Gayskool
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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.
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🏳️🌈 Gaydar Detector
We can prove gaydar exists, but we don’t know why it’s there and how it works. (The same is true of quantum physics and reality television.) Here’s my theory.