Things are heating up in Florida, and I’m not just talking about the weather. The state is gearing up for one hell of a Hot Fascist Summer. On April 16, Florida’s Voice tweeted: “Survey: Majority of ‘queer parents’ consider leaving ...
Another day, another mass shooting in the United States. Actually, that’s being optimistic as there have been more mass shootings than there have been days in 2023 so far. That’s a lot. And no other country — aside from countries ...
They say you can tell a lot about a man by what motivates him to firebomb a building. And if the man says his motivation was a drag queen story hour, that tells you he’s a Nazi. Such is the ...
The concerted effort to ban books that offend Christian fascist sensibilities rages on across the United States. While I suspect the 2023 numbers will be even higher, 2022 was The Year of Banned Books, according to the American Library Association, ...
In the grand tradition of the Log Cabin Republicans siding with people who hate them, they have asked far-right commentator and self-proclaimed internet troll Isabella Riley Moody to be one of their 2023 Outspoken Ambassadors. LCR describes their ambassadors as ...
They say you learn something new every day, and today I learned about Bryson Gray, a rapper (I’m using that word loosely) and social commentator (using these words loosely, too) who just released an Eminem “diss” track called “Like Eminem.” ...
I’m currently in Florida visiting my sister and my in-laws who live here for some reason. I mean, I know there are good things about Florida. But this state has elected some exceptionally terrible leaders. The people running the state ...
A few years ago my wife, son, and I drove across the country to Yellowstone National Park. We had cell reception the entire trip except in South Dakota where our phones didn’t work at all. Which meant no GPS. Thankfully ...
I just read an article about the murder of Brianna Ghey, a transgender teenager found stabbed to death in a park in England. As NBC reports, Ghey had “visible stab wounds” and, just in case you didn’t think this story ...
I’m about to do something I really don’t want to do. Something I have known was coming no matter what I did, yet I still tried to ignore it and hope it would go away. And yet, here we are. ...
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I have to admit, I would much rather be sleeping than writing this column. But sometimes sleep is elusive. Too often, for me, which is not great. Also not great? The word “great.” Conservatives ...
In Florida, teachers are no longer legally allowed to choose books for their own classroom libraries because they might choose a book that offends the delicately hateful sensibilities of Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis signed a law mandating all books that ...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Saves Arkansas Children From Racism, Equips Them to Thrive in a Racist Future
Following in her father’s footsteps, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the new governor of Arkansas. Which really sucks for the people of Arkansas and isn’t good for the rest of the country, either. You’ll remember that her dad, Mike Huckabee, was ...
Arizona starts the year off right by protecting children from lace front wigs, stoned tights and faces beat for the gods! The list of threats to children in the United States is very long. Off the top of my head ...
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 by ...
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 ...
Updated January 8, 2023, at 6:20 AM. Update: Joanna Doven responded to her history of anti-trans, racist, and pro-Republican comments coming to light through her campaign Twitter account Saturday with a 25-tweet-long thread. Doven accused QBurgh and others of committing ...
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 ...
Note: An attorney for the Club Q shooting suspect in an initial statement identified the shooter as non-binary and used they/them pronouns. However, in all subsequent statements and filings, the attorney now uses “he/him” pronouns. There are a lot of ...
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 Aykroyd ...
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 ...
If you’ve been driving around Western Pennsylvania lately you might have heard some crazy radio advertisements spouting misinformation and hate about trans kids and gender-affirming care. It’s all a lie, but it’s one that is gaining traction across the country. ...
In the United States, everybody knows that you don’t mess with Texas. That’s because you don’t have to. Texas will undoubtedly mess with you. Honestly, you could just be someone who needs, say, electricity on a regular and reliable basis ...
In Iran, Islamic religious police detained Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for wearing her hijab too loosely. Reports say that some of her hair was visible. That is forbidden. Amini died while in custody. Her family says she was beaten. ...
In the assault on reproductive freedom in the United States, there’s one thing I can’t really wrap my brain around. According to the people who claim to be “pro-life,” being a mother is a gift from God; the most esteemed ...
Right-wing radicals love to rail against “identity politics” while at the same time asserting that the United States is a white, Christian nation. As if being white or Christian or a white Christian is not an identity. To them, identity ...
I don’t know about you, but when I want to blow off some steam and air some grievances, there’s just no more perfect target than a children’s hospital. Whether it’s the staff, the administration, the families, or even the children ...
I feel like I’m trapped in a decades-long episode of “The Twilight Zone” where I am the only one who can see the monster on the wing of the airplane, and that monster is the Republican Party. It’s hard to overstate ...
A bill to protect marriage equality passed in the U.S. House recently and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is raring to get it passed in the Senate. Which would be nice! (And which would also be more likely if ...
I am sure by now you have heard the devastating news about Brett Kavanaugh, credibly-accused sexual assaulter/Supreme Court Justice/man who likes beer. It’s hard for me to even write this. But you need to hear it. On July 6, Kavanaugh ...
Well, this sucks. Even when you know something terrible is coming, you’re never quite prepared for the moment it happens. And yet here we are: The United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24. Pregnant people no ...
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+ platform yet, ...
Pride Month is nearly 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Well, he signed it. Just like everyone expected. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. And not only did he sign it, but he signed it at Classical Preparatory School, a charter school in Florida, surrounded by ...
I’m writing this on the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nomination for the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court ...
Texas and Florida continue competing in their race to be named The Worst State in the U.S. It’s an absolutely exhausting display of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, especially exhausting for LGBTQ+ people and their families. People are under enough stress, damn it. ...
Remember when Donald Trump won the 2016 election and his supporters called Hillary Clinton voters sore losers for their outrage and disgust? And then, when Trump lost the 2020 election his supporters threw a deadly temper tantrum, storming the U.S. ...
As I write this, COVID-19 has killed over 900,000 people in the United States. It’s a hell of a number. 900,000 deaths in just a couple of years, and that’s likely an undercount. The COVID-19 pandemic is the deadliest mass ...
Great news, everyone! “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, is a bestseller 30 years after it was first published! In the book, Spiegelman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. It ...
A wise man once said, “What a stupid son of a bitch.” And that wise man was President Joe Biden, talking about Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy. I have watched the video several times because this particular moment ...
Not sure if you know this, but I am a big fan of heavy metal music. It’s not the only music I like, but it’s the music I like the best. In fact, soon after Trump’s election, I turned to ...
As we face 2022 there are some hot button questions that I know you’re dying to get answers to: Will COVID-19 ever end? Will U.S. Democracy be trashed like a used surgical mask before the year is through? Will the ...
I discovered a really cool book over the weekend called “Bodies Are Cool” by Tyler Feder. My sister bought a copy for her daughter, who is almost 2. It is one of her favorite books, second only to “Wheels on ...
A lot of people are dead in this country. In two years, more than 800,000 people have died as a result of COVID-19, and yet we still have folks declaring it their God given right to get Covid and spread ...
Ho ho ho, it’s the height of the War on Christmas. What have you done to subvert this struggling holiday so that it can finally be replaced by a Winter Pride Festival featuring parade Grand Marshall Hermey, the elf who ...
These are dark times. The Supreme Court is going to either overturn or completely gut Roe v Wade, making abortion illegal, or at least impossible to get, in states across the country. We’re still in a pandemic that has killed ...
Do you have the devil in you? If not, then what are you waiting for? ’Tis the Season, after all. Flu shot season, that is. And COVID-19 vaccination booster season. And if saving your own life or the life of ...
Taking a look at what’s going on in U.S. public schools and I have to say, things aren’t great! From parents harassing and threatening school personnel with physical violence for daring to make their kids wear masks to the absolute ...