Joel Meares is the Arts Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. Joel joined the Herald in 2007 as a writer on the(sydney)magazine before leaving to study for his Masters at Columbia University in New York. He returned in 2014 and now oversees coverage of the arts.
One of the most powerful words hurled at the gay community today doesn't start with an F. Or a P. Or any other ugly, lip-pursing consonant. It begins with a vowel and it might, on first listen, sound innocuous: agenda.
Now, more than ever we need people like gay pop singer Troye Sivan reaching out to kids like Tyrone Unsworth.
It was heartbreaking to see my uncle's Facebook views against gay marriage and other minorities but I needed to step out of my Aussie-leftie-in-Brooklyn bubble and at least try to bridge the chasm of understanding.
Recent polls have Hillary Clinton winning more than 72 per cent of the LGBT vote and she's favoured over Donald Trump among the community by a margin of four-to-one – not so remarkable for a Democrat competing against a bigot in a bad suit.
History was revised, and made, last week with the release of a study that has obliterated the myth of America's AIDS Patient Zero.
Mike Pence is arguably America's greatest threat to progress, and, in this cycle, has gotten away with it unchallenged.
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