Dont Say Gay

If you’ve ever stood in front of a vending machine, waiting for a five-year-old to choose between pretzels, a fruit chew, or Cheetos — well, you’re probably still standing there. Adults experience the same thing in the beer aisle, which now affords buyers nearly unlimited choice: — domestic, imported…

There are, let’s say, basically four things that you have to think about when you decide to make a law that prohibits a behavior, right? The first is, is the thing bad (pretty basic, usually we don’t even start asking about making a law unless we agree that something here…

Because the right means to harm us — Warning: the following story contains discussion of suicidal impulses. We live in dangerous times. The daily onslaught of attacks against LGBTQ Americans has triggered me. Heartbreak is all around me. I’m spiraling back to that awkward, skinny, gay kid, scared and alone with no one to talk to. …

Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements and seek to identify common ground on some of the thorniest questions in education. I thought readers might enjoy…

At the end of the 1990s, when my child was 3 years old, I was blissfully ignorant of LGBTQ+ identity. I personally knew two gay people in grad school, and was complacent in my lack of bias towards the LGBTQ+ community. Nothing to do with me, I thought magnanimously, but…

When people think of Florida, the images are of beaches, Waffle Houses, and DisneyWorld. It might be number three in my mind’s eye, but DisneyWorld and Florida are symbiotically woven into the cartoonish nutshell we call the great State of Florida. DisneyWorld is the only reason most people visit Florida…

HMPRESENTLY: Poking Fun, Some Posted on May 6, 2022 by Harvey Radin There’s so much that’s so serious, would poking fun, a little, relieve stress? For me, it may be working, already. I’ve been poking fun, some, and I’m getting some relief. Maybe I should consider requesting an emergency use authorization for my stress…