Author: TerranceDC

This is hatred. Set someone apart. Make them “other.” Make them less than human. This is where it leads. This is what it looks like. This is a lynching. This is a hate crime. Warning: The images and video after the...

[This is the last of the series. See parts one and two for background.] Not queer. Too queer. Not queer enough. It’s probably as maddening as it sounds, though in some ways I wouldn’t know this as well as the school...

As I read, and wrote, all of the above, I kept going back to an essay by Michael Kimmel, “Masculinity as Homophobia.” So I wasn’t surprised to see Kimmel quoted in an old Washington Blade article,...

It may have been suggested by an earlier post, but every since the earliest school shootings were reported, I’ve been interested in the stories and people behind them; in particular, the shooters. Every time another one...

(With a nod to Nezua, from whom I’m borrowing the title of this post.) It had been in the back of my mind, as it always is after another school shooting hits the news. I thought of it for a second when I heard about the...