MAGA money and manpower running Trump’s military parade create a sickening spectacle of shame
Opinion: Soldiers will be exploited and used by MAGA as stagecraft for a wannabe dictator who used five deferments to dodge service, writes John Casey.
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John Casey
John Casey is senior editor of The Advocate, writing columns about political, societal, and topical issues with leading newsmakers of the day. The columns include interviews with Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, Colman Domingo, Jennifer Coolidge, Kelly Ripa and Mark Counselos, Jamie Lee Curtis, Shirley MacLaine, Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres, Bridget Everett, U.S. Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Jamie Raskin, Ro Khanna, Maxwell Frost, Sens. Chris Murphy and John Fetterman, and presidential cabinet members Leon Panetta, John Brennan, and many others. John spent 30 years working as a PR professional on Capitol Hill, Hollywood, the Nobel Prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN Envoy Mike Bloomberg, Nielsen, and as media relations director with four of the largest retailers in the U.S.
Sen. Padilla and our diminishing democracy are violently slammed to the ground and cuffed by Trump's regime
Opinion: Democracy is teetering, and someday we may realize that shoving Padilla was the final push over the edge, writes John Casey.
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During Trump’s dictatorial military parade Saturday, America needs a Tiananmen Square moment
Opinion: Could one lone figure standing in Trump’s ghoulish parade become the catalyst to a democratic rebound in America? writes John Casey
June 13 2025 6:00 AM
The media and Democrats address Trump with a tired checklist when the moment calls for a full-on body check
The CEO of Media Matters on missteps by the media and Democrats, and how America is becoming inured to the danger of Trump’s constant chaos.
June 12 2025 6:00 AM
Everyone knew Pee-wee, but few knew Paul Reubens. His lesbian sister talks about her very private brother
Abby Rubenfeld, a pioneering LGBTQ+ rights attorney, says Paul Reubens never stopped being her brother or the best version of himself, even if he had to keep parts of himself hidden.
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June 11 2025 6:30 AM
This week, RFK Jr. and Donald Trump showed how disease and despotism walk hand in hand
Opinion: When tanks replace syringes, the deterioration of our health and democracy will follow, writes John Casey.
June 11 2025 6:00 AM
1987 looms as a year of fear, fortitude, and firsts for the AIDS Quilt, Nancy Pelosi, and me
Opinion: I feared being fired. I feared being outed. I feared other gay men. I feared the incurable plague. I feared I would die. I feared everything, writes John Casey.
June 10 2025 6:00 AM
Nancy Pelosi honors those lost to AIDS epidemic with Gay Men's Chorus of D.C. during WorldPride
The exhibit of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the venerable St. Thomas’ Parish in Washington, D.C., features panels for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington members who died of the disease.
June 08 2025 6:00 AM
Trump shuts down Dupont Circle and tries to spoil Pride, but he will learn that we can’t be fenced in
Opinion: We’ve fought bigger bullies than Trump, and we’ve always won, and we always will, writes John Casey.
June 06 2025 2:15 PM
Was it worth it, Elon? You were a stupid Trump supplicant who sunk like all the know-it-alls before you
Opinion: I predicted that Musk would fly too close to Trump and be irrevocably burned, and it's happening, writes John Casey.
June 06 2025 7:00 AM
The next time you have great gay sex, you can thank Edmund White
Opinion: White gave gay men the language, the images, and the legitimacy to say we exist, we love, and we have sex, writes John Casey
June 06 2025 5:00 AM
Trump’s deranged robot Biden rant was fueled by Jake Tapper’s hypocrisy and Karoline Leavitt’s lies
Opinion: Tapper's sensationalism and Leavitt's smears propel Trump’s wacko conspiracy theory, writes John Casey.
June 04 2025 9:13 AM
As Mental Health Awareness Month ends, the three lives I tried to run from and the one I’m running toward
Opinion: While May recognizes mental health, these issues need to be recognized every day, writes John Casey.
May 31 2025 6:00 AM
The Advocate's John Casey reflects on a decade of marriage equality in new book
"LOVE isn’t just a collection of stories. It’s a testament. A reminder. A celebration. A rallying cry."
May 30 2025 1:35 PM
Marco Rubio had trouble sipping water but now has no problem drinking the Kool-Aid
We laughed at the awkwardness of Rubio’s water sipping, but there's nothing funny about what a danger he’s becoming, writes John Casey.
May 30 2025 6:00 AM
The Chrisleys, saints of scam, spun Christian conservatism into yet another obscene Trump pardon
Opinion: From Bible thumpers to sentence jumpers, the Chrisleys turn sin into a sales pitch for a pardon that other reality stars might consider, writes John Casey.
May 29 2025 6:00 AM
When push comes to shove, Brigitte Macron’s swat was more a mirror than a meme
Opinion: The French president isn’t the only one being batted around in a world gone enraged and violent, writes John Casey.
May 28 2025 6:00 AM
Losing the simplicity of the penny — something that stood for the values of our patriots
Opinion: The disappearance of America’s smallest coin mirrors the erosion of its foundational ideals, writes John Casey.
May 26 2025 6:00 AM
As Trump's economy tanks and the climate burns, will we finally wake up this Memorial Day?
Opinion: Will Americans finally understand what's happening because of Trump? writes John Casey.
May 24 2025 9:09 AM
Remember Charlottesville, when Trump saw 'very fine people on both sides'? Today, he'd pick just one
Opinion: For Trump, it’s raging racism instead of dog-whistles after his Oval Office ambush of South African President Ramaphosa, writes John Casey.
May 23 2025 6:00 AM