I like some of his music nostalgically, but for reasons I’d never be able to explain, let alone admit in a non-anonymous forum, I really, really like “Copacabana.”

His music is corny af, but it’s FUN.

Same. I have a red-state cousin who I suspect is gay, and will never ever ever come out to his family, “hate the sin love the sinner” types. I think they would accept him but it would be hard work, and I can see that the process would be excruciating for him as a very shy young adult who is emotionally dependent on…

I was thinking about Angels in America the other day (seems extra topical right now) and remembering how apocalyptic it seemed during my childhood all the way through adolescence. I know HIV/AIDS still a major concern for the public health community, but the social aspects of the early-mid years are what I think have…

Reagan refused to acknowledge AIDS for seven years, denying funding for research and sentencing thousands to early, painful deaths.

People were being burned out of their houses! Kids were being threatened at school! That was only thirty years ago but it seems like nobody remembers it at all.

Hell, even in the ‘90's gay people kissing on TV made national news for weeks after the fact. (And more recently people freaked out over 2 teen actors on The Fosters kissing and called it abusive that the boys were ‘made’ to kiss. That kiss was waaaaay more chaste than a great many kisses I’ve seen between straight…

603 for lyfe.

Yep. Kids weren’t allowed to go to school if they were HIV positive, and AIDS was considered by many, including the Reagan administration, to be a punishment from god for homosexuality.

If they’re still alive, the 7 people that were surprised when Ricky Martin came out are SHOCKED by this. Shocked.

Make fun of me if you want, I love this kind man and his music. I’m glad he finally gets to enjoy being himself. Go Barry! Go Barry!

Yeah you said it well when you mentioned “the unique burdens gay people continue to face” because the older us gays are, the further back our sense of “it’s not safe to come out” is, the harder to come out it is. I didn’t come out until I was 35. There’s a lot of burden of mental health on older gays. Even when you’re…

Please someone tell me that someday, somehow, this entire group of garbage people will be punished and pay for being so fucking evil?

This a fucked up and terrifying statement that is so fucking true. For all of any other presidents and most candidates, even if you disagreed, you understood or had a general sense that they would be out to govern and think of the public as a whole. You know this as it’s been stated that one of the things that killed…

It’s funny that she states “don’t conflate lack of public denouncement with silence” for two very good reasons. One is that she understands that the things he’s saying are terrible and should be noted as such and two if she’s talking to him so much about it and he apparently listens to her then why hasn’t he walked…

Look, just because I’m being silent doesn’t mean I’m being silent. It just means I’m being. Silently.

But I respect the fact that he always listens. It’s how he was in business. It’s how he is as president.

Please don’t denigrate weasels by comparing them to the Trumps.

She’s a weasel.