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Put a Ring on It
Katy claims that it happened like this: We were in my car, heading north. She was behind the wheel. “If we were straight,” she said, turning to the passenger side, “I’d take you to Atlantic City and...
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ABCs of LGBT: Why We Need Inclusive Elementary Schools
Last year, my son had an elementary school teacher who actually talked about gay people. Last year, for the first time since kindergarten, Waylon’s classmates didn’t give him any flack about our...
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Trans Family Story Featured in Parenting Mag
Howdy QRL readers! This is just a quick note to let you know that one of my stories, “Our Social Experiment,” is a featured archive on Brain, Child magazine’s web site right now. If you’ve never read...
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Sissy Fight
When my ten-year-old son is excited, he flaps his hands like a limp-wristed seal. He makes the same move when he’s happy, or when he’s being ironic, or when he’s delivering the punch line of a joke....
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Meet the Fam
Have you ever wanted to pelt us with questions about how it feels to be a gay, transgender, rock-n-roll family raising a son in Texas? Well, now’s your chance! Katy and I are doing a thing called...
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“Should Waylon Have Two Mommies?”
Six-thirty comes early when you go to bed at two. Last night, my wife’s heavy metal band played to a packed house of head-banging lezzies. Of course we had to go out for triumphant post-show pancakes....
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We’re Expecting! And It Looks Like Twins!
Dear Reader, you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting to Queer Rock Love lately. It’s not that I’ve run out of stories about our queer family life—far from it—It’s just that I’ve been needing...
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Trans Character in J.K. Rowling’s Latest Book
In the interest of full disclosure, let me start by saying that I’ve always been a huge J.K. Rowling fan. I’ve read the entire Harry Potter series aloud. Twice. When Rowling published her first...
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Friendship as a Way of Life at the Dog & Duck Pub
Last night was the final Sunday night at the Dog and Duck Pub on 17th and Lavaca. My sweetie Katy and her best friend Nancy have been spending Sunday nights at the Dog and Duck Pub for twenty-one...
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BEARING WITNESS TO VIOLENCE: a therapist’s tips for transgender day of...
This year, the organizers of Austin’s annual Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial have asked psychotherapists from the LGBT community to be available at City Hall for participants who may need...
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Queer Rock Love to Launch at Gender Odyssey 2015
If all goes according to plan, I’ll get to see and touch my book for the first time this Friday, August 21, at Gender Odyssey in Seattle. We’ve had our share of last-minute publishing trials and...
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#tbt Butch Boobs
Welcome to my weekly #tbt post featuring photos that couldn’t be included in Queer Rock Love: A Family Memoir. (Our archive is deep, but there was only so much space in the book.) Today’s photo...
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Sequined Cork
Welcome to my weekly post featuring photos that didn’t make it into Queer Rock Love, but probably should have. This week’s image complements Chapter 28, “No Shortage.” One afternoon, Waylon was engaged...
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My Lily Dale Wedding Pic
Here’s an image from the day Katy and I married ourselves in Lily Dale, New York. This was before the advent of the selfie, so it’s only me in the frame. I would have included this picture in the book,...
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Throwback Saturday
Well, I made it a whole three weeks before I reneged on my promise to post bonus content related to Queer Rock Love every Thursday! In my defense, I’ve been busy planning upcoming readings in D.C.,...
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Spoiler Alert: CURED
If you’ve read through the acknowledgements for Queer Rock Love, then you know there’s a brief addendum at the end: In May 2015, Katy started taking Harvoni, a new med for hepatitis C. As of this...
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Why I Hoist My Own Tree
Last weekend, I scaled the mountain of musty furniture, bicycles and plastic bins in our garage. When I found what I was looking for—a tattered red duffel bag the size of an average middle schooler—I...
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I Wanna Grow Up Like Girls in the Nose
When I was a little girl in the 1970s, my mother told me that someday our TV would be a computer and she’d be able to leave messages on the screen. My dad told me that someday there would be a woman...
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Queer Rock Chicago on January 20
I’ll be reading from Queer Rock Love in Chicago next Wednesday. I’m thrilled to be speaking at the iconic feminist bookstore Women and Children First. By most counts, there are only about 12 feminist...
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When Butch Met Clyde: A Love Story
Last week, I was interviewed by a Bay Area reporter who expressed surprise that we were making our queer, gender-nonconforming family in Texas. I get it. I agree with Molly Ivins that Texas often...
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