Politics

RI’s Latest Campaign Trend: Don’t Vote For My Opponent – They’re Queer!

Rhode Island voters are accusing candidates in Providence and Woonsocket of bashing their opponents for being LGBTQ while out on the...

Providence Vibes: Queer The Vote, And The Options Awards

Providence Vibes, an Options podcast is out with its second episode and its much more coherent than before. In the second episode of...

RI Queer PAC Is Queering the Vote This Election Season

The 2022 election season is upon us. And if you have not yet noticed, there are a record number of LGBTQ+ candidates running for various...

Alt-Right Haters Meltdown Can’t Stop The Unapologetic Tiara Mack

Respectability has never saved us from abuse or police brutality. It’s never kept us from being disrespected or ridiculed, and it never...

UpriseRI: Reversing Course, Little Compton Council Votes Against Flying Pride Flag

This piece originally appeared in UpriseRI and is republished with permission at Options. Little Compton’s LGBTQ+ Coordinating Committee,...

The Rise Of Neo-Homophobia

Anti-LGBTQ hate groups have been planning a comeback for years –– they succeeded. From their new “groomer” language, COVID conspiracies,...

How North Kingston School Committee Member Lima Stands Up To Hate

"It’s The Very Least I Can Do!" When Jennifer O’Connor Lima ran for the school committee in North Kingstown she knew it would be tough...

Pat Morgan’s Racist Anti-Trans Legislation Met Overwhelming Outcry At Public Hearing

Rep. Patricia Morgan, who achieved nationwide infamy for claiming on Twitter she lost her Black friend but “didn't do anything to her,...

When We Talk About Trans Sports We Are Not Talking About Trans Murders

Rhode Island’s legislature has its very own Three Stooges, except they don’t do slapstick comedy, this bipartisan trio peddles trash...