Tag: LGBT

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.

Celebrating public sexuality is an important step toward a future free of racism and homophobia.

It’s a much better question than the obsession with asking why.

Critics tend to discount Rich’s later poems, fundamentally misunderstanding how they engage her radical vision of community.

John Wieners was one of the most important gay poets of his generation.

Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP NY shows how AIDS activists forced the government to accept that they mattered.

The stakes of religious exemption challenges.

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

On Dennis Cooper’s transgressive fiction about marginalized men.

Amid widespread indifference toward the most vulnerable, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.

Museums rose to the challenge of responding to HIV/AIDS. They can do so again in the face of COVID-19.

Race in the fashion industry.

Manipulations of public sentiment not only harm their intended target; they can set back decades of progressive politics.

A personal meditation on trauma, loneliness, and the paradox that gay community is often both life-giving and terribly disappointing.

Gorsuch’s majority opinion tossed out the old common sense about sex, even as its logic buttressed other kinds of state control.

White gay men and trans women of color often have little in common.

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.

On the fifteenth anniversary of Dworkin’s death, her longtime partner observes that she is often invoked to support beliefs she actively repudiated in her work.

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.

The United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.

Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness movingly depicts the vulnerabilities of queer desire, but it also continues a long tradition of exoticizing Eastern European sexuality.

Appeals to the biological facts conceal a deeper contest over political equality—and scientific authority itself.

Many took part in other radical movements—including Free Love, which promoted women’s independence and an end to traditional marriage.