Riding My Better Half
Committing is a lot like being mugged.
Sometimes ‘Y’: Self-Sabotage and the Art of Overcoming It
“You’re so full of it,” my ex-boyfriend told me after I got out the shower the day before Memorial Day. He had complimented my incoming abs, and while I was applying lotion to my body, I replied it was hard for...
Sometimes “Y”: No Rain Delay for the Start of Summer
It’s often annoying living in a city with suburban-centric news outlets. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which moved from downtown to outside the perimeter five years ago, divides its “Metro” section by outly...
Opinion: Can We Trust Stacey Abrams?
Columnist Ryan Lee isn't so sure about Abrams' record on LGBTQ rights. Stay tuned for the rebuttal from Georgia Equality.
Ryan Lee: Booty call-based interventions
The fewer secrets you have, the more people seem willing to give you theirs. An almost reckless candor about my marijuana use and promiscuity has made me a repository for disclosures that people are reticent to...
Ryan Lee: Craigslist, Backpage wilt in the ‘Scarlet Spring’
On most of my walks down the main strip of my neighborhood, several men solicit me with shouts of, “I got that loud!” I'll occasionally support a young entrepreneur in the same spirit as grabbing a box of Girl ...
Ryan Lee: ‘Love, Simon’ is a middling masterpiece
Ever since Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist cuddled on big screens across America, Hollywood has spoiled gay audiences to the point it's tempting to forget generations of mistreatment, from the padlocks the industr...
Ryan Lee: Longer, blessed days
I stopped participating in daylight saving about five years ago, but not like Arizona and other rebellious states that refuse to change time twice a year. Simply, there are no clocks in my daily life that requi...
Ryan Lee: Generational conflicts in our movement, and me
One of the curses of liberalism is the generational tension that almost destines today’s radical to be perceived as tomorrow’s sellout.The Mattachine Society had been advocating for “homophile” equality for...
Ryan Lee: Entering ‘the Life,’ after death
While waves of celebrity deaths have washed across Hollywood the past few years, a new trend involving the bygone rich-and-famous has emerged at the dawn of 2018: gay ghosts. The surviving peers of deceased sta...
Ryan Lee: Sex with porn stars
I used to think more porn actors, per capita, frequented the LA Fitness I worked out at than any gym in America, and now I feel similarly about my neighborhood grocery store. While that might reinforce Atlanta'...