Adrian Silbernagel is a queer and transgender 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).