With a Supreme Court Victory Behind Us, Congress Must Finish the Job on LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Protections
"It is my duty as a representative in Congress … to represent everyone in my community," Congressman Justin Amash says. Last month, I joined so many across the [...]
Parting Glances: Book in Progress No. 1
I keep on my laptop desk a corner of chalky red brick. It's all that's left of the Cassboro Apartments formerly at 444 Peterboro, Detroit. I found this memento [...]
Creep of the Week: Mike Pompeo
I'm in Philadelphia visiting my sister and apparently during my trip there were Nazis marching here and chanting "fuck the gays." Ah, America. Meanwhile, [...]
Creep of the Week: Michael Heath
Corporate America, man. Who knew they had the power to do seemingly impossible things like getting the Washington football team that uses a racial slur as a [...]
Water in the Desert
Netflix has recently released "Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen," a documentary created by Sam Feder, Amy Scholder and Laverne Cox. In it, a cast of [...]
Win $2.5 Million (Save. $499)
It must have been something cogent and articulately pleading in my weekly prayers, but recently I've just been darn lucky. Not once, but twice. This past week [...]
Creep of the Week: Mark Chambers
I am thinking of changing the title of this column to "Dispatches from Hell," because I truly feel like every week is just another barrage of awful news [...]
Why Britney Spears Is the Least Problematic Human Being
Britney Spears is my favorite celebrity. My obsessions with others came and went — Paris Hilton, Oprah, Lindsay Lohan — but Spears has stayed in first place [...]
Parting Glances: ShaZOOM! Oz Pride 2020
In spite of the halo'd Wizard of Oz, Pride 2020 came to the Yellow Brick Road — for the first time ever — this June. Thanks to the determination, hard work — [...]
Creep of the Week: Roger Severino
Even if you know in your heart of rainbow hearts that the president of the United States and the cretins who work for him hate you, you might not realize that [...]
Together We Can Make Historic Change
I was honored to recently join Affirmations, OutFront Kalamazoo, Equality Michigan and several other hardworking organizations and activists across the state [...]
