Mutual aid saved my life. Now, I’m paying it forward
The community stepped in when the system failed Gabrielle Inès Souza. She reflects on how leading The Okra Project returns that care to others.
November 10 2025 6:00 AM
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Read the latest opinion pieces from political leaders, activists, and everyday queer people who want to express themselves in the leading publication for LGBTQ+ news and politics. Discover what people from our community have to say about issues and topics that touch the lives of the LGBTQ+ people and their allies. Find the voices of the people shaping our queer world right here.
Why trans storytelling in film is more important than ever
Opinion: "When a community is under attack, the response cannot be silence. We must amplify. We must speak louder. We must create more," writes filmmaker Zackary Drucker.
November 06 2025 1:31 PM
Dancing without the drink, how queer sobriety became a revolution of joy
Opinion: LGBTQ+ nightlife doesn’t have to mean excess. Gay & Sober’s global movement proves that recovery can look — and feel — like liberation.
November 03 2025 6:00 AM
Top Democratic officials target their most vulnerable constituents in new strategy document
Opinion: The party leaders' new guide, "Deciding to Win," encourages Democrats to be a little more like Republicans on "identity and cultural issues," Erin Reed writes.
October 31 2025 3:24 PM
Mike Johnson, a defender of a dictator, wildly blames Zohran Mamdani for the government shutdown
Opinion: Next Johnson will blame Mamdani for the Epstein files delay and for the bruise on Donald Trump's hand, writes John Casey.
October 29 2025 7:00 AM
Gender is not an ideology — but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people
The study of gender is being targeted by right-wing groups, because it raises questions about traditional social roles and inequalities that can result from them, argues Victoria Pitts-Taylor and Elizabeth Anne Wood.
October 28 2025 6:11 PM
Donald Trump will not be running for a third term in 2028, and it has nothing to do with law or politics
Opinion: The bluster about a third term is more of a Trump-created distraction that seeks to promote strength in the face of the creeping inevitability of aging, writes John Casey.
October 27 2025 10:31 PM
Queer survival in Mississippi and the bars that saved us
On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, gay bars weren’t just nightlife but sanctuaries where queer Southeners risked everything to exist, to dance, and to be seen, writes Mark Burr.
October 27 2025 6:00 AM
He was the church’s golden boy—and my domestic abuser
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. One man reflects on the partner who broke him, and the strength it took to break free.
October 27 2025 6:00 AM
In 1970, 'America's Mom' June Lockhart bravely spoke out defending 'homosexuals' when others wouldn't
Opinion: Lockhart, who died Thursday, was a beloved fixture on television and a lifelong LGBTQ+ ally, writes John Casey.
October 25 2025 6:22 PM
Trump smashed the U.S. Capitol and the White House, piercing the soul of the nation as Joe Biden predicted
Opinion: This week, watching Trump raze the "People’s House," I felt the same heartbreak as I did on January 6, writes John Casey.
October 25 2025 7:00 AM
SCOTUS will decide whether to take up the Kim Davis marriage case, and here's what it will mean
Opinion: There might be two conservative justices with the social and emotional investment in a right that now runs wide and deep in communities and neighborhoods across the country, writes John Casey.
October 24 2025 7:00 AM
While prices rise, jobs fade, and a shutdown hurts, Trump bills us $20+ billion for his lavish expenses
Opinion: Trump voters, are you happy about paying billions for a ballroom, bailout, vanity parade, and luxury airplane, and compensating your aggrieved president with hundreds of millions of dollars? .No? Then fix it, writes John Casey.
October 23 2025 7:00 AM
A line must be drawn: The cowardice of historic LGBTQ+ provider Fenway Health
Opinion: Fenway Health must return to its roots and care for those the government casts aside, writes Erin Reed.
October 22 2025 6:01 PM
In a sure sign of a looming dictatorship, Trump is making the White House into his forever home
Opinion: The People’s House is being transformed into Trump’s fortress, where he wishes to stay indefinitely. A mausoleum is next, writes John Casey.
October 22 2025 7:00 AM
22 times Donald Trump has dumped a number 2 on America
Opinion: The real sludge is not the one coming from Trump’s hideous AI plane, it’s the excrement that sits in the White House, trying to clog up democracy, writes John Casey.
October 21 2025 7:00 AM
I survived conversion therapy. Now it's coming back in softer words
Opinion: It’s not called "conversion therapy" anymore, but the message is the same: change or disappear. The Trevor Project’s latest findings reveal that behind the rebrand, the harm is only growing, argues Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez.
October 21 2025 6:00 AM
Teaching tolerance isn't indoctrination. It's protection
Opinion: In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the justices gave bigotry a permission slip and ruled that parents can “opt out” of LGBTQ-inclusive lessons, further diminishing lessons and practices on inclusivity in civic society, argues Darek M. Ciszek.
October 20 2025 6:00 AM
Is Cheryl Hines being publicly forced to curb her enthusiasm for RFK Jr.?
Opinion: She needs to ditch her brain-wormed husband, take the money, her integrity, and a one-way flight to a country with functioning health care, writes John Casey.
October 18 2025 8:00 AM
If you were amazed at what Jane Goodall did for our planet, imagine what you could do
Opinion: The late conservationist left many important lessons for us to contemplate, writes Michael Dru Kelley.
October 18 2025 7:00 AM