DYSC, for ages 13-22 has lots of trans kids. They meet on Friday nights in the CAR center. For older, there is a very loose group called GEAR that meets randomly, also in the CAR Center.

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A Stick of Plato's Gravy, part six

Mago finished his work for the day of rest, and gave himself a shot of potassium iodide. He had heard of research that would improve on the old mercury treatments for syphilis, and did not want to end up with it himself: treatment as prevention. Well, he knew not to lie with the boy again till he was clean, if ( Read more... )

In the night, he woke, found hands on him, a mouth, was awake enough to enjoy it. Then more wakefulness came, and he realized that he was in bed with a syphilitic, or so Alexander's story would indicate. Jamie, or Jemmy, slept, then, and Mago lay awake. He did so quite a while as curtains blew in the moonlight, thinking. He could make a decent ( Read more... )

Hadrian's was classy, a little costly, and drew a more monied crowd than some other places. A long bar topped with maple ran alongside one wall, the other lined with booths, mostly uncurtained at this point in the night. Mike was on the piano, playing music-hall airs, and the princesses circulated round tables, offering drinks, snacks, pipes and ( Read more... )

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A Stick of Plato's Gravy, part three

Henry Adams Alexander drank more rye; drank, in fact, all the rye in his glass. He fossicked in the ice-bucket for more ice, dropped a handful into the glass, poured again. Joseph Mago decided he could use the stuff himself-drinking on the job, Joe?-and poured a finger into his coffee ( Read more... )

"How do you mean?" Footsteps outside; rain lashed the window. The small room held mementos: silvergraphs of college and Army reunions, a Chrestian bible, a pipe of ivory carved with leaping seals, a silhouette of a boy. "The easy part ( Read more... )

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