{"id":234292,"date":"2023-05-01T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=234292"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T08:20:43","slug":"ode-to-lgbtq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/05\/ode-to-lgbtq\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to LGBTQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Soliloquy\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>To be a male, or to be a female?\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To love Ophelia as the man I am or the woman that I could be?\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Or both\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That is the question!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Do I love her as another or the self-same?\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Indeed, if Truth be told I love her as she or me,\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For I love myself \u2013 in all my genders\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Need I suffer the slings and arrows of Misbegotten gender\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Or, by confounding them, end the heart-ache, \u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and the thousand unnatural shocks of binary tyranny\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That psyche is heir to, &#8211; \u2018tis a consolation\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Devoutly to be wished.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To mix and match; ay, there\u2019s the rub;\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For what dreams may S\/he have\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Must give me pause\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/michael-Brenner-e1546611581191.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-125356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/michael-Brenner-e1546611581191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> Michael Brenner is professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS-Johns Hopkins (Washington, D.C.), contributor to research and consulting projects on Euro-American security and economic issues. Publishes and teaches in the fields of US foreign policy, Euro-American relations, and the European Union. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:mbren@pitt.edu\">mbren@pitt.edu<\/a> &#8211; <\/strong><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~mbren\/Background.htm\" >More<\/a>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soliloquy\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":125356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1144,2041,594,593],"class_list":["post-234292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-homosexuality","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbtqi","tag-sexualities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234294,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234292\/revisions\/234294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}