Author: Nina
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Self-Esteem… on Borrowed Credit
“A shortcut to riches is to subtract from one’s desires.” — Plutarch I recently wrote an article now appearing in the January 2007 issue of the BLADE, a Southern California GLBT magazine. I wanted to reprint it here… Ten years ago, Juliet B. Schor wrote a book called The Overspent American and she concluded that,…
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Ten Money Questions for Joe Solmonese
Joe Solmonese is the President of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization. I asked Joe to get personal about money and the cost of causes. He gracefully declined on the personal questions so we trimmed Ten Money Questions to Five Money Questions. I made the exception because after all it’s…
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Do second-parents have legal rights? Let’s ask Heather Poe
“The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.” — from Heather has Two Mommies Queers around the nation heard the breaking news a couple of weeks ago about Mary Cheney’s pregnancy. John Aravosis had plenty to say about the topic. He writes, “They live in Virginia,…
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LED Holiday Lights: Eco-Friendly & Reduces Your Electric Bill
“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.” — James Thurber In Deck the Halls, Danny DeVito decorates his house with Christmas lights in an excessive attempt to make it become visible from space. I probably will never see the movie, but the trailer had me thinking…
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Ten Money Questions for Donna Meté
Donna Meté has been dubbed the soon-to-be lesbian answer to Dr. Phil by GoNYC magazine. At her media portal, A Lesbian’s Life, Inc. she blends spirituality, therapeutic guidance and professional advice to spur on and encourage women. Her tagline is Real Women, Real Stories… Real Life! With this in mind, we asked Donna to get…
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Wedding & Commitment Rings for Gays & Lesbians
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery We’re still not pregnant but throughout our baby-making attempts Jeanine has sat in numerous waiting rooms surrounded by mommies-to-be. She has already told me that when she is pregnant and showing that she wants…
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Out and Aging: Gay and Lesbian Boomers
“To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” — Bernard M. Baruch Learning to Love Growing Old is a dated, but useful article that appeared in Psychology Today back in 1994. Jere Daniel writes, “We fear and deny aging, because we fear and deny death. In our denial of death and…
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Reader Appreciation Day at Queercents
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.” — G.B. Stern In the past 24 hours, visitors to Queercents have stop by from Perth, Western Australia; Athens, Greece; Monterrey, Mexico; and Nanjing, China. I continue to be amazed at how the Internet is the superhighway that connects us. On any given day though, the majority of…
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Ten Money Questions for Susan Ryan-Vollmar
If you live in the Northeast then it’s likely you are familiar with Bay Windows. Susan Ryan-Vollmar is editor-in-chief of New England’s largest LGBT publication and oversees the award-winning coverage of topics near and dear to our community. I turned the tables and asked this journalist a few questions about making money, making babies and…
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The Great Divide in Compensation
“A shortcut to riches is to subtract from one’s desires.” — Plutarch It’s that time of year when the media reports on Wall Street bonuses. Unless you live in NYC, most people are unaware what these bonuses do for the New York economy. “Is business good for everyone when Goldman Sachs has a great year?…
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