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4 hours agoWhat is the trans gaze? It's relief and recognition between strangers on a train
Trans women share a unique, unspoken connection on the New York City subway, recognized through brief, meaningful glances.
In 2020, travel was put on hold globally, leading to a drastic adjustment in content for many travel creators. The number of worldwide scheduled flights was down by 46.4% compared to the previous year.
When I set out there were no role models, no Spanish players, Martinez says. Only Nayim, from Ceuta. England was unknown. It's the Third Division. You've spent your whole life learning you have to look after the ball, then you get there and the first thing they say is: Second ball'.
Chris Price played for the Kansas City Royals in the late 1990s. But when the sisters reach for memories of their dad, he's often driving off on one of his custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Morgan remembers watching from the laundry room. Frankie is closer, in the garage.
The inaugural edition is organized around the central theme "Shifting the Center: From Fragility to Resilience," reclaiming African architecture's place as a site of spatial intelligence and cultural memory.
I started in stand-up because it felt like the most direct way to connect with people. There's no filter. You go on stage, and you find out very quickly if something works. That shaped everything for me. It forced me to be honest. If you're not honest, the audience knows. That idea still drives how I work today.
Melanie Jane Brisbane-Schilling passed away peacefully today, surrounded by love. In her final moments, when I thought cancer had taken away her ability to speak, she ushered me closer and whispered a message for Maddie and me that will sustain me for the rest of my life.
Despite the heart-wrenching loss of her fiancé, Narjis Bilal Salman remains committed to her role as a nurse, stating, 'I must keep helping others.' Her resilience in the face of tragedy exemplifies the strength of those working in healthcare during times of crisis.
I was just sort of desperate. Anything that I could possibly make, I wanted to make, and I turned to the kitchen. I tried to make this almond cake, and it doesn't go exactly as planned. It goes awry. And I think that's kind of rare in cookbooks to see, you know, the first instance of baking turn out to be, you know, this sort of humiliation, this massive failure.
There have been times in all of our careers where we've been passed up, or we didn't get that next role when we felt like we were ready for it. And I said that the one thing that's really true to me is, I think that you can either choose to be bitter or you can be better.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. ~Viktor Frankl. For a long time, my first response to difficulty was a single, aching question: 'Why me?' It surfaced whenever life took an unexpected turn—when plans collapsed, when effort didn't materialize, when circumstances felt unfair and overwhelming.
I'm resilient. I've been through lots of highs and lows including a health battle with cancer and I'm still here, still standing, still singing.