Powerful piece of journalism by Lydia Polgreen for the New York Times. It's in the opinion section, but to me it represents everything opinion ought to be, but rarely is, weaving the story of a math teacher in Alabama who was forced to retire after Libs of TikTok targeted him for also performing as a drag queen into a reflection on where we are, how we got here, and how, as queer people, we need to resist the movement to strip our humanity away.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/lgbtq-rights-activism-alabama.html