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With Everything Going to Hell, Democrats Promise to Make Things Better. Some Day. Probably.

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-05-17T13:30:02-04:00May 17th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Now Streaming: The Homosexual and Transgender Agenda on LGBTQIADisney+

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-05-12T09:36:01-04:00May 12th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Super Bigotry

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-05-04T11:47:28-04:00May 4th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Ariana Grande’s Pagan Vagina Is After Your Children

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-04-28T08:25:32-04:00April 26th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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. [...]

Alabama Takes The Lead in the National Race to the Depths of Anti-LGBTQ+ Depravity 

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-04-22T12:30:36-04:00April 22nd, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Republicans Love Putin, Hate Gays. Rinse and Repeat.

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-04-12T10:50:56-04:00April 12th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Florida Republicans Threaten to Take Mickey Mouse Out for Not Hating Gays Enough

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-04-08T15:16:13-04:00April 8th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Florida Gov. Signs Law Targeting LGBTQ+ People in Effort to Make State Unhappiest Place On Earth

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-03-29T10:46:33-04:00March 29th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Republicans Use Judge Jackson Hearing to Put Their Racism, Transphobia on Display

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-03-22T15:25:16-04:00March 22nd, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Apparently LGBTQ+ People Leave God and Putin No Choice But to Invade Ukraine

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-03-10T16:04:32-05:00March 10th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 Gov. High Off His Own Supply of ‘Politically Motivated Misinformation’

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-03-01T13:49:35-05:00March 1st, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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 [...]

Florida Rep Wants to ‘Protect’ LGBTQ+ Kids by Outing Them to Parents, Family

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-02-24T15:54:17-05:00February 24th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

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, [...]

LGBTQ+ Content Bans Offer Shelter for Fragile Conservatives

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-02-15T11:33:24-05:00February 15th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Remember when Donald Trump won the 2016 election and his supporters called Hillary Clinton voters sore losers for their outrage and disgust? And then, when Trump lost the 2020 election his supporters threw a deadly [...]

Florida Governor as U.S. Nears One Million Covid Deaths: They/Them Pronouns Are the Real Killer

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-02-09T15:25:42-05:00February 9th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

As I write this, COVID-19 has killed over 900,000 people in the United States. It’s a hell of a number. 900,000 deaths in just a couple of years, and that’s likely an undercount. The COVID-19 [...]

Let’s All Read ‘Maus’ and Punch Nazis in the Figurative Face at the Literal Ballot Box

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-02-04T10:01:16-05:00February 4th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Great news, everyone! “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, is a bestseller 30 years after it was first published! In the book, Spiegelman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, depicts Jews as mice [...]

The Ghost Of My Dad Possessed Joe Biden (and Matt Gaetz Is A Stupid S.O.B.)

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-02-02T11:30:07-05:00February 2nd, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

A wise man once said, “What a stupid son of a bitch.” And that wise man was President Joe Biden, talking about Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy.  I have watched the video several [...]

During National Blood Shortage, FDA Still Calls Gay Blood ‘Icky’

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-01-18T11:38:19-05:00January 18th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Are straight people OK? And before you answer, just let me say: No. No, they are not. Case in point: I just read an article about how there is a national blood supply shortage and [...]

Anti-LGBTQ Preacher Wants to Press Hot Gay Buttons

By D'Anne Witkowski|2022-01-12T12:19:21-05:00January 12th, 2022|Creep of the Week, Opinions, Uncategorized|

It’s 2022! Happy New Year, everybody! As we face 2022 there are some hot button questions that I know you’re dying to get answers to: Will COVID-19 ever end? Will U.S. Democracy be trashed like [...]

Former Lt. Gov. of NY, Betsy McCaughey, Shares Regressive Views on ‘Transgender Militants,’ Explains All the ‘Cool’ Kids in School Are LGBTQ+

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-12-29T16:23:17-05:00December 29th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

I discovered a really cool book over the weekend called “Bodies Are Cool” by Tyler Feder. My sister bought a copy for her daughter, who is almost 2. It is one of her favorite books, [...]

There Are More Guns Than People in the U.S. — Republicans Call This a ‘Good Start’

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-12-22T12:18:15-05:00December 22nd, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

These are dark times.  The Supreme Court is going to either overturn or completely gut Roe v Wade, making abortion illegal, or at least impossible to get, in states across the country. We’re still in [...]

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Says Vaccines Are Bad Just Like Making Cake For Gays Is Bad

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-12-21T09:54:08-05:00December 21st, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

A lot of people are dead in this country. In two years, more than 800,000 people have died as a result of COVID-19, and yet we still have folks declaring it their God given right [...]

Christmas Tree Set on Fire as Part of Fake War in a Very Stupid Time to Be Alive

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-12-14T11:45:48-05:00December 14th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Ho ho ho, it’s the height of the War on Christmas. What have you done to subvert this struggling holiday so that it can finally be replaced by a Winter Pride Festival featuring parade Grand [...]

Montana Senator Wants to Know Why LGBTQ+ Keep Hitting Themselves

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-11-24T07:52:41-05:00November 24th, 2021|Creep of the Week|

Do you have the devil in you? If not, then what are you waiting for? ’Tis the Season, after all. Flu shot season, that is. And COVID-19 vaccination booster season. And if saving your own [...]

Teachers Sue School District for Right to Misgender Trans Students in the Name of Religious Freedom

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-11-18T09:26:20-05:00November 18th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Taking a look at what’s going on in U.S. public schools and I have to say, things aren’t great! From parents harassing and threatening school personnel with physical violence for daring to make their kids [...]

Talk Show Host Wistfully Remembers How Great It Was For Gays During AIDS Epidemic

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-11-12T08:32:59-05:00November 12th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Those who forget history, or who willfully ignore it, are doomed to repeat it, which is why it should worry you that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capital has been dismissed by Republicans [...]

Twitter Silences U.S. Rep By Forcing Him to Use His Second Twitter Account to Complain About Twitter Suspending His Other Account

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-11-08T08:31:43-05:00November 8th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Twitter owes U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) a big apology. They canceled him! Just because he used the site to do something that directly violated their terms of service — the very terms he agreed [...]

Texas School District Has Had It With Long-Haired Hippie Students

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-10-29T08:57:30-04:00October 29th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Hair is political.  The rules about hair in the United States are, well, hairy. A lot of it goes back to the Bible, which has lots of wild opinions about hair. In Leviticus, it states [...]

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Opens Mouth, Spews Filth

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-10-15T08:24:15-04:00October 15th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Dear Readers, I am not filth. And neither are you. This isn’t something that I should have to declare. But readers of this column know that there are people who don’t think LGBTQ+ people are [...]

Pat Robertson Is Retiring to Spend More Time With His Bigotry

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-10-06T12:10:52-04:00October 6th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

It's the end of an era. A very harmful and stupid era. Pat Robertson is stepping down from "The 700 Club." Robertson, the founder of the Christian Broadcast Network, has been the star of this [...]

Liz Cheney Makes Brave Public Declaration: Her Sister Is Human and Deserves Human Rights

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-09-29T09:52:41-04:00September 29th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is not going to save us. I know it's all the rage to point to her as the one reasonably sane Republican in a sea of seditious liars, but it's [...]

Texas Tells Biden Administration Where to Shove Their Transgender Protections

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-09-24T09:01:52-04:00September 24th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

The question on everybody’s mind right now is whether Texas is terrible enough.  They’ve got a broken electrical grid, a reprehensible abortion ban that sets bounty hunters loose to enforce the law, newly passed voter [...]

Sexually Harassing Teenagers Totally Righteous, Says God

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-09-20T15:21:45-04:00September 20th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions, Uncategorized|

If you spent this past weekend on a beach harassing teenagers for wearing "pornographic" bathing suits, it's totally okay as long as God told you to do it.  Or at least that's the reason Area Man [...]

Radical Right Has Perfected the Political Art of ‘I Know You Are But What Am I?’

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-09-09T17:04:25-04:00September 9th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Do you remember that scene in "Pee-wee’s Big Adventure" when Pee-wee Herman and Francis, in an argument about Pee-wee’s bike, end up insulting each other and then shouting, “I know you are, but what am [...]

You’ll Never Guess Who This Extremist Pastor Is Blaming for COVID

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-09-01T12:46:02-04:00September 1st, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

There are two things I need to say right up front. One, getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective way to prevent yourself and others from getting really sick and possibly dying. Two, [...]

People Who Hate Gays More Likely to Hate Vaccines in Totally Weird Coincidence

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-08-27T11:05:17-04:00August 27th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! The Pfizer vaccine has been officially FDA approved.  Finally, those completely reasonable and rational people who’ve been refusing to get the shot until it was upgraded from [...]

Infrastructure Week: It’s Here, It’s Queer, Oh God, Will It Ever End?

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-08-20T07:58:11-04:00August 20th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Have you ever driven or walked across a bridge? Have you ever turned on your faucet and received water that you could reasonably expect was safe to drink and/or to bathe in? Have you ever [...]

People! Are! Still! Dying! From! This! Virus! Seriously, Get Vaccinated.

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-08-13T15:31:37-04:00August 13th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

What an incredibly stupid time to be alive. Every day Republicans and their network, Fox, are telling people NOT to get vaccinated. That COVID-19 is either a hoax or just not a big deal. That [...]

​​Greetings From the Bunker: Scott Lively Preps for Another Insurrection

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-08-13T15:54:38-04:00August 10th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

I just returned from a cross-country trek with my wife and son and I am happy to report that in much of the country, COVID-19 is over and only freaky liberals wear masks. Fun! Seriously, [...]

You Know How Jack Hibbs Knows Homosexuality Doesn’t Exist? Elk Sex.

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-07-27T10:28:18-04:00July 27th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

This may come as a surprise to many of you, but there is a lot of porn on the internet. More porn than right-wing evangelical sites trying to sell you buckets of survivalist food or [...]

Lindsey Graham Stans For Chick-fil-A Because Values

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-07-23T17:13:55-04:00July 23rd, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Y’all, people are being very mean to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on the internet. Again. I mean, what does this guy have to do to get some respect around here? On July 14, Graham [...]

Pride Month Is Over. Now Get on Your Knees. But Only If You’re Into That.

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-07-07T15:26:40-04:00July 7th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

“Pride month is over,” Christian evangelist Franklin Graham declared on Facebook. You hear that, everybody? Those rainbow flags should all be taken down and boxed up in the basement next to that giant, light-up, inflatable [...]

Grimm Decision Is Anything But. The Fight For LGBTQ+ Rights Continues.

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-06-29T13:13:35-04:00June 29th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Congratulations to Gavin Grimm. If you don’t know that name, you should, especially if you give a damn about transgender rights and the attack on trans kids in this country.  Grimm sued his Virginia school [...]

Kellogg’s Pride Cereal Sells Out, Demands Kids Put Pronouns in Writing

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-06-22T14:33:15-04:00June 22nd, 2021|Creep of the Week|

I’ve gone from grocery store to grocery store buying up every box of the Kellogg’s Together With Pride cereal and I have them all listed on eBay. I’m kidding, I did not do that. Although [...]

Tony Perkins vs. The ‘Rainbow Onslaught’

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-06-17T07:33:57-04:00June 17th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Onslaught is the name of a thrash metal band from the U.K. Rainbow is the name of a hard rock band once fronted by metal legend Ronnie James Dio. Rainbow Onslaught is, sadly, not a [...]

Happy Pride Month! Now Go Choke on a Rainbow, Tony Perkins

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-06-11T16:18:26-04:00June 8th, 2021|Creep of the Week|

Aside from women daring to make their own reproductive decisions, there’s nothing right-wing conservatives hate more than Pride Month. The “rainbow deluge” the Family Research Council’s professional hate monger Tony Perkins calls it. Honestly, Rainbow [...]

Hats Off to Hate: Owner Burns Down Hat Shop to Own the Libs

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-06-01T09:59:07-04:00June 1st, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

I remember it like it was yesterday: Trump supporters flying flags that said, “Fuck your feelings," wearing “Suck it up, Buttercup” T-shirts and making fun of safe spaces. Now, these same people are demanding that [...]

It Burns! It Burns! Andrew Wommack Proposes a New Mark of the Beast for Gays

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-05-28T11:23:47-04:00May 25th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

When I was a kid in the '80s I saw an episode of the "Twilight Zone" called "To See the Invisible Man.” In a future society, people get a mark on their foreheads, kind of [...]

Tennessee Makes Teachers Wait 30 Days to Utter ‘Pete Buttigieg’ in Front of Students

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-05-17T22:33:05-04:00May 17th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Tennessee is on an anti-LGBTQ+ roll, y’all. You may remember that I wrote about how gay country music star T.J. Osborne was supposed to get honored by the state legislature via a resolution. But a [...]

State of Florida Runs Out of Problems, Looks Inside Drawers for More

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-04-20T09:22:40-04:00April 20th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Whenever I want to bum myself out, I do a Google news search for “Florida.” Because if terrible things are happening in the country, I can always count on Florida to kick the awfulness up [...]

Republicans Using Trans Kids as Political Pawns While a Pandemic Rages On

By D'Anne Witkowski|2021-04-15T11:43:20-04:00April 12th, 2021|Creep of the Week, Opinions|

Greetings from a pandemic that is still ongoing and getting worse in places. Here is a public service announcement: you don’t need to be eating inside of restaurants right now even if your state says [...]

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