It’s graduation time! Kids across the country will be donning caps and gowns and walking across stages to get their diplomas. It’s a weird ritual, really. From the shape of the hats on down. It [...]

On May 1, Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old white man, put Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man, in a chokehold on the subway in New York and killed him. Neely, who is reported to have been [...]

Things for trans and non-binary people in Florida, especially kids, are just getting worse and worse by the day. Republicans have a supermajority in Florida and the governorship. And they have been hella busy passing anti-trans [...]

A shout out and a “Hell yeah!” to Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Nebraska State Sen. Megan Hunt and Nebraska State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh who are standing up against anti-trans hate in their states. Since [...]

It’s almost 4 in the morning and I can’t sleep. A fun part of getting older. And so I’m up reading about white nationalist Tucker Carlson being fired from Fox News. It takes a lot [...]

Things are heating up in Florida, and I’m not just talking about the weather. The state is gearing up for one hell of a Hot Fascist Summer. On April 16, Florida’s Voice tweeted: “Survey: Majority [...]

Another day, another mass shooting in the United States. Actually, that’s being optimistic as there have been more mass shootings than there have been days in 2023 so far. That’s a lot. And no other [...]

They say you can tell a lot about a man by what motivates him to firebomb a building. And if the man says his motivation was a drag queen story hour, that tells you he’s [...]

The concerted effort to ban books that offend Christian fascist sensibilities rages on across the United States. While I suspect the 2023 numbers will be even higher, 2022 was The Year of Banned Books, according [...]

I have to be honest, I have not been keeping up with the recent “Trump is going to jail" news. What I do know is that Trump is running to be prez again and that [...]

In the grand tradition of the Log Cabin Republicans siding with people who hate them, they have asked far-right commentator and self-proclaimed internet troll Isabella Riley Moody to be one of their 2023 Outspoken Ambassadors. [...]

They say you learn something new every day, and today I learned about Bryson Gray, a rapper (I’m using that word loosely) and social commentator (using these words loosely, too) who just released an Eminem [...]

I’m currently in Florida visiting my sister and my in-laws who live here for some reason. I mean, I know there are good things about Florida. But this state has elected some exceptionally terrible leaders. [...]

A few years ago my wife, son and I drove across the country from Michigan to Yellowstone National Park. We had cell reception the entire trip except in South Dakota where our phones didn’t work [...]

I just read an article about the murder of Brianna Ghey, a transgender teenager found stabbed to death in a park in England. As NBC reports, Ghey had “visible stab wounds” and, just in case [...]

I’m about to do something I really don’t want to do. Something I have known was coming no matter what I did, yet I still tried to ignore it and hope it would go away. [...]

It’s 4:00 in the morning and I have to admit, I would much rather be sleeping than writing this column. But sometimes sleep is elusive. Too often, for me, which is not great. Also not [...]

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. [...]