I have so much respect for transvestites, and I can look at them with such jealousy in my eyes. They have something and do something I want to have and do as well; and they act like I wish I could. Let me just get this out of the way: I don’t look good in [...]

Originally published for a nineteenth-century British literature course. Ignore the madness. Back in the day, when my face was without wrinkles, and when Kelly Rowland still had a steady paycheck and a real manager, I had a friend who dated a very obnoxious guy. He was nice to look at—which we did—we, meaning I—I, meaning, [...]

I do not know how it feels to be a second-rate citizen by law, growing up in a liberal and progressive country, but I do know how it feels to be considered second-rate and to be treated like you are worth nothing. It still amazes me that evolved and cultured people in this day and [...]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like not to be in the minority for once. It’s so difficult to imagine for me, seeing as I’m in multiple minority positions. There is the gay issue, the fact that I’m an atheist, the struggles I’ve had with being perceived as “foreign” because of my mixed ethnicity, [...]

While reading DeWayne Wickham’s article about Obama’s ridiculous relationship with Rick Warren, “Warren could be Obama’s Booker T. Washington,” I came across a comment that was truthful, smart and spirited. I’ve thought about the same thing before, actually read it as a suggestion in another article (which one I have forgotten), but never has it [...]

Of all news sources available in the world, I appreciate and value The New York Times the most. Their reporting is accurate, follows my own ethnical and social principles, and the overall quality of the Times keeps it at the top of the industry. For California Proposition 8, or “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to [...]