LGBTQ
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🏳️🌈 Confronting Hate With Speech and Silence
In hindsight, I should have waved my flag instead flapping my gums.
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🏳️🌈 Obergefell Turns Nine. Yawn.
After a turbulent and mentally exhausting fight for marriage equality, victory feels, well, boring. That’s good.
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🏳️🌈 Lesbians to Subaru: We Hear You Loud and Queer
Don’t remember these groundbreaking, risk-taking, history-making ads? That might be because they were designed to go over most people’s heads.
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🏳️🌈 Lessons From a Pink-Stained Wretch
Ensuring fair coverage of LGBTQ issues in the Tribune wasn’t my responsibility, but I made it my mission. This story from 2007 illustrates the good that can happen when queer reporters make themselves heard in the newsroom.
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🏳️🌈 Pinkwishy-Washing
These fair-weather friends didn’t help their reputations — or their bottom lines.
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🏳️🌈 Man, What Are You Doing Here?
Billy Joel says “Piano Man” isn’t about a guy playing in a bar. I say that it’s about a guy who’s *oblivious* to the fact that he’s playing in a gay bar. Every time Joel makes his point, he validates and strengthens my own.
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🏳️🌈 Eight Years Later
Time is supposed to heal all wounds, so why is this one still as painful as ever?
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🏳️🌈 Straight-Up Whiffing
Out at the ol’ ball game? Not if the Texas Rangers have anything to say about it.