Color Me Prideful
I had a conversation the other day with someone about Pride symbols and what they mean to our community. I said those of us in the...
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Simone Kraus
- Jun 9, 2023
- 5 min
D-List
A concerned friend and mentor recently said to me: “I hope you have eyes in the back of your head. Be careful out there!” With the...
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Simone Kraus
- May 19, 2023
- 3 min
Out of My Hands
Once I had thought that my transition and ability to live my life were in my hands. As I tried to balance the strains it put on my...
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Simone Kraus
- May 12, 2023
- 4 min
John 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13 In September of 2021, I got a phone...
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Simone Kraus
- May 5, 2023
- 5 min
Tear it Up
Despite my history and the fact that I was on a hit-series on HBO not too long ago, I am not a fan of the spotlight. I would much prefer...
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Simone Kraus
- Apr 21, 2023
- 4 min
How We Got Here
I had a wonderful childhood, raised by incredible parents who love us more than anything in this world. We lost one of our own. My...
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Simone Kraus
- Apr 6, 2023
- 4 min
Frau’s Prediction
It was October 2015 just weeks before the Presidential election. And I stopped in to pick up a pizza in Pine Island. There was a...
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Simone Kraus
- Mar 31, 2023
- 3 min
Two Birthdays
I was born in the year of the Fire Rooster under the sign of Gemini, the twins. Here I sit in the dark. It’s an hour before sunrise....
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Simone Kraus
- Mar 24, 2023
- 3 min
The Two-Edged Sword of Visibility
Christine Jorgensen gained fame as the first American to have undergone sex reassignment surgery as it was known then. On Dec 1st, 1952,...
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Simone Kraus
- Mar 10, 2023
- 3 min
Coming Home
I had been laying up at night, scrolling through messages of support I had received from people all over the world after our episode of...
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Simone Kraus
- Mar 3, 2023
- 2 min
Birds of a Feather
When I was growing up, I knew I was different. This was before Stonewall. And honestly being a teenager in the early 70’s, there was very...
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Ashley Craig
- Feb 24, 2023
- 3 min
Ashley 2.0
If you are reading this, it is February 24th, which means that I, Ashley Craig, am three days into recovery post top-surgery. And I am...
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Simone Kraus
- Feb 17, 2023
- 2 min
Remember Your History
“Tales of the City” is a Netflix series with Olympia Dukakis in her role as Anna Madrigal. My friend Linda suggested this series to me....
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Ashley Craig
- Feb 10, 2023
- 4 min
Busy Bodies
My girlfriend calls me “her sleepy human”. She is right. With the alarm going off at 0500 hours during the week, I am usually lights out...
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Simone Kraus
- Feb 3, 2023
- 2 min
Perception
I have always been drawn to some parts of Japanese culture. The simplicity they have practiced for hundreds of years. The art of simple...
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Ashley Craig
- Jan 27, 2023
- 4 min
You Might Not Like Her
I came out as a gay woman seven years ago and it was the most freeing and empowering experience. I got to live authentically as me...
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Simone Kraus
- Jan 20, 2023
- 2 min
We Weren’t Born Yesterday.
Not much has changed since then but a couple of hundred years of time. So no, we weren’t born yesterday.
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Simone Kraus
- Jan 13, 2023
- 5 min
Still We Rise
Sometimes life punches you in the gut so fucking hard. Then, when you come up for air, you gasp but your cracked and broken ribs make it...
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Simone Kraus
- Jan 4, 2023
- 3 min
Bamboo
It’s still 2 hours till dawn, as I shuffle into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. Yes shuffle, or that's how my wife describes what...
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