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You may have reached this page through a Tumblr reblog, my website, or some other internet path. Either way, welcome!

Firs things first: visit the GayWrites homepage and browse the different tabs at the top to search the content archive by topic. 

After eight long years, GayWrites is no longer publishing daily content. This is for many reasons, particularly my need to focus on profitable work — this blog was always a labor of love — and my own wellbeing. I have loved every minute of blogging here, but considering recent changes to the platform and to my own career aspirations, it’s time for the next great adventure.

I want to offer enormous, sincere gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of you who have been on this journey with me. I’ve met good friends here, some of them IRL. I’ve learned a lot about myself, my community, and people who are nothing like me. My wife was my Tumblr follower before she was my girlfriend. All of this to say, the internet is sometimes good, and at times I believe I’ve witnessed the very best of it. For that and so much else, I’m grateful. 

Some business: This page and the GayWrites YouTube channel will remain up indefinitely. Other social media channels will be phased out over time. Thank you to everyone who has followed me on any platforms, purchased shirts or stickers, and generally been a part of this community; your generosity and kind words have never gone unnoticed, even if I haven’t always responded. 

If you’d like to follow me to hear about future writing projects, blogs, bisexuality puns, etc., you can find me on Twitter, Medium, and Goodreads. I won’t be checking messages consistently here anymore, but you can always reach out on any of those platforms or email me instead. 

I love you. It’s not goodbye, it’s see you somewhere else.

Hey pals.

You've probably already noticed that I'm not here as much as I used to be. The recent announcement about Tumblr removing adult content is making me think more and more that it might be time to close up shop. The question now is whether and where to relocate.

I'd love to keep part of this blog alive on Instagram, though my audience there is real slim. If you're up for that, would you consider following me over there? And if not, well, I'll keep ya posted on what's next.

The cast of Broadway’s The Prom musical gave the LGBTQ community something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day.

Actors, including leads Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla, burst out of the theater and into the streets for Macy’s big holiday parade Thursday. Closing out their performance of the big number, Kinnunen and McCalla shared a kiss on live television, which appears to be the first same-sex kiss in the parade’s history.

Scotland made history recently by becoming the first nation in the world to mandate teaching about LGBTQ history and social movements in public school curriculum. 

State schools will be required to teach pupils about the history of LGBTI equalities and movements, as well as tackling homophobia and transphobia and exploring LGBTI identity, after ministers accepted in full the recommendations of a working group led by the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign. There will be no exemptions or opt-outs to the policy, which will embed LGBTI inclusive education across the curriculum and across subjects and which the Scottish government believes is a world first.

Jordan Daly, the co-founder of TIE, said the “destructive legacy” of section 28 had come to an end. This legislation, introduced in 1988, banned local authorities in the UK from “promoting” homosexuality, until it was eventually repealed in Scotland 2001 and in the rest of the UK two years later.

Daly said: “This is a monumental victory for our campaign, and a historic moment for our country. The implementation of LGBTI inclusive education across all state schools is a world first. In a time of global uncertainty, this sends a strong and clear message to LGBTI young people that they are valued here in Scotland.”

More openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were elected Tuesday night than in any previous election, signaling a shift in cultural attitudes even as the Trump administration has chipped away at L.G.B.T. rights.

The results are still rolling in, but at least 153 have won so far, said Elliot Imse, a spokesman for the Victory Fund, a nonpartisan political action committee devoted to electing L.G.B.T. candidates. The group endorsed 225 candidates in this election cycle, nearly all of whom were Democrats.

VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. 

Massachusetts, vote YES ON 3 to uphold protections for transgender people. 

Vote for candidates who will uphold dignity, justice, equality, and civil rights, and reject racism, nationalism, homophobia, and transphobia. Vote for LGBTQ candidates. Vote for women and people of color. Vote. 

Find your polling place here.

Hold each other close. Tell your loved ones you love them. Fight hate. 

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