WhyDecorum?

Because "decorum" is the word they reach for when they want you quiet. It is the tone argument dressed up as manners, the suggestion that your rights are negotiable as long as you negotiate pleasantly.

Decorum Denied is a personal blog about power, politics, and queer life. It is written the way it is lived: directly, without a disclaimer at the top and without an apology at the bottom. The primary beats are political analysis and LGBT issues — law, rhetoric, respectability, survival — but nothing here is off-limits if it deserves a page.

Expect long-form essays, not takes. Expect receipts. Expect the register of a protest poster and the patience of a court brief.