Ian Lekus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@ianlekus.bsky.social
Global LGBTQI+ human rights activist | Historian, Writer, Coach, Consultant | “Queer & Present Dangers,” forthcoming @ UNC Press | Star Trek, soccer, cats, bears, otters, puns, photography | Washington, DC
For this week’s Substack, I take on Janet Mills entering the Maine Senate primary & the Democratic Party’s fear of trans rights. open.substack.com/pub/ianlekus...
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
For this week’s Substack, I take on Janet Mills entering the Maine Senate primary & the Democratic Party’s fear of trans rights. open.substack.com/pub/ianlekus...
Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ package, adios. I don’t need to pay corporate quislings so I can watch The Handmaid’s Tale when I can watch it for free on the streets of DC.
September 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ package, adios. I don’t need to pay corporate quislings so I can watch The Handmaid’s Tale when I can watch it for free on the streets of DC.
Jordy is very excited by tomorrow's publication of The Nursing Clio: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (by Rutgers Univ. Press.), in which my essay, "PrEP, The Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity" appears, alongside plenty of other terrific essays.
September 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Jordy is very excited by tomorrow's publication of The Nursing Clio: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (by Rutgers Univ. Press.), in which my essay, "PrEP, The Pill, and the Fear of Promiscuity" appears, alongside plenty of other terrific essays.
With the Trabi breaking through the Berlin Wall.
August 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
With the Trabi breaking through the Berlin Wall.
Greetings from Berlin. And from Peak Ian.
August 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Greetings from Berlin. And from Peak Ian.
From a small DC demonstration last night on 16th St. While I am staunchly opposed to body shaming… I might look the other way on this one occasion. #nokings
June 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
From a small DC demonstration last night on 16th St. While I am staunchly opposed to body shaming… I might look the other way on this one occasion. #nokings
#NoKings, Takoma Park MD. 800 people signed up as of last night; today's turnout was easily 2000 people, maybe more. Great to be surrounded by such joyful resistance.
June 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#NoKings, Takoma Park MD. 800 people signed up as of last night; today's turnout was easily 2000 people, maybe more. Great to be surrounded by such joyful resistance.
Thanks to Ukrainian for the absolute perfect word.
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thanks to Ukrainian for the absolute perfect word.
Sharing for the friend making these
May 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sharing for the friend making these
Today in a nutshell
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Today in a nutshell
Following up on my previous post: restaurant & food delivery workers appear to be likely targets of ICE raids this week in DC.
May 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Following up on my previous post: restaurant & food delivery workers appear to be likely targets of ICE raids this week in DC.
Happy 82nd, Mom. We miss you.
May 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Happy 82nd, Mom. We miss you.
The utterly insane & incredibly influential Laura Loomer has had a temper tantrum about Pete Marocco -- the miserable human being who has gleefully run the cruel dismantling of USAID -- apparently being pushed out. And Trump listens to her fascist temper tantrums. So we'll see how this unfolds.
April 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The utterly insane & incredibly influential Laura Loomer has had a temper tantrum about Pete Marocco -- the miserable human being who has gleefully run the cruel dismantling of USAID -- apparently being pushed out. And Trump listens to her fascist temper tantrums. So we'll see how this unfolds.
I did not realize I was going to be 25 feet from Kylie for a chunk of the show.
April 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I did not realize I was going to be 25 feet from Kylie for a chunk of the show.
Escaping the world for an evening to do middle-aged middle-class homosexual things.
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Escaping the world for an evening to do middle-aged middle-class homosexual things.
The @nytimes.com app front page this morning. Completely ignoring the Hands Off mass protests. Every time I think of going back to the Times as an alternative to the Bezos Post, they remind me they’re part of the problem and will do nothing to slow down the fascist regime.
April 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The @nytimes.com app front page this morning. Completely ignoring the Hands Off mass protests. Every time I think of going back to the Times as an alternative to the Bezos Post, they remind me they’re part of the problem and will do nothing to slow down the fascist regime.
This is my new go-to insult.
April 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is my new go-to insult.
New soccer scarves have dropped
April 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New soccer scarves have dropped
Cherry blossoms and soccer on Saturday night.
March 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Cherry blossoms and soccer on Saturday night.
Peak cherry blossom
March 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Peak cherry blossom
1) as it was foretold on the walls…. 2) I am humbled to be in the same company as @timothysnyder.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
1) as it was foretold on the walls…. 2) I am humbled to be in the same company as @timothysnyder.bsky.social