In: Opinion

Why Doesn’t The Media Care About The US Virgin Islands?
- September 14, 2017
- Tyler Batson
- Travel
Despite the overwhelming reports of the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida, there’s a U.S. territory...

10 Ways LGBT People Saved Obamacare and Beat Trump
- May 15, 2017
- Tyler Batson
- Uncategorized
After I submitted my commentary piece for The Advocate and another article not long after, I pitched this summary of my...

Why I Love Being Gay In Trump’s America
- March 30, 2017
- Tyler Batson
- Uncategorized
Saddened by “the epidemic of gay loneliness”? Take heart in all the lessons left by LGBTQ people. Recently articles have emerged...

5 Lessons LGBT Folks Can Learn From The Peace Movement
- March 30, 2017
- Tyler Batson
- Uncategorized
Based off of my previous post “Now What? The LGBT Role in a President Trump Era,” I pitched the article to...

Now What? The LGBTQ+ Role in a President Trump Era
- November 18, 2016
- Tyler Batson
- Uncategorized
Our country is suffering a crisis of distrust. How we move forward will require us to ask ourselves what our motivations...

Open Letter on Orlando Mass Shooting
- June 13, 2016
- Tyler Batson
- Uncategorized
COLORS BLEEDING What happens when colors bleed? They soften and mix and become something new. They take from each other what...

The Paris Attacks, the Media, and the Attack on the Muslim Identity
- November 14, 2015
- Tyler Batson
- Uncategorized
Here’s the problem. We care about the comfortable. We value success and industrialization and progress and modernization and seeing that get...