In 2018, as the LGBT left doubled down on "hate crime" panic, celebrated 9-year-old drag queens, and obsessed over Mike Pence, one openly gay conservative refused to play along.
Reasonably Gay: 2018 collects Chad Felix Greene's sharpest essays from the year the culture war turned personal: debunking the "first trans murder of 2018" as domestic violence, exposing medical dissent in transgender care, rejecting the "driving while queer" fear narrative after his own road trip, and sharing how his best friend's pregnancy permanently changed his views on abortion.
Writing from inside the community, Greene challenges the new orthodoxies with courage and logic: defending conservative gays, exposing Hollywood hypocrisy and left-wing antisemitism, critiquing forced diversity in comics, the erasure of lesbians, RuPaul's fall from grace, and why "LGBTQ" has become a movement of emotion over reason.
He also celebrates his own marriage, evolves on guns, debunks conversion therapy myths and "trans ban" hysteria, and traces the rise of the Gay Right while rejecting the stigma of conservatism.
Originally published on The Federalist and beyond, these pieces form a raw 2018 time capsule - and a fearless defense of independent thought in an era of identity tribalism.
Whether conservative, liberal, gay, straight, or simply tired of performative outrage, this collection offers the rarest voice in modern discourse: a gay man who chooses facts, freedom, and personal experience over party lines.