Quinn Lazenby

“As gay people, we get to choose our families, and you—you are my family,” the legendary drag performer RuPaul mused at Pride Toronto last summer. This quote, widely cherished in the LGBTQ community, epitomizes both the curses and charms…
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“You’re going to the Women’s March too?” The U.S. Border agent sneered, inspecting the “male” identification on my passport. I straightened my posture, preparing to launch into a rendition of bell hooks’ Feminism Is for Everybody, but…
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“We’re actually closer than friends. We’re more like siblings,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a state dinner in Washington with U.S. President Barack Obama last March. Brothers we may be, and yet our sibling nations seem to be…
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The French idiom 'avoir un coup de foudre' describes the connection of love as being struck by lightning. While many heterosexuals have experienced this jolt of ecstasy, few people are aware of the continental ruptures that energize gay…
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“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country,” declared President Ahmadinejad to an audience at Columbia University in 2007. This statement sparked instant commotion in the audience and a wave of international condemnation,…
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