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Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.
Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”
Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.
In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.
Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP NY shows how AIDS activists forced the government to accept that they mattered.
The pandemic will shutter many gay bars. Should we mourn their passing?
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