Originally written and published at LGBTQ Nation | June 5, 2025 You may have missed it: a protest unlike the others. It happened one day before the massive Easter weekend protests grabbed the headlines, when thousands of people in big cities and small towns turned out to decry tyranny just as colonial American revolutionaries had…
Featured in the NY Daily News | 2/20/2025 “The occupants lay, resigned and silent, decaying in succession…One after another, ashen-faced men with skeletal bodies reclined, their bony knees pointing upward sharply under their blankets like stakes under a tent. Each had an IV pole and blood pack, wires and hoses attached to the backs of…
featured in the NY Daily News | Abortion. The word itself elicits a visceral reaction. It stirsthe images, rhetoric, and experiences that have shaped our responses. It evokes fear, outrage, heartache, loss. It recalls physical pain and emotional torment. But it may also signify relief, healing and restoration. I am particularly sensitive to the word at this moment because an abortion could have saved the life of a dear friend. Whitney…