In 1992, four teenagers committed a grisly murder. There’s something about the case that I couldn’t let go.
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The Undercut
I am queer no matter what I look like, but I still want to look queer.
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Barren
Before I transitioned, I saved a vial of my semen. I fantasize that I’ll never need it.
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Before Stonewall…
It was an important turning point, but by no means were the riots the first act of Queer resistance.
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The Texas “Fairies Fiasco”
In the 1970s, a San Antonio gay bar staged a unique protest against police harassment: a play.
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LiveJournal Made Me Gay
I didn’t recognize myself in anything I encountered…but my family computer sat in the middle of the living room like a shining beacon.
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Queerness Has Always Been Part of Life in the Middle East
Modern critics with an agenda would smear Islam as homophobic – but the historical record shows those ideas were introduced by colonialism. Sources.
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The Homophobic Hysteria of the Lavender Scare
Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.
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Growing Up Gender Queer
Read an excerpt from Maia Kobabe’s new book “Gender Queer: A Memoir”
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I Came Out Late in Life. And That’s Okay.
On mourning the versions of ourselves that will never exist.
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