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Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with 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

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

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