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.
Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest trans Americans suffer a homicide risk that’s actually less than the U.S. average.
Listen onSpotify 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.
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.
Freedom of the press is a fundamental human right and a key pillar of democracy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.