All The Boys That I Met
Boys gave me trust issues. I’m 21 and about to graduate from college in the fall. I’ve never been in a long-term relationship.
Category: Feature
A Gay Love Poem: Daniel
I am very worried, because I haven’t seen you and I don’t know if you are okay.
Letter From the Future
Dear Young, Sweet and Sensational Me,
Hello, it’s me. You from the future. I have little time to explain and even less to give you (Future You is most definitely not an unemployed billionaire, sorry).
Living with HIV: A Life of Meaning
Adrian Tyler speaks on living life after his HIV diagnosis and his advocacy work in educating queer young men about HIV/AIDS
The Complexity of Coming Out
Nothing is better than this meme at capturing my response to a deceptively simple question – are you out (of the closet)?
On Learning that Bisexual is Not a Dirty Word
For the first 20 years of my life, I was a straight girl in a world built for straight people. I never had to question my sexuality; as far as I knew, the world of romance had only one path.
Being Gay, Indian, and Living in the Lion City
Charming and inquisitive, Mukul is a 28-year-old Indian who moved to the cosmopolitan city of Singapore to embark on his career as an immunology researcher. As he reminisces about his past in India and how he came to terms with his identity, Mukul also shares about finding love amid the global pandemic, and his volunteering experiences in an organisation that provides free HIV testing for the LGBTQ+ community.
A Medical Frontliner’s Struggles
Initially, I felt quite overwhelmed. I am currently a paediatric medical officer in a tertiary hospital in the Klang Valley. As a frontliner in the medical field, it was the worst for me during the first two waves of COVID-19 infections in Malaysia.
meditation of a genderqueer being
in meditation, i often focus on the third eye where i am able to see the present more clearly and remember who i am. i am queer to the very core of my being, even though i have to hide it at times. my third eye is placed in front of the rainbow of my insides, in the middle of the “dark cloak” i often use to hide my identity – in order to protect myself.
Jack Lam: “I didn’t care much about conforming to masculinity”
With an effusive smile and a charismatic presence, Jack Lam looks like your typical Asian boy who has it all—smart, well-articulate, graduated from a prestigious university in America. But underneath the warm exterior lives an inquisitive soul that is struggling to connect his Asian root with his queer identity that made him who he is today.