LGBT
Fighting for Public Health
The United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.
English as a Sexual Language
Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness movingly depicts the vulnerabilities of queer desire, but it also continues a long tradition of exoticizing Eastern European sexuality.
Science Won’t Settle Trans Rights
Appeals to the biological facts conceal a deeper contest over political equality—and scientific authority itself.
What’s Wrong with Queer History?
In our search for a useful past, we need to be careful whom we name as the heroes of queer history.
Gay Liberation Behind the Iron Curtain
Soviet politics were more dynamic than we admit—and gay rights has less to do with democracy than we tend to assume.
“More Queer Writing, Please”
Novelist Andrea Lawlor talks trans identity, the origins of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, and the future of queer literature.
Finally Seeing Andrea
A collection of Andrea Dworkin’s writings reintroduces the radical feminist to the next generation.
Poland’s Forgotten Bohemian War Hero
From the bisexual demimonde of prewar Paris to investigating Soviet war crimes, Józef Czapski’s life encapsulates the extremes of twentieth-century Europe.
Those Left Behind When #LoveWon
Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?
Chronicling the Last Days of Old New York
In his acerbic and often hilarious Village Voice column, Gary Indiana documented a cultural world being lost to AIDS and corporate greed.
When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children
Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?
Don’t Let Them Eat Cake
The Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling continues a terrible trend of valuing businesses more than employees and customers.
The Last Gay Liberationist
The death of Charley Shively marks the end of an era, but his revolutionary ideas for a just society resonate now more than ever.
Radicalism Begins in the Body
Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”
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