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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.
Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face.
What would it look like if we put our desires at the center of our politics?
Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.
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.
The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people.
A new book offers a compelling, if imperfect, account of the bad feelings with which trans people often struggle.
Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.
Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice.
In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.
Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.
How the Kremlin weaponizes “traditional values,” portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.
Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?
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