Ballroom Is Still About Black Queer Joy
More than 130 years after the first ball was held, ballroom continues to be an essential place for Black and Brown LGBTQ people to find care, connection, and chosen family.
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Nature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn’t
For the city’s LGBTQ community, Toronto’s outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence
Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them
The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.
Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
Why the Boy Scouts Are Rebranding
The Boy Scouts of America earned a reputation of exclusion and bigotry over years of homophobia, sexual abuse, and racism. Can the organization move past it?
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Going Back Outside for Pride
We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person—or that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.
Tips for Cultivating Trans Joy
When everything that brings LGBTQ people joy is under attack, dancing, laughing, and celebrating our persistent existence are direct acts of resistance.
Centering Queer (Self) Care in the 2024 Election
Leaning into lineages of resilience and care can be a balm for election-related anxiety for LGBTQ people—and everyone.
Serious About Gender Exploration? There’s a Doula for That.
Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.
We Are All Responsible for Making Bathrooms Safer
Transgender and nonbinary people need more than policies to protect their safe access to bathrooms. They need allies.
Exposing Israel’s Attempted Pinkwashing of Genocide
Queer liberation goes hand-in-hand with anti-colonialism and anti-Zionism, says a growing movement working to expose Israel's pinkwashing.
No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israel’s Pinkwashing
Israel continues to paint itself as a pro-LGBTQ haven in the Middle East, using this alleged tolerance as justification for its genocide in Gaza. Queer activists around the world are pushing back.
Menopause Matters
The end of menstruation has been stigmatized and misunderstood. The “menopausal multiverse” can change that.
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Can Workplaces Work Better for Gender-Expansive Employees?
A new study finds that anti-LGBTQ and transphobic policies and rhetoric negatively impact trans and gender-expansive workers. What can workplaces do to improve this environment?
The Art of Queer Joy
What does queer joy look like in this political moment? Three queer artists respond.
Murmurations: Lessons from Pride and Parades
In a world obsessed with the concept of forever, Cherizar Crippen encourages us to recognize the beauty in impermanence.
A Summer Solstice Spell for Prideteenth
To mark the summer solstice, Juneteenth, and Pride month, Junauda Petrus offers a spell rooted in the erotics of abolition.
Drag Bans Are Rooted in Conservative Culture Wars
Drag bans like the one passed in Tennessee rely on fearmongering tropes about “protecting children” and “traditional values.”
Beyond the Binary: Retelling the Diné Creation Story
“Along with the power of creation, we were given the power to choose.”
Healing the Land and Themselves
Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.
Growing Up Gay in North Dakota
For the author of a new memoir, North Dakota was a place of beauty and danger.
Happy Endings for Queer Characters
An interview with the playful, prefigurative, beloved and sometimes banned author, T.J. Klune.
Queering Climate Activism
“At the end of the day, how does the gender binary and heteronormativity support the extraction and moving of wealth to this handful of global elites?”
What I Learned When I Came Out to My Asian Mother
“We all have a story to share, and I believe knowing someone’s story creates connection.”
How Relationships Can Turn Faith Leaders Into LGBT Allies
A grassroots group in Kenya has found a slow-but-effective formula for converting anti-LGBT faith leaders into LGBT advocates.
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