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Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia

By Martin Padgett | June 12, 2025

The Issues 2024: LGBTQ Rights Are in Grave Danger

The Issues 2024: LGBTQ Rights Are in Grave Danger

Protect Queer People

By Literary Hub | November 4, 2024

Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

Frank Andre Guridy on Queer Athletic Activism and the Use of Stadiums as Sites of Political Struggle

By Frank Andre Guridy | August 30, 2024

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

Mike De Socio on the Legal and Cultural Battle for Queer Rights and Recognition Within an All-American Institution

By Mike De Socio | June 28, 2024

Moronic anti-LGBTQ bullies kicked out of Barnes and Noble.

Moronic anti-LGBTQ bullies kicked out of Barnes and Noble.

By Jonny Diamond | April 20, 2023

Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

Arlene Stein Considers the Racism and Homophobia at the Heart of Conservative Activism

By Arlene Stein | November 16, 2022

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Long Island library board comes to its senses and reverses ban on children’s Pride displays.

By Andrew Sciallo | June 24, 2022

First they came for queer story time… And what did you do?

By Jonny Diamond | June 24, 2022

On Makeup As a Tool for Queer Resistance

By Rae Nudson | July 14, 2021

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Gabrielle Bellot on the Shameful Debate on the Equality Act

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 5, 2019

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By But That's Another Story | October 22, 2018

The Urgency of Queer Stories in Contemporary German Fiction

The Urgency of Queer Stories in Contemporary German Fiction

The Festival Neue Literatur: We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Über It

By Peter Blackstock | March 1, 2017

8 Causes + 8 Books = 16 Gifts

8 Causes + 8 Books = 16 Gifts

A Gift Guide for the Politically Engaged

By Samara Skolnik | December 12, 2016

Why Writers Shouldn't Boycott North Carolina

Why Writers Shouldn't Boycott North Carolina

Protest Should Be in the Trenches, Not From Afar

By Lucy Kogler | May 6, 2016