Snatching victory from inevitable death changes your definition of the possible — I gasped and clutched my stomach as powerful memories tried to crush me. I’m not ashamed to say I ran into the kitchen and poured a huge slug of scotch into a coffee mug and downed it in one snap. I snapped off my TV and tried to stop shaking. …

We see it clearly, as do other marginalized people, because we’re targets of politically inspired violence — Warning: this article contains anti-LGBTQ slurs and images/descriptions of violence readers may find traumatizing. Did you read about the group of staid U.S. historians who just met privately with President Biden to warn him that U.S…

A Prism & Pen writers prompt — When I asked Prism & Pen writers yesterday what our new prompt should be, I was thinking about fear, about how a story I’m working on shows LGBTQ people serving as canaries in a coalmine. …

Log Cabin Republicans join Trump/GOP cult of personality — If you can’t guess from my headline, I don’t much care for the Log Cabin Republicans They’re an advocacy group of gay men and a smattering of lesbians who support Republican politics and say they deserve a place at the GOP table. I don’t dislike the Log Cabin crowd because I’m a Democrat, though. When they formed in 1977 to fight as GOP insiders against a…

Their definition is peculiar: LGBTQ = Porno — You know book banning is out of control when people fight to close public libraries Think that doesn’t happen in the United States, that it’s only the stuff of dystopian fiction? Think again! Hear about that Iowa library that closed early this summer because three head librarians quit, one after the other? They and the rest of the staff got tired (and frightened) of being…