I’m A Queer Theater Artist

Reason I voted for Kamala Harris (3 of 3)

There’s a lot of reasons, but I’ll stick to the top three.

The most selfish of those reasons…

I own and regularly wear a T-shirt that says “Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks”

I am a gay man.

I am a queer playwright.

I am the literary director for Threshold Theater, regularly processing and reading the new plays of living LGBTQ+ playwrights which the company platforms in a New Play Reading Series, the 4Play With Threshold Theater productions of collections of short plays, and the upcoming world premiere production of my new script “Spellbound” in April 2025.

I would like to still be legal as a human being in April 2025.

I would like my work as an artist to still be legal in April 2025.

I would like Threshold Theater to still be legal in April 2025.

And I would like my trans friends, including the one who works with Threshold Theater as a Literary Associate, to get a friggin’ break, thank you very much.

One party at the city, state and federal level has a strange obsession with constantly freaking out over what mere existence of the LGBTQ+ community means for “traditional” gender and family roles.

The other party is headed by Kamal Harris and Tim Walz and Joe Biden.

So I voted for Kamala Harris because I want politicians to mind their own damn business.

I’ve lived and created art as an openly gay man for over 35 years.

There’s not a closet big enough to hold me anymore.

We’re not going back.