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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, like those pioneered by queer men of color, 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 considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.
Theorist Hil Malatino offers a compelling account of the persistent bad feelings with which trans people often struggle—but it comes with fashionable academic hang-ups that need to be reconsidered.
In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.
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