On the mixed legacies of Pride and queer liberation.
June is Pride Month—a celebration born out of the 1969 Stonewall riots, when the patrons of the Greenwich Village gay bar took up action against a police raid.
This week’s list features essays from our vast archive on the mixed legacies of Pride and queer liberation, featuring writing on the state of queer and trans rights today, essays on gay and lesbian fiction and criticism, and the relationship between radical queer movements and the institutional victories they made possible.
Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice.
Saving LGBT equality requires strategic pluralism—marshaling legal challenges and electoral mobilization as well as social movement activism.
Gender rarely lives up to our expectations, and a lot of what we think of as gender actually has more to do with race and money.
On the successes and agonies of a legalistic approach to gay activism.
Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique.
During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
Novelist Andrea Lawlor talks trans identity, the origins of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, and the future of queer literature.
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