Dear Uncle Joe

I'm not America's sweetheart

Oh hi, how are you? What’s going on? Anything new? Anything happen in the news we should know about? Nothing? That’s what I thought.

A week ago I co-moderated a forum on LGBTQ issues which was hosted by my new employer, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, GLAAD, One Iowa, and The Advocate.

Moderators were “randomly” assigned candidates and I say “randomly” because…