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.
December 09 2025 3:35 PM
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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.
December 08 2025 6:00 AM
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.
December 04 2025 4:35 PM
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.
December 01 2025 9:36 AM
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.
December 01 2025 6:00 AM
How a united message of 'Tax the Rich' could make life more affordable, and win elections
Opinion: Think of what we could accomplish for the country by taxing the 1%, writes Michael Dru Kelley.
November 27 2025 8:00 AM
18 queer-owned brands to shop this holiday season
From queer bookstores to trans-owned fashion houses, here are the community-powered brands that deserve your holiday coins.
November 27 2025 7:00 AM
The lesbian tool
Two women left behind a garden cultivator as part of an estate sale, and a quiet testament to queer endurance. Decades later, Scott Terry reflects, their legacy still digs deep.
November 17 2025 6:00 AM
The urgent question about AI: How will replaced workers make a living?
Opinion: The AI era is likely to hurt lower-wage workers. We need a plan to support them, writes Michael Dru Kelley.
November 15 2025 6:00 AM
Mutual aid saved my life. Now, I’m paying it forward
The community stepped in when the system failed Gabrielle Inès Souza. She reflects on how leading The Okra Project returns that care to others.
November 10 2025 6:00 AM
Why trans storytelling in film is more important than ever
Opinion: "When a community is under attack, the response cannot be silence. We must amplify. We must speak louder. We must create more," writes filmmaker Zackary Drucker.
November 06 2025 1:31 PM
Dancing without the drink, how queer sobriety became a revolution of joy
Opinion: LGBTQ+ nightlife doesn’t have to mean excess. Gay & Sober’s global movement proves that recovery can look — and feel — like liberation.
November 03 2025 6:00 AM
Top Democratic officials target their most vulnerable constituents in new strategy document
Opinion: The party leaders' new guide, "Deciding to Win," encourages Democrats to be a little more like Republicans on "identity and cultural issues," Erin Reed writes.
October 31 2025 3:24 PM
Mike Johnson, a defender of a dictator, wildly blames Zohran Mamdani for the government shutdown
Opinion: Next Johnson will blame Mamdani for the Epstein files delay and for the bruise on Donald Trump's hand, writes John Casey.
October 29 2025 7:00 AM
Gender is not an ideology — but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people
The study of gender is being targeted by right-wing groups, because it raises questions about traditional social roles and inequalities that can result from them, argues Victoria Pitts-Taylor and Elizabeth Anne Wood.
October 28 2025 6:11 PM
Donald Trump will not be running for a third term in 2028, and it has nothing to do with law or politics
Opinion: The bluster about a third term is more of a Trump-created distraction that seeks to promote strength in the face of the creeping inevitability of aging, writes John Casey.
October 27 2025 10:31 PM
Queer survival in Mississippi and the bars that saved us
On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, gay bars weren’t just nightlife but sanctuaries where queer Southeners risked everything to exist, to dance, and to be seen, writes Mark Burr.
October 27 2025 6:00 AM
He was the church’s golden boy—and my domestic abuser
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. One man reflects on the partner who broke him, and the strength it took to break free.
October 27 2025 6:00 AM
In 1970, 'America's Mom' June Lockhart bravely spoke out defending 'homosexuals' when others wouldn't
Opinion: Lockhart, who died Thursday, was a beloved fixture on television and a lifelong LGBTQ+ ally, writes John Casey.
October 25 2025 6:22 PM
Trump smashed the U.S. Capitol and the White House, piercing the soul of the nation as Joe Biden predicted
Opinion: This week, watching Trump raze the "People’s House," I felt the same heartbreak as I did on January 6, writes John Casey.
October 25 2025 7:00 AM