Processing the Rainbow-phobia

A purely scattered ranting to just get it out of my system after another week of ridiculous politics and continual anti-LGBTQ+ shit. There’s rainbow-phobia going on in America y’all. There is a tidal wave of legislation being presented in state legislatures that is anti-LGBTQ+. Much of this is guised as “protecting the children” or “freedom

Before You Say Amen

Happy Pride Month! One tradition I have for Pride since coming out, is to watch primarily queer films, or works by queer directors and actors during the month. Over the years, and out of all the queer films in the world though, I always watch Prayers for Bobby. If you haven’t seen it, it’s based

A Response

I stumbled across a blog post on Facebook early this week that I’ve decided to respond to. Below is the post (in italics) with my response (in bolded orange): It has been said that in marriage, the pain and stress of divorce is greater than even the pain of losing a spouse to death. I believe

“I will push back”: Thoughts on Those Who Fight Against Non-Discrimination Policies

As we all know, recently there has been an uptick in the debate on LGBTQ rights and federal and state non-discrimination legislation and policies. The arguments for adding LGBTQ into non-discrimination legislation and policies are basically: FOR non-discrimination legislation and policies: It allows for equal protections for LGBTQ identified individuals. AGAINST non-discrimination legislation and policies: It infringes