GENDER ODYSSEY

3-DAY CONFERENCE FOR FAMILIES WITH TRANS AND GENDER-DIVERSE KIDS ~ by joel martens ~ Founded in 2001 by Aidan Key and a small, dedicated group of volunteers who wanted to build on the earlier work of transgender pioneers, Gender Odyssey began as a conference focused on the needs of those on the trans masculine spectrum. […]

Cheyenne Jackson: The Life of a Family Man

FROM AMERICAN HORROR STORY TO DISNEY’S LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by joel martens What can I say? We have a fascination with Mr. Cheyenne Jackson. He’s a handsome, talented, gay man who is super-funny and plays sexy, dark characters who have a tendency to live on the wild side. On American Horror Story’s fifth season, […]

Murray Bartlett & Tales of The City: Michael Tolliver Lives Again!

~ by joel martens ~ Murray Bartlett went to acting school in Australia and successfully worked there for a number of years, though he felt restless. The industry there is small, so there’s not many opportunities and a lot of actors who want to work. In his 20’s Bartlett, like many of us, was asking […]

LGBTQ Parenting: What’s Different?

~by steven ing ~ Is there anybody out there in 2019, who isn’t disgusted by political and religious attempts to make adoption and foster care services available only to hetero-normative couples? The latest case has a happy ending (for now) ending Michigan’s use of tax dollars to subsidize religious groups who discriminate. The heroes include […]