Why Pete’s run mattered to me
In 2014, I traveled with a U.S. trade delegation of about 20 business leaders to the Gulf region. I was serving as the speechwriter...
Creep of the Week: Republican Party
The current state of the Republican Party: 100-percent morally bankrupt. It’s not like they had a great track record before, but the party has...
What we can learn from ACT UP
In Sarah Schulman’s new book, “Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993,” she says about ACT UP members:...
Knowing how and when to set your own rules
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Creep of the Week: Sam Clovis
If you’re a bigoted jerk in America, you can trust that the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect sees you and isn’t afraid to...
Creep of the Week: Peter LaBarbera
Hair is a very charged and political thing. It has been since, well, forever. For example, a colleague of mine once...
Zola Tails
Zola is pure joy. That's the answer I give every time someone asks, "How's your puppy, by the way?" All dogs, in my eyes,...
Creep of the Week: Grayson Fritts
“Can we at least agree that we can hate them?” That’s a question posed by Grayson Fritts, a preacher in Knoxville, Tennessee in a...
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...
Donald Trump & Mike Pence
The Trump presidency has truly redefined “breaking news” in the most literal way. Every day there is a new harm, a...
Donald J. Trump (yes, again)
Heather Heyer, 32, was murdered at a Nazi rally by a Nazi terrorist slamming his car into a crowd. In America. In 2017. ...
Creep of the week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad president. This is something that has been clear to the majority of Americans from...
One joke too many
In the early 1980s, a friend of mine let me borrow a vinyl record of theirs: the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for “Monty Python's...
Brenton Harrison Tarrant
“Let’s get this party started.” That’s how Brenton Harrison Tarrant kicked off his live-stream video of his massacre at the first of two mosques...
Where do little trans people come from?
Over the last several years, there has been a belief in some circles that the increase of transgender people over the last decade is...
Creep of the week: Trump Administration
The Trump Administration has declared war on transgender people. This isn’t a new revelation, but they have succeeded in dismantling every protection the Obama...
Freedom from religious oppression
We in the LGBT community have been overwhelmed this week with not only dealing with our own emotions of what occurred in Orlando, but...
Creep of the Week: Alex Jones
Alex Jones of the conspiracy-laden, right-wing echo chamber that is Infowars took a closer look at the so-called Women’s March on the Jan. 22...
Creep of the Week: Todd Courser
Republican Michigan state Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, two of the most right-wing and extreme members of the legislature, have been doing it...
Sex as resistance
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