I’m going to be frank — what the fuck?!
EDITORIAL: How to Make Pride for Straight People
Sapphic Tragic: Lesbian Bars
Allow me to start by saying: there is no gay handbook out there folks. You do not wake up one day instantly an all-knowing gay. There is no gay stork. No gay Santa Claus leaving presents with cards that read “To: Gay, Love: Santa.” Not even a goddamn courtesy call from your local coffee shop. Queer-hood has been a battle of self discovery that the likes of straight-hood has never seen.
Queering the world: robbing those pesky cis-hets
As members of the “alphabet mafia” are well aware of, Queerness is often coded —think Miguel and Tulio from Road to El Dorado— and countless Disney villains. Because Queerness exists and manifests itself in both metaphysical and physical ways—and in tandem with both Queerphobia and heteronormativity—only a fraction of the world is Queer.
“Pride Was a Riot” and Eugene showed up
“Black Trans women led the fight, in their honor Queers unite”
We are Queer. Hear (read) us roar
As a Queer journalist at a mostly Queer media outlet whose first published article involved Pride, I should be able to write an absolute banger of a Pride article.
Take it like a Man, Sexual Violence a Silent Burden
There is a silent and nearly invisible epidemic that is consuming lives, traumatizing bodies, and places unjust burdens on Gay Oregonians: sexual violence.
The Gays can read, a Queer Lit review.
Libraries and the books they serve are more than just bastions of knowledge and mutual aid, they’re sanctuaries, and, at times, the only shelter in a storm. Many Queer youth find solace […]
Queercor(p) #3: Never Ours, or, Patriarchal Dominance over Queer (Male) Bodies
Queer bodies are never truly ours in the eyes of the patriarchy. Our Queerness is policed and restricted within confines that we, ourselves, did not create or consent to.
Queercor(P) #2: Queer Liberation from Myanmar to Ireland
When the calls for molotovs and clenched fists sound, Queer resistance fighters refuse to stand back and stand down.
Queercor(P) #1: Measure 110 and the Queer Community
Oregon is building a new future that we all have a stake in, a future that seeks to mend the wounds inflicted by the war on drugs.