Gay Loneliness Is Real—but “Bitchy, Toxic” Culture Isn’t the Full Story (Slate)

For Slate’s Outward vertical, a response to Michael Hobbes’ “The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness:”

We cannot think about how we might be better to each other without thinking about who we are, and who we have been, and who we might become. The various epidemics of queer loneliness and drug addiction and suicide will not be solved by the A-gays, or by a movement that focuses only on the personal happiness of individual people. We need a politics of solidarity, of standing up for ourselves and with other threatened communities. Working and thinking together, as any longtime queer activist will tell you, is a great way to start feeling less alone.