One of my issues with queer media is that we have a tendency to celebrate and uplift all of the same people.

Pride Month comes around and every magazine, every website, writes about more or less the same five people.

And I'm totally guilty of this too. I try not to be, but it still happens.

This is a problem because we leave out people from the conversation

who are making a real difference in the community and world.

Jose Antonio Vargas is one of those people.

He is a Pulta Prize winner, one of the leading voices for undocumented people,

and the author of the best-selling book, Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.

Also, he's gay.

I had been following his work and didn't even realize that until I read his book.

Talking to him, that all kind of makes sense.

As you will hear today, that is a part of his life that he is still very much figuring out.

Now, I wanted to bring you this specific interview today for two big reasons.

One, it originally aired last year on the Luminary app so you've not yet heard it.

And two, we are taking a short winter break,

will be off for a couple of weeks, just a heads up there,

and I wanted to leave you with an interview that is one of my favorites.

Jose's story shows how deeply, deeply complicated

everything concerning our immigration system is,

from the system itself to how we talk about it and cover it in the

news. While the Trump administration has exasperated many of these issues, these are things that

existed before he took office and will continue after. They are not going to be magically solved

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