Anti-LGBTQ BillSh!t

This week, we talked about the current state of the state, which is decidedly anti-queer. From the loud hate rhetoric to the bills against drag queens and trans people, this country is struggling against a very conservative voice that is seeking to exclude so many of us. It is a truly challenging time to be anything but a cisgender, white man in this country. I can honestly say that I have never been more embarrassed to be an American.

While I am decidedly left and quite liberal, I’m okay with others who do not think, approach, or feel the same way that I do. What I do not now and will never understand is being exclusionary to an entire group of people, categorically. How do you fix your mind to do that? It baffles me. To my queer community out there who is hurting right now, I am so sorry for what the political conversation and landscape look like right now. All I can do is hold hope with you, that things might improve and we all learn from this. May we never hold this space again.