Category: LGBTQ+
Posted on October 11, 2022
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I have lived in Osage County, Missouri my whole life, my family has done so for generations. Many, if not most, of the people who live here would tell you that they feel like they can be themselves, live the life they want, that… Continue Reading “A Safe Place to Call Home: The Childhood Trauma of Growing Up LGBTQ+ in Small-Town America”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human Condition, LGBTQ+Tags: *See All Posts, Behavioral Health, Growing Up LGBTQ+, LGBT, LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Childhood Trauma, LGBTQ+ Safe Space, LGBTQIA+, Mental Health, Mental Health for LGBTQIA+, Mid-America LGBTQ+, Midwest LGBTQ+, Missouri LGBTQ+, National Coming Out Day
Posted on August 13, 2022
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Unbecoming:The Struggle for Acceptance I didn’t know anything about the trans community a decade or so ago, and honestly I felt no concern whatsoever over trans people or their rights because I didn’t think it had anything to do with me, my perception was… Continue Reading “Unbecoming: The Struggle for Acceptance”
Posted on October 24, 2020
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I’m a descriptive writer, I love details, analogies, essays and creativity. Someone told me one night that I write because it’s how I come to understand things. That through my writing I come to terms with things that once tormented me or that continues… Continue Reading “Companionship: Love Not Lust”
Category: All, Human Condition, LGBTQ+, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Bisexual, Companionship, Dating, Gay, LGBTQ+, Male Bonding, Masculinity, Men, Relationships
Posted on July 16, 2020
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[PG-13: Please be advised that this chapter contains an explicit description of a sexual encounter and is not suitable for readers under the age of thirteen] I awoke later in the night, still laying up against Evan. I could feel the dampness of sweat… Continue Reading “Freckles: Chapter Nineteen”
Posted on April 4, 2020
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Pulled from the archives and originally written in 2012, updated and expanded. Please be advised this entry discusses difficult emotions and suicide, it may not be appropriate for those easily disturbed or triggered by such topics. Support resources are provided at the end of… Continue Reading “A Journey Called Hope”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Behavioral Health, Human Condition, LGBTQ+Tags: *See All Posts, Behavioral Health, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood Trauma, Closeted, Coming Out, Coming Out Story, Depression, Homophobia, LGBTQ+, Major Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Religious PTSD, Religious Trauma, Religious Trauma Syndrome, RTS, Self-Acceptance, Self-Hatred, Spiritual Trauma, Suicidal, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicidality, Suicide, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Trauma
Posted on May 10, 2019
by Kēphen
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Unsolicited Stranger Over the past eleven years I have witnessed and personally experienced hostility and aggression from other men due to my sexual orientation. It has never occurred in person, but it has occurred online, where people are much braver and less filtered in… Continue Reading “Unsolicited Stranger”
Category: All, LGBTQ+Tags: *See All Posts, Anger, Attention Seeker, Bisexual, Eliciting, Fear, Gay, Hate, Homophobia, Homophobic, Internet Troll, LGBTQ+, Online Bullying, Religious Zealot, Repressed, Self-Hatred, Sheltered Childhood, Taunting, Trauma, Unknown, Violence, Zealotry
Posted on January 2, 2019
by Kēphen
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Love Me Not:A Conversation About Mental Health & Relationships If you’ve read my previous work, you know that I’m often very personal and brutally honest about my experiences and my mistakes. This essay will be no different. I want to share with you some… Continue Reading “Love Me Not”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human Condition, LGBTQ+, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, American Midwest, Behavioral Health, Boyhood, Bullying, Coming of Age, Dating, Erectile Dysfunction, Growing Up, Homophobia, Life, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Orientation, Performance Anxiety, Relationships, Repressed, Romance, Self-Hatred, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Experiences, Sexuality
Posted on September 22, 2017
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Human Sexuality Defined Ever since I started writing about human sexuality I realized that a lot of people really don’t even know what sexuality and orientation mean and how to use those terms. I think that one of the biggest reasons is because of… Continue Reading “Human Sexuality Defined”
Category: All, LGBTQ+Tags: *See All Posts, Choice, Conversion Therapy, Equality, Gay, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lesbian, LGBTQ+, Love, No Choice, Parenting Advice, Sex, Transgender
Posted on July 17, 2017
by Kēphen
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The Choice That Never Was I wanted to believe that my work of writing about this topic had since passed and that I would never again have to write in defense of it, of us, of the nature of our being. Unfortunately we still… Continue Reading “The Choice That Never Was”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, LGBTQ+, PoliticsTags: *See All Posts, Choice, Conversion Therapy, Depression, Gay, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lesbian, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, No Choice, Politics, Suicide, Truth
Posted on March 31, 2017
by Kēphen
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Transgender in America In 2011 a survey conducted by famed demographer Gary Gates, for the Williams Institute under the U.C.L.A. School of Law, he found that more than 700,000 American adults identified as transgender. His follow-up survey published in June, 2016, by the same… Continue Reading “Transgender in America”
Category: All, LGBTQ+Tags: *See All Posts, Cisgender, FTM, International Transgender Day Of Visibility, LGBTQ+, MTF, TDOV, Transgender, Transgender In Sports, Transman, Transwoman
The Ardent Axiom 