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Tag: LGBT

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

Shannon Price Minter, Jennifer L. Levi, Paisley Currah

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

Richard D. Mohr

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

Hugh Ryan

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

Louise Melling

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

Robin Dembroff, Paisley Currah

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

adrienne maree brown

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

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

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

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

Samuel Clowes Huneke

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

Jules Joanne Gleeson

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

M. Andler

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

Joanna Wuest

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

Mary Bernstein

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

Michael Bronski

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

Jack Parlett

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

Judith Levine

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

Emil Edenborg

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

Samuel Clowes Huneke
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

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?

Mark D. Jordan

The sex wars of the 1980s were about much more than pornography.

Lisa Duggan
Porn performers have a unique vision for labor justice and erotic fulfillment, but they face draconian regulation and exploitative work conditions.
Joseph J. Fischel

A veteran AIDS activist looks back on the 1990s.

Andrew Spieldenner

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