Our Scene
“Everyone deserves to play hockey,” says Annie Bell. A few moments later they explain how hockey arenas often feel toxic or dangerous to queer communities, underscoring the importance of the…
Ila Borders is not your average athlete, nor is she your average human. “I had a different dream,” Borders says. “I can remember when I was 5 years old that…
When the National Hockey League’s Minnesota Wild take to the ice on March 7 inside the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, it will mark the return of the club’s…
If you were to find yourself, upon waking from a sleepwalk, softly aiming your dink toward your neighbor’s kitchen, you might think that you were re-living that one weekend misspent…
Travel has happily returned in full swing following the pandemic, and I for one am fully on board! Recently I was invited to visit the city of Guadalajara in the…
You probably never heard of TJ House. That is, unless you’re a serious baseball person. In December, the former Major League Baseball pitcher came out as a gay man. He…
Our Affairs
The Schoolhouse Sophie Ward Vintage$17 University librarian Isobel has created a safe, contained existence of work and home, to date a safe place and protection from…what? We find out as the narrative…
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Taylor Brorby Liveright $27.95 Being gay in rural North Dakota, asserts author Brorby, “seems akin to a ticking bomb.” While a reader’s first…
Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression Iris Gottleib Chronicle Books $19.99 Gender is intensely personal, and widely misunderstood. Gotttlieb has created this compendium to answer and explain concerns from both…
Since Give to the Max Day (GTTMD) was established in 2009, over 14,000 non-profits and schools in Minnesota have benefited from the magnanimous holiday. In fact, within the first 24…
If you grew up queer in a small town, or remained in the closet for a while, there’s a good chance that at some point you felt isolated or alone.…
Residents of Hennepin and Ramsey counties are on course to receive a game-changing new development — the first Black-led community credit union in North Minneapolis called Arise Community Credit Union.…
Our Lives
Where did you grow up? Lake Elmo, Minn. I grew up a few doors down from a snow tubing hill and a cattle farm. My parents put my twin brother…
This year, the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on LGBT Health and Wellness presented Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd (they/she) the Ellen Perrin Award for Excellence in LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness on…
Hollow, hateful laws proposed by hollow, hateful lawmakers. Discrimination disguised as corporate policy. On-stage jokes delivered by willfully ignorant comedians. These days, it seems like you can’t swing a light…
The process of starting a family looks different for everyone. For folks pursuing fertility treatments like surrogacy, intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilization (IVF), and adoption, the process is riddled…
Our Homes
In mid-2021, this magazine heralded the arrival of the long-awaited Ford Bronco. The resurrected off-road ready SUV gave us a glimpse at its past with many modern twists. The “real”…
In the automotive business, the flagship is the showcase of the latest engineering, technology, design, and execution. It becomes the barometer for all vehicles in its class and across the…
It’s officially December, which means — if you haven’t already — it’s time to decorate for the holidays! Do you have your go-to boxes of decorations but are perhaps wondering…
How do you perceive winter? Is it the beautiful, bucolic, snow-covered wonderland we always remembered when we were younger? Or, is it that inconvenient, ugly, ice-caked point of frustration you’d…
One can talk about doing anything your heart desires. However, one must experience it fully. In our case, we can now add living with – and in – a Recreational…
So much information and advice abounds these days urging “decluttering” and “keeping only what brings you joy.” All bright, cheerful advice, but it’s not that simple, not that cut- and-dried…
Online Exclusives
OF AN AGE, in theaters February 17th, is an intensely romantic story about finding love against a ticking clock. Want to see it before anyone else? We are giving away…
In mid-2021, this magazine heralded the arrival of the long-awaited Ford Bronco. The resurrected off-road ready SUV gave us a glimpse at its past with many modern twists. The “real”…
The Children’s Theatre Company is set to open up a new play that focuses on an 11-year-old’s life, as he explores his life in foster care through the art of…
Fans of the Broadway staple Les Misérables are in for a treat when the national tour makes a stop at the Orpheum Theatre. Audiences should be on the lookout for Haley Dortch making her national tour debut.
Big Gay News
First Coast News reports that calling the “sexual revolution” a “threat to our church”, First Baptist Church in Jacksonville will now require congregants to sign a statement affirming their opposition…
The Advocate reports that LGBTQ+ parents in Florida are deeply concerned about the impact of the state’s Parental Rights in Education act—often referred to as the “don’t say gay” law—with…
The Department of Justice reports that Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 45 years in federal prison for kidnapping and attempting to murder a gay man…
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