Victimhood Is One Helluva Drug
Queer Majority, September 2022
The Re-Demonization of the Gay Male
Queer Majority, December 2023
Who Wronged Britney Spears?
The Free Press, November 2023
A review of Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me.
Homophobia in drag
spiked, May 14, 2023
The New Homophobia
Newsweek, April 21, 2022
As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed
Quillette, July 8, 2021
Pronouns and the City
Washington Examiner, February 10, 2022
My review of HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ reboot, ‘And Just Like That…’
The Stifling Conformity of Campus Sexual Politics
Washington Examiner, January 13, 2022
The capitalist politics of ‘queer.’
How Alcoholics Anonymous lost its way
Unherd, May 12, 2023
Addicts with the 'wrong opinions' no longer fit in.
Heinrich Hofmann’s Christ
Quarto, Spring 2019
Winner of Columbia University’s Nonfiction Prize
On moral scrupulosity, religious obsession, and life’s imitation of art.
A Second Look at ‘Britney: For the Record’
Medium, January 12, 2019
Revisiting the documentary that takes us inside the mind of the world’s most unreachable pop star.
There’s a Reason Why I’m Like This
Quarto, April 25, 2019
After you’ve been administered the Heimlich maneuver (twice), you begin to rethink what’s possible.
Notorious Anti-Gay Preacher Scott Lively and the Language That Kills
HuffPost, June 12, 2017
Connecting the dots between American evangelical activists and the criminalization of homosexuality around the globe.
Generations of AIDS
Columbia Daily Spectator, October 10, 2017
Examining HIV/AIDS-related stigma with three generations of gay Columbia students, past and current.
Want to Save America? Stop Tweeting.
Medium, November 5, 2019
By cancelling people on social media, we are cancelling ourselves.
How to Be Cisgender
Quarto, January 17, 2018
On playing by the rules, the ‘bro hug,’ and the supernatural power of My Little Ponies.
Nothing Left to Lose
Washington Examiner, August 21, 2022
My review of HBO’s docuseries, ‘The Anarchists’
The Tragic Gay Legacy of Madonna’s Most Famous “Vogue” Performance
Medium, April 29, 2020
It was the twilight of a counterculture.
Example 7 Billion of Why Clickbait is Dangerous
Medium, May 2, 2020
Everyone keeps talking about Russian bots spreading false information to divide America over our biggest conflicts . . . yet we insist on doing it ourselves.
We Need to Talk About ‘Ma’
Medium, April 3, 2020
Quarantine from COVID-19 means screening the films I missed last year — and reading them to filth.
Film Review: ‘Ad Astra’
Medium, October 7, 2019
A beautiful spectacle of a film that doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be.
The Idol Tried So Hard
Washington Examiner, June 2023
A review of Max’s The Idol.