Adam M.

Rhodes

journalist, lecturer

I’m an investigative journalist who focuses on how the criminal legal system impacts LGBTQ+ people. Over the course of my career, I have written about issues including anti-gay bias in capital murder cases, laws that criminalize people living with HIV, and prison conditions affecting transgender women.

I am also currently the board secretary of the Trans Journalists Association and a member of the National Hispanic Journalists’ LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee.

Selected work

Alongside my writing about underground queer communities — including Chicago’s drag community, the local leather and kink scene, and the city’s gay bathhouses — the bulk of my work focuses on how queer people are impacted by America’s criminal legal system. Some standout examples include:

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