In Florida, teachers are no longer legally allowed to choose books for their own classroom libraries because they might choose a book that offends the delicately hateful sensibilities of Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis signed a [...]

Following in her father’s footsteps, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the new governor of Arkansas. Which really sucks for the people of Arkansas and isn’t good for the rest of the country, either. You’ll remember that [...]

Arizona starts the year off right by protecting children from lace front wigs, stoned tights and faces beat for the gods! The list of threats to children in the United States is very long. Off [...]

I don’t have time or patience for conspiracy theorists. Especially not ones who use their convoluted logic to further a right-wing agenda, something we’ve all had a front row seat to lately. The 2020 election, [...]

Happy New Year everybody! Except for people who made it their life’s goal to attack LGBTQ+ people. I hope your New Year sucks. 2022 was much better than the two years before it (I know, [...]

If you were hoping your 2023 was going to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, and filthy, you’re going to be disappointed if Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) gets his way. On Dec. 16, Lee introduced the Interstate [...]

258-169. That’s the final vote tally in the House of Representatives for the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA), which repeals the odious anti-equality Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed in 1996.  DOMA legally defined marriage [...]

You know what the scariest thing about drag queen story hour is? The part where hooded men wearing body armor show up with assault rifles.  That’s what happened at a holiday themed storytelling event featuring [...]

Note: The Club Q shooting suspect identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. However, their father uses “he/him” pronouns when referring to his child and that is reflected in the quotes.  There are a lot [...]

We’ve all been to a place like Club Q. An unassuming place tucked into a strip mall that doesn’t look like much from the outside, but offers a safe-haven for LGBTQ+ people and allies inside. [...]

Let’s take a trip in the way-back machine to “Saturday Night Live” in the late 1970s. Specifically to the recurring skit featuring The Coneheads, a family of aliens with giant bald heads shaped like, you [...]

If you’re reading this it means you survived election day. Congratulations.At the time of this writing it is Election Eve. Not to be confused with Christmas Eve, though it would be pretty cool if Santa [...]

Look, the Republican Party has no ideas. Republican candidates can’t campaign on the issues that matter to people because their positions are wildly unpopular: banning abortion, banning contraception, banning fertility treatments, giving the rich more [...]

If you’ve been driving around Michigan lately you might have seen some crazy billboards and signs claiming that kids are going to get gender reassignment surgery without parental consent if Proposal 3 passes. It’s a [...]

Hello to everyone except for Florida, a state that never tires of finding new ways to ostracize LGBTQ+ students, teachers, and other Floridians.  October is National LGBTQ+ History Month. Except in Miami-Dade County schools where [...]

In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you.  Honestly, you could just be someone who needs, say, electricity on [...]

Midterm elections are upon us, my friends. People in Michigan already have ballots in hand. In fact, mine just came today. I can’t wait to vote for competent leaders who’ve been doing a damn good [...]

In Iran, Islamic religious police detained Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for wearing her hijab too loosely. Reports say that some of her hair was visible. That is forbidden. Amini died while in custody. Her [...]

In the assault on reproductive freedom in the United States, there’s one thing I can’t really wrap my brain around. According to the people who claim to be “pro-life,” being a mother is a gift [...]

Words. What are they? Are they simply a collection of letters arranged in a particular way to symbolize places, things, ideas, feelings, people and the like so that people can communicate with one another? Or [...]

Right-wing radicals love to rail against “identity politics” while at the same time asserting that the United States is a white, Christian nation. As if being white or Christian or a white Christian is not [...]

I don’t know about you, but when I want to blow off some steam and air some grievances, there’s just no more perfect target than a children’s hospital. Whether it's the staff, the administration, the [...]

I feel like I’m trapped in a decades long episode of "The Twilight Zone" where I am the only one who can see the monster on the wing of the airplane, and that monster is [...]

I woke up this morning thinking about disgraced former president Donald Trump and how relieved I was that he wasn’t on Twitter any more so that I was not constantly bombarded by what is surely [...]

Are you tired of being told how bad things are? Are you sick of being bombarded with terrible news all of the time? Do you wish that you could read about something positive for a [...]

A bill to protect marriage equality passed in the U.S. House recently and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is raring to get it passed in the Senate. Which would be nice! (And which would [...]

In another episode of “Elections Matter,” the U.S. House of Representatives, which has a Democratic majority, voted to protect the marriages of LGBTQ+ people should the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell, the 2015 case that saw [...]

I am sure by now you have heard the devastating news about Brett Kavanaugh, credibly-accused sexual assaulter/Supreme Court Justice/man who likes beer.  It’s hard for me to even write this. But you need to hear [...]

Well, this sucks. Even when you know something terrible is coming, you’re never quite prepared for the moment it happens. And yet here we are: The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. [...]

I woke up this morning with TLC’s “No Scrubs” stuck in my head, that anthem lambasting “deadbeat ass” men. And then I open my computer to read an article about the Texas Republican Party adopting [...]

Pride Month is halfway over, and what a month it has been so far. It’s awesome to see photos from the many Pride events and marches across the country and the world. It is NOT [...]

In the United States the call for meaningful gun violence prevention is louder than ever. People are tired of mass shootings every day and want their kids to go to school and come home alive.  [...]

How are you doing? You doing OK? Because I’m not. I can’t stop thinking about Uvalde, a place I didn’t even know existed until May 24, a day that marked something shocking — but not [...]

Clarence Thomas should not be a Supreme Court justice. But because we don’t believe women about sexual harassment, especially not Black women, he is. I’m old enough to remember Anita Hill testifying about being sexually [...]

In Buffalo, New York, a white supremacist terrorist went to a grocery store 200 miles from his house specifically to murder Black people. Which he did. I’m not going to name the terrorist here, because [...]

It was bound to happen. Eventually someone was going to discover that LGBTQ+ people own and run Disney and have been using it to make kids across the United States queer. But hey, someone had [...]

Wonder Woman (specifically Linda Carter as Wonder Woman) made me gay. Little did I know, that was the plan all along. But the truth about all of your comic heroes is finally coming out thanks [...]

The Michigan Republican Party recently held its endorsement convention in Grand Rapids, a process that many observers are calling a free and fair election that was totally well organized and showed Republican unity shit show. [...]

In the race to be the most anti-LGBTQ+ state in the union, Alabama is pulling ahead. Gov. Kay Ivey (who, get this, is a Republican!) signed a law making the provision of gender-affirming care to [...]

I have tinnitus, which, according to the technician who did my hearing test, is pronounced TIN-uh-TIS rather than the more commonly heard ti-NI-tis. But no matter how you pronounce it I can assure you: it [...]

I get a lot of texts from Donald Trump these days. OK, not from him, but from his campaign. I got one today that asked me to take a survey. Sure! I love surveys.  The [...]

Well, he signed it. Just like everyone expected. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. And not only did he sign it, but he signed it at Classical Preparatory School, a charter [...]

I’m writing this on the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nomination for the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman ever to [...]

It was only a matter of time before LGBTQ+ people were blamed for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There really and truly isn’t anything terrible that the anti-LGBTQ+ Christian right won’t pin on us pesky sexual [...]

Texas and Florida continue competing in their race to be named The Worst State in the U.S. It’s an absolutely exhausting display of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, especially exhausting for LGBTQ+ people and their families. People are [...]

As I write this, my 12-year-old son is in Florida spending time with his grandparents over a school break. It’s good for him to see his grandparents and soak up a little warmth and sun, [...]