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LGBTQ

A place for news and opinions on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning communities.

Why Spider-Verse fans see Gwen Stacy as a transgender allegory

By Alex Abad-Santos June 7

Conservatives think Chick-fil-A is woke now?

By Li Zhou May 31

Uganda’s extreme anti-LGBTQ legislation, explained

By Ellen Ioanes May 30

How anti-LGBTQ sentiment is affecting Pride

By Ellen Ioanes May 28

2024 Presidential Election

A guide to Ron DeSantis’s most extreme policies in Florida

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou May 25

Florida is too dangerous to visit, civil rights groups warn

By Nicole Narea May 22

2024 Presidential Election

DeSantis’s feud with Disney is costing Florida — and possibly his 2024 campaign

By Nicole Narea May 19

The staggering fine print of Texas and Florida’s new anti-trans bills

By Nicole Narea May 18

Montana Republicans are punishing a trans lawmaker for criticizing their anti-trans bill

By Li Zhou April 26

Disney’s had enough — it’s taking Ron DeSantis to court

By Nicole Narea April 26

2024 Presidential Election

Ron DeSantis loses again to Disney

By Nicole Narea April 20

The Supreme Court is unlikely to put the Christian Right in charge of your workplace — at least not yet

By Ian Millhiser April 18

The GOP’s coordinated national campaign against trans rights, explained

By Nicole Narea and Fabiola Cineas April 6

Culture

Trans people deserve better journalism

How the anti-trans movement took over legacy media.

By Aja Romano March 31

2024 Presidential Election

How Disney just beat Ron DeSantis

By Nicole Narea March 30

J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A history

By Aja Romano March 16

A new Supreme Court case could be the most important transgender rights decision ever

By Ian Millhiser March 14

Can more Harry Potter ever be okay?

By Aja Romano February 16

What the Respect for Marriage Act actually does

By Li Zhou December 8, 2022

Qatar’s anti-LGBTQ policies, explained

By Ellen Ioanes December 3, 2022

The big stakes in the Supreme Court’s new LGBTQ rights case

By Ian Millhiser December 3, 2022

Shooting at Colorado LGBTQ club kills 5, injures 25

By Ellen Ioanes November 20, 2022

Stop worrying about what happens if we let kids transition. Worry about what happens if we don’t.

By Emily St. James September 29, 2022

The US monkeypox response is failing queer men

By Alex Abad-Santos August 11, 2022

Same-sex marriage could get historic protections — if the Senate votes on it

By Li Zhou July 20, 2022

Why we need a new queer canon

By Aja Romano June 27, 2022

Our submissions to the queer canon

By Aja Romano, Alissa Wilkinson, and 3 more June 27, 2022

The end of Roe v. Wade, explained

By Ian Millhiser June 24, 2022

A new Supreme Court decision has ominous implications for LGBTQ discrimination

By Ian Millhiser June 21, 2022

An ACT UP veteran on the power of anger in protest

By Alex Abad-Santos June 14, 2022

With Ricky Gervais’s new special, Netflix yet again suffers transphobic fools

By Aja Romano May 26, 2022

Kendrick Lamar’s Auntie Diaries is a clumsy attempt at trans acceptance

By Daric L. Cottingham May 18, 2022

The good and bad news about housing for LGBTQ Americans

By Rachel M. Cohen May 11, 2022

If Roe v. Wade falls, are LGBTQ rights next?

By Ian Millhiser May 6, 2022

How Disney found itself in the middle of a culture war

By Alex Abad-Santos April 22, 2022

The right’s moral panic over “grooming” invokes age-old homophobia

By Aja Romano April 21, 2022

Old-school homophobia is back

By Christian Paz April 13, 2022

The time to panic about anti-trans legislation is now

By Emily St. James March 24, 2022

The constitutional problem with Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill

By Ian Millhiser March 15, 2022

“My children love being Texans”: A father of a trans teen weighs whether his family can stay

By Nicole Narea March 11, 2022