Herstory Made
I have waited for this Inauguration Day my entire life.
Waited to see a woman sworn in to the top of the ticket. Waited for...
Real empathy is always healing
Watching Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ memorial to the Covid-19 dead, one would almost think we’ve returned to a point close to normalcy, to...
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
If all goes well, by the time you read this Donald Trump will no longer be president. But 2021 has not been going well....
Biden’s LGBT Agenda For Day 1
As a journalist covering LGBT issues, this will be the 8th presidential transition I’ve witnessed, from the Carter Administration to the Biden Administration. Of...
A new day is brewing
Jason and I passed a milestone this week, one that many of you have had as well. For us it represents our 10th month...
So Be It
Around 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 6th of January, 2021, a mob of pro-Trump forces, QAnon believers, Proud Boys and others, whipped...
One More Week
By this time next week, Joe Biden will be the President and Kamala Harris will be the Vice President of the United States. And...
Creep of the Week: Republican Party
Hello! It’s 2021 and everything is fine now! Ha, ha, just kidding. The dumpster fire rages on.
Some things in 2021 are delightful, like that...
The biggest LGBT stories of 2020
Although Trump continued to chip away at the rights our community has attained over the last few years, we did make some amazing gains...
Your Trump-supporting relatives should get no free passes
While many of us LGBTQ people have our chosen families who share our political and personal views, a lot of us also have biological...
The Hidden Epidemic
This op-ed discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255 and is...
American individualism: now available in gay
The rise in support that Trump saw from the LGBTQ+ community in the 2020 election proved shocking to many. How could any member of...
Midwood Investment & Development vs. the LGBTQ community
You’re going to see the words Midwood Investment & Development a lot in this column. You’re also going to see Gloria Casarez a lot...
Midwood Investment & Development: homophobic, racist?
Is Midwood Investment & Development homophobic and racist? If you feel that those words are too strong, read on.
Here’s the short history of what...
Keeping hope for the holidays
We columnists hate writing our holiday columns. Each year we try to find a new angle to the annual feelings we all go through,...
We need more out LGBTQ teachers
With President-elect Biden’s decision to name Pete Buttigieg as the Secretary of Transportation, we will finally (pending Senate approval) see an LGBTQ person lead...
Mayor Pete will make a great Secretary of Transportation
In my October Q & A with candidate Joe Biden, I asked whether he would put LGBT people in his cabinet. His answer was...
What’s on your mind?
There are times, like many people, that I'll find myself with writer's block. At those times I turn to my Facebook friends and ask...
A universal fight for LGBTQ rights
When I lived in Japan in the mid 2000s, there wasn’t much open action for LGBTQ visibility. No out celebrities on billboards, no awareness...
Don’t wait for a federal Equality Act. Go local instead.
When speculating what Joe Biden’s first 100 days will look like, a lot of media outlets have written about the president-elect’s vow to sign...