LGBTQ
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… Queers and David’s Stars
Nazi atrocities against Jews and queers are more connected than many people realize. If we continue thinking of them as two distinct groups, we can’t learn from history, nor can we prepare to fight off the modern threat of authoritarianism.
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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.