I’m one of those people who has written critical essays. As a lifelong liberal democrat, and a gay man horrified by Republican anti-LGBTQ positions, I have raised up my voice objecting to Biden breaking a promise we LGBTQ people see as existentially critical.

I wrote an essay a couple weeks ago on Medium taking Biden to task for breaking a repeated, forcible promise to make the LGBTQ Equality Act one of the top priorities of his administration.

That essay ran as the front cover of last week’s Washington Blade, and my editor told me he received four furious phone calls from the White House communications office over it. Apparently, I wasn’t being “loyal” enough.

But I’m not loyal to Biden. Not my job. I’m not a member of his administration or in any way a Democratic operative.

My job, as far as I see it, and I guess this is my Plan B, is to pressure him as hard as I can to keep the firm promise he made to us.

When he promised to make the LGBTQ Equality Act one of his top priorities, we believed him. The last thing any of us expected is that he would drop the matter and never again mention it to the American people.

We know what top priority looks like, and we know for sure that isn’t it.

You bet I’m worried the Republicans are going to win the midterm election. You bet I’m worried about 2024.

That’s WHY I’m spitting mad at Biden for breaking his promise to us.

Will I work as hard as I can to see Democrats win in the next two elections? I sure will. Will I work as hard as I can to see Biden pay a high political price for lying to us? Betcher ass. He had better not plan to run for president again. I will fight him tooth and nail if he tries to get nominated.

Because what good does it do to have a supposed ally in office who breaks a firm, repeated promise the moment he thinks he doesn’t need us anymore?

That’s my Plan B as a gay man Biden betrayed.