Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo is co-founder of BASEDPolitics, and host of Damage Control, a podcast dedicated to reclaiming the debate over LGBT issues from extremists on both sides.

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No, There’s No ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence

Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest trans Americans suffer a homicide risk that’s actually less than the U.S. average.

Brad Polumbo

29 Jan 2024 · 8 min read

PODCAST 123: Washington-Based Journalist Brad Polumbo on LGBT Politics in the Pre- and Post-Trump Eras

Brad Polumbo speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about life as a gay conservative journalist in Washington, D.C., the politics of outing Republican lawmakers, the complex political tensions between LGB and T, and the new journalistic climate that he expects will emerge under Joe Biden.

Quillette / Brad Polumbo

20 Nov 2020 · 1 min read

The Outing of 'Lady G': Humiliating a Closeted Gay Republican in the Name of LGBT Rights

Progressive LGBT activists who abandon their values so they can go all in on a digital hatefest are no better than the bigots they purport to oppose.

Brad Polumbo

26 Jun 2020 · 6 min read

Press Censorship Has Always Hurt Democracy. In the Age of COVID-19, It's Also Killing People

Freedom of the press is a fundamental human right and a key pillar of democracy.

Brad Polumbo

30 Apr 2020 · 5 min read

Trailblazing Pete Buttigieg Revealed the Extent of ‘Progressive’ Homophobia

There is a certain kind of progressive writer who has convinced himself that there is only one way to be gay; and if you don’t fit that mold, you’re a class-war traitor who doesn’t even count as part of the LGB community.

Brad Polumbo

3 Mar 2020 · 7 min read

#Red-Carded: How I Got Pushed Out of an LGBT Soccer League for Gender WrongThink

This sense of longing and regret helps explain why, a half-decade later, as a fresh college graduate living in Washington, D.C., I signed up with the local LGBT soccer club.

Brad Polumbo

28 Jan 2020 · 6 min read

It's Time for 'LGB' and 'T' to Go Their Separate Ways

Gay rights activists simply want society to accept their different ways of living and loving—since gay men and lesbians pursue romantic interests and build families in ways that are at odds with conventional heterosexual expectations.

Brad Polumbo

26 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

Trump, Partisan Politics and Gay Rights

The fact that the new initiative is being led by a gay man, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, means little to these ideologues. In their narrative, Grenell is either a sellout or a stooge.

Brad Polumbo

7 Mar 2019 · 5 min read

The Politically Homeless Life of a Gay Conservative

In this media culture is the implicit notion that gay people are monolithic, that they have no individual capacity to reason or hold different values.

Brad Polumbo

18 Feb 2019 · 6 min read