LGBT

War’s Queer Face

The brutal nexus of homophobia and geopolitics in Ukraine.

  • J. Lester Feder

Tainted Ladies

Liberal feminism is collapsing. Who’s really to blame?

  • Lorna Finlayson

In the Shadow of Stonewall

On the mixed legacies of Pride and queer liberation.

Queering the State

How should LGBT activism think about state power?

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke
  • Hugh Ryan

Inside the Legal Fight for Trans Rights

Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

  • Jennifer L. Levi
  • Shannon Price Minter
  • Paisley Currah

A Moral Evil

The Pope’s call for gay blessings is not what it seems. 

  • Richard D. Mohr

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Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

  • Hugh Ryan

Radical Pride

The rebellious origins of LGBTQ liberation

The New Faith-Based Discrimination

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

  • Louise Melling

Governing Transgender Identity

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

  • Paisley Currah
  • Robin Dembroff

Pleasure Activism

What would it look like if we put our desires at the center of our politics?

  • adrienne maree brown

What the AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Monkeypox

Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.

  • Joshua Gutterman Tranen

The Democratic Potential of Cruising

Cruising extends the political value of the city as a space that brings us into contact with people who seem unlike us until we realize our shared desires.

  • Jack Parlett

Why Does the State Care About Your Gender?

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people.

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke

In Defense of Transnor­mativity

A new book offers a compelling, if imperfect, account of the bad feelings with which trans people often struggle.

  • Jules Joanne Gleeson

Queering the Dating App

Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.

  • M. Andler

The Dead End of Corporate Activism

Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice.

  • Joanna Wuest

Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?

Saving LGBT equality requires strategic pluralism—marshaling legal challenges and electoral mobilization as well as social movement activism.

  • Mary Bernstein

Grooming and the Christian Politics of Innocence

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.

  • Michael Bronski

The Critic of Gay Desire

Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”

  • Jack Parlett

Father Knows Best

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents’ rights” before the interests of children.

  • Judith Levine

Putin’s Anti-Gay War on Ukraine

How the Kremlin weaponizes “traditional values,” portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.

  • Emil Edenborg

The Beginnings of Queer Citizenship

In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke

Is There a Constitutional Right to Sex Work?

The Supreme Court recognizes the right of consenting adults to an erotic life free of state control. Given that, it shouldn’t matter whether sex is your job.

  • Joseph J. Fischel
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