“Locker room panic” is presumptuous, and, quite frankly, threatens to create more slippery slopes — We’ve all heard that age-old argument justifying homophobia: the locker room is no place for people who are Queer. Apparently, gay men and lesbian women — as well as bisexual and transgender people — mainly desire access to sex-segregated sanctuaries so we can ogle the hot bodies of teammates and…

So then why am I writing about them?! — Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve probably heard at least some details about the Depp vs. Heard trial. Many people followed it obsessively throughout this past spring. Others took a quick peek at the details…and then chose to ignore the rest of it. I fell into the latter group. …

Adib Khorram’s YA (Young Adult) novel “Darius the Great Is Not Okay” places a teenager at the intersection of race, sexuality, and disability — Public conversations about diversity overwhelmingly focus on race, biological sex, gender, and/or sexual orientation. When limited to these popular characteristics, discourse on diversity is setting itself up to become redundant. I’ve observed an inclination to assume that young people won’t be able to grasp the concept of intersectionality, and I…

Did I get involved in the “correct” way? I don’t know…but I went with my gut, and used my best discretion — I’m going to preface this article with a candid revelation. Despite being a White cisgender male person, I have been the target of sexual harassment constantly throughout my life (which, in some ways, is mind-boggling to me, because I don’t consider myself to be very physically attractive).

How Florida valedictorian Zander Moricz represents a cultural shift against sexual repression — Ever since the passage of Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law (H.B. 1557; the so-called Parental Rights in Education Act), members of the LGBT+ community and our allies have worried what that will mean for our rights and liberties. On paper, the bill prohibits educators in Kindergarten through the Third…

Have you *really* already tried it “my way”? Or are you just trying to manipulate people into doing things “your way”? — Many of you probably remember the classic 1989 film, Lean on Me. Morgan Freeman portrays a tough high school principal known as “Crazy Joe” (based on the real-life New Jersey principal, Joe Louis Clark). He resorts to domineering measures in order to save the failing school from being shut down.

The 42nd season of “Survivor” skillfully embodied the art of war through misdirection and benevolent blindsides — Ever since the U.S. version of Survivor returned from its year-long pandemic hiatus, all of us in the fanbase have been observing its new attempts at experimentation. Given the franchise’s (hopefully temporary) shift to untitled seasons identified by only a numerical designation, I’ve vowed to “re-christen” each new season, after…

Could its metaphors have been intentional? Reminding us that this is, indeed, our final goodbye? — For the past six years, us fans of NBC’s This is Us have been captivated by the familial journey of the Pearsons. In 1980, Jack and Rebecca (portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore) are pregnant with fraternal triplets. Rebecca gives birth to two of them: a boy whom they…

Could Hitler have been stopped in his tracks…or would a cyber-obsessed media just have egged him on? — This past spring, I penned a thought-experiment entitled “What If There Had Been Social Media in the 1920s?” It was a rumination of how history may have taken much different turns, had television, film, computers, and the Internet been widely dispersed during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. I had…