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Jamie Paul
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Managing Editor: @queermajority.bsky.social
Weekly articles: https://americandreaming.substack.com/
Contributing Editor: @bidotorg.bsky.social
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His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Don’t Flush: An Interview with Dakarai Larriett — Queer Majority
His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Can 80% of Society Really Be Irredeemable Transphobes? — Queer Majority
Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.
www.queermajority.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:50 AM
A growing number of American Jews, repulsed by what they’ve seen on the left post-10/7, are coming to see the Republicans as better allies. Left-wing anti-Semitism is real, but make no mistake, the evidence shows that the GOP are no friends of the Jews.
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Republicans Are No Friends of the Jews
Recent data shows just how mainstream anti-Semitism has gone on the right
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January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Amazon’s ‘Cinderella’: Too Big for the Right, Too Small for the Left — Queer Majority
In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news? | @jamie-paul.bsky.social @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social @petertatchell.bsky.social
Misunderstanding Peter Tatchell — Queer Majority
Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news?
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January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
“OK Groomer” and the Dangers of Crying Wolf — Queer Majority
The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
2025: My Year in Books
Two dozen very brief reviews
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December 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
The Painful Relevance of Heated Rivalry — Queer Majority
The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture.
www.queermajority.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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#EndOfTheYearCountdown

Our #1 most-read article of 2025 was by @jamie-paul.bsky.social!

Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
How to Fix What Ails Trans Activism — Queer Majority
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
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December 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I reviewed Heated Rivalry and discussed some of the long-standing problems in hockey culture. In @queermajority.bsky.social:
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The Painful Relevance of Heated Rivalry — Queer Majority
The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture.
www.queermajority.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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With Roe v. Wade struck down, is marriage equality next? | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Overturning Roe and the GOP's Continued Descent Into Extremism — Queer Majority
With Roe v. Wade struck down, is marriage equality next?
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December 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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As the LGBT community becomes mainstream, why steal defeat from the jaws of victory? | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Let the Cops March At Pride — Queer Majority
As the LGBT community becomes mainstream, why steal defeat from the jaws of victory?
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December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You'll never think about turkeys the same way again. My latest at @bidotorg.bsky.social:

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You’ll Never Think About Turkeys the Same Way Again - Bi.org
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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Can 80% of Society Really Be Irredeemable Transphobes? — Queer Majority
Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.
www.queermajority.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I'm not a big music person, but I couldn't put this piece about Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" down, and neither will you.
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Darkness on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream
The year The Boss made his stand
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November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm not a big music person, but I couldn't put this piece about Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" down, and neither will you.
americandreaming.substack.com/p/darkness-o...
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream
The year The Boss made his stand
americandreaming.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This is sensible and humane. A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism www.persuasion.community/p/a-manifest...
A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism
How to truly win hearts and minds.
www.persuasion.community
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"We see a ... divide today within the movement for trans equality, between activists fighting for the right of trans people to join mainstream society and activists who want to remake mainstream society in the image of trans people."

What a good piece.

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A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism
How to truly win hearts and minds.
www.persuasion.community
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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“How did the left-wing trans movement squander a society’s worth of open-minded goodwill? Perhaps the biggest blunder was their refusal to compromise, especially over the most contentious policy areas, such as trans women in female-only spaces or youth gender medicine"
A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism
How to truly win hearts and minds.
www.persuasion.community
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Writers and content creators set out to capture an audience. In so doing, the audience captures them. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
Beholden to the Mob — Queer Majority
Writers and content creators set out to capture an audience. In so doing, the audience captures them.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I wrote about gay bears (not the Provincetown kind, the shits-in-the-woods kind).

Lots of fascinating facts in my latest @bidotorg.bsky.social piece. #BiScience

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The Other Gay Bears - Bi.org
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November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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From Why Not Both: Could Bisexuality Be the Norm? by Jamie Paul | @jamie-paul.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM