Selected and Recent Articles

Resisting Project 2025: Reporting on the unfolding resistance to Project 2025 and field lessons of fighting autocracy and Trump 2.0 (Substack, Nov, 2024 - present)

A is for Autocracy - a personal war diary of sorts: A personal-writ-political journal of my views and feelings about the threat of US autocracy and how we will get through it. (Substack, Nov, 2024 - present)

The Unfolding Agenda: How Project 2025 is Already Being Implemented - A Multi-part Special Report (Stop The Coup 2025, Nov, 2024)

Making Europe Illiberal Again: A Multi-part Special Report with Frances Brodsky (Stop The Coup 2025, Sept, 2024)

Middle East: What Does Project 2025 Say About Israel, Palestinians, and Middle East Policy? (Stop The Coup 2025, August, 2024)

Christian Nationalism: A Multi-part Special Report (Stop The Coup 2025, April, 2024)

White Supremacy and White Grievance (Stop The Coup 2025, April, 2024)

What Does Project 2025 Mean For Federal Workers and Labor? (Stop The Coup 2025, March, 2024)

Follow The Dark Money: Leonard Leo’s Plan (Stop The Coup 2025, Feb, 2024)

Decriminalization of Homosexuality Fuels HIV Progress (POZ, Dec 4, 2023)

Tell Me Everything: Intimate conversations about lives of queer activism, romance, and creativity. (Substack, Aug, 2022 - present)

Life Lessons on Activism — and Parties: A brief guide to changing the world without burning out (Sierra, The Magazine of the Sierra Club, June 20, 2021)

On a Progressive Platform for African Literature (Literary Hub, Oct 3, 2019)

Transmigrating to Freedom (with Achy Obejas) (Pride Life Magazine, 2019)

Are passports the new battleground for transgender rights? (with Achy Obejas) (OUT.com, Dec, 2018)

The Fighter - Surviving ISIS and the war in Syria: A PrideLife special spotlight on activist Ayman Menem (Pride Life Magazine, June, 2018)

Transgender Lives – Spotlight on film director Silas Howard (Pride Life Magazine, 2018)

Transgender Lives – ‘Meet the Parents’, a portrait of the Baron-Crone family and ‘Girl Power’, a sidebar portrait of their activist daughter Luna Lilith Baron-Crone (Pride Life Magazine, 2018)

The Man Who Was Nearly Cured of HIV (KQED Science, Dec 12, 2017)

Research Dampens Hopes of HIV Cure, Shows Progress on Remission Without Drugs (KQED Science, Sep 28, 2017)

Only Greater Political Will Can Save Gay Chechens (The Advocate, May 17, 2017)

Queer Lessons from Marine LePen's Rise (The Advocate, May 6, 2017)

Was The EpiPen Hack Ethical? (KQED Science, Jan 23, 2017)

New HIV Studies Offer Fresh Hope For A Cure (KQED Science, Dec 17, 2016)

LGBT Health Advocates Fear Backlash as Trump Picks Tom Price for HHS (KQED Science, Nov 25, 2016)

The Men Who Would Be Queen: France, Le Pen & The LGBT Vote (Pride Life Magazine, June 7, 2016)

The Lessons of Uganda (Pride XI, June, 2011)

A Reluctant Warrior: The Nightmare That Is Haiti: Gunshots in the Quiet of Night (Los Angeles Times, Sept 18, 1994)

Haiti’s Anxious Aristocracy (The Washington Post, November 21, 1993)

Published Reports

UNGA Briefing Papers – Case Studies on the Criminalization of Gender in Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania) (African Services Committee, Sept, 2023)

UNGA NYC Forum on Anti-gay Backlash in Africa: Global anti-LGBTQ rights backlash overshadows UN General Assembly (Washington Blade, Sept, 2023)