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Column: Author reflects on growing up in Naperville, where being gay was hidden and seen as 'a dark path'

For Robert Fieseler, telling the story of a little-known gay bar fire ... his personal problems growing up, Fieseler credits Naperville with providing him with a great education that has put him in ... read more

Brad Edwards: Midwestern boy makes good as TV reporter

When CBS 2 Chicago news reporter Brad Edwards ... gay journalist in Michigan, Indiana and, most recently, here in Chicago—one who has never strayed far from that Midwestern boy parked in front of his ... read more

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney Discusses the Piece That Inspired ‘Moonlight’

Barry Jenkins’ film Moonlight narrates three transformative phases of the life of a taciturn, emotionally hyperaware gay black kid who’s growing ... lobbing stories up just because you liked it in one ... read more

'The Hate U Give' author interviews Arvin Ahmadi about creating more diverse characters

It’s the growing up story my teenage ... like your book and other books from marginalized authors — because of what’s brewing in America right now. We need diverse stories that show that black and ... read more

I Was Riley's Mom — Until the Day She Called Me "Handsome"

Growing up I was never a tomboy ... parenting and life and all that good stuff in the middle. Nicole Blades is a novelist and freelance journalist. Her latest book, HAVE YOU MET NORA?, is now ... read more

Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Parents Might Disown Me for Being Gay

I think my parents might disown me for being gay, and I don't know what to do ... aren’t really our own and that our feelings don’t really matter. When I was growing up, I never, ever heard my parents ... read more

A Place To Always Go Back To: Andrew Haigh and Charlie Plummer Talk Lean on Pete

And we drove all the way to Denver, and then we kind of continued up through Nebraska and the Dakotas and up to Montana, so we spent a good four ... being gay in society. Like you can get married and ... read more

The American Dream House Only Worked in Dreams and Commercials

It all sounded very good ... married gay couples with kids. Almost every evening we find ourselves sitting on a stoop or front lawn with some assortment of these people and our own toddler, and each ... read more

Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley

Business is an incredible source for good. It’s probably the best source for good.” In Silicon Valley, even hippies sound like Ayn Rand. Lawrence Lessig, an author and Harvard ... “These kids have ... read more

Ute Insiders: What Ute fans should know heading into this week’s NFL draft (podcast)

So there's some really good teams in Pac-12 softball too. TW: I mean, yeah, it just it feels like this is not Utah's year in either sport DF: And then lacrosse, the inaugural season winding down. I ... read more

Sonali Dev’s Bollywood happily ever afters

When Dev, now 44, was growing up in Mumbai, nobody she knew read books like that, and neither did she ... Biro, however, saw things differently. As a gay man, he's aware he's an anomaly in the ... read more