Adrian Silbernagel is a writer, speaker, activist, and advocate based in Louisville KY. His work is geared toward fighting for queer and trans rights, worker rights, class and racial justice. He is a founding member of the Old Louisville Coffee Co-op and a writer and workshop facilitator at QueerKentucky. He has been writing this column – ‘Thinking Queerly’ – since 2019. In his free time Adrian loves to write poetry and has published two books of poems – Transitional Object (The Operating System 2019) and Late Style (Nanny Goat Press 2021).