Opinions

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Trump is a textbook fascist. It will take all of us to bring down his regime.

Attention Shoppers: Avoid aisle 47 due to high risk of being hit by falling morality and tumbling democratic policies. Clean up required! November 9 each year is designated as “World Freedom Day.” It commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Unfortunately, the United States has never lived up to its billing as “the land of the free,” though it always has been and continues to be the “home of the brave.” This is especially true in this time of Donald Trump’s attempt to terminate our nation’s great experiment. It is great for chickens and turkeys to be given free range […]

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Donald Trump wins when he destroys our resolve. But the queer resistance lives on.

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The first time Donald Trump took the oath of office, I felt an overwhelming sense of doom. My whole body somehow felt both impossibly heavy and utterly empty at the same time, like it couldn’t decide whether it’d be safer to sink into the ground or float away into the clouds. I’ll forever remember when Sean Spicer – Trump’s first in what became a revolving door of White House press secretaries – stormed up to the podium, red-faced and fuming, to declare in his first-ever meeting with the American people that no inauguration crowd had ever been as large as […]

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Democrats should kick the three transphobes who voted for MTG’s bill out of the caucus

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Three Democrats crossed party lines yesterday to vote for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth, and the party needs to kick them out. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vincente Gonzalez Jr (D-TX), and Don Davis (D-NC) all voted alongside 213 Republicans yesterday to pass Greene’s anti-trans bill. If they had not voted for it, it would not have passed. Yes, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) is generally right that the party needs to be a “big tent” and allow some ideological diversity. But there are some lines that should not be crossed, and this is one of […]

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In 2025, being trans in America means living under conditional citizenship

In 2025, what is often treated as a civil rights conversation for one marginalized community is rapidly becoming a battlefield of national policy for the trans community. From identity documentation and healthcare access to non-discrimination protections and youth policy, the stakes have never been higher — and the terrain never more volatile. At the federal level, the redefinition of government posture toward transgenderpeople is unmistakable. An executive order issued in January stated that the U.S. “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another.” Meanwhile, the legislature has introduced parallel bills, such as the Equality Act, […]

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Democrats should kick the three transphobes who voted for MTG’s bill out of the caucus

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Three Democrats crossed party lines yesterday to vote for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth, and the party needs to kick them out. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vincente Gonzalez Jr (D-TX), and Don Davis (D-NC) all voted alongside 213 Republicans yesterday to pass Greene’s anti-trans bill. If they had not voted for it, it would not have passed. Yes, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) is generally right that the party needs to be a “big tent” and allow some ideological diversity. But there are some lines that should not be crossed, and this is one of […]

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The documentary “The American Revolution” erases & defames gay men

In the 1970s, I launched a campaign to end LGBTQ invisibility on television. Years later, that mission to show the public who we were expanded to another arena we’d long been written out of: American history. Just as television producers ignored us, so too had historians.  Sadly, such erasure is happening again today, this time because of both the glaring absence and defamatory framing of LGBTQ people in Ken Burns’ new PBS documentary The American Revolution.  How can LGBTQ people be both omitted and defamed in the documentary? Simple: the use of age-old stereotypes. After a friend informed me a few […]

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Dancing without the drink, how queer sobriety became a revolution of joy

Queer spaces have long been tied to nightlife culture, born from necessity in bars and clubs where safety and community were first found. But what started as a sanctuary has, for some, become a source of harm. As rates of addiction, relapse, and overdose climb across the LGBTQ+ population, we must reckon with an uncomfortable truth: celebration shouldn’t come at the cost of our lives. This is not a call to ban alcohol from queer spaces. This is a call for balance, choices, and inclusive celebration that embraces sobriety as more than just abstinence but as joy, vitality, and connection on […]

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Gender is not an ideology — but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people

Political attacks on teaching about gender in colleges and universities are about more than just gender: They are part of a grander project of eroding civil and human rights, limiting personal freedoms and undermining democracy in the name of “traditional” values. On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring there are two sexes determined solely by the kind of reproductive cells the body makes, and that the federal government would recognize nothing else. The order claims to protect the “freedom to express the binary nature of sex” and bans the use of federal funds to “promote gender ideology.” Legal […]

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Queer survival in Mississippi and the bars that saved us

On Highway 90, between the shrimp boats and the neon of the casinos, there’s a quiet kind of resistance. The type that pulses under dance floors, tucked behind unmarked doors. Gay bars on the Mississippi Gulf Coast don’t wear their pride like big-city clubs. They don’t have rainbow flags stretching across intersections or drag brunches advertised on billboards. They live low to the ground, out of sight but very much alive. They’ve had to. In places like Biloxi, Gulfport, and D’Iberville, being queer has never been entirely safe. But the bars? They were the closest thing to it. I remember my first gay […]

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Teaching tolerance isn’t indoctrination. It’s protection

The U.S. Supreme Court made a decision earlier this summer that has a significant impact on classrooms nationwide. In their 6-3 decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the majority completely missed the point as to why LGBTQ-inclusive education matters. By giving parents the option to pull their kids out of lessons that include LGBTQ+ characters or content, the Court prioritized personal religious objections over creating schools where students can learn without feeling invisible. Justice Alito‘s majority opinion is especially troubling. He treats LGBTQ-inclusive education as if it were some optional “add-on” that schools can easily work around. As a former teacher, I can confidently say that is […]

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