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11 mixed guys talk about what #mixedracebeautiful means to them

“I’m half-Japanese, half-white. I was born in Japan, but raised in the Bay Area.” That’s how I’ve learned to introduce myself to people who ask where I’m from or what I am. Sure, I could just say that I’m a person, but that wouldn’t...

How Brooklyn became the world’s Queer Mecca

(Is Brooklyn the gay mecca – of the world? One writer thinks so. Illustration by Shutterstock and David Yi/Very Good Light)I didn’t understand what the Q in LGBTQ meant until I moved to Brooklyn. For most of my life, I called myself gay, which felt like wearing a...