Like so many of us, I’ve often felt like going back to bed and pulling the covers over my head during these past four years, especially, during the pandemic and in the aftermath of the Capitol insurrection.
But on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, I shed happy tears as Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and vice president.
I wasn’t alone. Millions of people, young, old, Black, white, queer and non-queer, felt relief, joy and, even, in these despairing times, a bit of hope, as huddled by their TVs and phones or on social media, they watched this peaceful transfer of power.
I doubt that there was a dry eye in the world when Lady Gaga looked toward the Capitol as she sang “the flag was still there” in the “Star Spangled