“You know, when you wake up and mom is just talking to you,” my sister began to say from the other end of the phoneline, her end in Dallas and mine in Los Angeles. She described a scenario I knew quite well, one that was aggravating at the time but is endearing in retrospect. Every […]

“What is gay?” my much younger cousin asks at the dinner table, as some of the older cousins and I were talking about a new reality show. His eyes are curious but knowing, as if he knows the answer to the question but still needs more convincing.
A sudden wave of anxiety envelops me before I […]