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A Bear’s Life
By Wayne Hoffman
I haven’t missed a Bear Week since then. I go dancing every day, shirtless. One week every year. It recharges me when my self-confidence is running low.
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Torment in the Night
By Joseph Gorrell
The church would abandon him. And if his parents followed, they would abandon him too. He wept. He couldn’t envision a world without his family.
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How I Met My Mother Halfway
By Mary McGrath
Perhaps my sexual orientation didn’t matter after all. In the end, my mother viewed me as a person.
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Charles Blow’s Sexuality Sidestepped in Met Opera
By Charles Green
BASED ON Charles M. Blow’s 2015 memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black in Louisiana, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season … making it the first opera by a Black composer to appear at the Met.