Brock Thompson

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Why are gays so terrible at intergenerational friendships?

Let me just start with a question. How many friends outside of your generation do you have? I mean honest-to-god friends. In my friend group, as large and fungible as that can be in the District and in the age of social media, it’s sort of me and a few other Gen Xers, and then just loads of Millennials. They do look to me to pass down some knowledge, but it’s mainly to do with the ins and outs of mortgages and things like that.  But is it me? Or are gays just really, really terrible at having intergenerational friends? […]

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What do the gays do about Facebook?

Let me just put all my cards on the table — I enjoy Facebook. I get a lot out of it. Instagram, not so much. But I think that’s more of a generational thing. But after recent events, I just feel a little icky about it all. I mean, don’t you?  After the damning and didn’t-we-know-all-along Senate testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, being on Facebook just seems, well, a little gross. Yes, I know the irony that I am criticizing Facebook via a column that will ultimately be shared on Facebook, so don’t bother pointing that out.  The long and […]

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The Problem with Gay Republicans

So, what did you get up to on your summer vacation? I myself did the usual gay hot spots along with many of my fellow queer Washingtonians — Rehoboth Beach for a few weekends here and there, Provincetown, Mass. All in all, a pretty gay little summer.  Just as our summers were wrapping up, Vice President Mike Pence was wrapping up his own rainbow tour of Europe, including stops in Ireland, where he dined with the country’s gay prime minister and his husband. Later, on to London, where Pence got all dreamy-eyed sitting across from Boris Johnson, gushing over both […]

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Will We Ever Have a Gay President?

And I know what some of you are thinking? We had James Buchanan. The guy just before Lincoln who kind of tapped out of the whole thing right before the Civil War, the one who Andrew Jackson referred to him and the man he lived with as “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy”. He’s generally regarded as our worst president, Buchanan that is. So, let’s not rush to name any LGBT centers after him.  Fast forward to last month, when 37-year old, and sadly taken, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg threw his hat into the ring of Democratic contenders to […]

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Will We Ever Have a Gay President?

And I know what some of you are thinking? We had James Buchanan. The guy just before Lincoln who kind of tapped out of the whole thing right before the Civil War, the one who Andrew Jackson referred to him and the man he lived with as “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy”. He’s generally regarded as our worst president, Buchanan that is. So, let’s not rush to name any LGBT centers after him.  Fast forward to last month, when 37-year old, and sadly taken, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg threw his hat into the ring of Democratic contenders to […]

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Why Hate Crimes Are On The Rosa

Police are looking for three suspects in an anti-gay attack last week. You’ve probably heard all about it by now, or even seen the horrific cell phone video capturing most of it. Just after midnight on Sunday, April 15, two gay men were viciously assaulted on the corner of Vermont Avenue and U Street. Sort of a strange place for such a thing to happen, given that it’s practically in sight of the entrances to three of the city’s busier gay bars, one of which, for better or worse, was recently named the best in the nation. These instances are […]