On Using the LGBTQ Community & Desperation Politics: An Open Letter to Ward 3 Council Member Travis Radina

by Patricia Lesko When I ran for office against John Hieftje in 2010, a man named Phil Volk, then a leading member of Ann Arbor’s gay community, published an opinion piece in which he said I was an “embarrassment to the gay community.” He didn’t say why, just that I was. Since I didn’t know […]