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Voice is intimate in ways that are easy to underestimate until it becomes a source of distress. Before you say anything, your voice speaks. It signals something to the listener about who you are, and...
Read article →Every June, the argument resurfaces. Pride is too corporate. Pride has lost its radical roots. Pride is exactly what it should be. Pride is an insult to the people who actually built the movement. All...
Read article →Bisexual people have existed in every era, in every culture. The evidence for this is abundant if you look at literature, history, and the biographies of people who loved across gender lines without f...
Read article →Most of the systems people move through every day were not built with nonbinary people in mind. Forms ask for gender and offer two options. Restrooms are segregated into two categories. Professional t...
Read article →Conversion therapy is the set of practices aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity from LGBTQ+ to heterosexual and cisgender. The practices have gone by many names — reparat...
Read article →Being transgender in a workplace is not a single experience. It depends on where you work, who your manager is, what state you live in, whether your employer has explicit protections, whether your col...
Read article →For most of American military history, LGBTQ+ service members had two options: hide or be discharged. The formal policies changed over time, but the underlying logic — that openly gay, lesbian, or bis...
Read article →The history of transgender rights in the United States is the history of an argument about who gets to define what a person is. For most of the twentieth century, that argument was conducted almost en...
Read article →When the Supreme Court handed down Obergefell v. Hodges in June 2015, the reaction in LGBTQ+ communities was immediate and genuinely felt. People wept in the streets. Couples who had been together for...
Read article →A century of LGBTQ+ civil rights in the United States is not a straight line. It is a series of advances, reversals, organizing campaigns, legal battles, cultural shifts, and ongoing negotiations abou...
Read article →The debate has been present in queer politics since the beginning, sometimes underground, sometimes the loudest argument in the room. Should LGBTQ+ people seek to be accepted into existing social inst...
Read article →Gay-Straight Alliances — school clubs that bring together LGBTQ+ students and their straight allies — have been the subject of more research than most people realize, and the findings are remarkably c...
Read article →Fifty-six years have passed since a sweltering June night in Greenwich Village changed the course of American history. The Stonewall Inn, a bar owned by organized crime and frequented by the city's mo...
Read article →Being bisexual in a monogamous relationship is, for many people, a daily negotiation between identity and invisibility. From the outside, a bisexual person in a relationship with someone of a differen...
Read article →The AIDS crisis did not arrive quietly. By the early 1980s, young men in San Francisco and New York were dying of conditions that healthy people do not die from. Their immune systems were failing. The...
Read article →When a child or teenager comes out as transgender, the response of their parents matters more than almost anything else in determining what happens next. This is not an overstatement. The research on...
Read article →Jealousy is one of the most universally human experiences in relationships, and it does not become less complicated in queer relationships — it becomes differently complicated. The particular social c...
Read article →The U-Haul lesbian stereotype — the joke that lesbian couples move in together after a second date — is one of the most persistent pieces of cultural shorthand about queer women's relationships. Like...
Read article →Growing up queer in a rural area is a distinct experience from growing up queer in a city, and the differences are not trivial. Rural queer youth face a particular combination of geographic isolation,...
Read article →Supporting a transgender partner through gender transition is one of the most significant things a person can do in a relationship. It is also one of the least mapped territories in mainstream relatio...
Read article →Gay male relationships are surrounded by stereotypes — some flattering, most reductive, almost all incomplete. The assumptions range from the idea that gay men are inherently non-monogamous to the bel...
Read article →LGBTQ+ teenagers experience bullying at significantly higher rates than their heterosexual, cisgender peers, and the effects of that bullying do not resolve when the bullying stops. Research has docum...
Read article →Finding a good therapist is hard. Finding a good therapist who actually understands LGBTQ+ experience — not just tolerates it, not just claims to be affirming on a Psychology Today profile, but genuin...
Read article →There is a particular kind of belonging that happens in a chosen family — one that is different from the family you were born into, different from friendship, and different from romantic partnership....
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