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Fashion has never been neutral. The way we dress is always a communication — about who we are, who we want to be, what community we belong to, and what we refuse to hide. For LGBTQ+ people, style has...
Read article →One of the most consistent findings in LGBTQ+ mental health research is that community matters. Specifically, having access to people who share your experience, who use language that fits, who do not...
Read article →Bisexual women are the largest single group within the LGB population according to most survey data, and among the most poorly served by both mainstream culture and LGBTQ+ spaces. The specific forms o...
Read article →Bisexual visibility is a phrase that shows up frequently in LGBTQ+ advocacy contexts — on Bisexual Visibility Day, in discussions of media representation, in arguments for bisexual-specific programmin...
Read article →Bisexual men occupy one of the most invisible positions in contemporary discussions of sexuality and gender. They are less visible than gay men, less studied than bisexual women, and less understood —...
Read article →The term "bi-cycle" circulates in some bisexual communities to describe something that many bi people recognize in themselves: a kind of recurring fluctuation in how prominently different aspects of t...
Read article →Being bisexual in a relationship where you read as straight to the outside world is a strange kind of double life. You are not hiding anything from your partner. You are not being dishonest about who...
Read article →Bisexual erasure takes different forms in different contexts. In gay and lesbian spaces, it often looks like skepticism about whether bisexuality is a stable or real identity. In heterosexual spaces,...
Read article →Monosexism is the assumption — usually unstated, often structural — that sexual orientation is binary: that you are either attracted to people of your own gender, or to people of a different gender, a...
Read article →Bisexual identity carries a particular burden that monosexual identities — whether gay or straight — largely do not: the burden of proof. Something about being attracted to more than one gender seems...
Read article →Deadnaming — using a transgender person's birth name after they have changed it — is one of the most common forms of harm that transgender people encounter, and one of the most persistently misunderst...
Read article →Medical transition is not a single event. It is a sequence — sometimes slow, sometimes surprising, always personal. If you are standing at the beginning of that sequence, or somewhere in the middle wo...
Read article →The distinction between gender presentation and gender identity is one of those conceptual clarifications that sounds abstract until it suddenly makes a great deal of practical sense. They are related...
Read article →Every few months, the debate about transgender athletes resurfaces in sports media, legislative chambers, and social media feeds. It tends to generate a lot of heat and very little clarity. If you wan...
Read article →Detransition — the process of moving away from a gender transition one has undergone — has become one of the most politically contested topics in conversations about transgender identity. For some, it...
Read article →Gender-affirming care is a term that has become politically charged in ways that obscure what it actually describes. In the clinical context, gender-affirming care refers to a set of practices — medic...
Read article →Coming out is rarely a single announcement followed by a lifetime of being known. For most people, it is something that happens again and again — in the doctor's office, at a new job, with a stranger...
Read article →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...
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