D'Anne Witkowski
James Lindsay Pre-Blaming Drag Queens for Deaths and Violence He Eagerly Awaits
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, clearly and definitively won [...]
Creeps Pulled Out All The Stops in 2022, But the LGBTQ+ Community Refused to Back Down
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, it’s a low bar).We saw some historic wins by LGBTQ+ [...]
Senator Mike Lee Is Coming for Your Porn (See What We Did There?)
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 Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which [...]
GOP Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler: I Don’t Always Cry at Weddings. Just Gay Ones.
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 as between “a [...]
Proud Boys Misunderstand What 'Slay, Queen' Means, Bring Guns to Drag Event
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 drag queens on Dec. 3 when the Proud [...]
Club Q Shooter’s Dad: My Child Might Be a Murderer, But at Least They’re Not Gay
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 of bad parents out there. But I [...]
A Man Walks Into a Bar — Another Horrific Day in the United Guns of America
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. A place where people can be themselves, hang [...]
Men Are From Mars, Women Need a Penis: Life on Planet Shapiro
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 guessed it, cones. Dan [...]
If You Chose Not to Vote, You Made a Bad Choice and Will Be Punished
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 showed up tomorrow.There is so much at [...]
Conservatives Are Lying About Transgender People and Think You’re Dumb
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 [...]
Hate Democracy and Yourself? Vote Republican.
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 lie, but it’s [...]
My Teachers Tried to Make Me Straight. It Didn't Work.
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 the school board voted [...]