It’s wonderful to able to share with our new FDL readers an essay from one of our gem guest contributors at the Blend, the Reverend Irene Monroe. She is a graduate from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church before coming to Harvard Divinity [...]

Janet Mock, a People.com associate editor, has critiqued media coverage of trans people in her Fish Food For Thought essay Trans In The Media: A Call To Elevate The Conversation. This is her essay, and it’s crossposted here with permission. By Janet Mock When I told my transition story in Marie Claire, I led with [...]

Chaz was on Good Morning America describing his life’s progression and how he came to be a public advocate for the LGB and now the T. A few days ago Blend reader Hector sent me a link to this wonderful New York Times article about the pianist Sara Davis Buechner.  Both of these stories, not [...]