A reflection on Pride, chosen family, and healing queer history. This essay explores Maya Angelou’s words, the roots of Pride as resistance, and what it means to become the parent you never had. A celebration of courage, grief, and rewriting the story with love.

A powerful personal essay on queer masculinity, anger, and healing. Erick DuPree explores male wounds, the hero’s journey, and why masculinity isn’t toxic by nature—but in need of community, kinship, and care. Reclaiming manhood starts with letting ourselves be angry.

A bold, personal review of The Leatherman’s Handbook: Golden Anniversary Edition by Larry Townsend. This foundational leather and BDSM classic remains vital for queer history, kink ethics, and radical consent. A must-read for leatherfolk and the kink-curious alike.

Explore the queer undertones in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and his passionate bond with Nathaniel Hawthorne. This essay unpacks homoerotic longing, emotional repression, and how Melville’s fiction encodes same-sex desire in the language of obsession and the sublime.

Explore the emotional journey of choosing self-preservation over societal expectations of forgiveness in this poignant reflection on a father's death and a queer individual's fight for healing and self-worth.

A golden Bob Mackie Barbie became more than a doll—it was a queer awakening. From a boy forbidden the Barbie aisle to an adult embracing glamour and self-invention, this radiant idol revealed beauty, gender, and identity as sacred, theatrical, and unapologetically divine.

Inheriting my grandfather’s Civil War chess set taught me lessons in patience, quiet masculinity, and legacy — a reminder that time, like chess, is only valued once it’s been spent.