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

How the idea become central to present-day coalition building.

How the song emerged from Gaye’s struggles with faith, drug addiction, and childhood abuse.

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

On the world gay liberationists hoped to create.

What gauzy reclamations of the poet miss at his bicentennial.

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

Novelist Andrea Lawlor talks trans identity, the origins of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, and the future of queer literature.

A collection of Andrea Dworkin’s writings reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation.

From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the extremes of twentieth-century Europe.

Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

Prosecuting stealthing may not be the best way to end the practice.

“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”

The female body is not, as Ariel Levy claims, the ultimate equalizer.

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

Milo Yiannopoulos was the paradoxical poster boy for the alt-right—until he wasn't.

Many LGBT Americans live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.