Nico Lang

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Nico Lang

is a journalist and editor, the creator of Queer News Daily, and the author of American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era (Abrams Books, October 2024) which centers voices of trans youth. They have written for Vice, Them, Out, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Guardian, and more.


Articles By This Author
Standing in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Brigitte Bandit shows the gown she wore—bearing the names of children killed in recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Allen, Texas—to testify against S.B. 12, which would have criminalized drag performances. In her testimony, she accused Texas GOP lawmakers of “spending more time in this legislative session targeting drag queens than gun violence.”
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Serving Justice
On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime.