgender lives!

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Celebrating Queer Books, Authors, and Lives Amid Ongoing Assault
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 19 October 2025
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October 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Fictitious or not, I discovered people I could relate to in books. My feelings, taboo at the time, were finally being normalized, through imaginary characters. I wasn’t alone. I felt seen.
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#LGBTQ #Books #QueerBooks #Representation
In a World That Doesn’t Always See Us, LGBTQ Books & Movies Help Us Relate
E. Lynn Harris was a Black gay author whose books deserve to be read, not banned.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Hey, #gay men, think throwing #trangender people under the bus will save you? Here's a gay psychotherapist who'd like to have a word. And dive deep with a gay trans man into Ezra Klein's support for #CharlieKirk. Also, share some #LGBTQ, #Queer family love with us!

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Drawing Trans Lines, Celebrating Queer Family, Sharing Love
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 12 October 2025
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October 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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If there’s been a more frightening time to be a U.S. #queer person, I’ve not experienced it during my 63 years, not even during the AIDS era, when we could count on at least a semblance of democratic norms.This week in Prism & Pen, we speak our minds!

#LGBTQ #transgender

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What Are Queer People Saying About Charlie Kirk? Unlock These Stories!
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 21 September 2025
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September 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The rent in my brain is expensive, and the inflation of carnage is raising the price of my thoughts and prayers every month.
My wife and I are both trans, & believe me, I’d rather not write about Charlie Kirk’s death.
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#LGBTQ #Transgender #CharlieKirk #GunViolence #Empathy
Why Aren’t Trans People More Empathetic About Charlie Kirk’s Death?
Inflation is raising the cost of my thoughts and prayers
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September 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Our top #queer, #LGBTQ stories this week!

A #gay man says stop stereotyping

Not passing empowers a #transgender woman

A trans woman keeps cool under the bus

Solid data about mass shooters (not trans!)

Solid data about trans women's fertility

Poetry in glory holes

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How to Thrive When You’re Under the Bus, and Other Cool Queer Tales
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 31 August 2025
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August 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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This week’s top Prism & Pen stories!

🏳️‍🌈A Jedi Knight #transgender parent shares New Hope

🏳️‍🌈A #gay couple circling the globe in a sailboat discover truths about the US South.

🏳️‍🌈In #politics, is Pete Buttigieg transphobic?

🏳️‍🌈Should #LGBTQ folks make spectacles of ourselves?

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Gay Sailors Meet the US South, a Trans Jedi Knight, & Joyful Gay Spectacle
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 17 August 2025
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August 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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If you’re an #LGB person who thinks dropping the T is a safe choice, please read our analysis of the GOP’s authoritarian end game. And shiver! Also, please read an important reminder that outing #transgender people is dangerous.

And so many real #queer, #LGBTQ stories! 👇

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On LGB Minus T, Outing Trans People, and a Queer Poet Laureate Passing
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 27 July 2025
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July 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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This week in Prism & Pen, we bring you Barbara Walters and Harvey Fierstein, a #gay kid booted from summer camp, women’s sports bars as a trend, a Muslim #lesbian ’s joyful #Pride, and a #transgender woman's superhero childhood. Plus more #LGBTQ, #queer #storytelling!

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Easily Offended Queer People, an Exiled Queer Kid, and Queer Farmers
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 20 July 2025
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July 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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As a kid, I wanted to join the #BoyScouts, but I joined the Awanas instead, because the Scouts weren't #Christian "enough." This #gay kid just got rejected from his summer camp after an anti- #LGBTQ Awana leader outed him. And that's just the beginning of this scary story!
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This Gay Teen Kicked Out of Summer Camp Should Scare Americans to Death
Christian nationalism vs pluralism. I’ve lived this SCOTUS nightmare already.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Lots going on this week in Prism & Pen! My title doesn’t scratch the surface, but I hope it piqued your interest. Personal stories, #politics, rants, and lots of #love. From #transgender, #gay, #bisexual and other #queer, #LGBTQ people. With fiction and poetry too!

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An Angry Trans Woman, Freedom for Sex Workers, and Trans Sexuality Science
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 13 July 2025
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July 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Hungary just tried to ban #Pride, then Budapest rocked the most defiant #LGBTQ party ever! Still, right-wingers (like Andrew Sullivan in the NY Times) WON'T stop justifying bigotry against #transgender people. All this and much more in this week's #queer P&P storytelling.

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Trans People are Humans, Not ‘Issues’, and Pride is for All Queer Humans
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 6 July 2025
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July 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Did you know respectability politics could literally damage your #queer, #gay, #transgender brain? It’s #LGBTQ #Pride month, and 'respectability' is hotter than ever this year, so we’ve brought in an expert. We’ve also got #PrideMonth reports from all over the globe!

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Rewiring Queer Brains, Celebrating Queer Pride, Telling Queer Stories
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 22 June 2025
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June 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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It’s #Pride Month, and Prism & Pen has awesome #queer history for you this week, plus inspiring reports and photos from #Pride, infuriating #LGBTQ political stories, sweet #love stories, #parenting stories, moving #poetry, and a joyful dose of real #transgender lives.

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Some People Are Trans, Get Over It! And Lots of Inspiring Pride Stories.
Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 15 June 2025
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June 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM