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D'Anne Witkowski

D'Anne Witkowski is a writer living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBTQ+ politics for nearly two decades. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

Texas Scrubs (aka Republicans), the Deadbeat Dads of State Government, Double Down on Anti-Trans B.S.

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 their most anti-LGBTQ+ [...]

GOP: 31 Patriot Front Members in Riot Gear on Their Way to Disrupt Idaho Pride ‘Just Tourists’ 

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 so awesome to see photos of masked right-wing terrorists who had [...]

In Wake of Elementary School Massacre, Ohio Republicans Laser-Focused on One Kid's Crotch

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.And Republicans are responding to the deadly gun violence [...]

It’s. The. Guns. I Repeat: IT’S THE GUNS

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 at all surprising — in this [...]

Ginni and Clarence Thomas Definitely Don’t Talk To Each Other About Hopes, Dreams, Overthrowing Government

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 harassed by Thomas [...]

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

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 fuck that guy. But I am going to call [...]

Now Streaming: The Homosexual and Transgender Agenda on LGBTQIADisney+

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 to challenge Warner Brothers and their creepy heterosexual [...]

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

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 to the new documentary “Marvel & DC's War on God [...]

Ariana Grande’s Pagan Vagina Is After Your Children

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.They tapped Trump-backed [...]

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

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 anyone under age 19 a felony. Once the law goes into [...]

Republicans Love Putin, Hate Gays. Rinse and Repeat.

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 sucks.It occurs to me that this high-pitched, [...]

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

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 first question was about Disney and whether or not they were too “woke” [...]