Samuel Clowes Huneke

How should LGBT activism think about state power?

The celebrated novelist treated the past seriously, depicting its psychological complexity and drawing out its present-day political implications.

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

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

The pandemic will shutter many gay bars. Should we mourn their passing?

West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.

On the successes and agonies of a legalistic approach to gay activism.

On the role government should play in times of crisis.

Germany’s official policy of shame about its past is a model the United States should adopt. But it won’t protect either country from far-right extremism.

In our search for a useful past, we need to be careful whom we name as the heroes of queer history.

Soviet politics were more dynamic than we admit—and gay rights has less to do with democracy than we tend to assume.