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From Riley Gaines to OU, conservatives are making their failures everyone else's problem

Opinion: Never before have people become so famous for coming in fifth place or failing a homework assignment.

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In 2025, being trans in America means living under conditional citizenship

Opinion: From healthcare bans to identity restrictions, a growing web of state and federal policies is determining which trans lives are protected—and which are left legally exposed, argues Isaac Amend.

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I have everything I was supposed to want. So why am I still lonely?

From Riley Gaines to OU, conservatives are making their failures everyone else's problem

Opinion: Never before have people become so famous for coming in fifth place or failing a homework assignment.

In 2025, being trans in America means living under conditional citizenship

Opinion: From healthcare bans to identity restrictions, a growing web of state and federal policies is determining which trans lives are protected—and which are left legally exposed, argues Isaac Amend.

If 2025 tested our resolve, 2026 will prove our resilience

After a year of erasure, backlash, and fear, the LGBTQ+ community enters a pivotal moment armed with hard-earned wisdom and collective strength.

What does 2026 have in store for queer folks? Here’s what's written in the stars

Love, power, and change, here’s what lies ahead according to an astrologer

At 50, passing isn’t the goal. Living is

Norbi Kamantigue reflects on beauty rituals, invisibility, and the performance of survival as a trans woman in a culture obsessed with authenticity until it gets uncomfortable.

A heart filled with trans hate is how Marjorie Taylor Greene is choosing to be remembered

As she prepares to leave Congress, Greene’s last major bill, criminalizing care for trans youth, reveals that her rhetoric about civility was always a lie.

I didn’t just run the world’s major marathons. I changed them

What it took for nonbinary transmasculine athlete Cal Calamia to challenge exclusion, dismantle myths, and make history at the most prestigious races on earth.

Rob Reiner deserves a place in queer TV history for Mike 'Meathead' Stivic in 'All in the Family'

Opinion: Reiner played the liberal conscience of All in the Family, and the character remains a powerful reminder of the importance of empathy and fighting for what’s right.

The story queer survivors aren't allowed to tell

After surviving assault by both a man and a woman, Titeänyä Rodríguez exposes the quiet pressure queer people face to hide harm that happens within our own community.

As he turns 100, Dick Van Dyke is an unsung gay idol from an era of Judy, Liza, and Cher

Opinion: The centenarian’s grace, fluidity, exuberance, and joy shaped gay boyhoods in ways we might now be only able to understand and appreciate.

Opinion: When museums go silent, erasure speaks louder

LGBTQ+ narratives are being stripped from public memory just as attacks on queer and trans people surge. Why some museums refuse to let history repeat itself.

Cis men love top surgery—it should be available for all

Opinion: If cisgender men want to keep access to gynecomastia surgery — the most popular plastic surgery for men — it must be protected for all people.

The Trump administration is choosing silence on World AIDS Day, but we're showing up louder than ever

Opinion: World AIDS Day is about coming together to remember loved ones and share in shared pain. But it is also about recommitting to the fight to ensure that we move forward, rejecting a deadly return to government inaction, argues Jeremiah Johnson and Maxx Boykin.

What the AIDS crisis stole from Black gay men

On World AIDS Day, a long-term survivor recounts the terror, the beauty, and the community that saved him — and why honest and informed conversations must begin now in Black communities.

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Opinion: Never before have people become so famous for coming in fifth place or failing a homework assignment.

Opinion: From healthcare bans to identity restrictions, a growing web of state and federal policies is determining which trans lives are protected—and which are left legally exposed, argues Isaac Amend.

After a year of erasure, backlash, and fear, the LGBTQ+ community enters a pivotal moment armed with hard-earned wisdom and collective strength.

Love, power, and change, here’s what lies ahead according to an astrologer

Norbi Kamantigue reflects on beauty rituals, invisibility, and the performance of survival as a trans woman in a culture obsessed with authenticity until it gets uncomfortable.

As she prepares to leave Congress, Greene’s last major bill, criminalizing care for trans youth, reveals that her rhetoric about civility was always a lie.

What it took for nonbinary transmasculine athlete Cal Calamia to challenge exclusion, dismantle myths, and make history at the most prestigious races on earth.

Opinion: Reiner played the liberal conscience of All in the Family, and the character remains a powerful reminder of the importance of empathy and fighting for what’s right.

After surviving assault by both a man and a woman, Titeänyä Rodríguez exposes the quiet pressure queer people face to hide harm that happens within our own community.

Opinion: The centenarian’s grace, fluidity, exuberance, and joy shaped gay boyhoods in ways we might now be only able to understand and appreciate.

LGBTQ+ narratives are being stripped from public memory just as attacks on queer and trans people surge. Why some museums refuse to let history repeat itself.

Opinion: If cisgender men want to keep access to gynecomastia surgery — the most popular plastic surgery for men — it must be protected for all people.

Opinion: World AIDS Day is about coming together to remember loved ones and share in shared pain. But it is also about recommitting to the fight to ensure that we move forward, rejecting a deadly return to government inaction, argues Jeremiah Johnson and Maxx Boykin.

On World AIDS Day, a long-term survivor recounts the terror, the beauty, and the community that saved him — and why honest and informed conversations must begin now in Black communities.