Can We Please Treat LGBTQ People as Humans Already?

Obergefell was only eight years ago this month. We're already backsliding into the worst of the Gay Panic.

courtesy New York Magazine.

I was a child of the Eighties. I remember, slowly but surely, gaining an awareness of AIDS from the evening news, and then, a little after my seventh birthday, The Ryan White Story, a made for TV movie about an ostracized teen who contracted AIDS through blood transfusions, appeared on ABC. A year later, White would die just …