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May 16, 13 •
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Eat, Drink, and Be Mary, May/June 2013 •
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By Brock Daniels, PQ Monthly Crossing the country, and even the world, the practiced traveler will find the greatest local eateries on the outskirts of town in the quaint, less-walked neighborhoods. These flavor-focused establishments are motivated by quality...
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May 16, 13 •
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Columns, May/June 2013, The Home Front •
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By Steve Strode, PQ Monthly When it comes to how and where I’ve lived, I admit to being a stereotype. Raised in a small town in rural Wisconsin, I couldn’t wait to leave for the city upon graduating high school. I moved to Milwaukee, and chose to live in...
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May 16, 13 •
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Columns, May/June 2013, The Lady Chronicles •
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By Daniel Borgen, PQ Monthly There aren’t many things that stop me in my drunken, partying tracks. That’s not to say I don’t notice distractions — old lovers, ex-friends; I notice plenty. I’m simply finding, with age, that pretending you’re...
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May 16, 13 •
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Cultivating Life, May/June 2013 •
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By LeAnn Locher, PQ Monthly The purple mountains of Southern California were my playground. Standing as the backdrop to a valley of lemon orchards and strawberry fields, the mountains offered vistas of the Pacific Ocean and a reward of a cool breeze once you...
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May 16, 13 •
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Columns, Everything is Connected, May/June 2013 •
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By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly “What book do you want to read?” my mother asks. It is 1989, and every time my mother brings me to the library, I get to pick out one book for her to read aloud. “‘Pickles the Fire Cat!’” I exclaim. “But we have that...
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May 16, 13 •
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Columns, May/June 2013, Ponderlust •
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By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly The late morning sun pushes through the gaps in the drawn blinds, casting irregularly shaped vertical bars of light across the bedroom wall in front of me. The cheap, apartment-issued window covering, already distorted from regular...
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May 3, 13 •
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By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly When I was born, I was assigned “male.” That meant boy’s clothes, boy’s hair, little footballs, and so on. When I could talk, I said I was a girl. I’m not sure how I knew that, or what being one...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Columns, What a Riot! •
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By Wyatt Riot, PQ Monthly As marginalized people with our various sexualities and/or gender identities (among possible other factors), we’re often taught and shown early on that what we desire/who we are might not be “right.” Regardless of the impact...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Columns, LGBTQ Legal Outlook, Politics •
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By Mark Johnson Roberts, PQ Monthly [Editor's note: This is an updated version of an article posted on our blog shortly after the Supreme Court heard arguments on the two same-sex marriage cases.] It has been 20 years since Hawaii’s Supreme Court held that...
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Apr 18, 13 •
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April/May 2013, Columns, Everything is Connected •
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By Nick Mattos, PQ Monthly 1) “Hey, what would you say about me going to yoga school and getting certified to teach yoga?” It’s 2011, and beside me in bed, my boyfriend has furrowed his brow. “Why would you do that?” “I mean, I’ve been...
