Coming out with the GLBTQ
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer: most of us have heard these words before, but when it comes to the GLBTQ community, things become more complicated than these five simple labels.
For example, the term bisexual assumes there are only two genders. However, Renée Yoxon, a fifth-year physics student at Carleton, said it comes down to more than just a binary between the two sexes. Instead, she said she likes to use the word “pansexual” because it doesn’t put limits on how people identify themselves.
Got that sexual feeling
1) Khnumhotep/Niankhkhnum – ancient Egypt, around 2400 BC
Do you believe in magic?
“Do you feel it?”
I have a flexible copper band between my fingers, a bracelet removed from the wrist of Rick Duhr, an instructor at the Ottawa Pagan Schola. Duhr is a no-nonsense kind of guy and he’s staring at me expectantly, waiting for my response.
It’s a busy Sunday morning, and I’m sitting in a corner of a crowded Starbucks in the St. Laurent shopping centre, trying intently to feel an electric current Duhr says is running counter clockwise through my body.
Battle of the Sexes (Male Perspective)
On Nov. 10, the Charlatan hosted a no-holds barred panel discussion that allowed guys and girls to ask the opposite sex anything they’ve ever wanted to ask. Dating, one-night stands, appearance: no question was off limits.