LGBT

#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism

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

  • Daniel Penny

Queer in Rural America

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

  • Hugh Ryan

Transparents

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

  • Judith Levine

Pink and Blue

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Queers Against Hate

Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.

  • Michael Bronski

The Passions

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.

  • Alan A. Stone

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The Thing with Fathers

Poetry is offering new candor about the ways men care for their children.

  • Stephanie Burt

Orlando: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

  • Michael Bronski

The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

  • David Sehat

The End of Gender

Eileen Myles’s celebrity shouldn’t eclipse her skill as a poet.

  • erica kaufman

A Mutant Gene in Language

D. A. Powell interviewed by Tadeusz Dąbrowski

  • D. A. Powell
  • Tadeusz Dąbrowski

I, Your Perfect Muse

Karen Lepri interviews Dawn Lundy Martin

  • Karen Lepri

The Spectacle of Transformation

The literal and metaphorical shapeshifting of the female body.

  • Marcela Sulak

Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

In Same-Sex Marriage Case, a Contest over History

History really matters in Obergefell v. Hodges.

  • Nancy F. Cott

The Seduction of Normalcy

On Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts.

  • Diana Arterian

Styles for Him—and Her

Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won

  • Philip N. Cohen

Forget O’Hara

Lonely Christopher’s Death and Disaster Series.

  • Felix Bernstein

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

  • Claude S. Fischer

A Moveable Court

In the marriage and voting rights cases, the world outside powerfully affected the court.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Paternité, Maternité, Egalité

In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality

  • Cécile Alduy

Serbia’s Brokeback Mountain

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

  • Paul Hockenos

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

  • David William Turner
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