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‘HIV Is Too Woke’: Why This Gay Doctor Resigned From Trump’s CDC

AND BELLA SAYEGH, AND TAYA STRAUSS. Uncloseted Media, LAURY PEYSSONNERIE, Spencer Macnaughton August 30, 2026

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is one of the foremost LGBTQ health professionals in the U.S. In November 2020, the waning months of Trump’s first term, he was appointed director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Through part of his tenure with the Biden administration, he also served as the deputy response coordinator for mpox at the White House as well as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. While he continued a lot of this work after Biden left office, he didn’t last long under Trump 2.0. In August 2025, Daskalakis resigned from the […]

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Four Bisexual Women On Stereotypes, Erasure, Representation and Joy

AND SAM DONNDELINGER, AND TAYA STRAUSS. Uncloseted Media, Spencer Macnaughton, TAYA STRAUSS February 15, 2026

The number of openly LGBTQ American adults has skyrocketed in the past few years, but there’s one group that’s been leading the way: Gen Z women, 20.7% of whom are bisexual. Despite this increase, many bi women still feel deeply misunderstood. To understand this, Uncloseted Media put together a panel of four bisexual women who spoke candidly about coming out, bi erasure and why bisexuality is often treated as a phase or something that disappears the moment a woman dates a man. Spencer Macnaughton: Hi everyone, I’m Spencer Macnaughton and today I am here with a panel of four bisexual women from across the United […]