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Tis The Season
For these families, holidays focus on family, food, and traditions By Jane Latus Ho, ho, ho and snow. Synagogue and solstice. Song and games. Families and feasts. It’s a wonderful – and diverse – life, and we asked these Connecticut folks to tell us about their favorite winter holidays and...
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Staying Safe
Many young people, especially LGBTQ youth, face regular bullying – but help is at hand By Carol Latter In 2011, five teenaged boys attending a West Hartford high school harassed a female student for weeks, made threats against her, and then showed up at her house. When the girl’s 19-year-old...
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Connecticut finds its Voice with new publication
by Joe Siegel Connecticut Voice has been serving the Constitution State’s LGBTQ community for over a year and is thriving despite the coronavirus pandemic. “We have covered a full variety of topics from Health and Wellness, challenges of LGTBQ youth, the homelessness crisis, milestones in transitioning, history, dating, trends, religious...
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Finding His Way
Scot Haney is living the life he’s meant to live By Cara ROSNER / Photography by Todd Fairchild When you know, you know. Before then, you just think you know. Scot Haney first suspected he was gay when he was in first grade and a sixth-grade student came into his...
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Coming Together
In These Trying Times, Our Community Hears a Call to Action By Quinn Roberts This year’s Pride Season looked different than it usually does, with the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrations against police brutality putting a stop to the typical festivals and celebrations. But, of course, the LGBTQ community always has...
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Speaking Their Truths
Intersex individuals seek greater visibility and understanding By Jane Latus LGBTQIA+. In social movements, employment, journalism, education, and society at large, this acronym has become a familiar and widely accepted acknowledgment that our identities matter. While most of the letters have been widely recognized for years, those who identify as...
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Continuous Care
Middlesex Health is supporting transgender patients who face additional health concerns during the pandemic By Jane Latus We all heard the warning as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across Connecticut and the nation: Don’t let the fear of becoming infected stop you from seeking medical care when you need it. Otherwise,...
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Breaking Barriers
The first transgender Mr. Connecticut Bear wants to bring people together By Jane Latus Masculine and rugged. Big and tall. Muscular or stocky. Above all, hirsute! The clichéd descriptions of a bear are physical and allow for only a little variability, mostly of weight. But Kylar Maldonado, Mr. Connecticut Bear...
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Making Our Mark
Activism and advocacy on the local level bring the greatest impact By Gannon Long / Photography by Bleeding Heart Shots *This is an updated, corrected version of a story that previously appeared in print Do you feel discouraged about the state of the world? Even the most rose-colored glasses are fogging up these days....
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WHAT A DRAG! DragCon may be postponed
WHAT A DRAG! DragCon may be postponed But the spirit of fab, fun and fantasy is alive and well Written and photographed by Frank Rizzo Approaching the Jacob K. Javits Center on a bright fall morning on Manhattan’s West Side, a pair of drag queens sashayed along 11th Avenue, swinging their...
