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[4 Mar 2010 | One Comment | 9 views]
The Fifth Column: The Dreaded Period

I felt like it was never supposed to happen. It wasn’t me. It was a mistake in the evolutionary chain. I was not meant to bear children and that, my …

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[22 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 13 views]
The Fifth Column: Ouch!

I thought I was having my first tension headache. I woke up one morning with this horrible pain in my jaw muscles. My face felt like it was screaming. Make …

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[15 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 5 views]
The Fifth Colu.mn: What Stinks?

I sweat a lot. Always have. When I run in the winter, however, I don’t usually start sweating until I go back inside. That probably has something to do with …

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[5 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 8 views]
The Fifth Column: Hey, Kid! How Old Are You?

I look like I’m 14. I admit, I exaggerate a lot of things but this, my friends, is actually true. I am sure that in ten years I will enjoy …

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[12 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 14 views]
The Fifth Column: My Name

Why Garrett Drew? This is perhaps the most frequently posed question by those who knew me as Mallory. I suppose this is a legitimate thing to wonder about and I …

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[4 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 35 views]
The Fifth Column: Man Voice

You know the feeling you get on the first day you acquire a virus of some kind? That, “oh shit, I’m getting sick” kind of closed up uncomfortable feeling in …

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[18 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 31 views]
The Fifth Column: Homolicious San Diego

I spent the last week tooling around San Diego and visiting a friend of mine. He lives in Hillcrest which is just about the gayest place I have ever experienced. …

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[9 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 55 views]

When I realized I was transgender it felt like my world crumbled beneath my feet. I was overcome with emotions. My thoughts seemed almost manic and scattered. My inevitable path …

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[3 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | 133 views]
The Fifth Column: Confusing Straight People and the Heterosexist World

We’d like to welcome our newest contributor, Garrett Hoffman. He’s blogging his transition at transformgarrett.blogspot.com Garrett is, in his words, “a 20-something queer (homo) (straight) female to male transsexual …