Former film student, now studying business management, hoping to start my own nonprofit one day. I’m living with my mother and one of my older sisters, but I assure you it has nothing to do with maturity and everything to do with finances. I also live with an absurdly needy and OCD dog.

I’m a total film geek—well, I’m a geek in general I guess—but I’m also big on politics and activism. I was president of Emerson College’s lgbt group and spearheaded a campaign for major changes (new hires, revised policies, etc.) on campus. I’m definitely going to continue with lgbt advocacy; I’m extremely devoted to my community. In my free time, I like to write (mostly screenplays), swim (my house is on a lake, so I practically grew up in the water), and go to art galleries and the theatre (when I have the money).

I’ve been on a lot of dates through this site, but I’m still not quite sure what my “type” is. I do know that I prefer a more masculine guy (note: masculine does not equal straight-acting), but other than that I’m still pretty open.

Also, I think my dating persona test is slightly off; I definitely care more about love/romance than sex.

Classes and activism. I'll be sparring with a professor over the implications of globalization one minute and organizing students to push for gender neutral housing the next. I also work part-time on campus, but my bosses are the chair of the Women & Gender Studies department and the president of one of the university's unions, so even there I'm mostly working on activism and advocacy.

I do make time to relax, I promise! Hell, I go into withdrawal if I go more than two weeks without playing a video game. But from 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Mondays through Fridays, it's pretty much classes and activism.

Writing, arguing, analyzing films/books, being a friend.

When I'm in my relaxed mode: my sense of humor. When I'm in my activism mode: my intense passion.

Books: Frank Herbert's "Dune" series, Clive Barker's "Weaveworld" and "Hellbound Heart", Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" "Oryx and Crake" and "The Blind Assassin", and many many others.

Movies: waaaaaay too many to list. Some of the big ones are American Beauty, Rules of the Game, Angels in America, Lion in Winter, Snatch, Brick, Clue, Black Christmas (original), Hellraiser, Barry Lyndon, The Exorcist, Thank You for Smoking, Suspiria, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Cannibal the Musical, Children of Men, Paris is Burning, Almost Famous, Donnie Darko, Boondock Saints.

Music: anything but country and rap (except Immortal Technique, he's actually pretty clever)

Warning: sappiness ahead!

1. Family/friends: I know everyone puts this, but I really would be lost without these people.

2. My community: There is a big difference between being queer and being part of the queer community. I was such a different person before joining the community, and I owe it a lot of the positive changes in my life.

3. Film/TV/Video: I may have given up film as a career path, but I'm still obsessed with media. It's taking every ounce of energy not to type a long essay on the importance of film as a cultural force right now.

4. Writing: I still have a strong creative impulse, and I'm using writing to channel it. It's definitely keeping me sane as I venture into this foreign world of business management where numbers are important and screaming "There was a firefight!" at the top of your lungs is considered odd.

5. A cause: Activism/advocacy is just what I was born to do. If the world somehow magically became a uptopia, I would happy for about two seconds, then feel like I have to purpose and get super depressed.

6. A pet: Because they're cute.

Whether I'm making the right choices for my life.
Why New York gays are so much more superficial and self-centered than Boston gays (no, not all of you, but as a general trend).
Whether or not I like Obama (I seem to change my mind every few weeks...today I don't).

Hanging out on a couch with some good friends...or helping our Student Government Association revise its constitution. Either scenario provides a great excuse to get drunk.

I'm a cuddle-slut.

-You're looking for a casual, but intimate relationship
-You want to make a new friend in the area
-You want to help me start up an lgbt youth advocacy nonprofit organization
-You know what movie "But ya are, Blanche, ya are in that chair!" comes from