I love autumn and all that it brings — the fall foliage and brilliant colors, the country fairs and apple pie, and the start of the new reality television season. The vast majority of reality television shows, however, are geared for straight folks, and most recruit hetero hard-bodies to participate. That is why I am proposing...
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“Do you want to take a ride up towards Wilmington, have some dinner and, uh, deliver some cats?” Until the cats part it sounded appealing. Somehow my spouse had been recruited to save four cats and a dog from death row at our local shelter by transporting them to an animal rescue volunteer, who would...
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The other day my daughter looked at me misty-eyed and sincere. “I love you, Daddy,” she said. Now, that might not sound so strange, but when you consider that I’m a male-to-female transsexual who transitioned almost ten years ago, the word daddy can stick out like a thistle with the ability to scratch, irritate, fester and...
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About this time last year, my girlfriend and I were thinking of starting up a horseracing Web site and thought it’d be cute to call it The Hoofington Post. We were pretty excited to find the domain name available, and given the liberal, progressive and fair-minded image of HuffPo and the boss lady...
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My partner Jen and I live on a small farm in Indiana. This very true story happened on our farm a couple of years ago. We have lots of animals, and have had goats most of the time we’ve been together.  Right now we have all pygmy goats, but we have had a few dairy...
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