a rock band that sold more than 85 million records over their 30 years together - he was a cultural bellwether with a voice that likely soundtracked a significant portion of your life. If you came of age in the ’90s like I did, his influence was vast. IT’S HARD TO imagine a world without Michael Stipe.
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I wandered the sidewalks of my Brooklyn neighborhood, where discarded masks littered the gutters, with a sense of having been exiled from my own life. I was thirty-nine and scared by the idea that I would not be reproducing the kind of heteronormative nuclear family I had grown up in. In the late summer of 2020, when much of normal social life was suspended, a relationship that I had been in for several years abruptly collapsed. A person, institution, organization, or other entity that has denied initial employment to an individual is in violation of USERRA’s anti-discrimination provisions. I want you to imagine Derek* (name changed to protect the guilty): tall with jet black hair and just a touch of shy swagger. |
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